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Look at the effect chart first.
First, create a new document
Press CTRL + N to create a new document. Select a unit of pixels, enter 600 in the Width and Height box, and then click the Advanced button. Select the RGB, screen (PPI), and make sure that the check box is selected for the neat object pixel grid, and then click OK. Enable the grid (View > Display grid) and Snap to Grid (View > Snap to Grid).
For starters, you'll need grid line spacing to be set to 5 pixels, so go to edit > Preferences > Guides and grids, set the grid line spacing to 5 and the secondary separator line to 1. It will ease your work and you can easily use CTRL + "keyboard shortcuts to enable or disable the grid." You should also open the Info Panel (Window > info) to preview the size and shape position. Do not forget the unit of measurement settings, go to edit > Preferences > Unit > General for pixels, all these settings will significantly improve your productivity.
Second, create the body, handle and trigger
Select the Rectangle tool (M), create a 130 X 25 pixel rectangle, and set its fill color to r = 255,g = 200,b = 0. Select the yellow shape to effect > Styling > Rounded corners. The input radius is 5 pixels, click OK, and then go to the object > expand the Appearance.
Select the Rectangle tool (M), create a 35 * 75 pixel rectangle, and set the fill color to orange. Switch to the direct selection tool (A), select the two anchor points at the bottom of the rectangle and drag them 25 pixels to the right.
Select the rectangle to effect > Styling > Rounded corners. The input radius is 5 pixels, click OK, and then go to the object > expand Appearance.
Uncheck the yellow rounded rectangle, copy one layer (CTRL+C>CTRL+F) at the current position, and then place the copy layer on top (hold shift+ctrl+]). Select the orange shape and the copy you just copied, open the Pathfinder Panel (Window > Pathfinder), and then click Minus the top button.
Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 40PX rectangle and place it on the top floor. Leave the Appearance Panel (Window > Appearance) in the selected state. Remove the fill color, set the stroke color to r = 189,g = 15,b = 4, and then click Stroke to open the stroke panel. Set the thickness to 8 pixels, and set the alignment stroke to make the stroke inside alignment button.
Switch to the direct selection tool (A), select the two anchor points at the bottom of the red shape and drag them to the right 15px. Make sure that the red shape remains selected, to effect > Styling > Fillet, set the radius to 5 pixels, click OK, and then go to the object > path > Contour stroke.
Copy the yellow and Orange shapes (ctrl+c>ctrl+f). Place these replicas before (hold shift+ctrl+]), make sure two shapes are selected, and click the link in the Pathfinder panel. Select the generated shape and the red shape and click on the Path Finder panel minus the top level.
Select the white rounded rectangle, and then go to the object > Path > Offset path. The displacement is set to -5px, and then click OK (OK). Select the generated shape, replica (ctrl+c>ctrl+f). Select a copy and move it up by 5 pixels.
Re-select the two shapes you made in this step, and then click Minus the top button in the Pathfinder panel. Fills the new shape with color, R = 0,g =, B = 56, go to Effect > Blur > Gaussian blur. Set the radius to 5 pixels and click OK.
Select all water containers (except white, rounded rectangles) to group these shapes (ctrl+g). Place the white shape at the top (hold shift+ctrl+]), select it with the new group, and click the Make Mask button in the Transparency Panel (window > Transparent).
If you are not a CC user, in the Open pop-up menu transparent panel, directly to make an opaque mask.
Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 5*30 pixel shape and fill it with a linear gradient as shown below. Select the new rectangle to effect > Styling > Rounded corners. Enter the 2.5px radius, click OK, and then go to the object > expand Appearance.
Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 10*20px shape to fill a red color. Switch to the direct selection tool (A), select the two anchor points to the left, and set the corner to 2px. Select the red shape, go to effect > deformation > Up arc. Go to the properties shown in the following figure, click OK, and then go to the object > expand Appearance.
Disable Snap to Grid (View > Snap to Grid), then Edit > Preferences > General, and make sure that the keyboard increment is set to 1 pixels. Changes the fill color of a red shape to the same fill color as a linear gradient and a 5x30px rounded rectangle.
