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The drawing used in the tutorial was given permission to use, I have the note saying so if anybody wants/needs it.

Please forgive the compression artifacts and such, I had to compress the video a lot to get it a usuable size for online distribution. Just pay attention to the mouse movements, and the audio narration, and you should be fine.

This is a 30 minute long video (which requires divx, if you dont have that, get it here: [link] )

This video covers the basics of loading up an image, inking it, coloring it, and shading it in Adobe Illustrator. There's one thing I forgot to mention/do in the tutorial, which is setting the layer mode of the linework youre tracing to "Template" in the layer options. That will grey out the layer youre tracing, which makes it easier to follow what you're doing.

This Tutorial is 1 of 5 from a DVD full of tutorials, which I should be releasing sometime soon. All the files on the DVD are DVD quality video. These online posts are very low res versions of the same material.

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Mood: Neutral ~lynmartin Jul 4, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
downloaded the Divx player and still can't play...what did I do wrong?
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:iconsmashmethod:
`smashmethod Jul 5, 2012  Professional Interface Designer
Apologies, this is really old, and before I knew anything about encoding the video. You could try and play it in VLC: [link]

If I can find a HQ source file, I'll try and put it up on you YouTube page, where all my other video tips are: [link]
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~Kawas Sep 8, 2011  Student Traditional Artist
Very Very nice tutorial! :D Ty so much!!!!
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:iconnirman:
~nirman Jun 13, 2010   Digital Artist
Thanks! :)
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:iconjasabyg:
Hi there, Great vid! I just wanted to know if you have posted the full set of tutorial online. If so, where? Thanks in advance. Jasmine
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:iconsketchdrayton:
Thanks so much for putting this up. :)
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:iconsirsmoov:
Very cool of you to post up. Thanks man!!
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:iconbodom01:
Mood: Joy ~Bodom01 Jun 25, 2008  Student Artist
yeah!!! this was incredibly !!!!
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:iconcheirodepipoca:
Thanks a lot for this tutorial. It helped me a lot in my first steps with Illustrator [link]

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:iconmurielle:
I took a class that was supposed to be exclusively vector while I was at college....AND SADLY THIS EXPLAINED HOW TO USE IT BETTER THAN A WHOLE SEMESTER. ...my teacher was such a moron.

Thank you for making this. It was exceedingly helpful and to the point.
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