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Creating textured shading

Creating textured shading - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating textured shading

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- [Narrator] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. In this movie we're going to use some nice textured resources to shade our design. Now the process isn't hard it just requires attention to detail, so let's get started. Once again, it all starts with drawing, now in this case, this is a symmetric drawing, so I only had to draw a half of it, take it into Photoshop, and that's where I'll just clone one side, flip it over to create everything I need to build from, so that's how I created this little motif of this owl and so I'll just place it inside of Illustrator, set the opacity, lock the layer so it won't move, and then, on top of it, I start building. Now the first thing I'll build on an image like this is the simplest shapes, the things I don't need to touch, the pen tool, such as the top of his head, all the shapes that make up the area around the eye and the eye itself, and other arches, like the top of his claws, right here are his feet, right down here. Now one other…

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