I will give you a detailed analysis of the Illustrator software to share with you the tutorial on creating a stylish and elegant red envelope icon.
Tutorial sharing:
1. Create a new file and set the grid
Click Ctrl + N to create a new document. Select pixels from the unit drop-down menu, set the width and height to 600px, and click the Advanced button. Select RGB, screen (72ppi), and make sure that the new object is aligned to the grid that is not selected. Click OK.
Displays the grid and reference line. Select View-display grid and view-align grid. To improve work efficiency, we recommend that you set grid spacing for new users, select edit-preference-reference line and grid, set the grid line interval to 5 PX, and set the separator line to 1. Click OK. Learning to use grid tools will effectively improve work efficiency. Patients with intensive phobias can press Ctrl + 'to display or hide the grid at any time.
You can use the grid to display the shape size and position in real time. Select window-information to display the information panel. Select edit-preference-unit to set all units to pixels. Well, in the next actual production process, you will find that the above settings will greatly improve work efficiency.
2. Create a red shape
Step 1
In the toolbar, select the rectangle tool (shortcut key M) to set the stroke effect to none, and set the fill color to R = 211G = 45 B = 47. Use the rectangle tool to draw a x px rectangle to see the ease of grid and grid alignment.
Make sure that the red shape is selected. Select the add plotting tool (+) and click add two strokes at the position shown in the following figure.
Step 2
Select your red shape and pay attention to the two strokes on the top. Select the direct selection tool (-), select the left trace, and drag it directly to the middle position, that is, 120px from the right.
Select the delete stroke tool (-), and select the right-side stroke to delete it. Now, the red shape is shown in the second figure.
Step 3
We continue to adjust the red shape and select the direct selection tool (). Select the three strokes circled by the black circle in the following figure. Use the rounded corner tool to set the rounded corner of 10px.
Return to the shape and select the two points circled by the blue circle in the following figure. Returns the rounded corner tool and sets 20px.
The real-time rounded corner tool is only available in CC and later versions. For users below CC, the best way to achieve this is to use any rounded corner script (http://vdisk.weibo.com ). Save the script tool in the link to the local device, return to AI, and confirm that the current tool is the direct selection tool (). Select the description in the previous step, select File-Script-other scripts, find and open the local Round Any Corner Script, set the required values respectively, and click OK. The final effect may look a little different. You can adjust the radius value as needed. Finally, red is like this.
3. Create a yellow shape
Step 1
Use the rectangle tool (M) to create a 255x200 px rectangle, fill in the color value R = G = B = 0, and place the yellow shape on the top.
Make sure that the yellow shape is selected. Use the add plotting tool (+) at the top, as shown in Figure 1 below.
Switch to the direct selection tool (A), select the newly added stroke, and drop it down to 90px. Finally, the yellow shape is shown in figure 2.
Step 2
Select the red shape and press Ctrl + C, Ctrl + F to copy it. At the same time, select the red and yellow after the copy, open the window-path finder, and select the intersection.
4. Add shadows and highlights to the yellow shape
Step
Select the red shape again, copy and paste it again (Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V), select the yellow shape, and select the object-path-offset path. Enter the 1px offset and click OK. Select the new yellow shape and the copy shape in the previous step, and then select the intersection again using the path finder.
Confirm that the result of the previous step is selected. Select window-appearance. Set the fill color to black (R = 0G = 0 B = 0), and then enable the set transparency. Reduce the transparency of the layer to 10% to obtain the projection effect shown in figure 3 below.
Step 2
Re-select the red shape and copy and paste it again. (Ctrl + C, Ctrl + F) select the yellow shape, set the object-path-offset path, enter the 3px offset, and select the OK button. Select the copied shape and the new shape in this step, and select the intersection in the path finder panel.
Confirm that the shape is selected to open the appearance channel. Set the fill color to black to reduce the transparency to 5%
Step 3
In this step, you need to set a grid with 1 px spacing. Select edit-preferences-reference line and grid, and enter 1 in grid spacing.
Use the rectangle tool (M) to create a 288x0000px shape, as shown in Figure 1 below. Similarly, to facilitate subsequent operations, do not forget to set the display grid and alignment grid. Confirm that the new shape is selected, and then set it on the appearance panel.
Set the color filling effect to no filling effect and select stroke. Select the color R = 57G = 181 B = 74 and select the stroke. Select 6px for the stroke width and set the stroke along the outer side.
