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Creating a thin line illustration

Creating a thin line illustration - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory

Creating a thin line illustration

- [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. In this movie I want to go over creating a thin line illustration. Now this is a style I've been wanting to work in for quite a while now, so this is my first attempt at creating a thin line illustration. It's really not a difficult look and feel to achieve as you're going to see. But it does require some helpful creative preparation via good reference material. And that's where we're going to start with this one is every illustrator uses reference material, primarily photography. And for this project we're going to do some creative enhancement to produce what I would call an idealistic reference that we can draw from. And our topic for this project is an elk, and this is a stock photograph of an elk here. And the first thing I want to do is I want to cut the head out, because that's all I'm focusing on for this project, is I'm going to create a graphic illustration based off an elk's head, so that's all I've done here. And…

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