Drawing unclosed shapes
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- Projectile
I want to know how you guys draw shapes that have overlaps. I have a few ways but hate them all. I'm sure one of you has a better way!
ok just to use this as an example... say you're drawing this. You get to homer's mouth-beard bit. do you:
a) Draw the whole thing as a closed shape and then add the actual mouth as a line and match it up?b) draw the shape as an unclosed path and then use live paint to fill the colour in?
c) Draw the unclosed shape with mouth, duplicate and expand, then turn one into a filled background?
d)Have a better way of doing it?
- feel0
a
- goldieboy0
I used to do it similar to a.
I'm Interested to see if there is a better way of doing this.
- feel0
think about this: how would you do it in real life?
you need to take care of the silhouete of things first, then the detail.try to find some timelapse of an artist drawing stuff on illustrator, you'll see how he does it.
- Projectile0
hmm seems like I'm in the same boat as everyone else than.Essentially, I'm just shocked that there still isn't the option to close a path, but then just carry it on a little. Or to draw a shape freely like you would do with a pen, and be able to give it a fill without having to convert to live paint.
- doesnotexist0
a
and lots of pathfinder
- i_monk0
I'd draw the head as one shape, the mouth/beard as another, put them in position and then Add copies of their shapes for the consistent outline in the background.