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Better Late Than Never.

Though I did manage to teach you on how to make a snowman. I wasn’t able to finish this 3-day tutorial and discuss on adding it to a scene and put up additional elements. As an apology, I’ll be going to give a freebie at the end of this tutorial(trees, rays, snowflakes) excluding the snowman of course that’s what this tutorial is about.

Ok so we have our snowman, all we need is to add it to a background and also put in some elements to make good use of it.

Before we proceed on making the other elements we need to lock our snowman layer, then create another layer and name it “background”, put it under our snowman, then hide the snowman layer after doing so.

Now we’re ready to begin. First is to pick the Rectangle Tool (Ctrl + M) draw a rectangle occupying the whole art board and using the gradient tool pick a blue and a white color then drag across the rectangle from our bottom right portion towards the top left. Now we have our simple sky.

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As promised here comes my very first tutorial. With Christmas fast approaching I’ve decided to make one for the season. The one that I’ll be teaching you is an in-depth beginners tutorial on how to create a snowman in which you can create some colorful postcards out of it just like what I’ve made below and also other cool stuff for the christmas. For some you may find this a little to detailed but I’ve created this one specifically for those who want to learn the basics of Illustrator. I’ll also mention some shortcuts I used while making this tutorial. This will be our day 1.

Software used: Adobe Illustrator CS2 - you may use other similar vector-based editing software but the instructions written are made to work well on Adobe Illustrator CS2.

• Difficulty: Beginner - Intermediate

For the 2nd day tutorial: How to create a snowman : Coloring

For the 3rd day tutorial: How to create a snowman: Additional Elements

If you’re interested on how this is done then join me and follow through.

Ok let’s get on with the character, actually it’s pretty simple, here’s what we’ll need:

• Snow, Lots of it.
• 1 Magician’s Hat
• 2 Twigs (any type of tree would do as long as it’s brown)
• 1 carrot (just take the orange part)
• 1 Scarf (choose a clean one)
• and coals, coals, coals…ooops almost forgot, coals

Put them all together and voila!!…our snowman.

Okay, okay…now let’s get serious. hehe

Open up Illustrator and let’s do some character designing. Set the size of the art board to 500 width and 500 height.

The first step in the creation of snowman is to start with the line-art.

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It’s really hard to write something especially when you’re working fulltime at the office. Even though you the have passion to do it, you only have little time to create new stuff. ah…so many things to do, so little time.

I can still remember those days of working outside the box…freedom. I can do thrice or more than what I can do right now, I can continue to post more, create more freebies, learn new stuff like PHP, continue my studies in Maya and After Effects. Having so many things done at work I wasn’t able to follow my routine of having to posts new stuff every 2 to 3 on a weekly basis. sigh!

Anyways I’ll try to post some more, so keep checking back. I’ve been writing a variety of tutorials as promised, I’ll share it once I got time and get things organized.

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