T. 014017821X?tag=gizmodoamzn-20&ascsubtag=d9055fe7b887f59160242be77e94e87bfc85d035&rawdata=[r| B00869SADQ?tag=gizmodoamzn-20&ascsubtag=96f53fad6d374546e3fce303455d3c55a6b94908&rawdata=[r| Princess Ugg Digital Comics. Princeless, Vol. 1 Digital Comics. 10 Books That Will Change How You Think About Fairy Tales. The Best Retail and Restaurant Birthday Freebies. Create the First Page of a Fairy Tale Story Book, with a Hint of Kitsch. Once upon a time there was a tutorial. A tutorial which told of magical and enchanting ways to create Fairy Tale pages in Adobe Illustrator.
Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin... Final Image Preview Below is the final image we will be working towards. Want access to the full Vector Source files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? Join VECTORTUTS PLUS for just 9/month. Step 1: Setting Up The Document Size is arbitrary for this tutorial; it's up to you to decide how large or small you want to work. With your artboard made, place a rectangle of the same dimensions on it and align it centrally. Step 2: Guides Call this first layer "guides" - that's all we'll be placing on it.
Paste the copied rectangle in place (Command + F) and offset it's path by -10mm (Effect > Path > Offset Path..). We're now going to split this smaller rectangle into a grid which we can use as a guide. Step 3: Layers "guides""text""texture""illustrations""background" Step 5: Fonts. 20 Easy Tricks For Improving Vintage Clothes. 18 Helpful Diagrams To Solve All Your Clothing Woes. Top 10 Time Savers for the Stuff You're Too Busy to Do. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels to Cheer You the Frak Up. I agree that Pratchett is the ultimate pick-me-up, and one of the factors that I credit for keeping my mother alive four years longer than the 6 months she was originally given after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
(Somewhat ironically, her favorite character was Death.) As for other feel-good books when you run out of Pratchett— Daryl Gregory's Raising Stony Mayhall has got to be the sweetest, most loving, zombie apocalypse story ever released in print. Another good one is Tibor Fischer's The Collector Collector. I suppose this qualifies more as magical realism than straight up fantasy, but it's still a heartwarming tale about a sentient pot who falls in love with an object reader, and psychically tells her stories about his previous owners. Actually, all of Fischer's stuff is brilliant, but if you're feeling depressed, you'd better watch which of his books you pick up.