From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials
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Uncovering a treasure trove of graphic styles - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator: Rethinking the Essentials
Uncovering a treasure trove of graphic styles
You know, I've always felt that one of the best ways to learn is to actually reverse-engineer, or see how somebody else builds something. You get to see how they created it and then you can kind of figure things out on your own and more importantly, come up with creative ideas on your own. We've just been learning about graphic styles and in reality graphic styles themselves are a great way to find out how other people have created their artwork, because remember, whenever you use a graphic style, the Appearance panel stores all the settings for that style. So if you want to see how a graphic style was created, you simply have to go to the Appearance panel and you can reveal all that wonderful information. Now one of the great things about working with Illustrator is that Illustrator comes with a whole bunch of libraries of graphic styles. We could actually open up those libraries and learn how those styles were created to get a better feel on our own of how to actually create…
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Basic appearance vs. complex appearance4m 27s
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Clearing or expanding an appearance10m 52s
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Controlling the appearance of newly drawn art5m 11s
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Saving appearances with graphic styles6m 54s
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Changing artwork by modifying a graphic style7m 39s
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Uncovering a treasure trove of graphic styles5m 1s
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Copying appearances with the Eyedropper tool5m 28s
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Learning to live with appearances30s
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