Wood Grain. Drawing vector wood grain effect is pretty simple in Adobe Illustrator. Here is a quick Illustrator tutorial to create wood grain effect using the warp tools in illustrator. After this tutorial, you will be able to draw nice vector wood textures. 1. Creating the stripes Select the Rectangle Tool, and draw a thin rectangle. Using the Selection Tool, Alt/Option drag it to create a instance at the bottom. 2. Select all the rows of stripes then go to Object>Transform>Transform Each. 3. Double click the Warp Tool and use the settings below. 4. Next we select the Twirl Tool. 4. Using the Pucker Tool, with the setting above. 4. To make the stripes thinner, I select all the stripes and squash it using the Transform Tool. 5. Select all the wood grain and fill it with dark brown. Heres the final wood texture. Extra Tip: Applying the pucker effect above areas which has the twirl effect will give it a more natural look.
[The article is for Basic Members only. Related Articles About The Author: Tony Soh. Www.defcon-x.de » Textures. Scanned with 720 DPI and black/white reference, no further adjustments have been done. The names are partially translated, for example color types, but the rest is basically german wood naming. All images where scanned from real wood plates! License Free Wood Textures von Jan Weigand steht unter einer Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Lizenz.Beruht auf einem Inhalt unter www.defcon-x.de.Über diese Lizenz hinausgehende Erlaubnisse können Sie unter www.janweigand.de erhalten.
If you intend to resell these textures you need a permission from me! I do not like, finding these textures hosted on other sites (e.g. devianart.com) and claimed to be work of other people. Please always refer to this site and to me. as stated in the CC License. Here is a image made with two textures. If you have any questions, if you made a nice image, or made a usefull bumpmap, contact me. 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. Wood Grain Layers Magazine | Layers Magazine.