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Refining your ideas - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics
Refining your ideas
- [Instructor] Thumbnail sketches are a great for roughly capturing the essence of an idea. But in order to build precise factor artwork, we'll need to refine our sketches so we can easily discern the shapes we need to create in Illustrator. One of the biggest challenges for designers is ideas. But many good ideas fall short because of poor execution. Something is lost in translation from the rough stage to the final digital form. So in this movie, we'll go over the importance of scrutinizing your drawing, refining and making improvements until you have a tight refined sketch that will assist your vector building. In other words, you want to have strong ideas and equally strong craftsmanship, so let's get started. On this project that was creating an event graphic for a music festival in Oregon. Now my initial thoughts on it were to try to reuse some of the equity that was established in the old design that they were using which…
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