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Designing Your Own Online Avatar/ with Deke McClelland.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- McClelland, Deke, 1962- speaker.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Instructional films.
- Educational films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Carpenteria, CA:: linkedin.com, 2014.
- System Details:
- Latest version of the following browsers: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Internet Explorer. Adobe Flash Player Plugin. JavaScript and cookies must be enabled. A broadband Internet connection.
- Summary:
- Learn to create a cartoon online avatar of yourself with Illustrator.
- Designs dekeConstructed is a new series that breaks down the creation of cool designs so you can build them on your own. This installment is for everyone who needs an online avatar?that tiny image that has to communicate a thousand words about who you are in less than a square inch. Start by taking a photo of yourself facing forward?the traditional passport style. From there Deke McClelland takes you through the steps to transforming your photo into a cartoon avatar with Illustrator: tracing your features, refining and exaggerating the strokes, adding color and shading, and using gradients and patterns to fill in details like hair. Plus, learn some tricks for infusing your drawing with an extra bit of personality and exporting your final image in the best format for social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
- Participant:
- Presenter: Deke McClelland
- Notes:
- 4/22/20141
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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