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Portrait by Lillian Bertram (Creative Commons Share Alike - used here with permission)

Step 1: Set up your Illustrator document

Start with a print document of 8.5 x 11″. Make sure to change the color space to RGB.

Step 2: Import the reference photo

Import the photo you will be using as a reference (File > Place). In this tutorial, I used this portrait by Lillian Bertram.

Size it up or down as necessary-try to size it up to the artboard.

Don't sweat the resolution or pixelation of the image since the reference photo is only a guide. However, the better the quality of the image, the more detail you have to work from.

Since the artwork will be imported into the first layer, name it " Photo Reference " using the Layers panel.

Your work area should look like this:

Step 3: Set up your work area

You are going to want to go to the Layers panel and create two more layers. Name them " Outlines" and " Fill Lines ".

Go ahead and select the reference photo on your canvas.

With the photo selected, go to the Transparency panel (Window > Transparency) and lower the transparency of the photo between 50% and 70% -just enough for you to still see the features, but not enough to obstruct your tracing workflow.

Now go over to the Layers panel and lock the reference photo layer so that you don't accidentally move it.

It may also help to select a Workspace preset for Painting (Window > Workspace > Painting) to set up an initial workspace and panels placement that's suitable for what you will be doing.

Step 4: Setting up your brush

Before you get started, go to the Appearance panel (Window > Appearance) to show the Appearance panel.

Click on the settings (upper left) and in the drop down menu that comes up, be sure that New Art Has basic Appearance is deselected.

Then, you can close out the Appearance panel.

Now double-click on the Paintbrush Tool (B) in the toolbar to pull up the options dialog box for the brush.

Be sure to have Keep Selected and Edit Selected Paths unchecked as they can inhibit a natural drawing process. Adjust your Smoothness to a lower number if you have confidence in your drawing strokes, or a higher number if you feel you have a shaky hand or want straighter and smoother lines. I usually keep the Fidelity option around a 4 or 5 as well.

Go to the Brushes panel, select a 1pt stroke, and double-click the 2 pt. Oval default brush. (If you wish, you may rename the brush to make it your own.)

You can adjust the options so as to respond to the pressure and tilt of your tablet, as well as make it more of a flat-tipped, calligraphy style marker.

If you don't have a tablet-don't worry-you can still make adjustments to the head of the brush and add some randomness to the variability in the stroke. These adjustments will make for a more realistic marker look.

Be sure to doodle a bit on a blank area of your canvas on the "Outlines" layer until your brush looks as you wish.

Step 5: Initial tracing

With the Paintbrush Tool (B) selected, go to the color selection area of the toolbar. Make sure that there is no fill on the brush and choose black that has a little gray to it for the stroke-you don't want to use a 100% black if you want a more natural look.

Zoom in on the area of the canvas where you want to begin working. Personally, I like to work from the eyes outwards, but also find it just as helpful to work with a quick outline around the whole face and work inwards. What you want to do is use short brush spurts of lines in a similar direction. You want to define the darkest areas of the photo, or the areas with the most contrast. Use the pressure of the tablet for thicker areas of definition. You will want to shade with cross-hatched or diagonal lines to denote areas that are midtones.

This is your chance to experiment and play around stylistically. You can change how your brush displays by going back to the Brushes panel and modifying the settings you created earlier. You will have the ability to apply your changes to all your strokes, so long as you modify the same brush you used to make all of your previous marks.

Periodically hide the "Photo Reference" layer to see how your composition stands on its own.

At some point, you want to break away from using the reference entirely once you have enough key features and focus on stylizing the portrait with your own marks and aesthetic.

Step 6: Add contrast

With your base outlines close to order, you will now add fill lines to the piece for greater contrast and to pull the piece together visually.

Select the "Fill Lines" layer. Go to your Stroke panel and choose a stroke between 3pt and 4pt.

You will now go over the outer edges and any areas where you want to make a bold distinction of contrast. This will also give it a more urban/graffiti/marker look.

