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Creating offset graphic motif

Creating offset graphic motif - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating offset graphic motif

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- [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. Graphic design can be applied to any context or theme. You can look at a complex form, analyze its shapes, and then deduce the simplified graphic that captures the essence, and communicates in a simple and iconic way. In this movie, we'll do this using basic shapes, and a feature called Offset Path. Let's get started. So here's a very crude thumbnail sketch of an owl. So this is going to be the theme for this specific project, we're actually creating a logo mark for a client, and we're going to use a methodology called Offset Path to do that. So this is where it started, in analog, as a thumbnail, to capture a general essence of what we want to pull off, but, it doesn't clarify anything, so we want to improve on this with another rough sketch. Now this rough sketch is going to help us build what we need, and notice, it's not perfect, it doesn't need to be, because we're going to be using perfect tools, perfect geometric…

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