928 Creating real artwork with basic shapes

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland. … Welcome to Deke's Techniques. … This week, I'm going to show you how to make this guy, … this floating triangle-face man, inside Adobe illustrator. … Now trust me, even if you can't draw, you can draw this. … Mostly just a bunch of equal lateral triangles … set against a photographic background, … a real piece of artwork made exclusively … using a bunch of basic shapes. … How did I come up with this? … How did I, your humble narrator, come up with … such an awesome, like "Wow. Deke, … this is actually really good" idea? … YouTube, Broken Bells, "Leave It Alone." … Scrub to about a minute, 57 seconds in. … I know, what a rip-off. … These next several minutes, they're like … something out of a crazy heist film. … Like the 1955 French classic "Rififi," … only, you've probably never seen "Rififi," … whereas you're about to see this. … All right, here's the final version of the artwork, … open inside illustrator. … We're going to start off inside this blank document here. …