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Shading the eye, ear, and nose

Shading the eye, ear, and nose - Illustrator Tutorial

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Shading the eye, ear, and nose

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to shade the ear, the eye, and add a little bit of gloss on the nose. And the reason I think is pretty obvious. Notice that without that shading we have some flat features indeed. And the eye doesn't even look like it's looking in the right direction. So we're going to start things off in the ear right here because it's the most intricate detail. And notice that my color layer is selected. I'll go ahead and press Ctrl + Y or Command + Y on the Mac to switch to the outline mode. I'll make sure that my fill is set to that shadows swatch, and that my stroke is set to None. And then I'll go ahead and press the P key in order to select the pen tool. And I think I want to zoom in even more right here. I'm going to go ahead and draw an initial smooth point, like, so and then I'll draw another one at this location that should work, but I might want to cheat in a little bit just to make sure I…

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