Modeling the Human Face in Illustrator

How To Draw a Cute Vector Dog Character in Illustrator

Step by step

Open up Adobe Illustrator and import your scanned sketch. Go to File > Place to link your image file. Reduce the opacity slightly, then press CMD+2 to lock the object in place. Grab the Pen tool and begin tracing around the outline of the whole character.

How To Create a Trendy Seamless Pattern in Illustrator

The great thing about seamless repeating patterns is that once created, they can be used as a base for all kinds of awesome designs. Skateboard decks, custom apparel, package designs and website backgrounds are just some of the uses for the good old pattern swatch. Follow this tutorial to build a vector based repeating pattern of your own, featuring trendy graphics of skulls, stars, lightning bolts and other cool pop imagery.

The pattern we'll be creating has a mono colour scheme of grey, white and black and features a bunch of cool graphics. Speech bubbles, skulls, crossbones, stars, drips, sprays and lightning bolts all help to add that urban/punk pop feel.

How to Create Vector Sun Rays

First let's open Illustrator. For this tutorial we will use a 360px by 360px artboard, it doesn't matter how big your artboard is, this is just for the tutorial.

Using the Ellipse tool or L for a shortcut key, create a circle, for this tutorial it's 270px x 270px circle.

Click and drag across the stage while holding the Shift key [holding the shift key when creating objects constrains the height and width, thus resulting to a perfect circle] then release the mouse button when the circle when you're done.

Adobe Illustrator CS3 Aqua ballz

Perhaps you're hooked on the "Aqua" look and are just aching to use it in your work. Look no further Trend Boy and/or Girl! Requires Adobe Illustrator 9+. This tutorial teaches you how to create Opacity Masks that lend a photorealistic touch to your work.

Adobe Illustrator Use Distortion to transform an object

Adobe Illustrator provid es a vast array of filters and tools that can twirl, tweak, roughen, and otherwise transform an object into something completely different. Start with the simplest of objects — you might be amazed at what you can end up with. In this tip, we'll turn a couple of simple stars into a flower in a few quick steps.

1. Draw a star:
Select the star tool in the Illustrator toolbox, and drag to draw the star. (The star tool is in the same toolbox group as the ellipse tool.) This star will be the leaves behind a flower. Select a green fill for the star in the Swatches palette or Color palette.