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How to create a simple basic flower using Illustrator.

What kind of flower would you like to give to someone you love? Well for me definitely I’ll choose Rose.. errr! well it’s been a long time I’ve not gave a bucket of Roses to my wife anymore since our first met. Anyway, this time I’ll share with you a simple tutorial on how to create a simple flower within a second in Illustrator.. sounds interesting? read on!

STEP 1 : Firstly you have to choose a ‘Poligon Tool’ on the toolbar.

STEP 2 : Create one Poligon simply by dragging the cursor while pressing shift. Why press shift button? pressing shift is to make an object to be equal on every corner. Try creating a simple object like ‘Rectangle Tool’ without pressing shift button then you’ll get the idea.

STEP 3 : Now you have one nice Poligon..Okay! now comes the interesting part.. go to Effect>Distort & Transform>Pucker & Bloat and see the effect.. adjust the percentage you prefer until you satisfy with it.

Tips : The more percentage you set the long your flower will bee. Amazing right!

STEP 4 : For more advanced flower what you need to do is pretty simple, go to Object>Path>Add Anchor Points and see the different. Repeat the step if you want more effect on the flower or you can just leave it as the previous shape.

STEP 5 : Now at this point you have a basic shape of flower. But it seems weird where you still can see the Poligon line eventhough the object turn into a flower shape. Go to Object>Expand Appearance then only you’ll see the outline follow the shape of your flower.

STEP 6 : Next thing to do is to add one round shape using ‘Ellipse Tool’ (press L) to be put in the middle of the flower.

STEP 7 : Now, to put the round shape in the middle of the flower in a smart way is by using Align, go to Window>Align or press (Mac: Shift+F7 / PC: Shift+F7). Select the two objects (Round shape + Flower) by using ‘Selection Tool’ and choose ‘Horizontal Align Center’ + ‘Vertical Align Center’ on the Align toolbar. Make sure not to select the ‘Align To Artboard’ (well..actually its up to you if you want the object to be exactly in the middle of the artboard)

STEP 8 : Now lets play with colors.. select the object using ‘Selection Tool’ (press V) and once the object selected then pick any color you prefer from the Swatches toolbar. One thing you need to understand is Fill and Outline, where you need to Color the Fill area of your flower while the outline you can leave it empty (but actually it’s depends on your creativity though). Select more color option Windows>Swatches Libraries>

STEP 9 : Same goes to the round shape, fill the object with a different color. That’s it.. pretty simple right. Create more variety on the flower + play with the color and sizes then you’ll have a garden of nice and beautiful flowers on your computer.. Enjoy + Play with it and give yourself an applause!

Now I’m goin to buy a flower for my wife.. see you next week then.

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Client : Korporasi Kemajuan Perikanan & Nelayan Sabah
Size : 21cm x 29.7cm (3 panels)

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Nowadays, for those who bought a house with quite a smaller and limited space usually having problems on arranging their furniture inside the house. But no for long, since one young designer has come up with the perfect solution. Karen Babel has created a bookcase that transforms into a bed. The mattress will stands upright in four bits and forms a bulk of the bookcase. These surround five storage square shelves which are stick in a wall mounted frame. The mattress sections are placed on the floor and slot together to form the bed with two parts for a single, or all four to make a double. A really interesting creation of a combination of bookcase + be.

Hmm.. I wonder where she get this idea from.. Tetris maybe!

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Hi there! This time, I’ll share with you another simple tutorial on how to create a sparkles in Photoshop.. Sound interesting? then read on!

STEP 1 : Firstly you need to open your selected photo on Photoshop which you’ll later need to add a sparkle effect on an object. For this tutorial I choose this picture taken from one nice sunday morning fair somewhere near my place call Gaya Street. While, the object that I want to add a sparkles effect is this iPod Shuffle.

STEP 2 : Next step you need to open Illustrator in order to create one basic shape of sparkle. Creating a basic shape of sparkle in Illustrator actually can be apply by only using a ‘Rectangular Tool’.. How is that? Preety simple! Create one polygon using ‘Polygon Tool’ on the toolbar. Here, I choose Polygon Tool instead of Rectangular is because, polygon is the nearest basic shape similar to sparkle.

STEP 3 : Next, select the Polygon using ‘Selection Tool’ (press V), then go to Effect>Distort & Transform>Pucker & Bloat. Then, set the effect to -200 until you see the polygon change into something like a star like this. Then go to Object>Expand Appearance.

STEP 4 : Now select the fill color to White and select empty for the outline (press x while background colour on top) or (press the small empty square below the Tools Pallete on far right on first row) . Then, simply copy the object (Mac: apple+C / PC: Ctrl+C) or go to Edit>Copy.

STEP 5 : At this point, go back to Photoshop and simply paste the sparkle into the photo (Mac: apple+V / PC: Ctrl+V) or go to Edit>Paste. Resize the sparkle to fit just nice with the object you want the effect to be, then press Enter. Press (Mac: apple+V / PC: Ctrl+V)

STEP 6 : Now, you’ll notice there’s 2 layers on the ‘Layers Pallete’. Name the new layer which contain the sparkle as ‘Sparkle’ (or what ever you prefer).

