1 [AI]Illustrator Tutorial Drawing a Funny and Colourful Card Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:06 pm
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1 Choose a good outline colour. In the first part of the card we will be drawing a snail.
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2 Choose the Paintbrush tool.
3 Begin from the centre and draw a piece you see below.
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4 Draw the head and neck.
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5 Draw its antennae and eye.
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6 Vary the colours and make the mouth.
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7 Decrease the size of the stroke and change to a dark colour.
8 Add some curlicues.
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9 Draw freehand again and add two flowers. Then change to black and add the centres.
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10 Change to a light colour. Simply scribble in the grass.
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11 Add some stars using a light blue.
12 Add few more curlicues.
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13 Make some freehand lettering. As you can see, this is a whimsical card.
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14 Flip the colour swatches since you are working with a fill colour. Change to red and draw some little hearts. Save and export the file as a .psd. Open Painter.
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15 Open the file in Painter. Choose Coloured Pencils and Variable Coloured Pencil. Reduce the Opacity to 32%. The size of the pencil is 3.0. Choose a colour and pencil in the areas shown in the snail below.
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16 Increase Opacity to 50% and change to yellow. Pencil in the areas as shown below.
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17 Change the brush size to 14 and Opacity to 100%. Change the colour to black. Create a fun little border and add some polka dots.
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2 Choose the Paintbrush tool.
3 Begin from the centre and draw a piece you see below.
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4 Draw the head and neck.
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5 Draw its antennae and eye.
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6 Vary the colours and make the mouth.
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7 Decrease the size of the stroke and change to a dark colour.
8 Add some curlicues.
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9 Draw freehand again and add two flowers. Then change to black and add the centres.
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10 Change to a light colour. Simply scribble in the grass.
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11 Add some stars using a light blue.
12 Add few more curlicues.
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13 Make some freehand lettering. As you can see, this is a whimsical card.
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14 Flip the colour swatches since you are working with a fill colour. Change to red and draw some little hearts. Save and export the file as a .psd. Open Painter.
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15 Open the file in Painter. Choose Coloured Pencils and Variable Coloured Pencil. Reduce the Opacity to 32%. The size of the pencil is 3.0. Choose a colour and pencil in the areas shown in the snail below.
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16 Increase Opacity to 50% and change to yellow. Pencil in the areas as shown below.
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17 Change the brush size to 14 and Opacity to 100%. Change the colour to black. Create a fun little border and add some polka dots.
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