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For this design exercise, I’ve created a simple flat illustration of Homer Simpson and using the Knife tool sliced the vector shapes to shade the character.

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Given that this is a flat design illustration you shouldn’t aim for something photorealistic, just try to show what kind of volume you’re working with, whether that’s something rounded or angular.

One important thing to note when you are working with the Knife tool is that if you’re following a curved path, you should go slowly.

If you speed things up, you will get very weird curves on the slice, which means you’ll need to either try again or make an additional adjustments, ending up with you wasting time.

When you’re shading white elements, I usually recommend sticking with monochrome shades of grey, but if you are working with color, then you have way more room to experiment with which kind of darker shade you’re going to use, you can even have different colors.

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