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Damen Station: Using Blend in Illustrator to create intricate details

Damen Station: Using Blend in Illustrator to create intricate details

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Damen Station: Using Blend in Illustrator to create intricate details

I rely on Adobe Illustrator to create a lot of things in a painting. For one thing, the perspective, but many of the elements within the painting will also require some of the features that are in Illustrator that are not in Photoshop. This particular painting here, Damen, there's quite a few parts. I'm going to zoom in right here on this garbage can. There's a little garbage can that required one little feature that's in Illustrator and not in Photoshop, and that is the Blend tool. You might say, well the Blend tool, yes. There's a grading tool. Not the same. Let me just show you. Let me go in here and we'll switch over to Illustrator, so you can see what's going to happen. Now, to create the little rungs in that garbage can, what I did is I create a little box. So I use my pen tool and I create a box. So I start here and I come down here and Shift, click come across click, come straight up, click, and drag. Right, and I'm going to come up and click and drag. I'm going to…

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