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Creating with nested textures

Creating with nested textures - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating with nested textures

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(gear grinding) - [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. The following method is one I'd learned from another illustrator by the name of Andi Butler and I featured her and her artwork in previous courses I've developed and I thought her methodology was a great way to bring a natural feel to vector artwork which tends, at time, to look a little cold and a little too predictable. So let me show you what she does to texturize her artwork and I just want to thank her personally for allowing me to showcase this methodology. Not all illustrators and creatives are open with their creative process, but she's definitely one of them and she does fabulous work. Make sure to check out her website, AndiButler.com and I think you're going to enjoy it. So it all starts with drawing for me. This is just a rough sketch. This is just a composite of some plants and some flowers and I take this and I refine it. So I did the general gist of the idea, but then I go in and I really work…

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