Chris Sandlin. Balancing Act by Christopher Lee. Chris Sandlin / Likes. Dave Perillo / Likes. Dave Perillo. Pascal campion. Create Grainy Textures In Illustrator. Creating grainy textures are great for retro illustrations, typography, and logos. Alternatively, you can incorporate these effects into compelling new styles. You can always scan in similar textures and Live Trace them in Illustrator, but you can pretty easily create this type of effect all inside Illustrator!
Final Image Here is a sample image of what these techniques can do. Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator CS5 (You should be able to create this tutorial in CS4 and CS3 but some of the tutorial images might look different.)Difficulty: Beginner / IntermediateTopics Covered: Grain Effect, Gradient, Gradient Meshes, BlendsEstimated Completion Time: 15-20 minutes Grainy Textures In the following sections I’ll show you how to create these grainy textures from a couple of different elements within Illustrator. Gradients Basic First up is gradients. Color Take your same rectangle and fill it with a solid color. Gradient Mesh Blend Quick Tutorial Experiment.