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How to Create the Guardians of the Galaxy Logo Text Effect
What You’ll Be Creating Interested in learning how to draw the Guardians of the Galaxy logo? Follow this tutorial and learn how to make it from scratch while learning many new techniques. You will definitely get inspired to create other unique logos and text effects in future projects. What You’ll Learn in This Guardians of the Galaxy Logo Tutorial Tutorial Assets You’ll need the following resources in order to complete this project: 1. How to Make a New Document in Adobe Illustrator Launch Illustrator and go to File > New to open the New Document window. There, type the name of the document and set up the dimensions as shown. Keep the Units to Pixels and the Color Mode to RGB. Once you’re done, hit Create Document.…
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How to Create a Clipping Mask in Illustrator
In the following tutorial, you’ll learn how to make a Clipping Mask in Illustrator and also how to make a clipping mask with text in Illustrator. What You’ll Learn in This Tutorial 1. How to Make a Clipping Mask in Illustrator To make a Clipping Mask in Illustrator, select your design along with the object that will serve as the mask, and go to Object > Clipping Mask > Make. To make things a bit faster, you can always use the Control-7 keyboard shortcut. Keep in mind that the Make Clipping Mask command can also be found at the bottom of the Properties panel (Window > Properties). 2. How to Make a Clipping Mask With Text in Illustrator You can even…
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Human Anatomy Fundamentals: Basic Body Proportions
What You’ll Learn in This Human Body Drawing Tutorial 1. How to Draw a Body: The Basic Figure Step 1: Create Your Chart From Heads Let’s begin with the basics of human body drawing. A well-proportioned figure, regardless of variations due to gender and such, is defined by the alignment of the joints, which is invariable (that is, we perceive something odd if it does vary). This is our groundwork for the proportions of a human body diagram. Draw your own chart with me as we go—it really helps with learning the material. To learn how to draw a body, we start with the head. Start by drawing an oval or egg…
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How to Draw a Skull
What You’ll Learn in This Skull Drawing Tutorial 1. How to Draw the Base for a Human Skull Drawing Step 1 Let’s begin this skull drawing step-by-step tutorial by drawing a circle. It doesn’t need to be perfect, and feel free to draw it with many lines. Find its center, too. You’ll be able to refine your skull sketch later on. Step 2 Draw a line under the circle, using the length of its radius. Step 3 Divide this line into three sections. Skull drawing is easy once you mark the placement of the different features. Step 4 Create a skull outline for the jaw by drawing a square “bucket” under…
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How to Make a GIF
What You’ll Learn What You’ll Need You can use any photo you wish to make an animated GIF, but make sure it’s high quality and with the eyes well visible. You can download the photo I’ve used from Envato Elements. 1. How to Prepare an Image for Animating Step 1 GIF is not a well-optimized format, and its files can get very large very quickly. That’s why we need to crop our image to the most important part before creating animated GIFs. Open the image, take the Crop Tool (C), and select the part of the image you want to animate. Then hit Enter. Step 2 We want to animate the eyes, so we…
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How to Combine Paths in Illustrator
What You’ll Learn in This Illustrator Tutorial What You’ll Learn in This Illustrator Tutorial Step 2 Let’s say that you want to join two overlapping anchor points. Use the Direct Selection Tool (A) to select both of these points, press Control-J to join the points, and Illustrator will also remove one of those points. Step 3 When needed, there’s an easier method that you can use to bring together two anchor points from separate paths. Select the two anchor points and go to Object > Path > Average (Alt-Control-J). Just check Both and click OK. 3. How to Combine Multiple Paths in Illustrator Learning how to join paths in Illustrator isn’t complicated. Using the Control-J keyboard shortcut, you can quickly combine…
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How to Draw Fur
What You’ll Be Creating Drawing fur from memory can be very frustrating. You’ve seen it, you know what it is, but when you try fur drawing, you end up with a bunch of straw. If this is your problem, in this tutorial I will show you how to draw fur. First hint? You need to draw what you see, not what you know! What You Will Need to Draw Fur 1. What Is Fur? Let’s start with some theory. You’ll be able to draw fur much better just by learning these few simple facts. First, fur is made of hairs that lie one upon another, creating a smooth surface. However, when…
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How to Draw a Bear
What You’ll Be Creating Of all the mammals, grizzly bears are one of the easiest to draw. They are big and plump, with thick fur concealing the silhouette, and they’re plantigrade, so their legs are similar to ours. Also, their characteristic face with tiny eyes and a huge muzzle makes it easy to keep the proportions right. So, even if you’re a complete beginner at drawing, you can learn how to draw a bear easily. 1. How to Get Started With a Bear Drawing Proportions are the key to a realistic drawing of a bear or any animal. If the legs are too short or the head too small, even the most elaborate details won’t make your…
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How to Create Three Star Wars Characters in Adobe Illustrator
What You’ll Be Creating A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… 1. How to Set Up a New Project Step 1 Open up Adobe Illustrator and set up a New Document by clicking on File > New (Control-N). To follow the tutorial exactly, use the settings below: And for the Advanced tab: Step 2 Go to Edit > Preferences > General and set the Keyboard Increment to 1 px. Step 3 Go to Units and use the settings shown below. 2. How to Create the Base Head Step 1 To create the head of the character, we will use the Rounded Rectangle Tool. Click and drag using the mouse to roughly draw out the shape of the head (you can adjust the shape later).…
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How to Create a Reindeer Cartoon Character in Adobe Illustrator
What You’ll Be Creating Learn how to create a cute reindeer character that will put you into the winter holiday spirit, using Adobe Illustrator. 1. How to Open a New Document Launch Illustrator and go to File > New to open a blank document. Type a name for your file, set up the dimensions, and then select Pixels as Units and RGB as Color Mode. Make sure that Align New Objects to Pixel Grid is not checked. Next, go to Edit > Preferences > General and set the Keyboard Increment to 1 px and while there, go to Units to make sure they are set as in the following image. I usually work with these settings, and they will help you throughout the drawing process. 2. How to Create the Head of the…