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Advanced techniques: Creating a fall icon

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Advanced techniques: Creating a fall icon

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- [Instructor] Let's start creating our third icon which is going to be about fall. Something that looks again a little bit different and we'll be using again, a variety of different techniques that we haven't really covered before. Now, what we need to create is an umbrella. Now to create the umbrella, we're going to start out by just clicking and dragging a perfect circle. So I'm holding down the Shift key like this here, and I'll just quickly lower this stroke Way to this other open here. And what is important here is that for now I am going to de-select scale, strokes and effect, because I do have to scale a few elements up and down quite a bit, which will result in art looking strokes here. Now, how can I create these different segments here for the actual umbrella? So what I'll do is I'll start using a couple of keyboard shortcuts here. Now, try and follow along as best as you can, because this does take a little bit…

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