today we're going to learn how to make a vector vintage tattoo style design in
Adobe Illustrator but if you want to skip the intro move to the timestamp in
the corner
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for designing a kind of vector style vintage tattoo design in Illustrator
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the straighter hit command R on a Mac or ctrl R on a PC to open up your rulers we
need one guide vertically and one guide horizontally we will use the horizontal
guide to make sure the pen tool path does not go above it as we need to
duplicate the path and join it later I wanted to remain flat across the top
make a path like mine here with the pen tool which is going to be half of a
shield
once you've made it right-click the canvas and then hide guides
hold down the option key to duplicate the path like so and then reflect the
line
we then need to perfectly align them and hit command or control J to join them
together we now have the shield shape for a vector vintage tattoo style design
right click the background to show the guides and then unlock them and make
guides similar to mine here we'll use the same process as we did before with
the shield to make half a ribbon I'm going to go around or back to design you
can also go back with the direct selection tool and edit the path at any
points but make sure the path finishes along the same vertical guide because we
need to join together later
hide your guides and then resize and duplicate a path and then reflect and
join it as we did before with command or control J
now I open up the appearance panel so you can add multiple strokes to a ribbon
design
add a wafer then add a black stroke but remember to drag the stroke below the
fill layer we're going to add some moisture oaks later in the tutorial
show you guys in Illustrator and unlock them if they're locked we want a guy
running down the center of a ribbon using the pen to make a line like mine
and edit here with the direct selection tool
this is going to be part of the detail and our better design today so increase
the stroke weight and they're not the same stroke style is mine here
a great tip for designing things in this nature is to design half of them and
then duplicate them to save time this works with symmetrical designs
so go ahead and duplicate a detail line and reflect over the other side
using the align window we're going to make sure they're both level with the
ribbon selected you can open the appearance panel and add some more
strokes if that's what you want to do in your design remember though to drag the
strokes below the fill layer and then change the weight and the color
you can duplicate a detail line and move it above you can then edit able to
direct selection tool and change the stroke weights
once you've done this multiple times you can take the width tool to really have
full control over the stroke weights along the entire line this is going to
act like shading on the vector tattoo design
once happy with your shading select the ribbon and in the two lower lines and
then lock them
and yep you guessed it we're going to be duplicating the shading lines and then
reflecting them on the other side take your time to reposition them in place
properly so now unlock everything on your canvas in Illustrator and in select
the entire ribbon section of the design then hold down shift and click the
ribbon itself to essentially deselect it
we can then go ahead and outline the stroke of the detail lines this will
make sure that when we resize a design The Strokes were going to remain
proportional you can also change your stroke settings to scale proportionally
duplicate the shield shape and then resize it behind the ribbon
with the pen tool click one side of the shield and hold down shift to make a
straight line until you reach the other side curve the line with the Bezier
curves and then continue the path like so we're the new shape selected hold
down shift to select the shield as well and then open up the pathfinder window
use this option here to leave the lower part of the shield remaining using the
pencil have added the section here to represent more shadow and as before
duplicate it and then reflect it over to the other side make sure that you
position it perfectly in place and then use a direct selection tool to edit the
pattern EB
as you can see here I'm using direct selection tool to adjust my paths on my
better design to simulate shading in this area to design use a pen to a make
lines we've done previously adding the same strokes towers before
using the pencil add in any details to your vintage tattoo style design and
then as before select them all and then duplicate them over the other side the
width tool is always there if you need it also
so here's my design so far you can go ahead and open up and unlock the guides
as we might need them for a central guide down the middle duplicate the
shield on the right hand side and use the Pathfinder tool process to cut
pieces out of it before
flip the shape from a fill to a stroke and increase the stroke weight
the news in the scissors tool cuts out two sections in the top I then use a
direct selection tool to select and delete the top anchor points
at this stage you can outline the stroke of this line here and then adjust the
corners of the line so it looks professional the top edge
here I've added some simple curved lines with the pen tool and then I hold down
shift to select every line at the same time and increase this trackway and add
the same stroke style as I'm using here
as before you can use the direct selection tool to adjust the lines and
do this for the other side as well to simulate highlights on the shield or the
better design
the shield in the fire needs to be behind all other layers and then move
into place
I've cut the shield into two parts so we can raise them independently in case
there isn't enough room on the top of the design duplicate the shield once you
have in place and then flip the fill a bitter white stroke
you can hold down shift and the alt/option key at the very same time to
resize in place as we did a bottom of a shield add more lines at the top to
simulate light bouncing of the vintage vector tattoo design
the tanks have added in here in the middle uses the font tower and for a
vinyl touch in the design we can make an egg shape using the pen tool like so
copy and reflect the line and then align them the font I'm using for this pie is
Trajan probe
make sure to outline the stroke and outline the type before you edit the
color and the place of your design
and there you have it one vintage vector tattoo style design in Illustrator
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