Making a Fun Designed Card - Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

Jacquelin Vanderwood July 15, 2003 1 Beginning in Illustrator, let's start by choosing a good outline color. The first part of the card that we will be drawing is a snail. 2 Then select the Paintbrush tool. 3 Beginning in the center, draw the piece you see below. 4 Draw the head and neck. 5 Draw it's antennae and it's eye. 6 Change colors and add the mouth. 7 Reduce the stroke size and change to a dark gray. 8 Add some curlicues. 9 Drawing freehand again, add two flowers and then change to black and add the centers. 10 Change to a light green and simply doodle in the grass. 11 Add some little doodles for stars using a light blue. 12 Add some more curlicues. 13 Strictly freehand in the lettering. This is a whimsical card as you can see. 14 Flip the color swatches so you are working with a fill color. Change to red and draw some little hearts. Save and export the file as a .psd. Open Painter. 15 Open the file up in Painter. Select Colored Pencils and Variable Colored Pencil. Reduce the Opacity to 32%. The size of the pencil is 3.0. Select an orange and pencil in the areas shown in the snail below. 16 Increase Opacity to 50% and change to yellow. Pencil in the areas as shown below. 17 Change to a size 14 brush and Opacity to 100%. Change the color to black. Create a fun little border and add some polka dots and you are ready to stick this drawing on the front of a card. Use the bi-fold kind and you're ready to insert some text inside your card.   Copyright 2003, Jacquelin Vanderwood, All Rights Reserved