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 [...]
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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 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 [...]
How to create sun rays
January 30th, 2010
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To create rays in Illustrator as all tricks there are many ways to do this. You have my way which I’m about to explain to you or you have Wils way which I will link to when ever he puts it up. I believe my way of doing this effect is a lot easier because [...]
How to create a 3D cube in Illustrator
January 30th, 2010
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So when me and Wil were thinking about a logo for Cluelesss I came up with the idea of a 3D box with question marks on the sides of the box. So I started on the idea trying the “hard way” of doing this. That is taking 3 separate squares and trying to line them [...]
Creating the Web 2.0 Gloss effect
January 29th, 2010
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Where ever you look these days you’ll find that most websites have a web 2.0 looking logo. It’ll have the shine, the gloss, and the overall feeling of reflection. In today’s tutorial I will show you to do this reflection and…
