How to Create a Colorful Stylized Portrait in Adobe Illustrator This tutorial focuses on creating a vibrant, poppy portrait in Adobe Illustrator. Using bright colors, transparent gradients, and a sense of whimsy, you'll be constructing facial features and candy hair in no time. Step 1 Get your sketch ready. Step 2 Using the Pen Tool (P), either trace the contour of the face you've drawn, or build it anew with a simple circle and some angled lines to create the jaw. Technically, if you want to create a full head, that circle should be much higher up. Here's how my Layers panel currently looks, with my two shapes for the head and a solid filled Rectangle (M) as the background. Step 3 Ears, neck, hair, and simple background elements. Group like shapes together for easier layer management (Ctrl + G). Step 4 One major component of bright, colorful artwork is deciding if you're using black or not. Start the eyes by outlining their basic shape with the Pen Tool (P). Create a second shape inside of your newly drawn eye cavity. Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10
How to Create a Line Art Based Symmetrical Portrait in Adobe Illustrator Vendors who are part of the IAB TCF938Reject allAccept all Purposes (Consent):Store and/or access information on a deviceCreate profiles for personalised advertisingUse profiles to select personalised advertisingPurposes (Legitimate Interest):Use limited data to select advertisingMeasure advertising performanceUnderstand audiences through statistics or combinations of data from different sourcesDevelop and improve servicesSpecial Purposes:Ensure security, prevent and detect fraud, and fix errorsDeliver and present advertising and contentSave and communicate privacy choicesCategories of data:IP addressesDevice characteristicsDevice identifiersProbabilistic identifiersBrowsing and interaction dataUser-provided dataNon-precise location dataUsers’ profilesPrivacy choicesData Retention Period:31 daysYour Consent:Consent expiry: 5 years 1 dayCookie expiry may be refreshed during the lifetime.Tracking method: Cookies onlyShow details
How to Create a Semi-Transparent, 3D Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator In the following steps you will learn how to create a colorful, semi-transparent, three-dimensional text effect in Adobe Illustrator. We'll start with some basic text and several Compound Paths and a built-in Calligraphic brush. Once we get our starting vector shapes we'll add the three-dimensional look using the Extrude & Bevel effect. We'll use some simple vector shape building techniques and masking tricks along with some basic effects and blending techniques to give our three-dimensional shapes a semi-transparent look. Step 1 Hit Command + N to create a New document. Step 2 Using the Type Tool (T), add the "VECTORTUTS" piece of text, set the color at R=39, G=169, B=223 and use the "Doughnut Monster" font. Step 3 Select the text and go to Type > Create Outlines (Shift + Control + O). Step 4 Select the "V", the "C" and the "O" shapes and go to Effect > 3D > Extrude & Bevel. Step 5 Pick the Ellipse Tool (L) and single click on your artboard to open the Ellipse window. Step 6 Step 7 Step 8
How to Illustrate a Vintage Stopwatch in Adobe Illustrator In today's tutorial, we are going to learn how to create a vintage stopwatch using basic shapes, Blends and Art Brushes in Adobe Illustrator. You'll learn how to use a variety of Illustrator tools. So let's get started! Step 1 To begin you will need to create the main geometry sketch of the stopwatch which is shown in the diagram below. We'll be creating this initial plan to work from, there we can add highlights and shadows to make it look less flat. The scaled images of the tiny stopwatch parts are shown below for your convenience. And here is the central button at the top. Step 2 Go to View > Rulers > Show Rulers (Command + R). Using the Ellipse Tool (L), create a circle filled with gray. Go to Object > Transform > Scale so as to decrease the dimensions of the circle, then click the Copy button in the dialog box of scaling, and change the color of the new circle as shown. Repeat these manipulations in order to create the next circle shown below. Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9
How to Create a Set of Toggle Buttons in Adobe Illustrator Vendors who are part of the IAB TCF941Reject allAccept all Purposes (Consent):Store and/or access information on a deviceCreate profiles for personalised advertisingUse profiles to select personalised advertisingPurposes (Legitimate Interest):Use limited data to select advertisingMeasure advertising performanceUnderstand audiences through statistics or combinations of data from different sourcesDevelop and improve servicesSpecial Purposes:Ensure security, prevent and detect fraud, and fix errorsDeliver and present advertising and contentSave and communicate privacy choicesCategories of data:IP addressesDevice characteristicsDevice identifiersProbabilistic identifiersBrowsing and interaction dataUser-provided dataNon-precise location dataUsers’ profilesPrivacy choicesData Retention Period:31 daysYour Consent:Consent expiry: 5 years 1 dayCookie expiry may be refreshed during the lifetime.Tracking method: Cookies onlyShow details
How to Design a Flower in a Geometric Style Vendors who are part of the IAB TCF938Reject allAccept all Purposes (Consent):Store and/or access information on a deviceCreate profiles for personalised advertisingUse profiles to select personalised advertisingPurposes (Legitimate Interest):Use limited data to select advertisingMeasure advertising performanceUnderstand audiences through statistics or combinations of data from different sourcesDevelop and improve servicesSpecial Purposes:Ensure security, prevent and detect fraud, and fix errorsDeliver and present advertising and contentSave and communicate privacy choicesCategories of data:IP addressesDevice characteristicsDevice identifiersProbabilistic identifiersBrowsing and interaction dataUser-provided dataNon-precise location dataUsers’ profilesPrivacy choicesData Retention Period:31 daysYour Consent:Consent expiry: 5 years 1 dayCookie expiry may be refreshed during the lifetime.Tracking method: Cookies onlyShow details
How to Create a Self-Portrait in a Geometric Style In this tutorial we’re going to talk about how to create an illustrated self-portrait in a geometric style. We’ll be using a photograph of ourselves as the base of the illustration, drawing a sketch from that, and then creating the final piece. Let’s get started! Since posting this tutorial, readers have been inspired to create their own self portraits in this style. Check out what they’ve achieved over on a special edition of Tuts+ Workshop: Created by You. First, we take or select a photo. Now, create a New Document (cmd+N or ctrl+N) in Adobe Illustrator with an artboard size of 600 x 480px. We are going to organize the layers as follows: The top layer is named “Draw”. Lock the "Background" and "Photo" layers. Now you can delete the "Photo" layer. Change the Opacity of the sketch to 30% and lock the "Sketch" layer. Now, start drawing from back to front using the Pen Tool (P). For the t-shirt, just draw one half of it, then Copy (Cmd + C) and Paste in front (Cmd + F).
Creating a Bazinga! Text Treatment in Adobe Illustrator - Tuts+ With this tutorial I'll show you how to create a Bazinga text effect made famous by Sheldon from the sitcom The Big Bang Theory in Adobe Illustrator. We'll be using some techniques to add multiple effects to a single shape, also duplicating and copying objects quickly, as well as creating a pattern and even rotating that pattern without disrupting the shape it's applied too. Tip: Please be aware that you may have to install fonts before you open Illustrator in order for it to show up in your list of fonts. 1. Create a New Document Let's start off by preparing our document. 2. Step 1 Now we'll create the very background color that our text will fit ons. Step 2 With the rectangle created let's style it. Step 3 You're welcome to stop here but let's give the background some depth and also add a gradient. 3. To finish the background select the Ellipse Tool (L) then click once on the document and create a circle 580px wide and 580px high. 4. 5. Now we'll adjust the angle our text is on. 6. Step 4