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Creating high contrast

Creating high contrast

(logo whooshing) - Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. The best way to improve your skills as a designer and illustrator is to simply practice your craft as often as you can. For myself, I'm always looking for any excuse to create artwork. Even when I'm doing something distinctively non-creative, like watching a movie. In this case, an old 1940's film noir starring a very young Frank Sinatra. As I was watching this movie, I froze one scene because the pose of his face just kind of captured me. I'm a sucker for fedoras, I love fedoras. So I captured this, why? I don't know. It just intrigued me, and I've learned over the years not to ignore that. So I paused it, I captured the screen, and I've had this image in my personal projects folder for about five years now, and decided it was time to create a design with it. So in this movie, that's exactly what I'm going to to do. I'm going to walk you through…

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