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Creating an animal illustration

Creating an animal illustration - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating an animal illustration

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(dramatic music) - [Voiceover] Welcome to drawing vector graphics laboratory. In this movie, I want to go over creating a graphic animal illustration. Now to work out this type of design, you wanna have good reference, specifically for this project you wanna have a reference of an animal. I've chosen a lion you can choose any animal you want but you want the reference to be a straight-on view, meaning you don't want to go three quarter view or side view for example, but have the animal looking straight at you as close as you can get it to assist. Now you're not gonna be basing it exactly on a photograph but a photograph is gonna assist you in the creative process. I used this as my reference to draw from. I'm gonna now draw out all the shapes and forms to work out exactly what I need. And even though I wanna figure out what I want to create before I actually attempt to create it, I still use Illustrator to assist even in the drawing process. So with this reference I scanned it in…

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