Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: How to Draw an Astrochimp
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
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This tutorial was made by one of the artists at www.designious.com, Ioana Șopov with a Wacom Intuos 5 drawing tablet. Check out more of her work here: behance.net/ioa..., and get similar design resources created by her and the rest of our talented team here: www.inkydeals.com. The tutorial was created in Adobe Photoshop CS5 & Adobe Illustrator CS6 and took 2 hours in real time.
The musical background is Gus Lightyear's awesome chillout July 2013 mix which you can find here: / chillout-ambient-downt...
No copyright infringement intended.
Be sure to check out Ioana's previous tutorial here: • Adobe Illustrator Tuto...
After the square step:
1. Take the square to the back
2. Select ALL -> Merge -> Direct Selection Tool (A), select the square (NOT the Line art) and press DELETE
3. Select ALL -> Isolate Selected Group -> Magic Wand (Y) -> Select the line art -> Group
4. Exit the Isolated Group -> Select the line art -> Ungroup
5. Create New layer -> Select line art -> Drag the "Small square" to the new layer.
(For step 5, make sure you only select the line art, otherwise it will show a "big square" in the layer options)
After almost 2hrs finally managed to do this step. if I missed anything feel free to comment below.
P.s Give it a thumbs up so other people can see it!!
+SrRubio Te quiero jajajaja
I dont have the option ->Isolate selected group :(
This isn't working for me either. What am I doing wrong?!?
I'm guessing is because every line needs to be touching, if there's even a tiny line that isn't touching, it could be the problem.
Try it again with simple drawings, a fruit, a chair, etc. once you get the hang of it you can try the space monkey or your personal design.
P.s Again, I'm just a beginner in Ai too, I'm just trying to help :)
This is so beautifully done I don't even know what to say. Presentation, music, straight to the point dialogue. It's really a symbol of tutorial perfection for intermediate users.
+Bk Blindside lol for every user, im below basic lol and thats awesome
Step 1: Become extremely good at drawing
Step 2: Buy a Wacom
Step 3: Become extraordinarily good at doing 3d lighting
Done!
Joshua Chronstedt Englar You make it sound so easy xD
+Joshua Chronstedt Englar
Step 4: Sell your soul to satan
+Filip Gereg that should be step 1 :D
LMAO! She's great but she needs to stop calling these "tutorials" -- hardly. It's freaking showing offorials.
I think this was a very good tutorial for someone that normally does illustrations in photoshop and wants to try illustrator :)
Wow, three years later and this is still the best tutorial on youtube about drawing with a tablet in illustrator! Thanks again.
To anyone still confused by what's happening at 13:57 and later: Merge the background rectangle with the lineart in the Pathfinder menu. Then pick the DIRECT SELECTION TOOL (white arrow, not the default selection tool), click on the outer area that you want deleted, and hit delete. THEN you can go back to the Selection Tool (black arrow), click on the lineart, right click, and Isolate Selected Group. Now you can pick the Magic Wand (0 tolerance), select the lineart with the wand, right click, and Group. Exit Isolation Mode (either back arrow on the top bar or just double click), create new layer, Ungroup lineart from old layer. With the lineart still selected, just move it to the new layer (either cut + paste, or literally move the colored square like shown in the video). NOW you've got your base colors on a different layer and lineart on a different layer.
Took me a while to figure this out since the video skips way ahead of the audio at that point in this tutorial and some keyboard shortcuts are not called out as they are performed. But great video and excellent tutorial! Thank you.
All what you have to do is turn off the sound( because it's distracting you) she is talking faster then she is working... go ahead and make what she is doing step by step. LEt me know if its working for you.
i'm lost on this part of tutorial, :C i try turn off the sound but i don't understand the part of magic wand...
Nuck Gore The Magic Wand: it isolate's the line art ( the black contour) from the the rest the fill color ( the blue one). After you separate them, create a new layer and drag the line art ( the black cotour) with your mouse into it.
Laurentiu Faghiura Thank you :) i tried ctrl+c ctrl+v and this worked, but after i needed delete the other contour and align the copy, is another way but it worked. sorry my bad english :3
Is ok, I'm glad i could help.
Step 1: Draw a black circle
Step 2: Draw a black line
Step 3: Finish the details
It's more of an ai tutorial rather than the drawing aspect itself.
And just when I thought it couldn't look good any better, she starts adding the shadows and highlights. The process of art never ends!
*claps* omg i have just witnessed the best tutorial EVER of this program. i take my hat off to you, lady. awesomely done!
