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Creating with shape blends

Creating with shape blends

- [Narrator] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. A lot of functionality in Illustrator tends to get lost or overshadowed by newer functionality over time. So we're going to take a look at an old favorite of mine, that is, shape blending. We'll use this simple methodology to create some stunning results. So let's get started. This is going to be a lot of fun. If you're not familiar with shape blending it's very simple. It can take two distinctly different vector shapes, in this case I have Illinois' state outline here and Abraham Lincoln. Now why'd I pick this as my shape blending? Well here's a little backside story to this. In art school we had to actually do a project in graphic design where we morphed from one shape to another shape. I don't remember what it was trying to teach us but this is what I did. I had done Illinois morphing into Lincoln and man, if I digital it would have been a lot easier as you're going to see here. So we're going to select both, we're going…

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