Step 7: Tweaking the piece

You can also make use of the Eraser Tool (Shift + E) to organically remove unwanted marks.

Remember that all of your strokes are just paths so you can always pull and adjust curves using the Pen Tool (P) and Convert Anchor Point Tool (Shift + C) to make adjustments.

Also, you can use the Group Selection Tool (white arrow with a "plus" symbol) to select and edit areas of lines by scaling, moving or rotating as you see fit.

Step 8: Before you begin coloring

Since you want to achieve a softer and layered look with the colors, you will be using layered Pencil Tool (N) fills with a lowered transparency. To begin, create a new layer to sit below your "Fill" and "Outline" layers. Name it " Color " and lock all other layers but this layer. Also, be sure to hide the "Photo Reference" layer.

Step 9: Set up the Pencil Tool

Double-click the Pencil tool Icon in the toolbar and adjust the settings as follows:

Go to the color selection area of the toolbar and swap the stroke color with the fill color so that there is no stroke color.

Double-click the fill color and choose a skin tone color that is on the lighter end of a yellow to red hue.

Next, go to Window > Transparency to select between a 15% to 20% opacity for your fills.

Test out your color and transparency by drawing some overlapping circles and see how the color fills build up. If the new fills aren't showing up as transparent-or with the correct color-check your settings and also be sure that your Appearance panel has the New Art Has Basic Appearance option deselected.

Step 10: Coloring in your portrait

Begin with the skin tones of the face. Draw overlapping shapes that contour and compliment your lines with the Pencil Tool (N).

Over the darker and shaded areas, be sure to build up the color. Also select darker shades within the same hue to add more contrast and shadow.

For the skin: I tend to work with yellows, oranges, and reds. Use a gradient for larger areas with a light to dark fade, and build on top of them. Be sure that your highlights are basically just areas with less color.

If you need to enhance highlights, draw transparent white shapes over these areas. Keep a light hand, and draw fast layered shapes with lower opacities-this helps keep the watercolor and layered feel to the illustration.

Also draw a bit outside of the lines-with this process, imperfection is our friend.

Since you will be drawing irregular shapes with the Pencil Tool (N), you may notice sharp edges and unclosed paths. To close paths, hold down the Option/Alt key right after you begin drawing your path and just before you finish it. This will complete any shape you are drawing. It's okay to have irregular shapes and sharp edges; you can always edit them at any point with the Eraser Tool or the point-editing tools.

Color in the rest of the portrait using colors that you find works best. It is a good idea to use the Eyedropper Tool (I) and choose a color palette from another photo you may find aesthetically-pleasing for user experience.

I also encourage the use of contrasting colors to add a bit of interest, like circle shapes of bluish hue shadows on yellow and orange areas of skin or small drops of deeper reds on blue or green tones. They add a bit of complexity and depth.

Step 11: Finalizing the portrait

At this point, you should be close to finished with the portrait. Improvise, add flourishes, text, and deviate towards using your own technique and style to enhance your illustration.

You may also bring your illustration into Adobe Photoshop for added effects, color management, and texture.

Conclusion

This tutorial shared with you some techniques for using Adobe Illustrator's powerful set of painting and illustration tools. We also covered ways to set up your workspace to achieve the watercolor and marker style illustration. I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and have taken away something useful for web design by reading it. Here is the final piece. Show us your work in the Flickr group pool.

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Halloween is almost here, and I'm sure some of you need to do some last minute graphics for a client project or maybe so graphics for your Halloween party. So in this intermediate tutorial you will learn how to create a zombie illustration with a pen tablet from a photo. Have fun utilizing the Blob Brush and Eraser tool in recreating this tutorial or apply these techniques to other ghoulish illustrations!

Final Image

Below is the final zombie illustration we will be working towards.

Tutorial Details

Program : Adobe Illustrator CS4 (This tutorial use the Blob Brush, a tool specific to CS4. If you have an earlier version of Illustrator, refer to the Alternate Tutorial Methods step at the end of this post.)

