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Creating degraded graphics

Creating degraded graphics

- [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. I love the simple clarity of a one color graphic motif. I just think that is the epitome of graphic design. But I also like the authentic flair that degraded textures can bring to a design as well. So in this movie, we're gonna do both. And I'll show you how you can degrade an image in a non-destructive way to discover what's gonna work best as you move forward and you build the final art. So let's jump into it and I'll showcase everything that it's gonna take to pull this off. It all started in drawing, this was my simple symmetric drawing. Yes it's a skull but I want to take a different twist so I wanted it to be kind of a monstrous skull. Like he has three eyes and he has multiple horns on his head, almost like Darth Maul if you know who I'm talking about. Now that I look at it, it kinda resembles Darth Maul in that he has the same type of horns. But we're gonna build this graphic motif moving forward, so we take this…

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