Illustrator Tutorials

Tree Illustration Vector (Video): Here is a quick and easy adobe illustrator video tutorial for beginners looking at how to make leaf brush to create a tree within 5 minutes. Very simple and easy to follow steps and make a tree to add in your branding projects. In this tutorial, first, we will create a leaf brush that will help to drag leaves around the tree. Simple quick and easy way to do using the brush. For this, we will create 2 types of brush one with stripe and other without stripe. In the next phase, we will pack the tree with brush leaves. It’s a fun part of this design. If you are doing this first time you will surely enjoy this step. I personally loved it. Instant Download: Vector Tree Illustration (PNG) – Transparent File SEE ALSO: 25 Illustrator Tutorials for Beginners Vector Leaf Illustration Video (Step by Step) Quick and easy way to work on vector tree illustration. Let’s delve into it. Format: AI  Illustrator Version: CS6 Resolution: 300 PPI Color Mode: CMYK How to Make Leaf Brush and Vector Tree (Step by Step) Open new file in Adobe illustrator. Set the artboard. Now create a background layer using the rectangle from the shape tool. Used white-gray background color. Press Ctrl 2 to lock the layer. Make a Leaf Illustration: Choose the ellipse tool from the shape section and drag a small oval on artboard. Keep it black in color without a stroke. Select the oval. Now go to Pen tool and choose Convert ‘Anchor point tool’ option. Click on both edges of the oval to make it pointed and sharp. Now it will show the structure of leaf. Take a copy of this and keep on the side. Now using pen tool, create a curved stripe and keep it at the middle of first leaf at the bottom edge. Select leaf and strip together and go to Window – Path Finder. Select Subtract option. It will show the striped leaf structure. Click on another leaf and make it longer and slim. Now both leaves are ready to go to brush library. Let’s Make Leaf Brush: Now go to Window and choose Brush or Press F5 to open brush window. Drag the first leaf in brush library to create Art Brush. Check the settings from the video and click ok. Use the same setting and create another brush. Now remove leaf from artboard as it’s been added to brush library. Let’s Make Tree Branches: To make tree branches, select leaf without strip from the brush library and using the paintbrush tool with minimum stroker size draw random branches as showing in the video. Now select all branches and go to Object – Expand Appearance. Group all the layers. Change the color to brown. Let’s Draw the Leaves: Pick the Brush option from the tool section. Select striped leaf from brush library. Properly set the stroke size to make the perfect leaf. Now drag leaf on branches as showing in the video. Pack the tree with striped leaf Now repeat the same method and drag the nonstriped leaf on tree. Make smaller, bigger and longer tree to create a complete tree structure. Let’s Color the Leaves: Now select each and everything together and go to Object – Expand Appearance. Change the color by choosing the default gradient. Open Gradient Window (press Ctrl F9) Now add color shades of light green, yellow and dark green. Select everything and use the blend option to make a smooth look of tree. Now the tree is ready to save and import.       5 Key Points to Drag Perfect Leaves on Tree It’s important to understand the hand formation while dragging your leaves on branches. Here I am sharing some key points based on my best practices. Try to drag leaves with different stroke sizes. Choose the best stroke size to place on the leaf. Hand formation is important. Drag in a straight line and with the curve to show different angling of leaf. By using different hand angles, you can make a leaf with a different look that will make a realistic tree structure. So guys, it’s is easy to make vector tree illustration in adobe illustrator. You can make your own tree within 5 minutes. If you are a beginner or making tree first time then try again and again to be the best. Happy Designing and Happy Watching!

