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Instead of manually building vector shapes point by point you can speed things up and create your work by using shape tools for building circles and rectangles and then combining them to create the end shapes needed for your art. It’s faster then eyeballing it and the more you do it the more you’ll find ways of using it on future projects thus speeding up your work flow and making you more productive and precise.


This tutorial will walk your through this method along with a clever and easy way to shade and add an organic gradient quality to your work.

(Tutorial Includes Notes in both ‘English’ and ‘Español’.)

Keywords: Basic, Shape, Dither, Criminal

File Size: 6.3 MB

1. Philipp wrote: August 6, 2007 at 2:32 am

   Wow. Another great tutorial!

   Although I´ve got a few questions about the provess:

   Which “view-mode” do you choose to display your shapes without stroke and fill? (As seen on image 03.)

   Also, I have a hard time, when there are so many shapes and I have to choose the right ones to fuse or bunch. I mean, the more basic shapes you have (like circles), the more complicated it gets to know which circles were the two to fuse with…
   Are you just very concentrated at this step or do you have any tricks?

   In step 16 you mask the blue shape with the dither tiff. Can you give me a short desctiption how you do that?

   Thank you so much for your great tutorials! For me, as a vector-beginner you give me so many delightful moments reading them.

   Greets from Leipzig, Germany,
   Philipp

2. admin wrote: August 6, 2007 at 10:05 am

   To mask an item using Adobe Illustrator just place the shape you want to mask content into ontop of that content then go to the top menu OBJECT>Clipping Mask>Make.

   It’s faster if you create a ‘Keyboard Shortcut’ for masking though.

3. pirusca wrote: August 7, 2007 at 9:24 am

   I discovered your blog and it’s wonderful, thanks very much for the tutorials!

4. aceoft wrote: August 29, 2007 at 5:37 am

   Thank you for your hard work on these tutorials. As a content provider myself, I know what kind of time goes into providing useful and high-quality material for your loyal readers.

   I’ve been enjoying your material for many months now. I’ve learned a lot about different techniques both in the technical sense as well artistic.

   So thanks a lot!

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