How To Make Water Color Animals Adobe Illustator

In this tutorial, we'll create half-dozen different brute portraits from one and the same circumvolve! Permit's take fun making a gear up of trendy flat elements using basic shapes, the Shape Builder Tool, the Pathfinder panel, and some other useful functions of Adobe Illustrator!

What Y'all'll Learn in This Adobe Illustrator  Tutorial

• How to move and alter points to dispense shapes
• How to use the Shape Architect Tool in Adobe Illustrator
• How to combine and layer shapes
• How to copy and reflect shapes

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1. How to Create an Elegant Siamese Cat

Step 1

Start forming the cat'due south face from an even circle of 60 x 60 px size, made with the Ellipse Tool (Fifty). Fill the circle with a sandy beige color.

Step ii

Select both side anchor points with the Direct Pick Tool (A) and drag them downward, changing the shape of the face.

Pace three

Now permit'south form the cat's ear. Accept the Polygon Tool and make a three-sided shape of about 17 x fifteen px size. Go to Effect > Warp > Burl and gear up the Vertical Bend value to 40%.

Object > Expand Advent of the shape to apply the effect. Select the upper anchor bespeak with the Directly Select Tool (A) and make the corner smooth past clicking the Catechumen corners to smooth button in the upper context panel. Shorten the anchor handles of this anchor point and elevate the anchor indicate up, making the ear more than pointed.

Footstep 4

Re-create the shape and Paste it in Front end (Command-C > Control-F). Make the copy smaller and fill it with chocolate-brown color. Rotate the ear and place it on the left side of the head, Sending information technology to Back (Control-Shift-[), beneath the head shape. Use the Reflect Tool (O) by double-clicking its icon in the Tools console to flip the ear over the Vertical Axis and to create a copy, placing information technology on the opposite side of the head.

Step 5

Let's make the peak part of the head flat. Select the head shape, take the Eraser Tool (Shift-E) and draw a narrow stripe across the head by belongings downward the Alt key. At present we've sliced the shape into two parts. Select the unneeded piece and delete information technology.

Step six

Brand a small pink triangle olfactory organ with the Polygon Tool. Select the nose and pull the circle indicators of the Alive Corners to make the shape rounded. If this office is unavailable in your version of Adobe Illustrator, use Consequence > Stylize > Round Corners which does exactly the same.

Step seven

Make another ellipse and place it inside the face up, then that it touches the lower point of the olfactory organ. Marshal the ellipse to the olfactory organ, using the olfactory organ as a Key Object. To practise so, select both shapes and click the olfactory organ while holding down Alt. You will encounter a thick stroke around the nose, indicating the Central Object. Head to the Align panel and click Horizontal Align Heart.

Then take the Anchor Point Tool (Shift-C) and move the anchor handles of the bottom anchor betoken downwardly to about 45 degrees. Use the Guides to move the handles to the equal distance (you can add the Guide line by dragging it down to your Artboard from the Rulers (Command-R)).

Make full the face "mask" with the same brown color as nosotros take on the ears, picking the colour with the Eyedropper Tool (I). Add together a smaller, lighter-dark-brown ellipse beneath the mask, depicting the lower jaw.

Stride 8

Now let's add together the eyes! Make an ellipse, select its correct ballast point and convert it to a sharp corner from the Convert menu in the control panel higher up. Make full the ellipse with a brilliant blueish color and add another ellipse above for the iris.

Hither we demand to delete the slice of the iris that overlaps the border of the eye. Select both ellipses, and use the Shape Builder Tool (Shift-Grand) to erase the upper part of the iris by holding down the Alt key and clicking the unwanted piece.

Rotate the centre a scrap and create a mirrored copy using the Reflect Tool (O).

Step nine

Brand 2 light-brown ellipses for the brows of our cat, and add two tiny white circles in the eyes for the highlights.

Create a lighter-pink ellipse, placing information technology above the upper function of the nose, and use the Shape Builder Tool (Shift-M) holding downwardly Alt to delete the unneeded part, thus making the nose more detailed.

Footstep 10

And let'due south create a trendy flat shadow, roofing one half of the cat'south head. Group (Control-Grand) all parts of the cat together, Copy the group and Paste it in Front (Command-C > Control-F). Keeping the copy selected, Unite its parts in thePathfinder panel, merging them into a single shape. Switch the Blending Mode of the silhouette to Multiply, making information technology semi-transparent.

Finally, select the silhouette, take the Eraser Tool (Shift-E) and, holding down Alt, elevate your mouse over the left one-half of the cat'south head, roofing it with a white rectangular selection. Release the mouse push button to delete the covered piece.

And here nosotros take information technology! Our flat cat is ready. Let'south move on to the next element.

2. How to Depict a Cheerful Puppy

Step one

Every bit previously, we start forming a portrait from a 60 x sixty px circle. Move the side ballast points down a fleck, making the shape bulgy, and erase its top part with the Eraser Tool (Shift-Due east).

