I'd like to point something out about this month's video tutorial—it's more like a 1/2 hour TV show, although neither Robert Downey Jr. nor David Tennant are not in it. I wanted to provide our community with a top to bottom, beginning to finish tutorial on how to not just trace over a photo, but then how to bring the tracing to life using at least three different techniques. It is absolutely, no holds barred, the way I sometimes approach an illustration.

You might consider watch the first ten minutes, repeating my steps shown there, and then coming back after you caught your breath. I apologize to those who can't stand a video over 4 minutes, but this subject is much larger than a "tip" or "trick" and demanded the breadth that I used to bring you what might be an entire chapter in a book.

It's my gift to the Xara community, it took over 20 hours to create and produce, and please treat it for what it is instead of spamming me.

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