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Creating a mythical creature

Creating a mythical creature

(logo whooshes) (gear grinds) (gear clanks) - [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. I've said it before, and I'm going to say it again, client work is great, but the best way to develop your skills is to have your own passion projects on the side. Things you do for no other reason than to have fun. Creative exploration, be it design, illustration, or in this movie's case, a little bit of both, will help you improve your skills and pursue ideas that, frankly no client will probably ever hire you to do otherwise. So in this movie, I'll take ya through how I did just that, from inspiration to final art, used in several different contexts. Now I grew up in Washington State, that's right above Oregon where I live now. And it was the Pacific Northwest, and back in 1980, May 18th 1980 to be exact. Mount Saint Helens erupted, and blew up. Now this is just a mere 40 miles away from where I live, so I…

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