Vectips - Illustrator tips, tricks, and tutorials. Easy Vector Textures in Illustrator – PART ONE R-Design graphic design tutorials. Posted by Raffi Illustrator, Illustrator BeginnerJuly 31st, 2009 Incorporating textures into your vector artwork is a great way to add visual interest. Manually drawing a detailed vector texture in Illustrator can be labor intensive and time consuming. But creating custom dynamic textures using the Live Trace tool makes Illustrator textures quick and easy.In Part One of Easy Vector Textures, we’ll walk through the simple steps of creating a texture. Part Two, will be an exercise in using some of textures in a design.Let’s start by selecting a photo that shows the type of texture you want to create.
I am going to use the weave texture shown below. Once you have selected a texture, place the photo into your Illustrator document (File > Place). Now you are left with only the black portions of the texture. To see how the texture can be used to modify a flat object, draw a rectangle and fill it with the color of your choice, as seem below. Leave a Reply. How to Create a Textured Vector Landscape. A few times a each month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Vectortuts+. This tutorial by Rype was first published on October 31st 2008. In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a stylized textured vector landscape.
The techniques are simple and easily translated into other illustrations. Check out Chris Spooners post 40 Stunning Vector Landscape Illustrations for more vector landscape inspiration. Final Image Preview Below is the final design we will be working towards. Step 1 Go to TextureKing and download the first texture, second texture, and third texture for this tutorial. Step 2 Create a new document and create a rectangle with the Rectangle Tool (M) that is the size of your document.
Step 3 Fill the new rectangle with a Linear Gradient from the Gradient Panel with no stroke. Step 4 With the Gradient Tool (G), click in the middle of the gradient and drag upwards, placing the darker part of the gradient at the top of the rectangle. Step 5. Letterhead Fonts / Rare & Unusual Letters For The Professional Artist. Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorial | Digital type art techniques |
Awesome Keyboard Shortcuts for Photoshop. This is a list of the most useful default Photoshop keyboard shortcuts that you can use them to speed up your workflow. Some of them are rarely mentioned, some are more common and some are only available in Photoshop CS5. I hope everyone will find some new and useful shortcuts in this article. So let"s get started! 1. Command/Ctrl + Space + Click and Drag Left or Right. 2. Alt + Shift + Right Click (Win) or Control + Option + Cmd + Click (Mac). 3. Hold Down H + Click, Reposition View and Let Go of the Mouse to Zoom Back). 4. Ctrl + Alt + Right Click (Win) or Control + Option + Click (Mac). 5. Hold Down Shift. 6. Hold Down Command/Ctrl. 7. Shift + Ctrl + Space (Win) or Shift + Command + Space (Mac). 8. Hit Tab. 9. Space and Then Arrow Keys. 10. Command/Ctrl + Shift + . or , you can use it for selected text. 11.
Command/Ctrl + Shift + K. 12. Alt/Option + Left and Right Arrow Keys. 13. Alt/Option + Up and Down Arrow Keys. 14. Alt/Option + Shift + Up and Down Arrow Keys. 15. 16. 17. 18. Scientific Illustration: Archive. Freelance Living. Hey everybody! Wanted to go over something that I think is very important if you're an aspiring freelance artist. I talk about this all the time during my LiveStreams but I've never really posted this stuff anywhere. To some of you this may seem like common sense but... It must be enforced! Forums You must always be producing work. Whether it be studies or personal work, you always have to be out there pushing your art around and letting your name be known. Make sure you take part in all the challenges on places like ConceptArt.org, CgHub, etc. Networking Make sure you're always networking. Posting Many artists I know are very weird about posting their work everywhere on the internet.
Here is a list of places off the top of my head where you can post work - Cghub.com Conceptart.org Cgsociety.org DeviantArt.com GameArtisans.org Forum.Rpg.Net Facebook.com Friendster.com Twitter.com Blogger.com Wordpress.com If you're a freelancer and you're upset about not getting work. Portfolio Giving Back. Inspirational Artists: Pascal Campion. Escape From Illustration Island Bookstore - Business.