To make a simple pencil in illustrator one may think to just use different shapes with different colors. While this is effective, without proper use of gradients you may get this “blah” kind of pencil with no real depth. To start off we’re goin to use some simple shapes but if you don’t want to [...]
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Creating A Vector Artwork
February 3rd, 2010
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Start off with a drawing or rough sketch of your artwork and drag or import it into illustrator. At this point some people like to just live trace it then delete the parts they don’t want, but that doesn’t give you many options. So first set the opacity to something low like 45; lock the [...]
Creating sun rays part 2
January 31st, 2010
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Robert’s way of doing rays might be a little unorthodox but this quick and easy way of doing rays holds a whole lot more possibilities than his way. In a new illustrator document, make a rectangle. Now go to object > envelope distort > make with warp, or just press alt (option) + shift + [...]
How to create a compound shape bubble
January 30th, 2010
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[*NOTE: For the colors to work properly when you open a new document, under the new document profile drop-down box, choose web]. Start by using the rectangle tool to make a black background. After you create the background, press Ctrl (command) + 3 to hide it. Then press ctrl (command) + ” to bring up [...]