Hardware Needed: Pen Tablet (I used a Wacom Intous4 for the tutorial. If you don't have a pen tablet, refer to the Alternate Tutorial Methods step at the end of the tutorial for other methods for creating the tutorial.)

Difficulty: Intermediate

Estimated Completion Time: 1 hour - 1.5 hours

Step 1

First, you need to find a scary or angry portrait to trace. I purchased a image from iStockphoto.com. You can do the same or take a picture of yourself. The resolution of the image is not hugely important, just make sure you can make out some of the face details in the portrait.

Step 2

Create a new document in Illustrator, go File > Place, navigate to the folder with your image, and click the Place button.

Step 3

Once placed, use the Selection tool (V) and scale the image to your desired size. From the Layers panel, click the Lock icon on the placed image layer. To keep better organization of the layers, double-click on the image layer and rename it to "Image Template". Next, press the Create New Layer button and rename it to "Outline". We are going to do most of our tracing in the "Outline" layer.

Step 4

For tracing the image. We are going to use the Blob Brush (Shift + B). This is a new tool in Illustrator CS4, but if you have a version below, you can still use a Calligraphy brush (Refer to the Alternate Tutorial Methods step at the bottom of the post). The Blob Brush (Shift +B) settings are set using a pen tablet's pressure sensitivity. For this tutorial, I am using a Intuos4 Medium sized tablet. If you don't have a pen tablet refer to the same Optional Methods step as noted previously.

To set up the Blob Brush (Shift + B) to use the pressure sensitivity of you pen tablet, double-click on the Blob Brush (Shift + B) in the Tools panel to open the Blob Brush Tool Options. In the dialog, uncheck Keep Selected, check Selection Limits Merge, Change your Fidelity to 2, Smoothness to 0, Brush Size to 5 pt, select Pressure from the Size drop-down menu, Variation to 5 pt, Angle to 0, and Roundness to 100%. These Blob Brush settings will create a stroke that can be varied by the pressure of the pen tablet.

Step 5

Now that we have our Blob Brush (Shift + B) settings, we can start tracing the image. In the "Outline" layer, start tracing the predominate lines in the image. When tracing with the Blob Brush, vary the thickness of the stroke by applying less presses for thin parts of the stroke and more pressure for the thick parts of the stroke.

Step 6

When tracing the image I keep the Eraser Tool (Shift + E) handy for erasing mistakes and subtracting from the traced elements. You can set up the Eraser tool (Shift + E) to work like a subtractive Blob Brush (Shift + B). To set the Eraser tool (Shift + E) up, double click on it in the Tools panel. In the Eraser Tool Options dialog change the Angle to 0, the Roundness to 100%, the Diameter to 5 pt, select Pressure from the Diameter drop-down menu, and change the Variation to 5 pt. Now you can use the Eraser Tool (Shift + E) just like the Blob Brush (Shift + B) to correct mistakes and subtract from your tracing stokes. For example, I used the Eraser Tool (Shift + E) to subtract a highlight from the eye.

Step 7

Continue tracing and erasing the predominate lines in the image with the Blob Brush (Shift + B) and Eraser tool (Shift + E) until you have traced them all. You can exclude lines as you feel is necessary. For example, in the image I chose, I'm not tracing the beard on the man's face. You can also toggle the visibility of the "Image Template" layer to see how the outline is going by pressing the Visibility icon of the "Image Template" layer from the Layers panel.

Step 8

Now that we have the predominate lines, go through and add extra lines around the current ones, embellishing the features like eye sockets, cheek bones, mouth, and so on.

Step 9

Our zombie is starting to look pretty grisly, but let add some more horror with the Blob Brush (Shift + B) to the teeth and around the face. Add extra strokes to the teeth to make them look old and worn. Also, add more strokes around the face where the skin has ripped off. You can even use the Eraser tool (Shift + E) and erase sections of the head and ears where the skin has ripped off.

