Drawing a Snowman - Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

Jacquelin Vanderwood July 15, 2003 1 Make sure your stroke color is black. Select the Pen tool. We'll begin drawing the bucket that will be on the snowman's head. 2 Draw part of the head and then the nose. 3 Next we draw the top of the second snowball and the arm. 4 Continue with the lower part of the second snowball and complete the third snowball on up around to the lower right side of the second snowball. 5 Draw the right arm of the snowman and continue up into the neck area. 6 Finish off the lower part of the right side of the head and the handle of the bucket. Connect the ends or close the path. 7 Draw the inside part of the handle. 8 Press Control+A to select all. Click on the Subtract from shape area button. We now have one piece. 9 Reverse the color scheme so that instead of having black as the stroke we now have black as the fill. Lock that layer and create a new one. 10 Starting with the middle pink, draw out he shape of the nose. Select a light pink and draw a highlight, then choose a darker value and draw the shadow area. You're done with the nose. 11 Draw with an off yellow (ochre) for the main body of the bucket. Choose a lighter shade for the top. Select the main body of the bucket and choose the Knife tool. Cut in a desired shadow area. Select that area and fill with a darker yellow or ochre color as shown below. 12 With light green draw in the head as shown below. 13 Continue with that color and draw in the second snowball of the body. Do the same for the third snowball. 14 Select the Knife tool again. Cut into each section as shown below and then change the colors. 15 Change to a black fill and draw in the eyes and mouth then select a light yellow and add the highlights to the eyes. 16 Draw brown inside the arms. 17 Unlock the previous layer and select all and group. You now have your own snowman.   Copyright 2003, Jacquelin Vanderwood, All Rights Reserved