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Symmetry is your friend

Symmetry is your friend - Illustrator Tutorial

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Symmetry is your friend

without compromising the design's quality, it's a no-brainer win for your creative process. Of course, not every project requires the use of symmetry, but those that do benefit from this simple build method, because it only requires half the work to complete the full design. So let me walk you through a real world project And I decided, they didn't specifically ask for this, but I decided it needed some kind of bat wings to go with it. So this is where my drawing started. I knew this was going to be symmetric, so I only drew half of the image because I'll be able to scan this in. Once again, I drew this on my iPad, by the way, using Velom, and I'm going to scan this in, and in Photoshop I can flip it, and I usually do that to test it to make sure it's going to balance well, and then I might make a few adjustments in Photoshop where maybe it's too thin or narrow and I'll widen it. But this is where it starts, drawing my refined sketch, in this case with my mechanical pen, so when it's…

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