I'm not sure if someone's mentioned this before but you can save time using the blob brush tool instead of having to go through the merging process. You can get the same results with fewer steps involved. and you can also save time using the smooth tool in place of the pen tool to make your lines cleaner. Just a personal preference but great tutorial all the same :D
To isolate the line art from the background color, select the black line art (magic wand - tolerance 0) > group > create new layer > click and move the blue box in the layers palette up to the newly created layer and it should be finished.
I owe you a big thank you. I've been using PS for years but never Illustrator, until a few days ago when I saw this. I was able to go from start to running in a day and a half just from referencing the steps in this video. Can't believe I haven't drawn in Illustrator this the whole time. Sincerely, thank you.
This was absolutely amazing to watch! I've been in Photoshop for years and years, and Illustrator for just a short while, but I always love seeing artists who realize the potential of how well the programs can be integrated together and used to create a final piece of work! Beautiful job! And I definitely learned a lot!
Day 3123, I'm still re-watching video, asking myself: WHAT DID SHE CLICKED ? -.-
”select your object and press shift+ctrl+[
or rightclick it -> arrange -> send to back ” like Joeoe said,
Then click merge on the pathfinder. Double-click on the group to access the contents. Select the black parts with the Magic Wand tool. Ctrl+G to group those together. Exit the main group. Right-click > Ungroup. And then select the lineart group(black parts grouped before). Look to your layers toolbar. See that little box now that you have the object selected? Drag it to a new layer on top.
There you go! ^_^
designioustimes Thank you SOOOO FUCKING MUCH ! I hope I'll do something someday in Illustrator :) ;)
+designioustimes I still hate this part, because the video and the audio don't match in that extreme important section. The step by step info is ok, but I'm not even sure if "Select the black parts with the Magic Wand tool." worked on my artwork. I managed to get abou 70% of my artwork covered with the blue shape, the rest stayed white and I don't know why it didn't cover 100% of the background lineart. Do all shapes have to be closed?
same, still watching this video every once in a while, I'm still grateful for this video
@@BurgersBacon takes practice! It's like gaming lol
Well now I see why I should've been using Illustrator, I mean do you even know how hard it is to get the exact same quality result with Photoshop? You need to use something like 6-8 pixel wide brushes for over 6k pixel documents and do the outlines of the lines, then fill them with your brush.Takes LOTS of practice to master and even then it is really really time consuming.. So, thank you for this tutorial, very clear, explains exactly what need to be explained, straight to the point and good quality. Gratz.
Her voice is caress my brain. Love it. She is olso so talented.
All of this in the span of 20 minutes?! Lady you are a genious!!! Thanks for this. I need to get use to using the brush instead of the pencil lol
you lady are one hell of a good art designer
Its really great. I've worked in Illustrator or a few years now and I'm still not as brave with the brush tool.
all in all the best tutorial i´ve seen
good music, good voice, very useful, not boring at all
Thank you @Designioustimes. As a traditional artist, with increasing demands and necessity to provide designs in a multitude of digital formats, your video has been the most useful and informative video on this topic I have come across. Believe me, I have viewed many in the past and I've always come away more frustrated than empowered. Your video has helped me branch out my Sketchbook Pro and Photoshop complex digital pieces and feel confident to start creating more efficient vector based wok. Thank you again for taking the time to share this knowledge and expertise with us. I will be subscribing for more and look forward to exploring your other videos and references in the near future. Cheers!.
The background looks like a Liquicity background. They upload music here on UA-cam.
Great tutorial by the way! It turned out great!
I decided to unistall Illustrator after this video.
Lol!
ahhhhaahahhh
😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭
The musical background is Gus Lightyear's awesome chillout July 2013 mix which you can find the link in the video description. Cheers and thanks for watching!
I just come here since 3 years ago, I love this video and I don't care repeat the entire almost 21 min, always help. Thank u so much
2018, still being one of my favorites videos
fucking hell woman, this looks amazing
well done
Thanks a bunch! :)
Step One to drawing an Astrochimp, become amazing at drawing.
this tutorial has SUCH a chill playlist.
That was insane, one of the best art tutorials I've ever seen.
This is amazing! You are a very talented artist. Please make more videos like Astrochimp!!! :)
i'm officially depressed ..
with you
This is the most complete illustration tutorial I've seen. Good voice of the narrator and the music that accompanies the video is very consistent with the illustration.
More videos like this please.
