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What is mixed art?
Mixed art is a combination of Alligned and Unalligned. Some people may find it complicated, however, other may find this method fairly easy.
When creating mixed logos, you use symbols from both, Alligned and Unalligned. With that said, there is no exact number of symbols that will fit on one line.
Well, i dont draw mixed art very often, but here is what i do know about it
First off, Mixed art is the hardest type of art, using all the characters. It is hard, since in able to do it correctly, you MUST draw in Wordpad or Notepad, and have a VERY good idea of how different characters work together (For example, how to make many different angled slopes)
The good part of Mixed is that you can make very, very detailed drawings, since you get a large amount of characters to work with.
Not many logo artists are extreme mixed drawers, but most people use mixed, even if they dont know it. technically, using mixed is simply using characters that arent the same size, so if you use _ and - in the same drawing, then according to the definition, you are using "Mixed" art.

However, serious mixed drawings use 95% of the characters on the keyboard, making it hard to learn. Some commonly used Mixed Charaters are # $ ? ¥ § £ € _ ¸ , . - • ~ ¬ ^ º ° ' ¹ ² ³ ` ˜ ¨ ¯ ; : / | \ *
The seriously mixed drawings I made were generally outlined by unalligned, and then filled in and shaded with alligned, with some unalligned for detail, so thats how im gonna write this guide.

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06-May-2010 15:47:56 - Last edited on 07-May-2010 21:44:51 by [#R8WGBMN70]

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As you can see, in the above picture, I used unalligned to make the outline crisp, and i used the alligned to make the outside, but had some unalligned as detail.

So, to make Mixed, you need to follow a few steps.
1. Pick a few characters to work with, so you arent dealing with 20+ characters
2. Begin to outline the drawing in unalligned. make the outline light, but easy to see. (E.G. ` , instead of `-,)
3. When the outline is done, begin to add the unalligned detail to the drawing itself, and again, make it light.
4. When the detail is done, begin to add the Alligned characters as needed, wether it be for shading, fill-in, or for a different texture
5. Shade your drawing. If it is a large drawing (Close to 2K chars) then you may want to consider doing some shading with alligned (For the darker areas) and some with unalligned (The lighter areas that still need to be darkened in.)
6. PREVIEW your post on the Forums, making sure that everything looks right. If it doesnt, fix it. If you cant fix it, then post the drawing, point out what you want changed (E.G. the left side on the upper left tentacle) and wait for people to give you advice, or fix it.

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