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How to Create a Rainbow Colored Portrait From a Stock Image in Illustrator
Apr 10th
In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how I created a simple, rainbow colored portrait using a stock image base in Adobe Illustrator. I’ll be adding subtle decoration to the portrait with the help of a Scatter Brush and will be playing with a splash of color to create the rainbow effect. So let’s get started! 1. Prepare Your Layers After purchasing and cropping my stock image in Adobe Photoshop, I’ve created a New document and File > Placed my image onto my artboard. If you regularly follow my tutorials, you may recognize this stock image as I’ve used it in a previous premium tutorial . I’ve set up my layers in the Layers panel as shown below, with a white fill Rectangle (M) at 50% Opacity in the “BG” layer. 2. Draw Your Base Shape Using the Pen Tool (P), draw a shape…
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Quick Tip: How to Make Longcat Truly Infinitely Long in Adobe Illustrator
Apr 1st
The Internet has been taken over by cats and one of the Internet’s famous characters and memes is Longcat . He’s known for his incredibly long length and is subject to many Photoshop graphics. However don’t you think, out of all the cat memes, this one should be in vector? In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a Longcat Pattern Brush in Adobe Illustrator. 1. Planning Your Pattern Brush from a Photo Step 1 Whenever you consider creating a Pattern Brush, the basic theory is to consider the subject in multiple parts. Firstly, the center of the Pattern Brush will be the repeating element. Then if you’re going more in depth, consider the ends of the brush and perhaps the inner and outer corners. For Longcat, I’m going to be breaking him down into two ends (head and feet/tail) and his abdomen center. Use the Line Segment Tool () to create clear boundaries which break up you subject and then Select All (Ctrl + A) and create a Compound Path (Ctrl + 
. Step 2 Draw a Rectangle (M) around the overall subject and then use your lines with the Pathfinder panel to Divide the rectangle. As all the elements which make the brush won’t be central (for instance the tummy isn’t central), then you’ll need these three rectangles set to Opacity 0% to create invisible boundaries for your brush later on in the process. For now, they’ll be acting as a guide. Take this opportunity to enable Smart Guides (Ctrl + U) to help snap your objects and lines to your brush boundaries. Step 3 So let’s…
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How To Create a Military Style Emblem Logo Design
Apr 1st
If you’ve been a reader of my blog you’ll know I love a good badge or emblem style logo design. I’ve done a couple of tutorials before and featured plenty of great examples in showcases . Today I fancied creating another logo of my own, so I used the IGN Alliance network my @spoongergaming alter-ego is a part of to create a military style emblem. Follow this step by step Illustrator to see how the whole thing was put together, using various tools to create the range of vector shapes. IGN Alliance is IGN’s YouTube network for gamers. This little emblem I put together uses a military theme…
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How to Create a Vector House Shaped Clock in Illustrator
Dec 31st
In this tutorial I will show you how to create your own alarm clock in the shape of a house in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll be using the Rectangle Tool, Ellipse Tool, the Transform options and gradients. So let’s begin… Step 1 Open a New document with size 600 by 600px. Using the Rectangle Tool (M), create a rectangle in the upper part in the center of the document with size W:495px H:316px. See the picture below. Step 2 As the shape from the previous step is selected, use the Direct Selection tool (A) to select the upper two points of the rectangle and go to Object > Path > Average. Click to put a check mark on Both and click OK. Your end result will create a triangle. Step 3 As the shape from previous step is selected go to Object > Path > Offset Path. Set the Offset to -5px, click OK and move the new shape under the original by going to Object > Arrange > Send Backward and make it invisible. We’ll need this shape in the following steps. Step 4 Select the original shape and apply Stroke…
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Quick Tip: How to Create a Simple Paw Print Scatter Brush in Adobe Illustrator
Dec 6th
