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Creating a contour illustration

Creating a contour illustration - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating a contour illustration

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(loud whoosh) (gear clicking) - [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. In my iconography course, I touched on a style called contour illustration. I wanted to revisit this style and document it a little more, because it's a very universal style that I believe anyone can pull off if they understand the process behind it. So let's walk through how to pull off a contour style illustration. Where does it start? It starts with having inspiration, or in this case, a genre to work from. I'm working from blues music. I absolutely love blues music. And the theme of this one is a sax player, and specifically, it's gonna end up being my favorite, one of my favorite I should say, blues artists, as you'll see coming up. But this was the reference that I use to draw from. Now, when I draw from a reference like this, I like to turn it to black and white so it's easier to discern shape and form. I don't wanna worry about color because I'm not colorizing this realistically when…

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