IllustratorWorld. IconEden - Free & Premium Royalty-free stock icons. Best Brands of the World - vector logos, brand, logo, logotype, photos. Create A Wood Grain Texture In Illustrator. Last up for Vectip’s Texture Week is wood grain. The steps for this technique are very similar to the previous Brushed Metal Texture tutorial. It uses the same Graphic Pen effect but stretched a little more. It also uses the Warp Tool and Twirl Tool. Also like the other texture tutorials, this technique is easy and applicable in logos, icons, interfaces or pretty much anything.
Notes This tutorial was created with Illustrator CS3. Keyboard shortcuts are displayed in orange. ⌘ is displayed for the Command key (mac), with the Ctrl key being the Windows equivalent (not displayed). Rectangles Create a 5 inch by 5 inch rectangle with the Rectangle Tool (m). Next Copy (⌘c) the rectangle and Paste In Front (⌘f). Texture Select the smaller rectangle and go Effect > Sketch > Graphic Pen. Stroke Length = 15Light/Dark Balance = 2Stroke Direction = Vertical Trace and Expand With the texture selected go Object > Expand Appearance. I like to save a preset in the Tracing Options. Transform and Color Warp Tool. Webchantier Portail Images Vectorielles.