Tutorial Link Here

 

Earlier this week, Stevepole made a great piece by following a tutorial.

 

Everyone loved it, and I think people would be amazed at how easy it is to make something that looks great by using Illustrator.

 

It can produce amazing things from 100% scratch ( which i like :) )

 

It's very easy to follow, and requires little to no drawing-by-hand. Here's mine :D

 

 

 

The example epitome of greatness looks like this:

 

 

 

This tutorial is great. It shows you step-by-step how to make your own scatter brush. ( No need to give credit to anyone but yourself :) )

 

Everything that you make on Illustrator is purely your own work.

 

Give it a try everyone. Makes a great background for the Christmas season :P

Uh... It would help if the link was there.

Yes. Yes it would :P

Oh cool, I think I'll at that to my list of tutorials I still need to try. School is delaying my creativeness with finals..

That ones good to do Steve. It introduces custom brushes, and some pretty simple 3d shading.

 

I never really learned how to do that before. I was just using Illy as a detailed pen tool :rolleyes:

 

After i saw yours, i looked into what else i could be doing. its a very good tut

Bahh, I need an Illustrator serial for mac; my trial ran out, and I really don't want to "obtain" it either.

I wish I had Illustrator... Meh, just have to get dual-enrolled in something next year and then cajole my parents into buying it and a computer... <_< Not gonna happen.

 

Can you do this sort of stuff with InkScape?

I have no experience with any software but Adobe.

I was lucky enough to have a brother who could get it at student rates and parents willing to pay half :D

 

I'm sure you could do it, but you'd have to know that software very well to be able to select tools similar to the ones in Illustrator.

So.. maybe :unsure:

I wish I had Illustrator... Meh, just have to get dual-enrolled in something next year and then cajole my parents into buying it and a computer... <_< Not gonna happen.

 

Can you do this sort of stuff with InkScape?

 

If you knew what you were doing I'm fairly sure you could.

Bah, seeing stuff like this really makes me wish that PS Elements had a pentool.

This isn't really pen, mostly circles and gradients.

 

if you wanna see some pen-tool'ing, look at my gallery in this forum. (100% pen tool things)

Anything you can do in Illustrator, most of time you'll be able to do in Inkscape.

Here's my version! Didn't think it was bad for my first actual try in Illustrator...

 

Not bad, you need to make your outer layer of the bulb lighter though. Right now you can hardly tell a difference.