Pay attention to the bottom of the rectangle and switch to the direct selection tool (). Select two strokes at the bottom, select object-path-average (or press the shortcut key Alt + Ctrl + J), select both, and click OK. This will change your rectangle to the triangle shown in figure 2.
Step 4
Make sure that the yellow shape is selected. Ctrl + C and Ctrl + F are copied. Reselect the triangle and select object-path-contour stroke. Select both the result image and the yellow shape, and select the intersection through the path finder.
Confirm that the result shape is selected, and then set the appearance. Set the fill color to black, reduce the transparency to 20%, and set the layer blending mode to soft mode.
Step 5
Hide the grid (Ctrl + ') and unalign the grid (Shift + Ctrl +'), select edit-preferences-general, and confirm that the keyboard increment is 1px
Re-select the yellow shape, copy and paste it twice (Ctrl + C, Ctrl + F, Ctrl + F) select the upper-layer copy result, and move it down 1px with the arrow key on the keyboard.
Select two copies and subtract the top layer from the path finder panel. Fill in the result shape with black, reduce the transparency to 3%, and select soft light for the layer blending mode.
Step 6
Select the yellow shape again and copy it once (Ctrl + C, Ctrl + F) to move down 1px. confirm that the latest replication layer is selected, and then copy again (Ctrl + C, Ctrl + F) to select a new replication layer, move down 1px.
Select two replication layers, Path Finder-minus top layer. As shown in the following figure, add a linear gradient to the result graph, reduce the transparency to 70%, and change the layer blending mode to soft light.
Note that the yellow value in the gradient settings graph represents the transparency score, and the blue value represents the position score.
5. Create a blue shape
Step 1
Display grid (Ctrl + ') and aligned grid (Shift + Ctrl + '). Reset the grid spacing to 5 px. Edit-preference-reference line and grid, and enter 5px in grid spacing.
Use the rectangle tool (M) to create a 240x90px shape, fill in R = 39G = 170 B = 225, and place it in the position shown in the figure.
Select the blue rectangle and pay attention to the two top points. Select the direct selection tool (-), select the left trace, drag it to the middle (from the right trace point 120px) position. Select the delete strokes tool to delete the strokes in the upper-right corner of the blue rectangle.
Switch to the direct selection tool (A) and select the top point. Use the rounded corner tool to set the radius to 10 px. Finally, the blue shape is shown in figure 3.
Step 2
Select the red shape, copy and paste it again (Ctrl + C, Ctrl + F), and select the red and blue shapes after the copy. Use the path finder to select the intersection.
6. Add shadows and highlights to the blue shape.
Step 1
Copy the red part again (Ctrl + C, Ctrl + F), select the blue part, run the object-path-offset path, enter the offset path 1px, and click OK.
Intersection the new shape and the copied red shape with the path finder. Fill the shape in black to reduce the transparency to 3%.
Step 2
Copy the red part again. (Ctrl + C, Ctrl + F) confirm that the blue shape is selected. Execute the object-path-offset path input offset 3px again and click OK.
At the same time, select the new shape and the red shape, and run the Path Finder-intersection to fill the shape with black, reducing the transparency to 3%.
Step 3
Undisplay the grid and align the grid.
Make sure that the blue shape is selected and copy and paste it twice. (Ctrl + C, Ctrl + F, Ctrl + F) move the copy shape of the top layer down by 1px. Select the two duplicates and run the Path Finder-minus the top layer. The filled shape is White (R = 255G = 255 B = 255), the transparency is reduced to 30%, and the mixed mode is changed to soft light.
Step 4
Call up the display grid (Ctrl + ') and align grid (Shift + Ctrl + ').
Select the blue shape, copy (Ctrl + C, Ctrl + F), select the copy result, move down 10px, select, select the appearance panel
Set the fill color to not fill. Select the stroke effect and set the stroke color to (R = 0G = 148 B = 68 ), open the stroke effect channel, set the stroke width to 6 PX, and set the internal fill.
Step 5
Select the blue shape, execute Ctrl + C, Ctrl + F, select the latest copy layer and green second board, and execute the object-path-contour stroke. Select the result image and the copied shape, and execute Path Finder-intersection
Fill the result shape with black, reduce its transparency to 20%, and change the layer blending mode to soft light.
7. Create a sheet of paper and add text
Step 1
Use the rectangle tool (M) to create a rectangle of 190x140px, fill in the color (R = 250G = 250 B = 240), as shown in the following figure.
