From the course: Learning Logo Design
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Refined drawing - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Learning Logo Design
Refined drawing
- We've roughed out and isolated our best thumbnail drawings. Now we're going to reapproach each of those rough drawings and we're going to redraw them more precisely. Our end result is going to give us a road map to build from in vector form. This is best shown than explained, so let me show you how to use refined drawing and think about drawing as you approach this stage. We're now going to approach refined drawing, and if you use reference in thumbnail drawing, that's fine, but it's not necessary. You can just make sure you capture the essence, but when it comes to refinement, you need to pay attention to the details that you tended to ignore in the thumbnail stage. So in this case, we want to reapproach the concept that we came up with, and here's the thumbnail sketch. We can go ahead and move our reference off, just so we can see it as we're working. So here's our thumbnail sketch and I have the bear, I have it all…
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Picking an appropriate style7m
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Thumbnail drawing28m 57s
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Refined drawing19m 31s
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Craftsmanship methods26m 21s
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Holistic creative process34m 19s
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Art directing yourself5m 33s
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Creating customized logotypes17m 42s
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Texturizing a logotype11m 53s
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Presenting design directions12m 21s
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Writing design rationales4m 8s
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Handling client feedback14m 6s
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Setting up final deliverables11m 51s
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