Select the left anchor signal with the Direct Option Tool (A) and press Enter to open the Move options window. Set the Horizontal Position value to -5 px and theVertical value to 0 px and click OK, thus moving the anchor point 5 pixels to the left.

Do the same for the correct ballast point, setting the Horizontal movement value to 5 px and moving it 5 px to the right.

Step 2

Select both side anchor points and Convert them to sharp corners. Adjust the position of the ballast handles using the Ballast Signal Tool (Shift-C) and move them up, making a smooth curve of the face line.

Step 3

Let's class the ear from a 40 ten 35 px triangle, using the Polygon Tool. Accept the Curvature Tool (Control-`) and brand the sides of the triangle more rounded and jutting. If yous're using earlier versions of Adobe Illustrator, which don't contain this tool, feel free to use Effect > Warp > Bulge, as nosotros did previously.

Select the upper ballast signal, make it smoother and elevate it to the left, making the shape skewed. Go to Object > Path > Offset Path and gear up the Starting time value to -3 px, forming the inner part of the ear. Make full it with a light-grey colour.

Step iv

Rotate the ear and place it at the left side of the head. Use the Reverberate Tool (O) to create a mirrored re-create on the reverse side.

Pace v

Grade a dark-grey nose from a squashed ellipse, dragging its lower anchor signal downward a chip. Brand ii overlapping light-greyness ellipses beneath the nose, group them and Align with the face horizontally, using the face shape as the Key Object.

Step six

Now allow's brand a funny tongue sticking out! Create a light-pink rectangle using the Rectangle Tool (Thou), and place it under the light-grey ellipses. Select both lower anchor points and pull the Alive Corners markers up to their maximum, making the bottom of the shape rounded. Have the Line Segment Tool (\) and draw a vertical stroke, while holding down Shift. Yous tin can brand the tips of the line rounded in the Stroke console.

Step 7

Allow's move to the eyes. Make a dark-blueish ellipse and encompass its lower office with another ellipse or any color. Select both shapes and apply the Shape Builder Tool (Shift-M) to delete the lower ellipse together with the bottom part of the centre, which was covered. This way nosotros're making a playful look. Add a darker iris and a tiny white highlight to the centre.

Rotate the eye a bit and create a second ane, placing it on the other side of the face.

Footstep 8

Create 2 even light-gray circles, roofing the eyes. Then add ii bigger circles, overlapping and covering the lower role of the face, as shown in the screenshot below. Select the lower circles and utilize the Shape Builder Tool (Shift-Grand) to delete those parts outside the face.

Select all four new pieces and Unite them in Pathfinder, making a face "mask". You tin can delete the gap in the eye of the mask by clicking its border with the Straight Selection Tool (A) and deleting information technology.

Step 9

Brand ii tiny rectangles with rounded corners for the brows, making the dog expect kind and cheerful, and finish up by creating a subtle shadow on the right one-half of the face.

3. How to Make a Fancy Raccoon

Pace 1

We start shaping out the face from a 60 x sixty px pastel-blueish circumvolve. Squash it a bit and make the shape wider. Elevate both side anchor points a few pixels down, and Convert them to sharp corners from the Catechumen menu in the upper toolbar.

Re-create the ears from our true cat, recolor them according to the colour of the raccoon's caput, and place them on both sides of the head.

Step 2

Make a nose from an 18 x 10 px dark-grayness ellipse, dragging its top ballast point up a bit. Create another ellipse with a dark-grey Stroke color, setting the Fill color to None in the Color panel. Take the Scissors Tool (C) and click the left and correct ballast points, splitting the shape horizontally into two equal halves. Delete the lower half, making our raccoon smile.

Step three

Copy the face shape and brand the copy much smaller, filling it with white color and placing it beneath the nose area. Add two tiny black eyes with white highlights, group them and align to the face horizontally in the Align console, making the face a Key Object.

Copy the face shape in one case once again, making the re-create a bit smaller, fill it with dark-blue color and identify it in the bottom part of the face, forming a mask.

Pace iv

Allow's divide the mask into two halves, creating two separate spots effectually the eyes. Have the Rectangle Tool (One thousand) and draw a vertical stripe across the middle of the face. Select both the mask and the stripe, and use the Divide function of Pathfinder to slice all the shapes. Delete the unneeded pieces, if there are any. Place the halves y'all've created below the optics, and make the corners slightly rounded.

Finally, add a apartment shadow to the right part of the face. At present we can move on!

4. How to Make a Kind Panda

Step one

Make a fluffy face shape from a 60 x sixty px light-beige circle, moving its side anchor points down.

Step ii

Copy the nose area from our dog and prepare the Stroke color of the "lips" to dark-grey, and so that the outline is visible. Select two outlined ellipses (without the olfactory organ) and Unite them in Pathfinder.

Cull the Scissors Tool (C) and click the side ballast points of the outlined shape, splitting it apart. Delete the upper half, forming a kind smile for our panda.

Step 3

Copy the eyes from our raccoon, and let's class big, night-gray spots around the optics. Make a squashed ellipse and rotate it a fleck to the left. Utilise the Reflect Tool (O) to make a copy and flip it horizontally to the other side of the confront. Fill the eyeballs with white color, and then that they are visible higher up the dark spots.

