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How to draw symmetrical...
Years ago I was pretty amazed by the awesome symmetrical illustrations on different artist portfolios and vector sites. But one day as I was struggling to draw a lion face, just couldn’t get the face equally aligned, and such, I found the trick!
Drawing symmetrically isn’t the easiest thing but luckily, with Adobe Illustrator’s amazing mirror/reflect feature, you can draw one side and get an identical reflection on the other side.
It can save you tons of time!
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The greater news is, you can even see your drawing process.
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to quickly mirror an existing image using the reflect tool and how to activate the live mirror as you draw.
Let’s dive in!
Reflect Tool
You can use the Reflect Tool (keyboard shortcut) to make a mirrored image in Adobe Illustrator by following the steps below.
Note: all screenshots from this tutorial are taken from Adobe Illustrator CC Mac version. Windows or other versions can look different.
Step 1: Open the image in Adobe Illustrator.
Step 2: Go to the Layers panel, select
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