Want to learn more about how Adobe Illustrator works? Check out my Illustrator Explainer Series - a comprehensive collection of over 100 videos where I go over every tool, feature and function and explain what it is, how it works, and why it's useful. Finally, be sure to check out a tutorial by Davies media Design where he demonstrates how to create vector characters with Inkscape and also goes over some shading techniques. I want to share with u my illustrations and animations, I hope u like it. It’s a great effect to use when creating illustrations for esports logos.īe sure to watch the full tutorial video at the top of the page. I've seen there's object clip in the documetation, but I was hoping for a simple non-destructive option for handling layers. Here’s a before and after of the design once the shading is complete…Īs you can see, the shading makes a huge difference! It just makes the design pop and look more lively. This probably isn’t exactly how light would interact with the subject, but it’s close enough, and it’s certainly enough to bring the design to life. I’d just like to reiterate that this is a simulated shading effect. You can see the progression of the shading and highlights that are added to the design below… Then place it behind the artwork by sending it to the bottom of the stack.

To add shadows and highlights to the design, we’ll be using the Bezier Pen to manually draw some strategically-placed objects.įor this sort of design it will help to enable snapping and memorize some of the keyboard shortcuts, because we’ll be using a small handful of tools repeatedly. Then do Path > Dynamic Offset or use the shortcut Ctrl + J, and adjust the control to enlarge the shape.

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