Select the shape that changes the fill color in this section and copy two copies (Ctrl+c>ctrl+f>ctrl+f). Select the top copy and move it to the right 1px. Re-select two copies and click minus the top button in the Pathfinder panel. Fill the new shape with white, reduce its opacity to 30%, and change the blending mode to soft light.
Re-select the shape to connect with the rest of the pistol (an edit in the previous step), go to effect > Styling > Shading. Go to the properties shown in the following figure, and then click OK (OK).
Enable Snap to Grid (View > Snap to Grid), and then switch to Grid line spacing 1px. Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 10*54px shape and fill it with a linear gradient as shown below. Select the new rectangle, switch to the direct selection tool (A), and set the corner to 2px.
Disable Snap to Grid (View > Snap to Grid). Select the yellow rounded rectangle and copy the two copies (Ctrl+c>ctrl+f>ctrl+f). Select the top copy and move it 1 pixels to the right. Re-select two copies, and then click Minus the top button in the Pathfinder panel. Fills the new shape with black, reduces its opacity to 30%, and changes the blend mode to soft light.
Select the yellow rounded rectangle and copy the two copies (Ctrl+c>ctrl+f>ctrl+f). Select the top copy and move it 1 pixels to the left. Re-select two copies, and then click Minus the top button in the Pathfinder panel. Fills the new shape with black, reduces its opacity to 30%, and changes the blend mode to soft light.
Select the yellow rounded rectangle and copy a copy (ctrl+c>ctrl+f). Select this copy, move it 1 pixels to the right, and then copy it (CTRL+C>CTRL+F). Select the new copy and move it 1 pixels to the right. Re-select the two shapes you made in this step, and then click Minus the top button in the Pathfinder panel. Fill the new shape with white, reduce its opacity to 70%, and change the blending mode to soft light.
Enable Snap to Grid (View > Snap to Grid). Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 2*3px shape, fill it with a linear gradient as shown below, and place it in the next figure Magnifier.
V. Add shadows and High light
Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 2*15px shape that fills the black. Select it to reduce its opacity to 30%, changing the blending mode to soft light.
Then create a 1*15px shape that fills the black. Select it to reduce its opacity to 50%, changing the blending mode to soft light.
Select the two rectangles you just created, grouping them (ctrl+g). Select this grouping, go to effect > distort and Transform > transform, tick Symmetry x, enter 1 in the replica box, move 68px horizontally, and then click OK.
Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 1*50 pixel shape that fills the black. Select it to reduce its opacity to 25%, changing the blending mode to soft light.
Then create a 3x50 pixel shape that fills the black. Select it to reduce its opacity to 15%, changing the blending mode to soft light.
Select the two rectangles you just created, grouping them (ctrl+g). Select this grouping to go to effect > distort and Transform > transform. Set the properties shown in the following illustration, and click OK (OK).
Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 1*20 pixel shape that fills the black. Select it to reduce its opacity to 15%, changing the blending mode to soft light.
Then create a 2x20 pixel shape that fills the black. Select it to reduce its opacity to 15%, changing the blending mode to soft light.
Select the two rectangles you just created, grouping them (ctrl+g). Select this grouping to go to effect > distort and Transform > transform. Set the properties shown in the following illustration, and click OK (OK).
Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 2*20 pixel and 1*20 pixel shape, all filled with black, select them, reduce opacity to 15%, and change the blending mode to soft light.
Create a 2*15px and a 1*15px shape, all filled with black, select them, reduce opacity to 15%, and change the blending mode to soft light.
Create a 2*20 pixel and 1*20 pixel shape again, all filled with black, select them, reduce opacity to 10%, and change blending mode to soft light.
Select all the shapes, and then copy them (CTRL+C>CTRL+F). Select all the shapes and click the Union button in the Pathfinder panel. Fill the new shape with a color of: R = 245,g = 160, B = 0.
Select the orange shape on the previous step, place it on the bottom (hold shift+ctrl+ [), then add a 1-pixel black stroke, reduce its opacity to 5%, and set the alignment panel to the outside alignment in the stroke's pop-up panel. Return to the Appearance panel, select an existing fill to affect > Styling > Shading. Go to the properties shown in the following figure, and then click OK (OK).
