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[Illustration: Illustrator Techniques]

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[Mat Helme] We just took the photo of our sketch

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of the walrus with our iPhone and emailed it to ourselves,

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so now it's time to open it up in Illustrator.

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We have Illustrator open right here,

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and we want to click on File, Open,

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and pull in that image.

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Zoom out just a bit, grab the image and rotate it

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so it's upright.

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And we will shrink it down just a bit.

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And as you can see, we have it on layer 1 here.

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What we're going to do is as the layer 1 is selected,

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click this tab, and we want to make it a template.

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We select "Template."

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As you can see, the opacity drops just a bit, and it locks it up.

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And we're going to be using this as a reference,

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so what we're going to do is create another layer,

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and now we're ready to go over some of the styles of

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illustration that we can do.

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I'm going to cover 3 styles.

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One is going to be the Sharpie style with a tablet.

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I'm using a Wacom Intuos4.

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The next is going to be a precise pen technique,

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and the third is going to be a stencil style.

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Let's start off with the Sharpie style with a tablet.

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First what we're going to want to do is create our own brush,

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and to do that, we go up to the top here.

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Select "New brush."

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We're going to want to do a calligraphy brush.

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Select "OK."

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Then all the way at the bottom here, the diameter,

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we want to take that 9 and make it a 5.

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And select "Pressure."

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Go to "Variation."

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Make that a 5. Select "OK."

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Now we have our new brush.

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Now, we're not going to actually use the brush tool.

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We're going to use the blob brush.

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The blob brush is located directly below the pencil brush, or the pencil.

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Select the blob brush. It's also Shift B.

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We'll go ahead and test it out.

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We have white selected, so let's select a dark color like black.

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Start using it here just to get the hang of it.

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Now, as you'll notice, the harder you press down with the tablet,

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the wider the brush gets and vice versa.

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The lighter you press, the lighter the line will get.

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Like so.

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We'll just go ahead and do the hair here.

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As you can see, the tip here is a little bit lighter

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than the base, so we're going to want to start off heavy,

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so press down hard.

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And then let up just a little bit.

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If you want, you can change the diameter of the brush

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to be either less or greater than 5

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by just selecting the brush.

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If you want to do 9, it will just have a different pressure variation.

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You can see it gets a lot thicker there.

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That's one style we can use.

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Let's go ahead and lock out that layer

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and make it not viewable.

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We'll create a new layer on top of that.

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This technique is the precise pen technique.

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We're going to want to select our pen tool

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by pressing P, or it's right over here above the text tool.

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Now, I'm assuming that you already know how to use the pen tool while doing this.

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Let's go ahead and create an arc.

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And as you can see, we have a straight line here.

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Now, if we want to make the middle  of the line a little bit fatter,

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what we want to do is get the width tool

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by either pressing Shift W or selecting it in the toolbar over here.

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And if you grab the middle of the line

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and pull up, you can see it gets a little bit thicker.

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Now, this takes a little bit longer than using the tablet,

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but you get a nice, clean, finished look.

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Let me just test it out here.

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I'm going to want to make this base a little bit fatter, so Shift W,

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grab the width tool, pull it out,

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 and there you go.

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That's what I like to call the precise pen technique.

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Now, the last technique is the stencil style.

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To do this, we're basically going to outline everything,

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so let's go ahead and lock out the layer that we just created,

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make it not viewable, create a new layer, and grab the pen tool again,

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press P, and what we're basically going to do is outline

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all of the dark lines

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like you see here.

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Now, right now I have the outline 

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with the color where I want the fill.

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I don't want the stroke.

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I want to get rid of the stroke and use black for the fill.

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And then what you can do is press A

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and get the select tool, and you can grab the points

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and adjust them as you want, just like that.

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With this technique, what you want to do 

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is go ahead and make a fill on all of the dark

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so you get almost like an ink outline.

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And then do the complete shape, 

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so you would trace around the whole shape 

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with the solid color so then you'd have a base color

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and then the ink lines over top of that, and you get a stencil effect.

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For this project, since it's a kid's project,

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I would probably use the Sharpie style with a tablet

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to get more of a sketched look.

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So, we're going to go with that style.

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