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Creating deduced motifs

Creating deduced motifs - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating deduced motifs

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(energetic music) - Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. The whole meaning behind the title, graphic design or graphic designer, is to do just that: design graphically. One ability that will help your design efforts when creating a graphic motif is to learn and develop your skill of visual deduction. In this movie, we're going to look at a complex form and from it, glean and concisely build an iconic graphic that will still communicate the topic at hand clearly, but without using all the detail. This is going to be fun, so let's get started. This is a project I should say, right up front, anybody can pull off, whether you're proficient at drawing or not, because it's just based off of having good reference. So I wanted to point that out. Now, our theme in this movie is the Taj Mahal in India. It's a beautiful site. It has amazing detail if you get closer to it, and look at all the beautiful scroll work above…

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