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The challenge

The challenge - Illustrator Tutorial

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The challenge

(light percussive music) - [Instructor] It's time to put the methods we've covered in this course to the test. As I stated previously, drawing is only improved if you stick with it. Meaning, you have to draw, and keep drawing, in order to improve your drawing skills. There are no shortcuts. It's an investment of creative time and over time over the long-haul will provide you with the skill you're going to grow to love and be able to leverage for a lifetime. Now, our subject matter for this challenge is a historical figure, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as his pen name, as the author Mark Twain. I've included this brush set in the exercise files so if you choose to use this, you can use this, or you can use any of the other brushes shown in this course in other movies. Make sure to access the exercise files. You can use these built-in to this actual file right here, but your challenge is to draw Mark Twain. Now, as you move forward, you can pick whatever style we've covered in…

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