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Creating a bird man

Creating a bird man - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating a bird man

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that isn't done via video chat, I tend to doodle. This helps me to focus on what the person is saying, even though someone watching me might think I'm not paying attention. It's actually just the opposite. if you will, so it all starts off with drawing. I refine it, I tighten it up a little bit. I make some decisions, like with my refined sketch, you can see the bird jumping off over here. He doesn't really need legs. Those are kind of tucked up, so I just clean it up to this point. Once I have it here, I can simply just adjust my opacity on the layer, lock the layer, and then start building. Now, where do I start on something like this? Well, for me, the tree is the base of everything, so this is what I would call rough building. I just place the anchor points where they need to be in order to shape what I want. I don't worry about the curves. I go back later, and you can use the native Anchor Point tool here in…

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