Step 10

Now that the outline is done, we can add some color. First, create a light green grey color from your Color panel and save it as a swatch in the Swatch panel. Next, select all the outlines and choose the Live Paint Bucket (K) tool from the Tools panel. Hover over the area you want to fill with the Live Paint Bucket (K), cycle through your swatches with the arrow keys until you find you light green color, and click to fill the area. Illustrator will then convert the strokes to a Live Paint Group. Continue filling in the area with the Live Paint Bucket until you have filled in the zombie. You might notice that it is hard to get every little area, but don't worry, we will fill these areas in the next steps.

Step 11

Select the Live Paint group and go Object > Live Paint > Expand. With the Magic Wand tool (Y) select only the green color. Once selected, Cut (Command + X) the green objects. In the Layers panel, create a new layer, label it "Color", drag the layer below the "Outlines" layer, and Paste in Front (Command + F) the green colored shapes.

Step 12

In the new "Color" layer, use the Blob Brush (Shift +B) to add shadows with a green grey color darker than your first green color.

Step 13

Use the Blob Brush (Shift + B) to create white highlights around the zombie's face.

Step 14

Now we can start adding some other color to the teeth and exposed skull areas. Use varying shades of a dingy yellow color to color these shapes, and like the last couple of steps, use the Blob Brush (Shift + B).

Step 15

Add some more color to the illustration in the eyes and add some blood around the illustration.

Step 16

Create a new layer from the Layers panel, name it "Background", drag it below the "Color" layer, and create a grey filled rectangle with the Rectangle tool (M) filling the artboard. Next, with the Blob Brush (Shift + B) create some light grey highlights on the top of the shirt.

Step 17

To add a little extra fun, place some type over the shirt. I used the font Feast of Flesh from Dafont and filled it with the same zombie green color in the face. Also, I shifted all the elements, except the background color, up. All done! Hope you have fun with this grisly zombie!

Final Image

Again below is zombie illustration all done.

Alternate Tutorial Methods

Calligraphic Brush

If you don't have CS4 yet but you do have a pen tablet you can use a Calligraphic brush instead of a Blob Brush (Shift +B) for the outlines of the zombie. If you have CS3 you can use the Live Paint technique or you can just create shapes of color with the Pen tool (P), Pencil tool (N), or another tool of your choice. To set up a Calligraphic brush with the same settings as the Blob Brush settings in this tutorials, click the New Brush Icon in the Brush panel. When the New Brush dialog opens, choose New Calligraphic Brush. In the Calligraphic Brush Options, change the Angle to 0, the Roundness to 100%, the Diameter to 5 pt, select Pressure from the Size drop-down menu, and change the Variation to 5 pt. Now you can outline the image with the same pressure sensitivity as the Blob Brush.

Art Brushes

If you don't have a pen tablet, you can always use an Art brush for the outline instead of the Blob Brush (Shift +B) . Art brushes are still very versatile, but they will not use you pen tablets pressure sensitivity. Still, you can find a brush that has similar tapered lines. This technique is similar to the tutorial I wrote for Vectortuts called Illustrate a Grunge Style Talking Skull in Vector, so check it out to learn more. My previous article Create Sketchy-Style Vectors will help if finding and creating Art brushes.

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Create A Grisly Zombie Illustration With A Pen Tablet - Vectips

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Halloween is almost here, and I'm sure some of you need to do some last minute graphics for a client project or maybe so graphics for your Halloween party. So in this intermediate tutorial you will learn how to create a zombie illustration with a pen tablet from a photo.

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(Speed art) Make Badass Line Art in Adobe Illustrator

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a logo in Adobe Illustrator.

To create our logo design we will combine a few simple shapes using some very simple linear gradients where we will try to increase the depth and to create an eye-catching design.

Final Image

As always, this is the final image that we'll be creating:

Tutorial Details

Program: Adobe Illustrator CS5

Estimated Completion Time: 45 minutes

Difficulty: Beginner-Intermediate

Step 1

Let's create a new document first. Make sure to set the dimensions to 500 x 500 pixels and the Color Mode to RGB.

Step 2

We will start with the Polygon Tool. Select it in the Tools Panel and click on the Artboard. It will bring up the Polygon Option box. Set the Radius to 150 pixels and Sides to 5 and hit the OK button. Fill color is not important.

