When creating that crazy looking vector image of a dog, cat, or even a person you will always need a pair of eyes to make the animal look good. I mean that is where we look first anyways right? So in this tutorial I am going to show you how to make a googly looking [...]
Archive for the ‘Illustrator’ Category
Making a shooting star using the blend tool
February 8th, 2010
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The blend tool can be used to make some great little effects, you can use it to create shooting stars or just make some abstract line designs with it. Today we are going to keep it simple and make a shooting star, start off by creating a new web document. Make sure the document is in pixels. Now [...]
Making a guitar pick
February 6th, 2010
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Sometimes in illustrator you cant always use the pen tool to create things easily. Like for instance a guitar pick, it can be made with the pen tool but it also can be made by using one of the warp tools. So lets start, create a new document name it what ever you would like [...]
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 clipping masks
February 3rd, 2010
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Learning how to create a clipping mask can lead to many really awesome design elements. In this tutorial we are only going to create some text clipping masks but this can go much further. You could clip images onto shapes if you would like to. So lets get started, create a new document and make [...]
Introduction to the pathfinder tool
February 2nd, 2010
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Illustrator has a lot of cool features, tools, and little tweaks that you can apply to almost any object. One of the coolest and most useful tools that illustrator offers is the Pathfinder tool. The pathfinder tool allows you to combine objects in interesting ways. Its almost impossible to explain what else you can do [...]
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 [...]
