From the course: Creating and Using Textures for Design
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Using textures in Illustrator - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Creating and Using Textures for Design
Using textures in Illustrator
- I love vector artwork but I'll admit, it can easily come off as too clean and too perfect at times. So it's an ideal format to benefit from the use of textures in order to push it away from a sterile look and feel. Let me take you through a project I created in Illustrator where I use place textures to improve the overall visual aesthetic of my design. Not all vector artwork inside Illustrator is going to need textures. There are certain types of projects that you never, in my opinion, want to use textures on. One of them would be branding, projects for logos or icons. Not to say that either of those two can't have aspects that are texturized, but it would be a secondary graphic, not the primary mark so... But in this case, the context of this project I think could really benefit from the use of textures. This was a book cover design and the theme of this book is all about kingdom rule and those who serve under them and then the problems that come up during that. So the duality…
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Using textures in Photoshop20m 37s
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Creating an authentic mosaic texture11m 32s
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Creating an authentic wood-grain texture14m 12s
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Creating an authentic painterly texture7m 38s
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Creating a texture brush in Photoshop10m 32s
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Using a texture brush in Photoshop10m 51s
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Using textures in Illustrator15m 11s
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Subtle texturing in Illustrator6m 42s
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Illustrator: A texture staging ground8m 16s
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Experimenting with textures17m 55s
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Texture-usage examples11m 49s
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