Adobe Illustrator is the adorable choice of graphic designers to design brands and illustrations. If you are learning graphics then these “Adobe Illustrator tutorials for beginners” might help you to grow your knowledge curve, skills, and expertise. Why Illustrator? In Graphic design, Adobe Illustrator is one of the best graphic design software for vector graphics. Vector graphics is the type of flexible and scalable illustrations that can zoom to maximum size without losing the quality. Adobe suit provides different types of graphics software according to different requirement of designs. Like; Adobe Photoshop good for creating pixel-oriented images (raster) most recommended for photo editing. In the same way, Adobe InDesign suitable for printing of books, brochures, newsletter and similar category stuff. Adobe Illustrator is far ahead by using that you can create logos and more suitable to design business brandings. Normally graphics experts design tutorials for beginners by choosing software tools/function to describe in details. Here, I tried to make it a little different. You know,..  why? Because the concept is more important to use the tool. When you draw something by carrying some visuals then it’s easy to know about the functions depth. On a personal note, when I was a beginner and learning graphics (still learning..), it was difficult for me to incorporate tools and functions within my design by carrying a concept. So, to make connections in design and grow my vision. I worked on premade tutorials by experts that helped to enhance my creativity and given me more in length knowledge to grow. Here in this post, I am sharing some of my Illustrator tutorials for beginners that can help to learn illustrator fast. You can watch all these video tutorials to follow the quick steps. 1) How to Create Initial Logo Design People love to have a logo using their initials. It’s a contemporary logo design technique to create minimalist logos using letters. In a real-time, lettering concept is in trend. Not only people making customized letters but also creating custom fonts to add more versatility in their work. In this tutorial, I tried to combine two letters by applying some design concept. It’s simple, easy and recommended for beginners to look around to get ideas to design initial based logos. SEE Tutorial: Initial Logo Design 2) Create Fold Effect Letter Logo Design Beginners can play with design by creating illusions. Just start to get this concept by creating a simple letter that shows a fold effect. Here, in this tutorial, I created a custom letter N and then applied some light effect to create folded illusion by using layers. SEE Tutorial: Letter N Logo with Fold Effect 3) How to Create Rope Brush in Illustrator Realistic ropes can be designed in different ways. The design process becomes easy if you create a custom rope brush to design your creatives. In this tutorial, I shared how to create rope brush just by using a pattern brush option. SEE Tutorial: Rope Brush Illustrator 4) Best Way to Create Grunge Brush in Illustrator Grunge effect can be add in your creatives to make it more stylish and eye-catching so I decided to create a custom grunge brush that will help to add in your graphics. Even though there are some predesigned grunge effects available in Illustrator but you can create custom grunge based on your design requirements. This tutorial provides a great for beginners to learn the grunge technique using Illustrator brush. SEE Video Tutorial: Grunge brush Illustrator 5) How to Use Blend Tool (Simple Tutorial for Beginners) “Blend tool illustrator” is the most powerful tool that designers can use in different ways based on their creativity. In this tutorial, I created different shapes using a blend tool. SEE Tutorial: How to use the blend tool Illustrator 6) Learn Step by Step to Create Glitter Effect in Illustrator It’s a simple and easy tutorial for beginners to create glitter effect in their design just by looking some easy steps. In this way, you can create high-resolution glitter textures without losing picture quality. SEE Tutorial: Create Glitter Effect in Illustrator 7) Blending Vector Art Tutorial for Beginners As I shared above how to use blend tool so here is the extension of this concept by make vector art using blend tool. It’s a recommended tutorial for beginner to understand the power of blend tool by watching this tutorial. SEE Tutorial: Blending Vector Art 8) Step by Step Logo Design Process to Create Camera Lens Logo SEE Tutorial: Create Camera Lens Logo for Photographers 9) Chalkboard Vector Background in Illustrator Chalkboard effect is one of the most desire background to add in creatives and designer love this. In this tutorial, learn the basic technique to create a chalkboard effect to add in creatives. SEE Tutorial: Chalkboard vector background Illustrator Tutorial 10) How to Design Wedding Invitation in Illustrator It’s easy to design wedding kits or related stuff using illustrator. You can watch this tutorial to learn how to create a wedding invitation in Illustrator step by step. SEE Tutorial: Step by Step process to Create wedding invitation in Illustrator  11) Adobe Illustrator Training Tutorial to Create Flat Illustration Flat design and illustration are so common to add in print and web creatives. It’s easy to learn the flat design technique for beginners by watching this tutorial. It’s a 1-hour free training video that you can see to create a flat illustration step by step. SEE: Flat Illustration Training using Adobe Illustrator 12) How to Create Smoke in Illustrator Creating realistic smoke in illustrator is just about learning technique. In this tutorial, you will watch the steps to create smoke in vector format using Adobe Illustrator. An easy tutorial for beginners. SEE Tutorial: Create Vector Smoke in Illustrator 13) Learn to Add Neon Glow Effect in Illustrator SEE Tutorial: How to add Neon Glow Effect in Adobe Illustrator 14) Tutorial to Create iPhone X Mockup SEE Tutorial: Step by Step iPhone X mockup tutorial 15) How to Design Golden Ratio Logo in […]

If you are looking how to create rope brush illustrator then here in this post you can watch step by step process. Rope illustrator tutorial will guide you in a simple way to design rope brush that you can use for multiple purposes of designing. Rope brushes can be designed in a variety of ways. If you are learning illustrator or the way to design ropes then you can start with a basic rope design. In this way, you will get design concept and later you can apply some diverse technique to create other types of rope design. This rope brush designed in Adobe Illustrator CS6. 100% vector rope design that you can easily use for web and print creatives. Watch Illustrator Tutorial – Create Rope Brush Illustrator Watch time: 9:16 Download Project File: Click Here… Step by Step Points to Follow Manually Steps to Create Rope Shape Using shape tool, create a simple ellipse in oval style. Click on pen tool, choose Convert Anchor Point tool or press Shift C from the keyboard. Click on middle first anchor point of oval and middle last anchor point. It will convert into sharp pointed edges. Now intact direct selection tool or press ‘A’ from the keyboard. Click on first pointed anchor point at the top of the oval and drag it to the right side. In the same way, click on last anchor point of middle last anchor point and drag it to the left side. Now click on the left middle anchor point and move it upside using upward arrow key. Now move the right middle anchor point and move it down. It will form a shape of a rope. Now go to Object – Path – Offset Path and create another rope shape. (Watch the video if you are not sure about the steps. Now using PathFinder – Subtract the background and add color to rope shape. Make a Rope Chain Now move the rope shape that we created with some angle on the right side. Create a copy of angular rope shape and paste in the same place and move it to the left side. It will create a rope structure in chain format. Create a rectangle using shape tool Keep the rectangle in middle and make it invisible like keep the fill and stroke color to ‘off’. Now select each and everything and create a brush. Add the Rope Structure to Brush Section Keep everything selected and press F5 to open Brush panel. Or, explore it from Window – Brushes. Drag the selection to Brushes panel and create the Pattern brush. Name the rope pattern. Use the Method Tints and Shades. Press Ok. Design Rope Brush Pattern Create a circle and select the rope brush from Brush panel. Drag a circle and you will get rope brush illustrator design. You can use in a different way like using PaintBrush tool and design it as you like :-) So this is the simple way to design Rope brush illustrator. For a quick view, watch illustrator tutorial to save time. All the best!! Illustrator Tutorials Might be Helpful for you: Golden Ration Logo # 2 – Floral Design Create Smoke Vector Effects in Illustrator How to Create Chalkboard Background in Adobe Illustrator How to Create Neon Glowing Light Effect iPhone x Vector Template – Mockup