Drawing a School Bus - Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

Jacquelin Vanderwood August 15, 2003 1 Select the Rounded Rectangle tool and create a rectangle. 2 Create a second rounded rectangle as shown below just inside the first. 3 Select both and press Add to shape area. Click on Expand. 4 Your bus should look like the one below. 5 With the Rounded Rectangle tool selected, click on the page. Change the Corner Radius to 3 pt. 6 Create a door and two windows for it and then create the passenger windows all with the Rounded Rectangle tool. 7 Change the windows fill color to white. 8 With the Ellipse tool create a black circle by holding down the Shift key. 9 With the wheel selected double-click the Scale tool.  10 Scale it down to 50%. Press Copy. 11 Change the inner circle to gray and select both circles. Press down Alt and Shift then drag to duplicate. 12 With a darker shade of yellow and the Rectangle tool create air slats for the front of the bus. 13 Add a circle in black. 14 Add the text for school bus to the side using a simple font. 15 Create a simple character drawing for the students. 16 Group the two objects that is the student and duplicate by pressing Alt. Then press Control+D to duplicate again. With the Direct Selection tool change the colors of each student. 17 And here is our school bus.   Copyright 2003, Jacquelin Vanderwood, All Rights Reserved