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Creating a bird illustration - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory
Creating a bird illustration
(upbeat music) - [Voiceover] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. In this movie, I want to go over creating a graphic bird illustration. Now you might have noticed, so far, that I tend to go to this theme and topic a lot, that is birds, because I don't know, there's something about birds that I'm really drawn to, creatively speaking, especially when it comes to illustrating, I love using this theme to create with, it's just fun. So that's why I keep gravitating towards it, you might have noticed that in a few courses on Lynda, where I've done several birds as examples of one style or another, and I'm going to use it again for this one. Now specifically, for this one, I want to focus on creating a graphic representation of a bird. It's illustrative, but it's very graphic, but, as you're going to see, I think it comes out really elegantly. Now when I approach a style like this, I always refer to the real thing, whether I'm drawing it realistically or not, because I can look at…
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Creating a polygon-styled illustration16m 19s
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Creating dimension on flat motifs13m 13s
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Creating an animal illustration15m 31s
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Creating a mandala ornament design20m 55s
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Creating an 8-bit illustration12m 59s
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Creating optimized final art files9m 24s
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Creating a bird illustration16m 46s
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Artist at work: Big foot illustration12m 43s
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Creating a linear portrait illustration19m 50s
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Creating an overlap color illustration14m 51s
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Creating a fat-line illustration15m 24s
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Creating a graphics avatar illustration16m 38s
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