Let's give you a detailed analysis of how to create a monkey greeting card.
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1. Open Illustrator, press CTRL + N to create a new file, define a file name in the dialog box, select Size (Size) as the Letter Size, and the file direction is horizontal. Because the final result is not printed output, the Color Mode (Color Mode) is RGB, which ensures the brightness of the image and facilitates the execution of more effect filters. (Figure N-1)
2. Press the M key to switch to the rectangle tool, draw a rectangle, set the fill color to Crimson, and the outline color to colorless. (Figure N-2)
3. Name Layer 1 as background, temporarily lock the Layer, create Layer 2, and select the File/Place command.
4. Place a sketch of the material (the sketch can be painted on paper and scanned before processing). Because 2004 was the year of the Monkey, I drew the sketch based on some traditional drawings. Double-click Layer 2 of the sketch, name it image, select Template, and change Layer 2 to a 50% opacity Template Layer. In Dim Images to, you can reselect the opacity of the template layer. (Figure N-4)
5. Lock the template layer and create a new layer named monkey. Add a child layer named "body. On the body layer, use the pen tool to describe the path of the outer contour based on the sketch of the template layer to complete a closed path. (Figure N-5)
6. Continue to use the pen tool to draw the shape path of the monkey under the armpit. (Figure N-6)
7. Press SHIFT to click the original path of the outer contour and select it. Run the hollow-out TRIM command in the Pathfinder panel for the selected two paths. (Figure N-7)
8. Click the compound path after path calculation to fill in the same color as the original rectangle, and set the contour color to colorless. (Figure N-8)
9. Lock the body layer and press CTRL to click the eye icon in front of the body layer to display the outline of the outer frame of the layer content. Create a child layer details and use the pen tool to draw the shape of The Shadow Line in the draft. (Figure N-9)
10. Click the ring next to the details layer, select all the objects of the child layer, select the Custard color in the Swatchs panel, and set the outline color to colorless. At the same time, press CTRL and click the eye icon of the body layer to restore the preview status and view the overall effect. (Figure N-10)
11. Unlock the background layer and drag the original red rectangle path to the new layer icon for fast copying. Press the V key to switch to the selection tool, select the copied rectangle, fill the Custard color, and drag the deformation box to reduce the height. Hide the template layer to view the overall effect. (Figure N-11)
12. Press the key to switch to the direct selection tool and edit the overall shape node again. (Figure N-12)
13. Click the circle next to the monkey layer and select all monkey objects. On the Symbols panel, click the new icon to define all the selected objects as a symbol. (Figure N-13)
14. Create a new layer monkey copy. Click the icon next to the Symbols panel to insert the symbol. You can double-click the symbol to rename it for identification. (Figure N-14)
15. select the inserted symbol, switch to the Mirror tool, press the ALT key to click the center of the deformation box, enter a 90 angle value in the pop-up dialog box, and press OK to complete (figure N-15)
16. To facilitate subsequent operations, hide the original monkey layer and insert a monkey symbol in the monkey copy layer. At the same time, select the two symbols and select horizontal center Align on the Align panel. (Figure N-16)
17. Create a new layer type and draw a red rectangle. Press the ALT key and click the center of the deformation box. In the displayed dialog box, select a rotation angle of 45 degrees. (Figure N-17)
18. Scale the rotated rectangle to a proper position and drag the path to the new icon button to quickly copy it. Select the copy above, press the S key to switch to the zoom tool, and press the ALT key to click the center point for exact scaling. (Figure N-18)
19. Set the fill color and outline color of the reduced copy object to Custard color. To the Stroke (Stroke) panel, set the contour width to 3pt (as shown in the figure N-19)
20. Press the T key to switch to the text tool, click input text on the screen, and set the appropriate text size and position. The text fill color is still the Custard color. (Figure N-20)
21. Add other words. To the background layer, copy the original red rectangle, move the copy to the top, fill in 50% gray, mixed mode Soft Light ). Because 50% gray is a neutral color in Soft Light mode, it is "invisible" after being added. (Figure N-21)
22. Execute Effect/Texture/Texturizer (Effect/Texture filter) on the 50% gray rectangle, select your favorite Texture, and set the appropriate parameters. (Figure N-22)
At last, the overall picture layout is adjusted. For the overall effect, sometimes only some partial elements can be sacrificed.
All right, the above information is the detailed design of the Monkey year greeting card production tutorial for the users of Illustrator, you can see that the user here, Xiaobian believes that everyone is very clear about the drawing method, then everyone should follow the small series of tutorials to draw it yourself.
