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- We're going to start

things off with one of my



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favorite features in

Illustrator which goes



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by the unassuming name Image Trace.



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Among other things, it can

trace scanned line art.



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Meaning that you can take something



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made with traditional tools,



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things like pens and pieces of paper,



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and then scan or photograph it,



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and convert it to vectors

inside illustrator.



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In this chapter, I'll walk

you through three scenarios.



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We'll start with this pen and ink portrait



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that I drew for a local

newspaper article back in 1986,



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a year before Illustrator

started shipping.



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Not only does this prove

that something very



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old can be come very new

in a matter of minutes,



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but it also means that you

can start with conventional



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tools, and end with technically impeccable



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vector-based path outlines

that you can refine,



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and later scale to any size.



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Near the end I'll show

you how to trace a casual,



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if preposterous, pencil

sketch with open pass



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and uniformly weighted strokes.



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Then we'll wrap things up

by tracing one of the most



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famous line drawings of all time,



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Albrecht Durer's 16th century Rhinoceros.



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The finished result is

a combination of fills



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and strokes that demonstrates

in high resolution



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detail why Durer's is in fact the original



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preposterous rhinoceros.



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Crazy classical artwork meets

Space Age drawing program,



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that's how we get the party

started in the far-flung,



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futuristic world of Illustrator

One-on-One: Advanced.