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Adding dimension to typography

Adding dimension to typography - Illustrator Tutorial

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Adding dimension to typography

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- [Instructor] Plugins are constantly being developed for Adobe software, specifically Illustrator, and the absolute best developer, in my opinion, is astutegraphics.com. I use their plugins every day building my vector artwork. In this movie, I'll show you one specific one I use to make the creative process easier. So let's get started. Now I'm going to first show you how I'm going to add dimensionality to this type design, but once again, it starts in analog, it starts with drawing. Once I get my refined drawing worked out, such as this, I'll, again, go set the opacity to about 15%, lock the layers, and then, what's the easiest part of this design to build? It's all the elliptical shapes. All of these can be built just using the ellipse tool up here. So those are the first ones that I tackle, but everything else isn't going to be hard. This is a pretty simple one. If you use the principle I showed you in a previous…

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