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Creating offset artwork

Creating offset artwork

(gears grinding) - [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. One feature in Illustrator I use nearly every day is Offset Path. It's a feature not found in other popular competitors to Adobe Illustrator, but the functionality is very useful for building precisely. In this movie I want to walk you through a design I created and how I used offset paths to create part of the overall design. We'll also discuss alternate ways to offset and a few limitations to the functionality that I think you need to be aware of as well. So let's get started. As with everything I create, it starts in analog. This was a sketch I did several months back, no other reason than I was just kind of messing around. And I like to sketch sometimes with my mechanical pencil, this actual exact mechanical pencil is something I've been using for 16 years. I'm very attached to it. I've worn out parts of it many times over the years…

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