Create a Teddy Bear - Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

Jacquelin Vanderwood 1 Begin by selecting the Elliptical tool. 2 Click inside the art area. Set the options to 150 and 150. 3 Create another circle 300 and 300. 4 Create two circles for the ears 50 and 50. Then create two more circles of the same size for the cheeks. 5 Create two circles 25 and 25. 6 For the nose create an oval of 30.345 and 14.482. 7 For the feet create circles of 150 and 150. 8 For the paws 100 and 100. 9 For the inside of the ears 30 and 30. 10 You should have a picture that looks like the one below. 11 Fill the pieces with color. 12 Create an oval and send in back to the tummy area. No stroke is necessary. 13 Create a small white circle for the highlight of the eye and duplicate it. 14 Press Ctrl+A and Ctrl+G to group all of the teddy bear. Duplicate the bear. Select Expand with Stroke and Fill checked. 15 For the duplicated bear, uncheck any Fill color. Set the Stroke color to brown. Set the Stroke weight to 10. 16 Your piece should look like the one below. Bring the colored piece and set it on top. Group both together. 17 Select the Line Segment tool and draw a line above the bear. Choose Warp>Arc and set to 100%. Then select Expand Appearance after closing Warp Options. 18 Select the Path Type tool. Type in some text on the arc line. Set a rectangle for the background of orange. Choose the Knife tool and cut an area out for the corner and unclick Stroke and set in a Fill color.  19 You should now have a card just right for some little kid you know.   Copyright 2003, Jacquelin Vanderwood, All Rights Reserved