Step 3

We need to modify our Polygon a little. Select the yellow shape and under Effect select Stylize > Round Corners.

Step 4

Make sure to expand the shape. Select Object > Expand Appearance. It will turn the object into an editable shape.

Step 5

Next thing we have to do is to create the "hole" in our modified pentagon.For that, we will use the Polygon Tool again. Grab it from the Tools Panel and click on the Artboard to bring up the Polygon Options Box. Set the parameters as shown in the picture below and hit the OK button.

Step 6

Make sure to align both shapes. Select them and under the Align Panel hit both, Horizontal and Vertical Align Center.

Step 7

Now we need to create a "hole" in our Polygon. Select both shapes and under the Pathfinder Panel hit the Minus Front button. It will cut out the middle part of the Polygon.

You should end up with something like this.

Step 8

In this step, we will try to create specific ribbons that will constitute our logo. To do that we need to divide the shape we have just created into 5 parts. One of the possible ways to do that is to create certain paths by using the Pen Tool (P). Since some people have difficulties with this tool we will try to avoid it by using a small trick.

Duplicate (Ctrl / Cmd + C, Ctrl / Cmd + F) the yellow shape and change the Fill color of the copy. Under right click select Isolate Selected Compound Path. This way we will be able to modify the pink shape without messing up the rest of our design.

Step 9

Select the Direct Selection Tool (A) from the Tools Panel, select and remove (by hitting the Delete key on your keyboard) anchor points as shown in the picture below.

Step 10

Remove the Fill color and set the Stroke color to any color you want. You should end up with a single path with a curved edge, just as shown in the picture below.

Step 11

Grab the Selection Tool (V) from the Tools Panel and move the path we have just created as shown in the picture below. You can also zoom that part of the illustration by selecting the Zoom Tool (Z) from the Tools Panel. This way you'll be able to place the path at the right spot.

Step 12

We are going to repeat the previous step in order to create four more paths. In the end, you should have something like this.

Step 13

Select all elements we have created so far and under the Pathfinder Panel hit the Divide button. It will divide our yellow shape into 5 stripes that we will turn into nice colorful ribbons very soon.

Step 14

Ungroup (Shift + Ctrl / Cmd + G) the shape we have just created. If there are any small particles created by the imperfect positioning of elements make sure to remove them. Also, you should remove all unwanted anchor points by using the Delete Anchor Point Tool (-).

You should end up with something like this.

Step 15

Our logo is now ready to get some nice color gradients. We will be using only linear color gradients. Keep in mind that the angle of the drawn gradient is very important. So let's get started.

You should end up with something like this.

Step 16

Now we are going to emphasize the edges. To do that we are going to use a similar technique we have used few steps earlier when we created paths to divide yellow shape.

We will duplicate (Ctrl / Cmd + C, Ctrl / Cmd + F) each of the five sides of the logo. With the Direct Selection Tool (A) select all the anchor points we don't need and remove them by hitting the Delete key on the keyboard (To be sure not to mess up the rest of the illustration enter the Isolate Selected Path mode. You will find it under the right click). Basically, the idea is to end up with the straight path on the inside edge of the logo.

Step 17

Remove the Fill color and set the Stroke color to #FA91FA. We will set the Stroke Width to 1 pixel, but you can adjust it how you like. Just make sure to set the Profile to Width Profile 1.

Step 18

Repeat the previous step for the other four sides of the logo as well. You should end up with something like this.

Make sure to turn paths into editable shapes by selecting Object > Expand Appearance.

Step 19

In this step, we will create a nice soft shadow for our logo. We will be using the Blend Tool to achieve that.

First we will select all the elements we have created so far and duplicate them (Ctrl / Cmd + C, Ctrl / Cmd / Cmd + F). Under the Pathfinder Panel hit the Unite button. It will unite all elements into one shape placed on the same spot as our logo, perfectly centered.

Make sure to set the Fill color for the new shape to gray (#666666).