STEP 7 : Now the secret starts here.. on the ‘Sparkle’ layer, add a layer style by clicking on the ‘add a layer style’ icon at the bottom left of the ‘Layers Pallete’. Select ‘Outer Glow’ and you’ll see a Layer Style window pop-up. At this point I prefer to leave the Layer Style setting like this, but you can modify the setting by changing the Blend Mode, selecting a different color, and even increase the Opacity, while the rest you leave it as it is.

Tip : to make an outstanding sparkles effect, always choose lighter color for the layer style.

STEP 8 : Now you have one nice sparkle, Hmmm!.. but it still look not so outstanding. Well.. duplicate the sparkle three or four and place it somewhere around. To duplicate, select ‘Move Tool’ (press V) and drag the sparkle while pressing ‘option’ key for Apple / ‘alt’ key for PC and place it somewhere around the object and release.

Tip : Resize + Rotate the sparkles to get more variety and it will look more outstanding. Resize + Rotate : (Mac: Apple+T / PC: Ctrl:T) or Edit>Transform>Scale then press Enter.

There you go! Practice + play a lot with different kind of shining objects, create more sparkles.. practice makes perfect.. till we meet up next week!

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Have you ever heard about Erotica Arts?..

Well here’s one artist I would consider a very talented artist from Birmingham, England.. Jasper Goodall. He came from a family of two artist and has completed a Foundation year at Bournville college of art in Birmingham and later he continued a BA hons in Illustration at The University of Brighton.

Since after the graduation on early nineties later he then worked as a freelance Illustrator both in commercial work and editorial, most people seem to have found out about him during his time working with The Face magazine from 2000. His artworks many has been exibit on many exibition around like Versus Japan back in 2002 and he has been in the front cover of Icon Magazine where you can read the exclusive interview. Recently he has been invited to exhibit at the PLUS International Design Festival in Birmingham 17-21 october 2007.

How would he describe the work that he created?
“Sexual, fantastical, dreamy. basically I would say it’s contemporary fantasy art”

Below are some of his Erotic Arts which really attracts my eyes wide open..

and this are the special project that he made for JB4B (Jasper Goodall 4 Bikini) featuring a luxury swimwear label from UK inspired by his own idea.

Fall From Eden and Pink Paradise. See more of his swimwear collection at JGAB Swimwaer Collections

find out more about this great modern artist at his online portfolios at Jaspergodall.com

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Basic Techniques Working with Pen Tool

Did you know that Adobe Illustrator was carefully made for designers base on from very basic drawing techniques. For example we take a look on Illustrator ‘Pen Tool’. You can draw many kinds of path using this ‘Pen Tool’,from drawing straight or curves line to create a path. Now, don’t get your head spinning around reading + trying to understand this already, it’s pretty simple as this..

Look familiar? I’m sure all of you have seen this before from a newspaper/magazine/books somewhere back in many years ago during your primary school. I don’t know what they call this game, but if you know how this game works then you should understand how to use ‘Pen Tool’ in Illustrator.

PRACTICE 1 - To Draw Straight Line :

1- Using the ‘Pen Tool’ to draw a straight line, press ‘P’ or click the ‘Pen Tool’ on the toolsbar.
2- Click once to create one anchor point and click again at different position to create another anchor point.
3- Now you’ll notice one straight line connected in between the two anchor point that you just created.

PRACTICE 2 - To Draw Curved Line :

1- Click once to create one anchor point
2- Click again at different position to create another anchor point, but this time click and don’t release, keep the mouse press.
3- Now drag the anchor point at any direction and you’ll see a curved line created.

PRACTICE 3 - To Draw A Path :

1- Click once to create your first anchor point
2- Followed by another anchor point
3- Try to make a simple square path (square is equals to 4 anchor points)
4- There you have it, one simple path shape as square. (Tip : Press Shift button while creating your path you’ll get a straight perfect line)
5- Now you can fill any color on it or create an outline.

PRACTICE 4 - Add & Delete Anchor Point Tool :

1- You can add anchor point tool on any path that you create using ‘Pen Tool’
2- Click the Add anchor point tool or press ‘plus / +’ while the ‘Pen Tool’ selected.
3- Simply click right on the line to add another anchor point. You can drag this new anchor point on any direction using ‘Direct Selection Tool’ by pressing ‘A’.
4- To delete, press ‘minus / -’ while the ‘Pen Tool’ selected and simply click right on the existing anchor point then you’ll see the anchor point deleted and the path automatically change.

PRACTICE 5 - Convert Anchor Point Tool :

1- Click the ‘Convert Anchor Point Tool’ or press (Mac: Shift+C / PC: Shift+C) while the ‘Pen Tool’ selected.
2- Click on any anchor point and don’t release, keep the mouse press.
3- Now drag the anchor point at any direction you want and you’ll see the straight line converted to curved line.

PRACTICE 6 - Creating A Path With Sraight Line :

1- Try to draw one simple star using ‘Pen Tool’
2- A Star should have a total of 12 anchor points
3- Give yourself a clap once you’ve manage to draw a twinkle twinkle little star.

PRACTICE 7 - Creating A Path With Curved Line :

1- Try to draw one simple round shape
2- Round shape should have at least 4 anchor points
3- Give yourslelf a clap again once you’ve completed the task.

PRACTICE 8 - …

1- There’s no more practice at this time..
2- Till I meet you guys on the next tutorial on Advanced Vector Drawing in Illustrator.. keep practice + play with it because you’ll need that for next week tutorial.

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