today's illustrator tutorial is how to make this cool hand lettering effect
using adobe illustrator
welcome back to satori graphics everybody home of graphic design content
today I have a tutorial based around the amazing work of David he's a designer on
Instagram that I follow you can check out his work that he has some seriously
cool hand lettering designs one is Instagram account let's jump right into
this tutorial you can use custom hand lettering but today I really didn't have
the time for that so I used a scripts typeface and there's a link in the
description below for the download of this typeface that I'm using here if you
want to edit the actual lettering you're going to need to create outlines and
then it helps to ungroup each individual letter once happy for it a black
rectangle across entire artboard and then send it to the back
you're going to need to lock the rectangle in place it doesn't move
around
finally flick the hand letter into a white fill looking at David's work on
Instagram I think he used the pencil to create shapes and then he filled them
with a gradient so grab the pen tool and create a curve where you think the
lettering will twist along its path use a color that you will be able to see
over white you don't have to be super accurate at this stage because we can go
back in afterwards and clean it up the trick here is to follow the shape of the
lettering and make an area for the shadow to fill once complete lick it
over to a fill like so and then grab the direct selection tool so you can go back
in and edit the angle points and the paths to make it fit perfectly
I change the fill to a gradient change the direction of your gradient here so
the shadow is coming from one side try to imagine a light source coming from a
specific area for example the left
once I did the gradient slider ie the white side you must turn the pasty down
to zero you can make the other side as dark as you like but I'm going forwards
out gray tone here now use this method again to go over all of your typography
if you want to see how to make this technique again go back a minute or two
in the video we watch how I did it so here's my final design I think it looks
great and I have to thank David for the inspiration there's a link in the
description for this image on pixabay.com which you can download
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