From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics: Linear Line Illustration

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Building a complete linear line illustration

Building a complete linear line illustration - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics: Linear Line Illustration

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Building a complete linear line illustration

In the previews movie I showed you how to approach your free style drawn linear artwork in an iconic format, and build it out using some of the same principles I covered in my drawing vector graphics course for Lynda. And I'm going to show you the exact same methods will apply to a more complex linear piece of artwork. So, here's another drawing that I created. This one was inspired by one of my favorite movie critics, Gene Shallet, and he just has such a great personality that I kind of drew off of that, pardon the pun. And so this is more inspired by photography in essence, even though there's a lot of creative license going on here. Not quite as crazy as his real life hair would be but that's why I wanted to draw it. So we're going to start working on this one in terms of how I approach building a more complex linear illustration like this, and it's using the same principles. Now anywhere where your artwork comes to a point is going to get to a point. So I'm starting with his nose…

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