Check that the new image is selected to view the appearance channel. Select existing fill, execute effect-style-inner glow fill settings as shown in the figure, and click OK.
Step 2
Make sure that the rectangle is selected, select the appearance channel, and click add fill to fill a color again.
Select the new fill, change the blending mode of the layer to soft light, and add a linear gradient to the existing fill color, as shown in the following figure. In the following figure, the yellow "0" in the gradient represents the transparency score.
Step 3
Make sure that the rectangle is still selected and select stroke in the appearance panel.
Replace the existing fill color with a linear gradient, reduce the transparency to 50%, change the blending mode of the layer to soft light, and enable the stroke effect. Make sure that the stroke width is 1 px and select an internal stroke.
Step 4
Select the rectangle, select the appearance panel, and add a stroke.
Select the stroke, change its fill color to linear gradient, change the mixed mode to soft light, and open the stroke channel. Set the stroke width to 1 px and confirm that the stroke form is an internal stroke.
Step 5
Make sure that the rectangle is selected. Open the appearance channel and click add new stroke to add the third stroke.
Select the layer-3 stroke, set the color to black, reduce the transparency to 2%, and open the stroke effect Channel. Confirm that the stroke width is 1 px and that the stroke is along the internal stroke.
Step 6
Make sure that the rectangle is selected and the appearance channel is still opened.
Click the text path, run the result-style-input the rounded corner radius 5px, and click OK.
Step 7
Select the text tool (T) to open the text style. (Window-text style)
Click, enter the text "Dear Santa" to set the text color (R = 38G = 34 B = 98), set the font to 5 years old font, and set the text size to 15px.
Step 8
Make sure that the text tool (T) is active and pull a text input area from the canvas. As shown in the following figure. Add the text you want, as shown in figure 2. The text font and color are the same as those in the previous step. Set the text size to 10px.
Step 9
Select two sections of text and paper, and press Ctrl + G to combine them.
Select the combination, Shift + Ctrl + [place it at the bottom layer, select the red shape, and place it at the bottom layer. The order relationship of the final shape is shown in figure 3.
8. Create a background shape
Step 1
Use the rectangle tool (M) to create a square with a side length of 610px. Fill in the color R = 255G = 232 B = 217 Shift + Ctrl + [place the square on the bottom layer. Adjust the square position to place the envelope in the middle of the square.
Step 2
Make sure that the square is selected. Open the appearance channel and add a new fill color.
This layer of fill requires an embedded pattern. Click the window. The graphic style Library opens an embedded pattern library to check whether the secondary fill layer is selected. Change the hybrid mode to overwrite ?, Select the Sand pattern.
9. Add shadows and highlights to the red part.
Step 1
Select the red shape, open the appearance panel fill color R = 191G = 25 B = 27, and add a new fill layer. Add the linear gradient shown in the following figure to the second layer.
Step 2
Make sure that the red shape is selected and select a stroke from the appearance panel
Change the stroke color to white, reduce the transparency to 30%, change the blending mode to soft light, and open the stroke channel. Change the stroke width to 6 px to confirm the internal stroke.
Step 3
Make sure that the red shape is selected. Open the appearance channel, select the stroke, and copy the selected item using copy.
Select the newly added stroke, change the transparency to 50%, and change the stroke width to 1px.
Step 4
Make sure that the red shape is selected. Open the appearance channel and add a layer 3 stroke.
Fill in black with a transparency of 5%. Open the stroke channel. Make sure that the stroke width is 1 px, along the internal stroke.
Step 5
Make sure the red shape is selected
Select the red fill at the bottom, open effect-style-projection, and press the parameter settings on the left side of the figure. Click OK to add four other projections.
10. Make some final adjustments to the blue and yellow parts
Step 1
Select the yellow shape, fill in the color R = 211G = 45 B = 47
Step 2
Select the blue shape to open the appearance channel. First, change the fill color to R = 211G = 55 B = 57, then add the new fill in the second layer fill, change the mixed mode to soft light, and add the linear gradient shown in the figure.
Congratulations! Done!
The following figure shows the final effect chart. Add some stamps or Christmas decorations to the final effect chart!
All right, the above information is the detailed tutorial on creating a stylish and elegant red envelope icon for all the users of Illustrator's software, users now see this. I believe that everyone is very clear about the drawing method. Then, you can draw the red envelope icon by yourself according to the tutorial.