As an animal lover, I enjoy nothing more than combining my love of vector with my pets in tutorials and today is no exception. In the following tutorial I’m going to show you how to create two simple paw print Scatter Brushes in Adobe Illustrator. These are so easy to do and are aimed at beginners. We’ll be creating a dog brush and then showing you how to modify it to be a cat brush. So let’s get stuck in! Step 1 Before we start let’s enable Smart Guides (Ctrl + U). This will make things a lot easier for you I promise. We’re going to start with the main pad of the foot. With the Ellipse Tool (L) click once on the canvas to get the Ellipse Options box. Enter the values of 50 x 50pt to create an even circle and click on OK. The shapes through out will require a black fill, there are no other colors used. Click on the canvas again and create a 30 x 30pt circle and then Copy (Ctrl + C) and Paste in Front (Ctrl + F). Use the Selection Tool (V) to move the smaller circles either side of the larger circle. Step 2 Select All (Ctrl + A) of the three circles and then in the Pathfinder panel click Unite. This will combine the shapes to become one. Step 3 We’re going to use the Pen Tool (P) to remove some of the points around the shape. Some people like to use the Delete Anchor Point Tool (-) for this but…
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How to Create a Wooden Baby Crib in Illustrator | Tutorials …
Dec 4th
In this tutorial we'll learn how to create a wooden crib using Adobe Illustrator . You will create simple objects, fill them with the gradient, create wooden surface for the shapes and then add some details to create a clean vector …
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How to Create the New Smart Phone Lightning Connector
Nov 21st
The 30-pin smart phone connector we have grown to love has finally bit the dust. Its replacement, The Lightning Connector, is quite different and a fair bit smaller than its predecessor. Let’s take a closer look as we recreate this new Lightning Connector in Adobe Illustrator. Step 1 Start by creating a New document and drawing three Rectangles (M) and ten Rounded Rectangles. The sizes below are just approximations, they don’t have to be perfect. The smallest Rounded Rectangles have a Corner Radius of 2 px, the medium has a Radius of 5 px and the largest 7 px. Step 2 Next, with the Pen Tool (P), add four points along the top and bottom sides of the largest rounded rectangle and indent them slightly. Then select all of the small rounded rectangles and Unite them with the Pathfinder panel. Step 3 Now duplicate the…
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How to Create a Simple Vector Avatar from a Stock Image
Nov 20th
The latest Envato Bundle inspired me to create a new vector portrait. One of the stock images within was a great portrait of a senior male and I couldn’t help but give him a vector make over. In today’s tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a simple vector avatar from a stock image with several additional options. So let’s get stuck in! Step 1 After cropping the stock image in Adobe Photoshop or whatever photo editing program you use, File > Placed it onto a New document. I’ve given it it’s own layer and added a new layer on top with a white fill Rectangle (M) set to 50% Opacity. I’ve then added a new layer on top and this is where I’ll be adding my vector shapes. Step 2 Using the Ellipse Tool (L), draw an oval over the face, it doesn’t have to be exact. While selected go to Object > Path > Add Anchor Points and this will add a new anchor point in between each node. Repeat to add further nodes. Then with the Direct Selection Tool (A), modify the points and handles so the once oval is outlining the face. Aim for smooth curves to preserve a cartoon look. Step 3 Repeat the process by adding Ellipses (L) for the ears and adding additional points. You may find with…
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Create a Cute Circus Tent Icon with Adobe Illustrator – Tuts+ Premium
Sep 27th
In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial , learn how to create a cute circus tent in vector form using Adobe Illustrator . You will learn how to create the shapes that form.
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Create a Students Desk in Top View Using Simple Shapes and Textures
Sep 17th
In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create your own student’s desk in a top-view. In order to make it we are going to use the Rectangle Tool, Ellipse Tool, and we’ll use a texture for the desk and the floor that we are going to make. This tutorial is great for beginners, let’s begin! Step 1 Open a new document at any size you want. I used size 600 x 600px then increased it because I increased the size of the desk after Step 14. Take the Rectangle tool (M) and draw a rectangle with size W: 380px H: 195px and rounded corners: 5px. Step 2 As the rectangle from the previous step is selected add a fill color of R:233 G:155 B:107 and apply Stroke: 1px with R:196 G:129 B:92 color. Step 3 In this step we are going to need the texture that we’ll apply to the desk . Download the texture and place it to the shape from the previous step, change the Blending Mode from Normal to Screen and reduce the Opacity to 40%. Then copy the shape from the previous step but first make sure you’ve set Object > Expand Appearance to the shape you rounded the corners to in Step 1 with Command+C, place over the texture with Command+F. Select the texture and the shape that you placed over…
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