I will give you a detailed analysis of the Illustrator software and share with you the tutorial on creating the vector flame text effect.
Tutorial sharing:
(1) click "text tools" on the toolbar and type "SIBADA" in the work area or any letter you want to enter, set the font to "Mesquite Std Medium" on the character panel to "about 200 ".
(2) right-click a letter and choose "create outline" from the shortcut menu ".
(3) right-click the letter again and click "Ungroup" in the pop-up shortcut menu ".
(4) use the "select tool" box in the toolbar to select letters other than S.
(5) select "object/hide/selected object" to hide the selected letters in the box.
(6) as shown in the figure, set the "Fill color" of the letter S to none, and "stroke" to black.
(7) select the letter S and lock it to facilitate subsequent operations. Select "object/lock/selected object" from the menu, as shown in the figure ".
(8) select "Pen tool" to draw an S-shaped path based on the letter S shape and adjust it smoothly. This path serves as the letter's inner contour, and the previously locked letter S serves as the outer contour. The internal and external outlines are just the names of indicators for easy understanding.
(9) set the stroke width of the inner contour to 2, as shown in the figure.
(10) perform "contour stroke" for the internal contour, and select "object/path/contour stroke" from the menu, as shown in the figure.
(11) now that the letter S has an internal and external contour, the combination of the internal and external contour will produce a good gradient effect. Although other methods can also generate an internal contour, its thickness is not well controlled, although the internal contour drawn by the pen tool is troublesome, it has high controllability and many changes.
(12) unlock the letter S first.
(13) use the "direct selection tool" box in the toolbar to select the internal and external outlines. It is found that the inner contour does not exactly correspond to the "anchor" on the outer contour. Therefore, you cannot mix them.
(14) based on the position of the outer contour anchor point, add an anchor point to the position corresponding to the internal contour using the pen tool until the anchor points on the internal and external contour correspond one to one.
(15) after adding the anchor, you can mix the anchor. Select "object/hybrid/Create ".
(16) the mixing effect is shown in the figure.
(17) use the "direct selection tool" or "plug-in tool" in the toolbar to select the internal contour and set the gradient from white to yellow on the gradient panel.
(18) select the outer contour and set the outer contour to red in the color panel.
(19) reselect the inner contour and choose "effect/distortion/deformation/roughness" from the menu ".
(20) The settings are shown in the following figure.
(21) select "object/show all" from the menu ".
(22) only keep the letter D and hide other letters.
(23) set the fill color to none and the stroke to black. Click "" in the toolbar, hold down ALT + Shift, and click and drag the letter D, as shown in the figure, create an opening. Turn the letter D into a closed path, laying the foundation for subsequent mixing.
(24) draw an internal profile of a letter based on the outline of the letter D.
(25) set the stroke width to 2 and profile the stroke.
(26) click "merge" and "minus" next object "in the" Path Finder "panel. The order cannot be wrong.
(27) in the same way, an inner contour is cut out using an art knife.
(28) add the anchor points on the internal and external contour in the same way to match them one by one. Then mix and fill in the color. The method is the same as above.
(29) The other letter methods are the same as those of S and D. The final effect is shown in the figure below.
(30) through the above method, you can make a lot of font effects.
All right, the above information is all the content that will be shared through the detailed tutorial on designing the vector flame text effect for the users of this software of Illustrator, you can see that the user here, Xiaobian believes that everyone is very clear about the drawing method, then everyone will follow the above tutorial to draw a vector flame text.
