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How to create a snowman: additional elements
January 13th, 2008.
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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. » Read more: How to create a snowman: additional elements
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How to create a snowman: Coloring
December 21st, 2007
Ok It’s our second day for the tutorial, this time we will do the colors, shadings and highlights. Let’s begin and open up our Illustrator again and let’s get back to where we are last time.
Hmm…lets see, ah yes this is the one.
Color Flats
Now from this state we’ll add in some colors, first let’s start with the nose, click the nose and from the color picker choose a carroty orange. By the way the color mode I used in this tutorial is CMYK, which would be ready for printing If you want it to be printed. Mine is C=0, M=50, Y=100 K=0 or F7931D for RGB
Next we move on to the twigs, choose a brown one for these. Just type C=32 M=48 Y=76 K=20 or 967348 for RGB.
We now move to the two big lumps of snow. To clearly see the parts that you wanted to color, let’s try and use some object hiding, choose an object that you want to hide and press Ctrl + 3 now it’s hidden, try it on another. Don’t worry we’ll bring them back later, the good thing is that we can clearly see the objects that we wanted to color, choose a sky blue for the two After having the colored the body and head. Press Ctrl + Alt + 3 and there you go, the hidden objects are back, this shortcut really helped my workflow especially when trying to do some of this kind. Lets use C=32 Y=0 M=6 K=0 or for RGB. » Read more: How to create a snowman: Coloring
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How to create a snowman: a 3-day tutorial
December 20th, 2007As 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. » Read more: How to create a snowman: a 3-day tutorial
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