Ai+ps taught you to draw a line art effect poster

Believe that no one will deny that lines are dynamic elements, and the lines we are talking about here are not the lines of the dots in our theory, where we take the line as a "point", connect it to a line with this point, form a surface activity through the line, and the characteristics of the surface activity help to distinguish the different graphs, Just like the recognition function of the figure outline. The point is the "bricks" that build this graphic feature. Groups of points, depending on the size of different shapes and density distribution, can produce different surface activities.

　　First, the production line background

Open the AI software, create a new document with the document size set to 1400*1900px.

Using a line tool, draw two parallel vertical lines on the left and right sides of the canvas. The lengths of the two lines coincide with the length of the canvas. The line size is 5px.

At this point, let's find the blending tool in the toolbar on the left side of the software interface and double-click the Mix tool icon to pop up the blending Options dialog box on the canvas. Here you can refer to my parameters, I set the blending spacing to the specified spacing, the distance is 20px. The parameters here need to be understood, because I set the line before the size is 5px, so when they interval is preferably a multiple of 5, the final effect will appear more natural. Of course, such modelling will appear more stable, and break the calm need more processing and ideas.

When set, click OK, then select two lines and enter object > Mix > Build, and the two lines on the canvas become a straight line background.

　　Second, the use of line modeling

We started to get into line styling, and in the preface, we mentioned that each line should be seen as a "dot" for styling. So the specific operation is to first draw the shape you want to show the line. You can use the Pen tool or the line tool. For example, what I'm going to do here is the letter "W". The thickness of the line is 5px as the line size of the background line.

This is a simple step, but it's important to be aware that each line's endpoint intersects with the background line.

On the basis of parallel to the original line and then draw another line, as a basis for modelling. Of course, the endpoint also needs to intersect with the original line.

In order to facilitate our line shape "bottom", let us now draw the line all locked (ctrl+2). With the pen tool, turn off the stroke and fill the white background with the middle part of the two line behind the letter. Then place the white background at the bottom of the line shape, certainly before the entire canvas background.

Then use the Pen tool to continue on the white background to draw lines, here to pay attention to line spacing of the grasp, you can help guide and smart guides, as far as possible to maintain the same spacing. For line endpoints to intersect with the background line, the Smart Guide will remind you where the "crossover" is, so you just need to be able to control the entire shape of the visual harmony.

The whole shape is the last step, which is to trim the extra parts. We want to smooth the lines, where some parts of the intersection should not appear. At this time, we use the scissors tool to trim this part of the line. Before pruning, the final look of the whole shape should be very clear so that you do not make mistakes in this step.

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