Here's what it looks like. I hope you enjoy this tutorial and can apply these techniques to your future projects.
The end of the tutorial, the above is illustrator to draw cartoon children's toy water gun process, we have learned? Thank you for reading this tutorial!
Select the yellow shape, open the Gradient Panel (window > gradient), click the gradient thumbnail, and add the default black to white linear gradient.
In your gradient panel, set the angle to 90 degrees. Then move to the gradient color, select the slider to the right, set the color to r = 255,g = 230,b = 30, and then select the left slider to set to the color r = 245,g = 160, B = 0. Add a new slider, set its color r = 245,g = 160,b = 0 o'clock, and place the position at 15%. Keep in mind that the blue numbers represent the position of the slider. Add five new sliders in turn, and then make the color and position as shown in the following figure.
Select the orange shape and change its fill color to the gradient fill shown in the following illustration.
Select the handle shape, and in the skin panel, use the Add new Fill button. Add a linear gradient as shown in the following illustration. Keep in mind that the blue number represents the percentage of the position, and yellow indicates the percentage of the opacity.
Select the handle shape, in the Appearance panel, and use the Add new Fill button. Click Opacity to open the Opacity panel. Reduce the opacity to 5%, change the blending mode to soft light, and add the linear gradient as shown in the following illustration.
Select a red shape and set its fill to a radial gradient as shown in the figure below. (Small note: This step to add a shadow to the handle, such as the 14th step projection operation)
Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a rectangle of 40PX. Select the shape, go to effect > Style > Fillet, enter 3px radius, click OK, then go to object > expand appearance. Change its fill color to a linear gradient as shown in the following illustration.
Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a *10px rectangle, set the fill color to white (R = 255,g = 255,b = 255), reduce its opacity to 20%, and change the blending mode to overlay.
Go to edit > Preferences > Guides and grids > grid line interval set to 1px. Using the Pen tool (P), create a 10px vertical path, select the path, cancel the fill, set a dark red stroke of 5 pixels, click the Stroke pop-up panel, and set its endpoint to a round head endpoint.
Toggle the Direct Selection Tool (A), select the anchor point at the bottom of the path, move it 8 pixels to the right, then go to the effect > Warp > Arc, set the properties shown in the following illustration, and click OK. Then go to the object > path > Contour stroke.
Select the red shape, change its fill color to a linear gradient as shown in the following illustration, and then go to the effect > Styling > projection. Set the properties shown in the following illustration, and click OK (OK).
Third, create pipes, nozzles and water tanks
To edit > Preferences > Guides and grids > grid line spacing, set the grid line spacing to 5 pixels. Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 5*15px rectangle. Switch to the direct selection tool (A), select the two anchor points to the right of the shape, and set the corner to 3px on the top menu bar.
This feature is available only for CC users. The best way to replace this effect is the fillet plug-in, which can be found in this article: "AI fillet plugin!" help you design fonts xtream Path1.4 installation tutorial. Save it to your computer and return to the AI to select the Direct Selection tool (A). Select anchor points and go to files > scripts > Other scripts. Open any rounded script for the circle, enter a 24PX radius, and click OK. The end result may look a little different.
Select the shape and replace the existing fill color with the linear gradient shown in the following illustration.
Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 5*20 pixel rectangle. Switch to the direct selection tool (A), select the two anchor points to the right of the shape, and set the corner to 3px on the top menu bar. Fills the same gradient as the previous step. Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a rectangle with a 10*20 pixel, fill it with the same linear gradient, and place it in the position shown in Figure 3.
To edit > Preferences > Guides and grids > grid line spacing, set the grid line spacing to 1 pixels. Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a rectangle with a 25*12 pixel, fill it with a linear gradient as shown below, and place it at the bottom.
