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How to Create a Crafts Inspired Vector Kids Illustration
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Learn how to create a couple of cute and simple kids illustrations of a car and airplane using Adobe Illustrator’s basic shapes. Take inspiration from hand crafted artwork to give each graphic a plaid effect fabric texture and stitching effect.
Start work by opening up Adobe Illustrator. Grab the ellipse tool and draw a large oval on the artboard.
With the direct selection tool, select and move the lower most point vertically. Hold Shift to constrain the axis.
Next, select each of the two Bezier curves from the bottom point, and extend them outwards to create a tighter curve on the two lower corners.
Draw another oval, this time smaller and size. Position it to the front of the car body.
Use the direct selection tool to manipulate the shape to blend into the main body.
With both shapes selected, merge them together with the Add to Shape Area option from the Pathfinder tool.
Elsewhere on the artboard, draw a small square and fill with a light green.
Copy (CMD+C) and paste in front (CMD+F) the square and fill the duplicate with a darker green. Go to Object > Transform > Scale, and enter 50% in the horizontal option under the Non-Uniform section.
Copy and paste a copy of this new graphic, then rotate it by 90 degrees. Lower the transparency of both pieces to 20%. This gives us the basic repeating swatch to create the plaid pattern effect.
If the pattern is too large or small in size, go to Object > Transform > Scale, and deselect the Objects checkbox. Adjust the scale percentage to alter the size of the pattern.
Add a 2pt stroke to the shape and give it a green colouring picked from the green tones of the pattern.
Draw another oval onto the artboard, and begin manipulating the shape to form the window.
Move the Bezier curves of each of the two side points upwards to reduce the size of the corners. Aim to leave a straight edge along the bottom.
Fill the window with a light blue, and give it a stroke of white.
Grab the ellipse tool once more and draw a range of concentric circles. The accuracy doesn’t matter too much, as the odd misalignment adds to the ‘craft’ theme of the design. Give each circle a fill, and add a dashed stroke to the centre circle by selecting the ‘Dashed Line’ option in the Stroke palette. Adjust the dash and gap options to suit.
Make two copies of these groups of circles, then position them as wheels on the car body.
Draw another oval onto the artboard and position at the front of the car. Make a copy of the overall body shape and use it as a tool along with the Intersect Shape Area option from the Pathfinder palette to crop out the excess, leaving a simple headlamp graphic.
At the rear, use the Pen tool to draw some wavy shapes. Make sure the Bezier curves are smooth enough to avoid any sharp angles. Add the dark grey dashed stroke used on the wheels.
Select the window graphic, then go to Object > Path > Offset Path. Enter -2mm in the options to create a duplicate path running parallel to the original.
Give this new path a dark blue dashed stroke. Use the line tool to draw a centre line, also with the same dashed stroke.
Repeat the process with the overall body graphic, creating another -2mm offset path. Add another dashed stroke, this time with the dark grey colouring.
There we have a cute little car, inspired by the simple styles as dreamed up by kids. The mix of textures gives the craft like feel, as if it has been cut and stitched together with fabrics and thread. Next up, we’ll use similar steps to create a super duper airplane!
The airplane also starts off with a plain old oval. Use one large oval to form the main plane body, and a smaller oval as the tail fin.
Draw another repeating pattern to form the plaid style texture. This time start with a small blue square, then copy and paste in a duplicate. Fill the duplicate with a darker shade of blue, then scale horizontally by 50%. Duplicate this new graphic, set to 20% transparency and rotate by 90 degrees. Drag the whole graphic into the Swatches palette. |
30 Nature Inspired Website Designs For your inspiration
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Now a days you can see a increasing trend of using nature elements in web-design. incorporating nature elements like trees , landscape, sea, sky etc in to the design gives a more realistic and pleasant look to the website Here i’ve collected 30+ website designs base on nature theme, its quite interesting and inspiring to see how designers take colors and elements for nature and bring them in to web design, hope you all will like this collection 1.) 84Colors
2.) Hrasi
3.) Reklambyrå stockholm
4.) Dara’s Garden
5.) Springtime in Tennessee
6.) Adventure Travel
7.) Morphix Design Studio
8.) Native Springs Water
9.) Qird Studio
10.) Aquatory Group
11.) MacAllan Ridge
12.) kulturbanause blog
13.) Lendl Allen V. Trazo
14.) Viget Inspire
15.) Weingut Trumme
16.) 4design
17.) Adit SHukla
18.) Agami Creative
19.) Hellenic Holidays
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Create a Rolling Stones Inspired Tongue Illustration
The bright red Rolling Stones tongue and lips logo is a graphic design icon, and has been a pop culture fav for years! I don’t think you can beat it, so we’ll not create a direct copy of the original in this tut. Instead, let’s take a look at drawing our own Stones inspired tongue graphic, starting with a quick pencil sketch and finishing with a vector based graphic in Adobe Illustrator.
Start work with pencil and paper, use the original Rolling Stones logo as inspiration and follow the rough lines and shapes to produce a similar drawing.
Warm up your scanner and digitise your sketch. Save the scan to your desktop.
Open up Adobe Illustrator and go to File > Place. Position the sketch on the artboard, lower the transparency then press CMD+2 to lock the item in place.
Begin tracing each element of the sketch with the Pen tool. Use just a black stroke to visualise the paths on screen. Aim to use large Bezier curves to maintain a smooth outline without any harsh angles. When the path moves onto a different element, such as the tongue, simply close the path with a few rough lines. Once the tongue shape is filled with colour, this rough line won’t be seen.
Trace around the outlines of every other element to give separate shapes for the lips, tongue, mouth opening and each tooth.
Fill each shape with a relevant colour, so use red for the lips and tongue, black for the mouth opening and white for the teeth.
Notice how the teeth use rough outlines on the upper edges? These will need cropping down to fit under the lips. Duplicate the mouth opening shape, and press CMD+Shift+] to send it to the top. Group all the teeth together then use the Intersect Shape Area option from the Pathfinder palette to trim the teeth to size.
Select all the objects and add a black stroke. The original doesn’t make use of outlines, but we’re going a style of our own!
Duplicate the lips and tongue and send them to the top of the stack using the CMD+Shift+] shortcut. Use the Add to Shape Area option from the Pathfinder palette to merge them together.
Next, add a large black 11pt stroke to the shape. Align the stroke to the outside using the tiny icons in the Stroke palette. Press CMD+Shift+[ to send the shape back to the bottom of the stack.
Select the tongue and mouth graphics and increase their stroke size to 6pt. Also align these to the outside.
Then, select all the teeth graphics and increase the stoke to 3pt. This variation of stroke weights is a popular technique in Illustration.
Begin creating a variation of tone by adding a Linear Gradient across the lips, select a bright red and a slightly darker red swatch.
Add the same gradient fill to the tongue, adjust the direction to flow diagonally across the tongue, ranging from the shadows inside the mouth to the lighter tip.
Add a subtle white to grey gradient on each tooth. A radial gradient works well to give a rounded appearance.
Grab the pen tool and draw the outlines of some shading on the teeth. Pay close attention to the smooth curves across the teeth, then roughly complete the path while keeping within the black stroke line.
Change the blending mode of the black shading to Multiply and drop the opacity right down to 10%.
Next use the Pen tool to draw a shape representing the centre line of the tongue. Fill this with a dark red, change the blending mode to Multiply and adjust to 45% transparency. Use the shortcut CMD+[ repeatedly to alter the stacking order so that it sits below the teeth.
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