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Cursive type, whether a script font or hand-lettered, often features elegant swashes and overlapping strokes. One way artists emphasise the curvature of their type is to apply shading, which adds an illusion of depth to the lettering piece. In today's tutorial I'll show you how to produce a shaded type effect in Adobe Illustrator. We'll use a script font as the basis of our typography, then apply a series of gradients to give the impression that
the letter strokes interweave and overlap.
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The artwork we'll be creating in this tutorial features the word 'Love' in a bold, flowing script font with the addition of shaded elements that make the strokes of each letter appear as if they loop and overlap, rather than being flat two-dimensional type. Grain filters and dusty textures then used to distress the artwork with more of a low-fi appearance to finish off this grungy shaded type effect.
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