Step 20

Holding the Alt / Opt key on your keyboard click on the gray shape and drag it downwards. It will create a copy of the gray shape. Make sure to hold the Shift key on your keyboard for straight dragging.

Step 21

Set the Opacity for the new shape to 0%.

Step 22

Make sure to place the gray shape with full Opacity on the top ( Shift + Ctrl / Cmd + ] ). Select both shapes and under the Object select Blend > Make.

Step 23

Select Object > Blend > Blend Options. Set the Spacing to Specified Steps and the value to 30. It will create 30 new shapes in between which will look like a smooth transition from one shape to another.

You should end up with something like this.

Step 24

Make sure to place the shape we have just created underneath our logo design ( Shift + Ctrl / Cmd + [ ).

Step 25

Let's set a nice background for our final design. Grab the Rectangle Tool (M) from the Tools Panel and click somewhere on the Artboard. The Rectangle Options box will pop up. Set the dimensions to 500 x 500 pixels.

Step 26

Apply nice radial gradient as shown in the picture below.

And We're Done!

Place the background underneath our logo design, adjust the size of the shadow that the logo casts on the background and voila!

This time we did something more colorful than usual. Also, during the creation process, we have learned how to use things we already have in order to create something new.

I encourage you to play around with shapes and colors, you might end up with an amazing design. Just explore all possibilities that Adobe Illustrator offers so you can make your own logos.

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How to Create a Logo in Adobe Illustrator

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a logo in Adobe Illustrator. To create our logo design we will combine a few simple shapes using some very simple linear gradients where we will try to increase the depth and to create an eye-catching design.

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CREATE THIS TEXT EFFECT IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR! | Learn to break down a typeface and add color and highlights to complete this effect.

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Site Exclusive Tutorial Recording Notes:
Disclaimer: these are the actual notes I used to record this video and are written in a language you may or may not understand. Hopefully, you find them useful or cool.

1. New doc 2560×1440

2. Add text, typeface: Dubtronic (Solid) @ 300pt with 225pt leading

3. Select text and convert to outlines

4. Go Effects>Stylize>Round Corners and round 15px

5. Copy and paste this text in front.

6. Shut off the copied layer

7. Select bottom layer and go Object>Expand Appearance

8. Turn on top layer and open Appearance panel and get rid of the Rounded Corners

9. Ungroup and delete all letters except the "R"

10. Ungroup the group with rounded corners and select both "R"'s and use Pathfinder to Divide them, Ungroup what you get, and get rid of the bits you don't want

11. Select remaining bits and use Pathfinder to Merge them all together

12. Group all the text together

13. Duplicate and paste in front 2x (three copies of the text altogether)

14. Shut off top-most text group

15. Select both text groups visible and set fill to #00a5e0

16. Select bottom-most text group and nudge down and to the left Shift + 2x nudges

17. Go Object>Blend>Blend Options and choose specified steps and set that to 150

18. Select both purple text groups and go Object>Blend>Make

19. Turn on top-most text layer again

20. Set fill to a gradient and create gradient that goes:

21. #ff1c53 0%L > #ffe469 42%L > #8ce2ff 100%L

22. Use Gradient tool to drag gradient from top to bottom

23. Copy the gradient text and dump the fill and apply a 5px white stroke with rounded corners && caps

24. With stroke selected, go Object>Path>Offset Path and offset by -9px

25. Before deselecting, go Edit>Cut and then select the outer stroke that is left and delete it

26. Go Edit>Paste in Front to paste the offset path back in place

27. Use a combo of the Direct Selection tool and the Scissors tool (C) to nip and snip to create little highlights all around the top right edges on our letters

28. Use Magic Wand tool to select all white stroked paths and Group these x 3

29. Set the group's blend mode to Overlay

30. Lock all bottom layers and use the Direct Selection tool to select just the top strokes and reduce opacity to around 65%

31. Open the blend that makes the base of the text and select the back-most piece of text and change the fill to # 61fcff to complete the fade of color on the base of the text.

32. Group and align all text to the artboard

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