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Creating an embroidery design - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory
Creating an embroidery design
(whoosh) (clacking) (impact) - [Instructor] Welcome to drawing vector graphics laboratory. A large part of creating design is presenting the ideas you come up with to your clients, and helping them see the potential so they can approve a direction and keep a project moving forward. So in this movie, I want to show you an easy way to take your vector based design and mock up an embroidery design that's going to help you in presenting that type of idea. So let's jump into this. Now, on this project, I'm going to be using typography in it, so I just wanted to show you the existing font that I started with, in this case it's American Captain Font. Because of licensing, I can't include the font in the exercise files. But this is the word I typed out, and it's converted to paths. So I'm deconstructing the process of going from an existing font to a custom logo type that I'm going to use in my…
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Creating fan art18m 8s
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Creating an embroidery design19m 56s
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Creating diverse icons20m 24s
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Creating color schemes21m 38s
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Creating a historic graphic30m 21s
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Creating immersive textures33m 16s
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Creating a sports graphic23m 24s
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Creating a sci-fi badge33m 37s
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Creating Year of the Rat19m 51s
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Creating a metaphoric design29m 54s
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Creating with custom scripts20m 22s
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Creating a wolf design27m 55s
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