Greetings from Mexico.
there are some videos which makes you feel that you can also do it, That Inspiration is amazing... This was one of them, Thanks for putting this up on UA-cam
at 13:57 what she DOESNT tell you is to hit DELETE in order to get rid of the color outside the shape. Took me forever to figure out why the merge wasn't just knocking out the color outside the lineart.
thank you. took me so long to figure out what I was doing wrong
Amazing tutorial. Easy to understand and yet so cool. Im gonna try one. I visited your portfolio behance acc.. you are such an amazing artist.
Thank you so much! :)
The pen tool and I haven't gotten along very well in the past, but learning from your video has helped me immensely in creating smooth and scalable lineart. Thank you so much for sharing, you saved a lot of headaches. Not to mention, it's so much easier to watch the video when the art is this well done and inspiring in and of itself.
oh gosh, this is the last question i promise!
Now im on the bit where i add my shadows with the brush.
On your video you do did it without interfering with the black strokes.
To try and get this effect I did this process:
Select the line art
Select >> Same >> FIll Color
Make new layer
Drag the colored square on the right side of the layers palette, from current layer to new.
I still didnt manage to paint underneath/around the black?
You guys are so awesome for the help, i appreciate it!
Awsome
Caroline Petri XD
Holy crap guys!!! I cant do the ungroup part at 14:57!!!! So
1. Rectangle
2. Send rectangle to back
3. Merge
4. Delete surrounding rectangle
5. Isolate Line art and shape
6. Decrease magic wand tolerance and select Line with magic wand
7. Group
8. Exit group
9. Ungroup
10. THEN THE PART WHERE SHE CLICKS THE BOX THINGY AND SEPARATES LINE ART AND FILL COLOR DRIVES ME INSANEEEE.
Halp!
Make sure your line art is closed and expanded before merging. Then just select the outer part of the rectangle with the Direct Selection tool and hit Delete. Then you're good to go. :)
Oh sorry, now I see where you need help. I select the line art group, create a new layer and then drag the box icon from the layer with the line art to the new layer. This drags the line art to the new layer. Hope this helped and sorry for the slow reply. :)
designioustimes No problemo! Thank you so much for the reply. Your video kinda goes out of sync on that section so it's rather hard to follow. Keep up the good work! Love your videos!
You got a lot farther than I did. I tried to follow all of the clicks and had to give up. I merged and couldn't for the life of me get the surrounding rectangle to delete.
Janet Dahlberg Make sure there aren't any holes in your drawing and it is a solid, individual sketch. There should be a solid outline.
This is EXACTLY the right advice and demonstration needed to answer my questions. Bring it on
I was in awe from start to finish. Just stunning. I wish I had a talent for drawing.
VOCÊ SALVOU A MINHA VIDA. MUITO OBRIGADA.
Hey Br 😁✌
You showed me the light!
I love this tutorial. It's so easy to understand and it helped to show my why someone would want to use illustrator over photoshop.
For anyone having trouble filling their drawing with the first color: there can't be any gaps in your line-art; in other words, your shape needs to be closed all around. Find any gaps on the perimeter of your shape and use the direct selection tool to drag the anchor points and close them (this can still be done after you merge).
how do you make the lines smooth right after drawing them?
+Valdas Paulavicius You can double-click the Brush tool and adjust the Fidelity setting.
+designioustimes hey i'm a complete beginner. how do i get fundamentals like yours? like the base art fundamentals... where do i learn them?
+Zack in the right place, UA-cam it
youtube tutorials and draw every single day.
AI (adobe illustrator) smooth your lines automatically when you are using the brush tool. she is also using a wacom tablet that way you can control your pen pressure.
From 13:44 to 14:24 is SO confusing. I've been trying to figure out what just happened for about 30 minutes now. Group it together and then ungroup it and it magically becomes two separate things?!? Someone please help!
+Kelsey Higley He drew a box, sent it behind the picture, then used the Pathfinder tool to merge them together. Once they are merged you can ungroup them (Pathfinder groups things together for some reason), and treat them as separate objects.
+Safetyman99 i cant find the button to make it go to the background...
Assuming everything is on the same layer, try CTRL + SHFT + left bracket, or use the Object menu > Arrange > Send to Back. I don't know what it would be on a Mac.
+Kelsey Higley I"m really hoping for a clear instruction to this part too. I think she used shortcut keys. I followed every steps and it did not separate from colour.
This really was very helpful to me while I am teaching myself Illustrator. I had learned the basics of it 10 years ago, in school, but haven't used it since; boy has it changed A LOT! This type of stuff is similar to what I enjoy doing, so I'm very thankful to you for making this video
watching people perfect their work is remarkable
I wish I could draw
You can fight crime instead.
