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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.
Let's paint our work, at which point we need to be aware that the fringe background is first colored. Then fill in the color of the alphabet. This is the two steps before and after, and their color scheme must be consistent. So as to achieve overall harmony.
The color of the line background determines the color of the line in the entire work, for example, I set the line to be blue, and at the same time we need to draw a rectangle that fills the bottom as the most basic black background. The same color scheme is used in the styling part. The fill is completed as follows.
To enter PS for further processing of the picture, in the AI will need to separate parts as different layers into PS. For example, I want to create shadows in the overlapping parts of "W" here, so what I need to do is to import these two parts separately and treat them as different layers. And the whole shape also need shadow, then I also need to put the shape and background separately import. In AI software we have to put these three parts on different artboards, and then the content of each artboard one by one export.
After the export and then use the PS software to open, you can see in the image below, the picture from the surface to see nothing changes, but in the layer panel has been composed of three layers.
Starting from this, the polishing work is given to Ps. Through the AI in the "shape" of the mold, and then use PS beautification function, combined with the use of the whole process is very convenient. For example, I'm going to add a projected layer pattern to the middle of the artwork to give it a three-dimensional sense. The parameter settings for the layer style refer to the following figure.
Here I add a little bit of noise to the projection to render a more realistic atmosphere. For the shape of the left and right two V, to determine their stacking level.
Create a new layer between two layers shadow, use a large, soft black brush to align them with the overlay, and then change the shadow layer to multiply and reduce the opacity to 52%. The purpose of this step is to improve the projection of the whole shape.
Finally, let's take the shape and the background layer to meet the part of the process of "shun its natural", how to do? We can see that this part of the projection appears to be floating on the surface, then we need to "press" it down. Let it be from three-dimensional perspective is a natural transition.
My solution here is to first copy each of these two layers into one layer. The projection effect of the duplicate layer is then turned off and placed underneath the original layer. Then we add the mask on the original layer. Use a soft black brush to paint black with a brush in the part you think "the pattern should be stretched out from the background", that is, to cover this part with a mask. Then the effect is done.
The following white oval line marks the part that I smear the black part on the mask.
Next you can play your own imagination and add other visual effects. The final effect is as follows:
Well, the above information is small set to you illustrator of this software users of the detailed design of the art of drawing the poster painting system Tutorial Analysis of all the content of the share, the users see here Small series believe that we are now very clear method of making it, Then you should go to the small series of tutorials to try to draw their own line art poster.
