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Quick Tip: Combine 3D Effects With Blends in Adobe Illustrator
Apr 19th
Adobe Illustrator’s 3D Effects are powerful tools for the vector artist. When combined with other effects and tools, the results can be surprising and fun. In this Quick Tip screen cast, see how to map art to 3D objects, then use those objects in a blend. Adjust the number of steps in the blend to reveal its other sides, then manipulate the blend’s spine for a cascading effect. To learn more, check out the Tuts Premium course, Illustrator Effects in Depth .
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Illustrator Tip: How to Avoid Problems while Creating Blend Objects …
Apr 1st
In our today's tutorial I will tell you about the technique, which will help you to avoid artifacts while using the Blend Tool in vector design. By following. … Illustrator CS6 Tutorials : 30+ Superb Tips & Tricks
Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create a Cartoon Little Girl … – Vectorboom
Mar 25th
In this step-by-step tutorial , I'm going to show you how to create a Cartoon Little Girl (or Boy) Portrait in Illustrator . We will use modified Basic Shapes, Blend Tool and Art Brush (for stylized afro). You can download the Cartoon Little Girl vector …
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How to Create a Cute Corn Illustration with Basic Shapes in Illustrator
Feb 26th
In this tutorial we are going to draw a cute corn illustration, with the use of Pathfinder panel, basic shape tools and some Blends for the color palette, so lets get started. Step 1 First we start with by creating a New document (Cmnd + N), the size of the artboard would be 600 x 600 px. In the Layers panel create two new layers. The top layer its where we are going to do our illustration (rename it “draw”) and the lower layer its were are going to do our sketch (rename it “sketch”). Step 2 Lock the “draw” layer. Then on the “sketch” layer we start to draw our cute corn sketch by using the Blob Brush Tool (Shift + B). We’ll be drawing a symmetrical figure, so only draw half of it. Step 3 Now select your sketch and Copy (Cmnd + C) and Paste in Front (Cmnd + F). Then with the Reflection Tool (O) reflect the object to obtain the final sketch image. Step 4 Select the sketch …
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Quick Tip: How to Create Two Bright Ice Cream Lollies in Illustrator
Feb 8th
Summer may be a long way off in the northern hemisphere, but below the Equator, it’s hot hot hot! In this quick tip tutorial we will make a glossy ice cream. Using Gradients, the Blend Tool (W) and Warp Effect you will create a nice and tasty ice creams. Step 1. Creating an Ice Cream Shape First open a New web document 500 x 500px. Take the Rounded Rectangle and draw a 110 x 200 px rectangle with corner radius 15 px. The fill color isn’t important at this stage. Create a circle with the Ellipse Tool (L) with the dimensions of 110 x 110px. Place it as shown in the picture and align on the center with rounded rectangle. Go to Window menu, select an Align panel. Now select the two shapes and choose…
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Quick Tip: How to Create a Comet with the Blend Tool and Blurs
Jan 31st
Learn how to create a comet or shooting star by using the Blend Tool, combined with a Blur effect in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll finish the quick illustration off with the not often used Flare Tool.
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How to Illustrate a Screw-bolt and a Nut with 3D Effects in Illustrator
Jan 30th
In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a screw-bolt and a nut in Adobe Illustrator. Open the Illustrator program, create there the new document and let’s begin… Step 1 Take the Polygon Tool and illustrate a path shown below. Fill it with gray, and change the Stroke to None. Go to Effect > 3D > Extrude & Bevel. Choose bevel shape Tall-Round, Light Intensities and Size – 100%. You need to do this because the screw is a metallic detail. So it must have contrast in light distribution. Follow the helpful image below. You need to achieve the following result after this manipulation. Step 2 Copy this path and Paste it in Front (Command + C then Command + F). Go to the Appearance panel, click 3D Extrude & Bevel link to edit the effect, and Specify a rendering style to No Shading (indicated with an arrow in the picture below). You will receive the next picture of the Copy of the path. Step 3 Go to Object > Expand Appearance. Step 4 We need to find the center of the top part of the screw cap. Thus, select the path indicated above, change the Fill color of it for your convenience… …and delete all the other paths made after expanding the copy of 3D object. Follow the helpful image below. Step 5 Go to Object > Transform > Scale and increase the path slightly as shown. Grab the Selection Tool (V), and go to View > Rulers > Show Rulers (Command + R). Step 6 Now you need to drag the Guide-lines from the rulers and drop them on the image so as to make them intersect the centers of the Bounding Box. See the image below…
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How to Draw a Power Plug in Adobe Illustrator | Vectortuts+
Dec 17th
In the following tutorial , I'm going to show you how to illustrate a power plug in Adobe Illustrator . We'll start with a geometry sketch and build upon it. … Step 16. Drag and drop this Blend into the Brush panel and choose the Art Brush option in the opened dialog box. Name this brush “Black brush” and choose the Hue Shift Method …. Alexander lives in the Ukraine and has a passion for vector illustrations . He enjoys being part of the Tuts+ authors team! Plus Premium …
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How to Illustrate a Vintage Stopwatch in Adobe Illustrator
Dec 10th
In today’s tutorial, we are going to learn how to create a vintage stopwatch using basic shapes, Blends and Art Brushes in Adobe Illustrator. You’ll learn how to use a variety of Illustrator tools. So let’s get started! Step 1 To begin you will need to create the main geometry sketch of the stopwatch which is shown in the diagram below. We’ll be creating this initial plan to work from, there we can add highlights and shadows to make it look less flat. If you know how to achieve the main outlines of the object and its elements, go to the Step 7. If not, read the following steps carefully. The scaled images of the tiny stopwatch parts are shown below for your convenience. Here is a close up of one of the side buttons. And here is the central button at the top. Step 2 Go to View > Rulers > Show Rulers (Command + R). Then drag and drop the Guide lines from the Rulers in order to create the following image. Several Guide lines should be rotated by going to Object > Transform > Rotate. The intersection point of the rotated Guide lines will be the center of the stopwatch. Using the Ellipse Tool (L), create a circle filled with gray. Go to Object > Transform > Scale so as to decrease the dimensions of the circle, then click the Copy button in the dialog box of scaling, and change the color of the new circle as shown. Repeat these manipulations in order to create the next…
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Create Design Skills Buttons in Illustrator
Dec 3rd
Create simple progress buttons to show you’re skills with a particular software or technique. you can add those buttons on your website or even on your resume. We’ll use a few tool such as the Blend T…
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