Sry I thought you where batman.
MASTERRELIC relic *were
+Bruce Wayne Drawing like any other art is not about the technicalities and how close to reality it may look like. You can design beautiful art with ugly characters. you just have to work hard at it and develop a style in the process. The style itself is what makes ppls distinguish you and like your art for its originality. Passion is essential though. Without passion, people tend to give up or conform along the way. It's never too late. I'm learning programming now, and I have big plans for the knowledge i will attain. :D
+Kago Tshabota well said! listen to this guy kids!
👌👌👌😁😁😂😂😂😂😢😢
Twice now I've had to play and replay this tutorial in the 14:00 area where we're all stuck. The problem is your narration doesn't match up with the video and you don't narrate all your steps. It's really hard to see what you are doing. This is a great tutorial but for novices who aren't familiar with illustrator it's very confusing at times. I don't understand the isolation/group stuff so I am almost completely lost.
Miles Lucas Also you unfortunately do not see what happens inside of the layers. The Pathfinder option "merge" does not give the desired effect for me - but she is saying, that she is using this option?? It is actually not cropping the rectangle to get the shape it should, but it makes a "hole" that's shaped like the shape in the foreground instead :/
Miles Lucas Also you unfortunately do not see what happens inside of the layers. The Pathfinder option "merge" does not give the desired effect for me - but she is saying, that she is using this option?? It is actually not cropping the rectangle to get the shape it should, but it makes a "hole" that's shaped like the shape in the foreground instead :/
Object>Expand Appearance
(Convert your lineart to shapes)
Solid Fill color with the Rectangle Tool, or any
shapes that will cover the area you want to color,
place on top of the lineart...
Right Click> Arrange> Send to Back
Select Everything> Open Pathfinder Panel> Merge>
Right Click> Isolate Selected Group
Left Click on the area you don't want and DELETE.
wow, I do this for a living, and this is just beautiful. I've never seen anyone have such control with an illustrator brush. great stuff!
I had a big problem not getting it to work until I re-watched 12:33 until the end. the whole coloring part I was doing the HARD way lol. many thanks!
THANK YOU!!
So this is where it all began… NFTs really made a turn for the worse
love the music you're listening to
The best tutorial on youtube, congrats
At around 14:00 the rectangle disappears and leaves only its fill on the line art. HOWWWW???!
After adding the blue fill, send it backwards and merge the two together (line art + fill). Then select the outer part of the fill with the Direct Selection tool (A) and delete it. Afterwards, ungroup the resulting merged shapes, select the line art with the Magic Wand tool (just the black parts), group them together and drag them to a new layer in the Layers tab. Hope this was helpful, cheers!
designioustimes Very helpful! Thank you so much!!!
Amazeballs
So I keep saving videos for Illustrator hoping that is all I need for now, and then I find another awesome video -
The talent is unreal. 😳😍
What about Harambe chilling in the Soyuz?
Felipee Rincon
when i try to get my colour to another layer(rectangle) i get to the part where i send it to the back then i try to merge it and it does nothing!! PLEASE HELP!!
Make sure you have both the line art and the rectangle selected when merging. Also, make sure the line art is expanded before merging. Afterwards, select the outer part of the rectangle that's left with the DIRECT SELECT TOOL and then delete it. :) Cheers and thanks for watching!
designioustimes Thankyou very much! it worked :) but one more question. When it worked everything else was all a blueish colour but when i merged the triangle it didnt do the face! is there any way to fix that?
Make sure you have the line-art completely closed. It only fills the shapes that are completely isolated by line-art from the exterior. If that's too much work just add the fills manually beneath the line-art, it won't make much difference visually, but might be faster than going back and filling all the gaps in your line-art if you have any.
designioustimes Awesome it worked thanks again!!
designioustimes
I just tried this and it worked too. Cool!
Cant believe what I've just watched, pure genius!
Always coming back here. I love this video
Neato burrito!
you are too fast ... how do you seperate the lineart? >.>
i watched it several times, but i still not get, what you are exactly doing ...
Object>Expand Appearance
(Convert your lineart to shapes)
Solid Fill color with the Rectangle Tool, or any
shapes that will cover the area you want to color,
place on top of the lineart...
Right Click> Arrange> Send to Back
Select Everything> Open Pathfinder Panel> Merge>
Right Click> Isolate Selected Group
Left Click on the area you don't want and DELETE.
Ioana's been working in Illustrator for about 5 years now. Practice makes perfect. :) Thanks for your purchase and stay tuned for more videos!
