Character Design

Character Design of a Penguin

Penguin

Step 1

Open illustrator, go to File - New – Click OK.

Step 2

Draw the shape of the penguin with the help of Pen Tool or you can draw it on paper, scan it, place it and draw it with the pen tool.

Step 3

Fill black color in the body of penguin.

Step 4

Fill white color in the inner part of the body of penguin.

Step 5

Select inner part, go to Effects – Stylize – Inner Glow.

Select mode to normal and select black color which is to be the color of inner glow, set the blur, select edge option and click OK.

Step 6

Now, for feet of the penguin, select color and go to Effects – Stylize – Inner Glow. But this time, choose the white color and select option center.

Step 7

Copy the feet by holding the ALT key and drag the feet, place it under the feet like in the image and fill color, little darker without the inner glow effect. Group them (CTRL + G).

Step 8

For other feet, Press O and double click on Reflect Tool, dialog box will appear, click on vertical and click on copy. Move the feet to the appropriate distance and feet are ready.

Step 9

Make inner part of hands, fill white color and go to Effects – Stylize – Inner Glow. Choose the white color and select option center.

Using reflect tool make another part as we have done in above step.

Step 10

Make additional details on the stomach of penguin using pen tool, fill color and blur it, Effects – Blur- Gaussian Blur (set the blur) – Click OK.

Step 11

Now, for the eyes of a penguin, make an ellipse using Ellipse Tool, fill white color, go to Effects – Stylize – Inner Glow, select black color, set the blur, select edge option and click OK.

Make another ellipse inside it and fill black color, make two circles to highlight the eye and fill white color. Group them all (CTRL+G).

Select it and double click on reflect tool, choose vertical and click copy. Move the eye to the appropriate distance and eyes are ready.

Step 12

For the beak of the penguin, fill color as in the image, for upper and lower part of the beak, go to Effects – Stylize – Inner Glow. Choose the white color, set different blur for both upper and lower part and select option center and click OK.

Step 13

And finally, make additional details on the beak using pen tool, fill white color and decrease opacity to 30%.

Our cute little character design is ready.

Summer holidays

Summer Holidays

Here’s the cartoon illustration of a summer holiday scene. This illustration depicts very relaxing and stress free environment that we all want, free from responsibilities, full of enjoyment and happiness. There are many more things we love to do in holidays which refreshed us.

In the illustration, the girl is on vacation enjoying and relaxing on a small island on a sunny day, fresh air, nature’s noise, bird’s sound, waves up and down, no crowd, quiet and peaceful environment, a perfect holiday that rejuvenate. The girl is lying under the coconut trees and playing with sand.

I have used various tool and effects in this illustration.

In the sky, I used blue color with some clouds and applied a gaussian blur effect on them to show some haziness and did the same with the sun.

In the sea, I used a sponge effect from effect gallery to give the realistic look in the water and also used a grain effect from effect gallery in the sand of the island to show the granules.

In the trees, I used analogous colors of green shade and used mesh tool and. Mesh tool is also used in star fish. The boat and the girl are of solid colors only.

                                                                                           

3D Effect Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Extrude Effect

Step 1

Open illustrator, go to File - New – Click OK.

Step 2

Select Type Tool, drag the cursor (it will create a box), choose font type and font size and write what you want. I have written HOPE.

Step 3

After writing, select it, go to Type- Create Outlines, to alter the letters, like you can increase or decrease the size of fonts. You can change the color of the text if you want to.

Copy that by holding the ALT key.

Step 4

To Extrude, go to Effect- 3D- Extrude and Bevel. See the settings below carefully.

First, Change the position to Front, now you can click and drag on the cube for extrude effects or can change the rotation angles.

Increase or decrease the Extrude Depth accordingly and Click OK.

Lock it after done with extrude.

Step 4

Now, come to the copied part, click on it and then right click, select Ungroup.

Place these letters one by one above the extrude text and adjust it.

Step 5

Now, we will place image on each letter to make it more beautiful, for this, go to File- Place (select image whichever you want) - OK.

Click on Embed.

First on letter H as shown in image, keep the image behind the letter H.

Select the letter H and the image, go to Object- Clipping Mask- Make. The image will take the shape of the letter H.

Repeat the process for each letter.

At last, unlock the extrude text layer and Group all (CTRL+G).

And here is 3D effect design.

3D Logo Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

3D Logo

Step 1

Open illustrator, go to File - New – Click OK.

Step 2                   

Draw a Square of size 100 x 100 pixels and fill gradient color and make it radial.

Step 3

Click on Gradient Tool, and drag on the square to adjust the gradient color like below in the image.

Step 4

Go to Object- Rasterize- (option bar opens, see settings) Click OK.

Step 5

Go to Object- Create Object Mosaic- (option bar opens, see settings carefully as in image) – Click OK.

It will create mosaic pattern.

Step 6

Now, save this pattern as a symbol, to do this, go to Windows- Symbol – drag this pattern to the symbol palette- Name it – Click OK.

Step 7

Now, draw a Circle of size 100 x 100 pixels and fill solid color (red color as in gradient in square). Make a copy of this circle by press and hold the ALT key and drag it.

Step 8

Select the circle and click on the Direct Selection Tool (A). Double click on the left side anchor point and delete it.

Step 9

Go to Effect- 3D- Revolve. See the settings below carefully.

Step 10

Now, click on Map Artwork just next to the preview option.

Step 11

Click on invisible geometry (just above cancel option). In the symbol option, click on the symbol of mosaic pattern that we made earlier, adjust it by increasing or decreasing the size and check whether it covers the circle, if not then move it and adjust it and Click OK and again OK.

The pattern will form the shape of a circle. Place it just above the copied circle we made in Step 7.

Select both and Group them (CTRL+G).

Step 12

For shadow, draw an Ellipse, fill black color, go to Effects- Blur- Gaussian Blur-(change settings)OK.

And the 3D Logo is ready, you can add the company name on it or anywhere around it.