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Creating elegant curves - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory
Creating elegant curves
- Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. A lot of people struggle with creating elegant Bézier curves inside Illustrator. In short they struggle with conquering the pen tool. That's a pretty common problem. So in this movie I want to revisit some basics and demonstrate how I approach raw vector building to ensure my shape and form is elegant and precise. This isn't hard, this is just a matter of getting in the habit of working this way and over time you won't even think about it. You'll just do it. So we're going to build this graphic shown here. And once again drawing will facilitate digital because you want to know what you're going to build before you're going to build it. Otherwise you spend a lot of time spinning your wheels and wasting time, so work it out in drawn form. It doesn't need to be perfect because digital will allow you the tools to build it perfectly. But we're going to build this right here. So let's go ahead and zoom in. I'm going to start on the head here,…
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- 13_Creating_Roughen_Graphics.zip
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- 3_Creating_Geometric_Characters.zip
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- 8_Creating_a_Positive_Message.zip
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- 9_Creating_an_Ornate_Insect.zip
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- 11_Creating_with_Pantone_Colors.zip
- 12_Creating_with_Essential_Tools.zip
- 1_Creating_Diffused_Shading.zip
- 2_Cleaning_up_Old_Art.zip
- 3_Creating_Linears_in_Fresco.zip
- 4_Creating_Spot_Texture_Brushes.zip
- 5_Creating_with_Eyedropper_Tool.zip
- 6_Creating_with_Actions.zip
- 7_Creating_Graphic_Pattern_Brushes.zip
- 8_Creating_Random_Organic_Brushwork.zip
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- 10_Creating_a_Brand_Seal.zip
- 11_Creating_Shape_Based_Motifs2.zip
- 12_Creating_Circular_Stories.zip
- 13_Creating_a_One_Color_Portrait.zip
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- 2_Creating_Modern_Kulture.zip
- 3_Creating_a_Duck_Design.zip
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- 5_Creating_with_Geometry.zip
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- 7_Creating_Color_Art_Quickly_HL.zip
- 01_Creating_Authentic_Graphic_Styles.zip
- 02_Creating_with_Raster_Effects.zip
- 03_Creating_a_Shape_Based_Tiki.zip
- 04_Creating_a_Tropical_Fish.zip
- 05_Creating_Ladybug_Art.zip
- 06_Creating_a_Weathered_Sign.zip
- 07_Creating_Blended_Graphics.zip
- 1_Creating_Neon_Graphics.zip
- 2_Creating_a_Memorial_Illustration.zip
- 3_Creating_a_Logo_from_a_Photo.zip
- 4_Creating_a_Globe_Motif.zip
- 5_Creating_a_Photo_Collage.zip
- 6_Creating_with_the_Recolor_Tool.zip
- 7_Creating_Good_Fortune.zip
- 1_Creating_a_Looped_Design.zip
- 2_Creating_in_Real_Time.zip
- 3_Creating_Posterized_Vectors.zip
- 4_Creating_a_Rock&Roll_Graphic.zip
- 5_Creating_a_Distressed_Poster.zip
- 6_Creating_Without_Irradiation.zip
- 7_Recoloring_Digitally_Inked_Art.zip
- 1_Creating_Laser_Engraved_Artwork.zip
- 2_Creating_Flat_Vibrant_Art.zip
- 3_Creating_a_Monoline_Design.zip
- 4_Creating_an_Apparel_Graphic.zip
- 5_Creating_Bitmap_Pattern_Brushes.zip
- 6_Creating_Vector_Brushes.zip
- 7_Creating_a_Geometric_Queen.zip
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- 2_Creating_Pattern_Brush_Art.zip
- 3_Creating_an_Anthropomorphic_Character.zip
- 4_Creating_a_Custom_Pattern.zip
- 5_Creating_3D_Vector_Art.zip
- 6_Creating_Year_of_the_Tiger.zip
- 7_Improve_Your_Vector_Building.zip
- 1_Creating_Thick_&_Thin_Strokes.zip
- 2_Creating_with_Free_Transform.zip
- 3_Creating_a_Horror_Themed_Logo.zip
- 4_Creating_a_Logo_Mark.zip
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- 6_Creating_a_Painted_Graphic.zip
- 7_Creating_Pinata_Artwork.zip
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Creating a positive negative design19m
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Creating with raster effects16m 20s
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Creating textured shading25m 34s
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Creating a laurel motif15m 52s
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Creating iconic detail18m 46s
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Creating with the width tool15m 59s
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Creating from a doodle14m 42s
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Creating an outline logo24m 24s
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Creating a historical portrait15m 43s
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Creating elegant curves16m 4s
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Creating from analog source13m 30s
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Creating a fake logo15m 6s
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Creating with masked textures28m 42s
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