Best Practices for Drawing Fashion Flats in Adobe Illustrator

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Using a t-shirt illustration as an example, I'll go through some of the best practices I utilize when drawing fashion illustrations in Adobe Illustrator. This tutorial was inspired when I grabbed the free t-shirt template in the Illustrator Template folder and saw how they had created.
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[@SewHeidi]

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[@christinarhodes4285]

thankyou for your clear instructions. fantastic.

[@AM-bq4vc]

wonderful- as always! thanks.

[@sashashae]

Thanks for sharing! This is definitely easier indeed.

[@kristinablanc9816]

Fantastic !!!!

[@suetaitporcaro2481]

i learn so much from your tutorials!

[@SewHeidi]

So awesome to hear Sue!

[@lonelyholiday7892]

awesome

[@debbiegroves2649]

I hang my head in shame, guilty of all the things you said were wrong. I am so grateful for this tutorial. Thank you for showing me the correct and efficient way to do this!!

[@SewHeidi]

you're not the only one! Now you know - I promise it's just the beginning of what you'll learn :)

[@theunifiedfield]

Firstly, thanks for all the Illustrator tutorials, I feel that I was skilled in my uni days, and yet the program has come leaps and bounds, which I have not found time to catch up on in my working days. These are really straight forwards and helpful. I have tried doing my ribbing as per suggested in the past, but I always get an overlap at the edge where the dashed line does not sit cleanly inside my neckband edge angle, it can be see on the wearers right neck on your demo. Is there a neat way to avoid this? Thanks!

[@MissPieq]

Hi Heidi! first thank you for all ur amazing tips and tutorials! I would like to ask you If you have a template figurine that you use to sketch out new flat designs or you always use a flat sketch as a template and later modify it?

[@SewHeidi]

I always use a photo of some sort - whatever I can find of a similar garment 😝

[@lanicetye]

I placed the stitches in my Brush panel but when i open a new document i don't see the new pattern brushes i made. I don't see the stitches i just created when i open a new document. How do i save them to where i can see my created brushes and symbols each time?