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Taking the rough composite to a refined sketch

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Taking the rough composite to a refined sketch

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- Once I have all of these separate elements kind of drawn out, I need to create a composite I can do a refined sketch from. I'll scan all of these into Photoshop and I'll compose what I call a final, a rough composite, which is shown here. I usually blow this up larger as it's shown here, and this is now what I'm gonna draw out in a more refined form. In this case, using my mechanical pencil. This is where my vellum will come into it again. I'll just take a sheet of vellum and we'll go ahead and tape this in place. I try to align it with one side of the paper, so when I go to scan it in, it's easy to get the orientation correct. You can see what that looks like. As I draw, I might slide another sheet in here, so it diffuses the light a little more, and that's all I'm gonna do now. I'm gonna now refine this drawing, and draw it out in such a way, I know exactly the shape I need to build in Illustrator. I'm close in terms of my rough composite, but not close enough to build from, This…

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