Design Tutorial: Drawing petals with grid tools

Tutorial | A few days ago, some netizens mentioned the tutorial of the piece that I passed last time. In fact, the techniques I used are also from the book to school, but only in practice, consider for beginners may be helpful, send a humble tutorial (first).

1. The first step is to outline the large shape of the petals and fill in the gradient.

Fig. 1 Description and coloring

2. Select the petal, perform object/expand, and convert it into a mesh object so that the longitude of the grid will be arranged according to your gradient direction.

Figure 2 Converting to a grid object

3. The following work is to be patient and meticulous to the mesh node according to the contour of the petals, color gradient direction, surface fluctuations and other factors to adjust, in order to better performance you have to add a few lines in the corresponding place.

Figure 3 Plus Contour Line

4. After the background is paved, then to show the fine stripes on the petals, first draw a large and small two long-shaped objects, small application of dark, big application of transparent features to generate translucent light red, two objects are aligned to mix; This completes a stripe and converts it to a brush object.

Figure 4 Making a brush

5. Draw several curves above the petals and mix them according to the undulation of the petals.

Fig. 5 depicts the curve of the petals

6. Apply the brush to the mixed line segment, where I apply screen transparent mode to these brush objects.

Figure 6 Changing the brush layer to screen transparent mode

7. The basic process is this, and the other petals follow this analogy:

Fig. 7 Finished one

Figure 8 Details of the finished product

The feeling uses the grid tool to draw the realistic style work to be very suitable, but is the speed is slow, to the system resource consumption is big, the suggestion drawing must have the psychological preparation.