Friday, 1 August 2014

More useful Illustrator tricks

Summer lessons-finished, extra work-done, week-long illness-over. Hopefully, I'm back to my daily-update rhythm.

Sooo...I said I'd show you how to write curved texts in Illustrator. How to type on paths, in general. Here is a gem tutorial that teaches you not only that-it also shows:
-how to auto-duplicate shapes to make awesome custom textures (spoiler: just hit ctrl+D!)
-how to decorate any shape with a photo pattern
Also shows how to use reflect and align, which is simpler stuff but also needed if you haven't covered it yet.



Also, let's start using the blend tool more originally! It makes line transitions amazingly easier. In this quickie I threw in some simple grey shapes for the shadows, and used the rotate tool (also seen at the previous post) for the radial lines at the background.


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