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While spaceships, rockets and UFOs are all the rage in the icon world these days, submarines have been inexcusably neglected. Let’s correct this situation immediately by drawing a fun submarine using gradient meshes, pattern brushes, opacity masks and blending modes.
Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Illustrator CS4
- Difficulty: Advanced
- Estimated Completion Time: 2 hours
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Your use of shading and lighting is brilliant. Nice job.
Excellent! Simply Excellent.
Very nice – great sense of 3D here, and the overall effect is very impressive
Very nice – great sense of 3D here, and the overall effect is very impressive
BEATLES!!!!
Dude, excellent yellow submarine! Loved it so much!
Too bad it’s plus…
haha nice one!
I don’t have a plus membership
:(
This one is awesome! Great job!
Yellow submarine! yeah! nice!
Awesome Looking stuff.. Great Job man! Looking forward to more tutorials from you ;)
Thinking about becoming a memeber with quality tutorials like this
The 3D looking you achieved is really awesome. Congrats and thanks for sharing!
impressive work.. thanks for sharing.. love it!
I dont know what all the rage is about. this submarine looks extremely amature. the shading is way off and the shape looks… well dumb. i wasnt a fan of the propeller. whatevz.
Jason,
thanks for your “constructive” critique. I can see from your extended portfolio that you know what you’re talking about!
I apologize for making such dumb submarines but I can’t help it.
This is very nice work well done!
Very Excellent wrok