Creating Line Drawings in Adobe Illustrator
For this week’s Tutorial of the Week, I thought I’d answer a question that was posed to me yesterday on Twitter by Evan B (@ApathyDinosaur).
Evan was looking for a way to redraw his work in Adobe Illustrator, and my first instinct was to recommend that he use Photoshop instead, because I’m more familiar with using this approach in that program. As far as I knew, the only ways to digitize your work in Illustrator were Live Trace and the Pen tool, which in my opinion fail to do the job in a successful or timely manner. However, today I stumbled across this simple and straightforward tutorial created by friend and fellow artist Dani Jones called Creating Line Drawings in Adobe Illustrator.
I’ve featured Dani’s useful tutorials a couple of times already here at EFII (see the Related Posts below), but this one seemed to answer the exact question that Evan was asking, so I thought I’d share it with everyone.
Click here to view the tutorial.
Hope this helps, Evan!
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- Picking Colors in Photoshop by Dani Jones
- How to Make Your Portfolio iPhone-Compatible by Dani Jones
- Vector Build Methods by Von Glitschka
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Oooo awesome! The tutorial was actually pretty close to how I ink in illustrator. I was actually thinking of creating my own tutorial. This post is motivating me to make a more specific one that highlights the way I utilize illustrator to make drawings look more spontaneous.
Speaking of spontaneous, has anyone figured away for your most recent stroke to be NOT highlighted when drawing in Illustrator. I find that if if draw 2 stroke too close together it adjusts the first stroke instead of creating a new one. Sometimes it can hurt the spontaneity to have to deselect after each stroke. Comprende?
Let me know if you create that tutorial, Nate!
Will do! I think I’m intimidated by the prospect of my next project taking longer. But I think just taking screenshoys ar I go and explaining them later wouldn’t be too impedin.