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Creating dimension with shadows

Creating dimension with shadows - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating dimension with shadows

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- [Instructor] All right, so our graphic is looking pretty good, but a lot of the heavy lifting is being done by the template layer right now. Notice if I turn on the color layer, once again inside the layers panel, the face looks very flat, which is why we need some shadows and some highlights. And so I'm going to zoom in on the jaw line. I want you to notice that this shape has already been drawn. Make sure that the color layer is active incidentally, and then go up to the view menu and choose outline, or you can press Control + Y or Command + Y on the Mac in order to switch to the outline mode, so that you can see the template in the background. All right now, that should automatically change the fill and stroke by the way, but you definitely want no stroke at this point. So change that second swatch to none, and then set the first swatch to this global swatch that I've created in advance, which I'm calling shadows. And…

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