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Creating a graphics avatar illustration

Creating a graphics avatar illustration - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory

Creating a graphics avatar illustration

- [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. In this movie I wanna go over creating a graphic avatar illustration. Now, these two characters in front of you, on the left if Doug Winny and on the right is Justin Sealy. Actually you might recognize Justin. He's staff author for Linda.com. So you might have watched some of his tutorials on the site, but these two guys were starting their own podcast and Justin approached me and asked me if I'd create avatars of themselves that they could use on social media and to advertise their podcast, and I said yeah, I'd love to do that. So they provided me with this reference photos for the two co-hosts of the show, and what I did is I first just isolated their heads using my intense Photoshop skills, as you can see here. This is just simply a hack job. Just to get and capture the heads that I could isolate them in order to focus on the details to capture the essence of these characters. Now, the specific style that came to mind…

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