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Creating Year of the Rat

Creating Year of the Rat - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating Year of the Rat

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(air whooshing) (gears turning) - [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. The Chinese New Year, or the Lunar New Year last year, was the year of the pig. This year, it's the year of the rat. So in this movie, I'm going to take you through how I approach this year's theme and how I continually revise my artwork as I create it. So let's jump into this. Now where my process starts, if I don't have an idea off the top of my head, I tend to do some research. In this case, I kind of looked at references, photographs and associations of a rat, really to study the form. What makes a rat a rat? What makes its characteristic shape that distinguishes it as a rat? Well, the nice part about doing this type of visual research is you might do some simple shape recognition that has an association with another point of fact. And in this case, if I look at this photograph up here in the top right,…

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