Replace repetitive tasks with workflows and boost your productivity. You can always download stock vector images, but it's always nice to do it (or at least try it) yourself.Boost your Adobe Illustrator efficiency with quick access to most Menu Commands and Tools, all of your Actions, Bookmarked file or folder, and any Scripts right from your keyboard.Īnd, with custom Workflows, you can combine multiple commands, actions, and scripts to get things done in your own way. So, I hope you enjoyed this tutorial a bit. This can be done by selecting the direct selection tool and clicking an anchor point to adjust the curve of the path. You can tweak a little further to optimize the shape. Now that the shape of the bird is finished, you can select it and give it a nice color. Step 8: finish the bird by giving it a color Add this shape to the body by clicking the "Add to shape area" in the pathfinder palette Click Cmd+J to join the endpoints of the rectangle. Next, select the right upper anchor point with the direct selection tool and drag this anchor point a bit to the right so it matches the shape of a mouth. Next, select the direct selection tool and select the upper right anchor point of the rectangle and press the "Delete" button. So select the rectangle tool and draw a rectangle for the mouth. The bird's mouth is again a rectangle shape with 1 anchor deleted. Step 7: finish the bird shape by adding the mouth Select the body and the paw shape and click the "Add to shape area" in the tool palette. Next select both paws and click Ctrl + G to group them. Next drag the lower right anchor point to scale this paw a bit. Select the whole paw and hold down the Alt key while dragging, hold the Shift key to line it up with the first paw. Next we'll duplicate this paw to create the right paw. Select the upper rectangle and the paws rectangle and click again the "Add to shape area" and click the "Expand" button in the Pathfinder palette. Select the 3 rectangles and click the "Add to shape area" in the Pathfinder palette. Drag over the lower right anchor point of the first paw and press the Delete button to subtract an anchor point from the rectangle, click Cmd + J to close the path, do this 2 times more for the other paws and click Cmd + J to join the anchor points. Select the direct selection tool or press "A". Step 6: make triangles from the rectangles Now arrange the rectangles a bit with the Selection tool. Do this another time and type "25" in the Angle field for the third paw and click "Copy" again. Type 125 in the Angle field and click the "Copy" button. Alt+click on the upper left anchor point of the rectangle. Next, draw another rectangle and select the rotate tool. Next, select the rectangle tool and draw a rectangle shape under the body. The bird shape should look similar to this: With this shape still selected, click Cmd + J to join the two endpoints and close this shape. Select the "Direct Select Tool" (shortcut A) and drag over the lower right anchor point and press the "Delete" button to reshape the rectangle to a triangle. Select the rotate tool and rotate the rectangle as in the image below. Step 4: drawing the tail of the bird with a triangle shapeĪgain, select the rectangle tool in the tools palette and draw a rectangle at the right end of the body shape. With both the shapes selected, press the "Subtract from shape area" and click "Expand". Select both the rectangle and the ellipse shape of the bird's body and choose your Pathfinder palette. In the tool palette, select the Rectangle Tool (shortcut M) and draw a rectangle over the ellipse shape, next select the rotate tool or press R on your keyboard and rotate the rectangle till both the lower anchor points intersect with the ellipse tool as shown in the image below. Step 3: Refining the bird body shape with rectangle tool Next, click the "Add to shape area" in the Pathfinder palette and click "Expand". Choose the Pathfinder palette (Window > Pathfinder) and select both the ellipse and circle. Select the rotate tool and rotate the ellipse by dragging the lower right anchor point (see image). Next, draw an ellipse that overlaps the circle. Start by selecting the Circle Tool in the toolpalette en hold down the Shift tool while drawing the circle in the middle of the document. Step 2: Draw a circle and ellipseĬreate a new document (choose 800圆00px for web, RGB mode). You can make it even more simple and start from scratch. Open it in Illustrator and make a template layer from the sketch layer. Step 1: Make a sketch or start from scratch I’ll show you how I did this in Illustrator and made a wallpaper with this bird shape. With a circle, a rectangle and a oval you’ll get a bird shape really quick. A bird shape is not that difficult to draw with regular shapes in Illustrator.
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