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Yipori. Building a Website Wireframe in Illustrator | AiBURN. How to Illustrate a Brain Icon for OSX and Vista - Vectortuts+ In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a cartoon style illustration of a brain, then how to convert the image for use as an icon for OSX and Vista. I'll discuss some points about detailing for icon design as well. Let's get started! Final Image Preview Below is the final image we will be working towards. In this tutorial, we will also create an icon from this as well. Tutorial Details Program: Illustrator CS4, Icon Composer - Independent (OSX)Difficulty: IntermediateEstimated Completion Time: 2-3 hours Section 1: Illustration Step 1 Research Gather some reference material and images/illustrations of brains.

Step 2 Drawing I like sketching out a basic form on paper or digitally first, before I take it to Illustrator. When you sketch out the look of the brain, consider the following: It may be an unnecessary step for some, but I usually go over a pencil sketch in Flash to produce clean line art, and then work from that in Illustrator, though feel free to use your preferred workflow. How to Make a Cartoon Style Cereal Box Logo in Adobe Illustrator CS3 | alandesigns.

How to Create a Vector Smiley Icon | Chemist2dio Labs. Have you ever wanted to make your own set of emoticons? Using the basic techniques brought about on this tutorial, you can easily create your own set of emoticons. Final Image Output Just to give you an idea of what we will be working on, check out the image below. Tutorial Details * Software Used: Adobe Illustrator CS3 * Difficulty: Beginner / Intermediate * Color Mode: CMYK Some notes before proceeding with the tutorial, as you may see this quite often. Step 1: The Face To start off, create a new document, create a 240px by 240px circle using the ellipse tool, be sure to hold shift to constrain the proportion of our circle. Step 2: Gradient on Face Open up the Gradient Panel then fill the circle with a radial gradient. Adjust the gradient with the Gradient tool (G) by clicking from middle to the outer part of the circle make the inner part lighter. Step 3: The Eyes Using the ellipse tool, create a small circle and position it slightly above the middle part of the face.

Step 5: The Mouth. Tutorial:How to create a Television Icon : This easy step by step tutorial contributed by Ryan of Vectips will show you how to create a a retro television icon just with some basic shapes and gradients. These technique are easily applicable to other icons, illustration, and logos! This Tutorial covers the following basic techniques when using illustrator Using on an object Learn to use to create surface texture and depth Create a reflection using an Here is a preview of the final image we will be working through! Create a new document and create a 360 px wide by 240 px tall rectangle with the Rectangle tool (M).

With the rectangle selected, go Effect > Stylize > Round Corners. Fill the rectangle with a Linear Gradient from the Gradient panel. With the rectangle still selected, go Object > Path > Offset Path. Select the rectangles and Ungroup them by going Object > Ungroup (Command + Shift + G). Create a 210 px wide by 180 px tall rectangle over the left side of the first rectangle.