I will give you a detailed analysis of the Illustrator software and share with you the tutorial on designing a vector hot air balloon.
Tutorial sharing:
Let's take a look at the final effect:
This document uses the Chinese version of Illustrator CS2 as an example. Operations in other versions of Illustrator may be slightly different. The procedure is as follows:
1. First, use the "rectangle tool" in the toolbox to draw a rectangle and fill the rectangle with gradient colors from blue to white. Do not use the stroke color. The result is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1
2. use the "elliptical tool" to draw a circle and fill it with a gradient from purple to White. Set the stroke color to none, and then use the "direct selection tool" to drag the anchor below the circle, modify the shape of the circle until the shape of the balloon shown in Figure 2 is obtained.
Figure 2
3. Copy and paste the shape of the balloon, change its size, and place it above the 1st Balloon sphere, as shown in figure 3.
Figure 3
4. Copy and paste the object in the same way, adjust the object size, make it smaller than 2nd, and place it above 2nd, as shown in figure 4.
Figure 4
5. Finally, use the same method to create a smaller object than 3rd and place it above 3rd, as shown in figure 5.
Figure 5
6. Select all objects, and then select the menu command "object | locked | selected object" (or press the shortcut key Ctrl + 2 ).
7. select the polygon tool in the toolbox, and click any position in the work area. When the Polygon Window appears, set "number of edges" to 16, click OK.
8. Select "direct selection tool" in the toolbox, change the polygon shape by adjusting the position of the anchor, and place it in the position shown in figure 6.
Figure 6
9. Fill the polygon with the color gradient from black to white. Do not use the stroke color, as shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7
10. Create two polygon in the same way and fill them with fade-blue to white and lemon yellow to white respectively. The result is shown in figure 8.
Figure 8
11. Use the pencil tool to draw a small basket under the balloon and fill it with a suitable pattern to set the stroke color to black, as shown in Figure 9.
Figure 9
12. select the "rectangular grid tool" (hidden in the "straight line" tool group) in the toolbox, and click anywhere in the work area. When the "rectangular grid tool option" dialog box appears, set "horizontal separator line" to 1, "vertical separator line" to 7, and then click "OK.
13. Use the direct selection tool to change the shape of the grid and place it in the position shown in Figure 10.
Figure 10
14. Set the grid stroke color to light gray without the fill color. The final effect shown in Figure 11 is displayed.
Figure 11
All right, the above information is the detailed design of the vector hot air balloon drawing tutorial for the users of this software of Illustrator, users have seen this, and I believe that we have seen it very clearly. Then, you can draw a vector hot air balloon by yourself according to the tutorial.