Select the 25*12 pixel rectangle, and in the Appearance panel, use the Add new Fill button. Fill in the gradient shown in the following figure, changing its blending mode to soft light, and moving it to the existing fill color below. Go to effect > distort and Transform > transform. Drag to move, move vertically to 10px, and then click OK. (Small note: The transformation should be placed on the opacity above)
Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 1*12 pixel rectangle and set the fill color to black. Select this rectangle to reduce its opacity to 30%, changing the blending mode to soft light, to effect > distort and Transform > transform. Move the level to 2px, enter 11 in the replica box, and then click OK.
Sets the gridline interval to 5 pixels. Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 70*10px rectangle and populate it with a linear gradient as shown below. Select this shape to add a second fill in the skin panel to r = 128,g = 130,b = 133, changing its blending mode to a darker color. Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 70*5 pixel rectangle, fill it with the same gradient as the first rectangle, and place it in the position shown in Figure 2.
Switch to Grid line interval of 1 px. Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 10*19px rectangle and populate it with a linear gradient as shown in the following illustration. Select the rectangle, switch to the direct selection tool (A), and enter 2px at the corner of the top menu bar.
Disable Snap to Grid (View > Snap to Grid), then Edit > Preferences > General, and make sure that the keyboard increment is set to 1 pixels. Select the red rounded rectangle and copy two copies (Ctrl+c>ctrl+f>ctrl+f). Select the top copy and move it to the right 1px. Re-select the two copies, and then in the Pathfinder panel, click Minus the top button. Fill the new shape with white, reduce its opacity to 30%, and change the blending mode to overlay.
Select the red rounded rectangle and copy two copies (Ctrl+c>ctrl+f>ctrl+f). Select the top copy and move it to the left 1px. Re-select the two copies, and then in the Pathfinder panel, click Minus the top button. Fills the new shape with black, reduces its opacity to 30%, and changes the blend mode to soft light.
Enable Snap to Grid (View > Snap to Grid). Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 3*5 pixel shape and fill it with blue. Switch to the direct selection tool (A), select the two anchor points to the left, and set the corner to 2px.
With the rectangular tool (M), create a 3*10px shape, filled with blue. Re-select the Direct Selection tool (A), select the two anchor points on the left, and set the corner to 2px.
Re-select two blue shapes and use ctrl+8 (or go to Object > Compound path > Make) to make it a compound path. Select the new shape, filling the linear gradient with the same color as the shape next to it.
Add a second layer of fill color to this new shape to black, and change its blending mode to soft light. Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 1x15px shape, fill it with black, reduce its opacity to 50%, and change the blending mode to soft light.
Iv. Creating water containers
Sets the gridline interval to 5 pixels. Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 130 * 50 pixel shape, setting the fill color to r = 57,g = 181, B = 74. Select the green rectangle to effect > Styling > Rounded corners. The input radius is 25 pixels, click OK, and then go to the object > expand Appearance.
Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 90x10px shape, set the fill color to r = 161,g = 218, B = 103,. Select the rectangle, switch to the direct selection tool (A), and set the corner to 5 pixels.
On the toolbar, double-click the Blending tool to open the blending Options window. Select the specified number of steps in the Drop-down menu, with a value of 100. Re-select the two green shapes and simply click on the alt+ctrl+b combination to create a new blend. The final example should be shown in figure two.
Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 90*5 pixel shape, setting the fill color to white. With this rectangle selected, in the Appearance panel, select an existing fill, change its blending mode to overlay, and opacity to 10%. Go to effect > Styling > Fillet, enter 2.5px radius, click OK (OK). Go to effect > Blur > Gaussian blur, enter 10px radius, click OK (OK).
Then return to the Appearance panel, add a second fill color to white, and select it. Reduce its opacity to 10%, change the blending mode to overlay, go to effect > Styling > Fillet. Enter a 2.5px radius, and then click OK (OK).
Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 100*25 pixel shape, fill it with a linear gradient as shown in the following illustration. Select this rectangle to reduce its opacity to 50%, changing the blending mode to soft light, to the effect > Styling > Rounded corners. Enter a 12.5px radius, and then click OK (OK).
Using the Rectangle tool (M), create a 130 *50px shape and set the fill color to white. Select the new rectangle and switch to the direct selection tool (A). Enter 25px at the corner of the menu bar at the top.
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