Awesome video. Finally found the right way or should I say my favourite way to do the line art painting.
oh, so this is for people who can actually draw stuff..ok, i'm out.
great job btw
What kind of brush was used?
3 Pt. Calligraphic Brush with the Pressure setting on. ( Using a graphic tablet )
this is amazing, thank you for showing us how to do this kind of stuff, I finished an associate's degree and feel like I have no skills in illustrator, the way you did this was brilliant with the techniques I like how you created shapes from the open spaces. I will be using this as a guide until I master this style
I have watched this tutorial over and over again and will continue to do so! This video specifically inspired me to purchase a Wacom Intuous Tablet! It definitely takes some getting used to, but hopefully soon I will be able to produce quality work like this. Thank you for the amazing tutorial! It has helped me a lot! :)
Wish I had a tablet, I just have to stick with my phone, I have a big future ahead of me lol
+Sir Lucky you can get one for as little as $70
+Mycole Beeson I got mine for $40 bucks a few years back, I'm pretty sure it's 20 on amazon now.
+Reedster What kind do you recommend?
Cameron Ketch I've only owned one and that was the cheap one I bought a few years back so I can't really make an recommendations. Here is the one that I got www.amazon.com/Huion-Inches-Tablet-Graphics-Drawing/dp/B00DTPYWBG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1459798555&sr=8-2&keywords=pen+tablet and it works fine and does what it is supposed to. If you want to spend more money for better quality I'm sure you can find something,
Reedster Thanks! I've always been a traditional artist so I'm just looking to dabble a bit and see how I like it.
Of course all astrochimps are always smoking..
People like you make everything seem so easy and quick. When I do it, it ends up looking like stick figures...
I had no idea tNice tutorials blew up until now holy sNice tutorialt
but can you cook?
And here's me struggling to draw a straight line with my shitty Wacom Bamboo ;_;
Do you still think it's your wacom that's shitty and not the cordination and steady of your hand
Haha, I was being pretty harsh towards the Wacom wasn't I?
I certainly don't have a steady hand but hopefully over time with some practice it might improve!
I'm new to using the Wacom so it's a bit awkward to use still. Hopefully I'll get there some day :)
hehehe....so many people do think it's their tablets....
omg i thougt iwas the only one who use this -.-
antaara yl i still have 2 bamboo's, but i can't use them because its driver contradicts with my intuos pro driver :((
So detail..nice work
the music in this is as awesome as the art, great video.
So she drew from tablet? *Gasp* That sucks.
I was expecting with mouse tutorial.
You don't have to duplicate the merged layer, you can merge the rectangle and the expanded line art just once and then using the Direct Selection Tool delete the exterior shape. Ioana uses a lot of shortcuts, that's why it seems to go so fast. :)
You can indeed close the lines off with the Direct Selection Tool and repeat the rectangle process and it should work fine.
Creating a rectangle and sending it to back, then merging the shape with the selected line art in pathfinder results in something quite different than whats pointed out here in the video.
The method i use to color, i combined what i learned from two other artists... I do:
1. Select All [Line Work] after i make a copy of the line work. Then object expand appearance
2. then live color (i think) make then expand.
3. merge
4. square color
But i use an artistic brush but the Calligraphic brush seems so much better to use
i think i just fell in love with digital art. its so amazing omg!!
amazing illustration. I realy like these videos showing how the process works.
This is such a treat to watch. You have excellent control over all elements of the production -- from sketch to line art to coloring. Thanks for sharing.
I love your stylized work. It really inspires me. Although I'm not bad at drawing, I hate traditional drawing somehow, without the edges and outlines, but the comic style that you show here is very appealing to me. I'll try something like that
I'v been searching this kind of tutorial for years! I'm so glad U shared with us.
Best Line Art Coloring Ever! Thank you!!
As we all know, there's several ways to skin a cat, but this here is my favorite, thus far. Great video, keep up the good work, +designioustimes!
Aw...I was really hoping you were planning to show how you made that awesome background. But your tutorial was very helpful, none the less.
i'm hypnotized listening you voice.
Thanks for the video.
I think this video should be called "How to Adobe Illustrator" or something like that. This might be life changing for me :P I was so stuck
The most amazing illustration I have seen on UA-cam ❤️❤️
I just realized I'm watching it 7 years later since the upload 😳
nice combination of explanations and sounds
This is just amazing! Makes me feel really inadequate, but also really eager to learn. I love it.
Please continue uploading?! Your content is the best
Not relevant but your voice is mesmerising.