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Creating a festive design - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory
Creating a festive design
(wind gusts) (gear clicks) - [Instructor] So, we're in Illustrator now, and what you see in front of you is a pencil sketch that I did back in around 1990, and I did it during the holidays, just to send little handmade cards to friends of mine, and I'm not going to give away what the theme, the title of the theme is, because I want to save that for later. But this is where it started, and of course as you saw me inking it on the iPad Pro, this was the rough sketch that I based off of the same concept, and when I was on the iPad Pro I pushed it from the iPad Pro to Illustrator using the controls up here and what that does is it takes the digital file in your iPad, uploads it to Creative Cloud, and then pushes it down to your desktop computer all associated with the Creative Cloud account that you're using. So, both the iPad obviously and your desktop have to be using the same Creative Cloud account. Otherwise, it wouldn't…
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Creating an artsy globe17m 55s
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Creating an engraved portrait21m 24s
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Creating with index color17m 31s
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Creating with the Shape Builder tool13m 5s
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Creating a festive design21m 21s
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Creating drop shadow effects19m 39s
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Creating high contrast28m 7s
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Creating Nataraja art38m 31s
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Creating freeform gradients25m 29s
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Creating kabuki art35m 7s
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Creating new years art27m 11s
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Creating sasquatch art30m 53s
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Creating grainy coloring11m 23s
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