Keeping the eyeballs selected, go to Object > Path > Showtime Path and create tiny pupils inside the eyes.

Step iv

Add together round, nighttime-grayness ears to the panda's head, and stop upward by forming a semi-transparent shadow over the right side of its confront.

Dandy work! Let's move on!

5. How to Create a Wise Carry

Step 1

Start making a bear'southward face from a lx 10 lx px circle. Move both side anchor points downwards and elevate the top anchor indicate upward, making the caput look like an egg.

Make the top of the head flat with the Eraser Tool (Shift-E). And brand the corners of the shape slightly rounded.

Step 2

Add together two circumvolve ears to the top of the caput, grouping them and Marshal them horizontally, using the head as a Cardinal Object. Use the Outset Path function with -three px Starting time value to grade the dark inner part of the ears.

Step 3

Make a broad, dark-brown nose from a squashed ellipse. And permit's grade the nose-bridge. Have the Rectangle Tool (Grand) and make a light-beige shape, placing it backside the olfactory organ. Move its upper left ballast point 5 px to the right, using the Move options panel. Do the aforementioned for the upper right anchor point, moving it in the opposite management and thus making the top of the nose-bridge narrower.

Make the corners of the rectangle rounded. Using the Alive Corners function, you can vary the level of the roundness of each separate corner of the shape. For case, you can select only the upper anchor points and thus make the upper corners 100% rounded by pulling the markers down to their maximum.

Step 4

Add together a small-scale ellipse below the bottom of the olfactory organ-span, forming the lower jaw. Add the eyes to the comport'southward face and, if you feel that the bear'south face is too nighttime, make the brown parts a bit lighter.

Finally, add the shadow to the conduct's confront.

Awesome! We have the last character left!

six. How to Brand a Cunning Pull a fast one on

Stride 1

And again, we offset forming the face of the fox from our familiar60 x 60 px circle of an orange colour. Pull the side anchor points down a flake and Catechumen them to sharp corners, making the sides of the face up pointed. Catechumen the lower anchor betoken to a corner likewise, forming a sharp nose.

Stride 2

Take the ears from our raccoon and position them at both sides of the fox's caput, adjusting the colors. Put a black ellipse over the bottom role of the face, roofing the olfactory organ surface area. Use the Shape Builder Tool (Shift-M) to go rid of the piece outside the face up, forming a pointed black olfactory organ.

Step three

Create an ellipse, overlapping the left side of the flim-flam's face, equally shown in the screenshot below. Utilize the Reflect Tool (O) to make a flipped re-create on the opposite side. Select both ellipses and delete those parts outside the face with the Shape Architect Tool (Shift-Thousand). Fill the shapes with light-beige color, forming the cheeks. Add together two tiny, shiny eyes to our trick.

Step 4

Make the tip of the nose a bit rounded with the help of the Live Corners office. And let's add together some more than details to our fox!

Make a small-scale squashed ellipse of a lighter-orange color, and place it at the left side of the nose-bridge. Select the shape, concord Alt-Shift and drag the ellipse to the right, making a copy. Press Control-D twice to class two more copies. Make two more rows of ellipses, placing them in a crisscrossed position. This style we describe a stylized fur on the fox's nose.

Don't forget to add a gentle highlight to the nose past forming a smaller and lighter shape on top of the nose.

Step v

Add a gentle shadow to the correct side of our cunning foxie.

vii. How to Create Icons With Long Shadows

Step 1

At present that we accept 6 flat-way animal portraits, let'south identify them on a ready of colorful circles, creating icons.

Brand a turquoise circle of 106 x 106 px size for the icon's base, and put the raccoon'south head in the center.

Create an lxxx ten 80 px square for the shadow base and rotate it to 45 degrees by holding down Shift.

Step 2

Switch the Blending Style of the square to Multiply, making it semi-transparent, and place the shape higher up the raccoon. Brand the shape a chip narrower, if needed, and motion information technology around, finding the two spots where the shape overlaps the head. In our instance, information technology is the tip of the right ear and the left side of the face. Add 2 anchor points at these spots using the Add Anchor Signal Tool (+), and then switch to the Delete Anchor Point Tool (-) and delete those unneeded anchor points at the height of the rectangle, hiding the top of the shape below the raccoon'due south caput.

Place the shadow nether the head, delete the unneeded piece exterior the icon with the Shape Builder Tool (Shift-Yard) and—voila!—our fancy icon with a trendy flat shadow is finished! Create the circle icons for all the remainder of the animals using the same elementary techniques.

Smashing Job! Our Set of Apartment Animal Icons Is Completed!

This was fun, wasn't it? I hope you've enjoyed creating these cute flat animals from i and the aforementioned shape and learned some new tips and tricks, playing around with ellipses, thePathfinder panel and theShape Builder Tool! Stay tuned for new tutorials, and don't forget to prove your upshot in the comment below!

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