How to make an abstract illustration using basic shapes and the Live Paint Bucket Tool in Adobe Illustrator.

This tutorial shows you the creative process of Freedom (deviantART), and the principles of using the Live Paint Bucket tool, and what can be achieved with this great innovation in color management by Adobe in Illustrator CS4, which saves time, and may be used in countless sorts of project from character design to abstract Illustration.


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This tutorial is about drawing with the Pen tool. The Pen tool is Illustrator’s workhorse. It takes time to learn how to use, but it is great once you figure it out. The best way to learn the Pen Tool is to trace over sketches. Before we get to that, this is a basic overview of the pen tool.


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By firstly using the power of pen and paper a character design is created, which is then scanned into the computer to use as a base for tracing with Adobe Illustrator. The final outcome is a colourful cartoon character in vector format!


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The Dynamic Sketch Tool, part of the DrawScribe plugin, is intended primarily for those who wish to draw more naturally in Illustrator. Especially those who use a graphics tablet, such as a Wacom device, in their work. With the help of the graphics tablet, you can easily create a dynamic path line, but creating straight line segments can be quite a challenge. Fortunately, the Dynamic Sketch Tool has a feature that makes this work simple. In this article I’ll tell you how to create straight-line segments using the Dynamic Sketch Tool.


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