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How To Make A Skateboard For Digital Printing – Vector Premium Tutorial

on Mar 25th 2009 with 18 comments
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We have another great Vector Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members today. If you want to learn how to create skate graphics with Illustrator CS4 techniques, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn how to create skate graphics with shapes, lines, and patterns, and mount them on a board, then prep for digital printing!

This Vector Premium Tutorial is Filled with Creative Instruction

Loungekat shows us how to make a skateboard design with some of the new features in Illustrator CS4. Let’s check out her process of creating this hot vector design and how to prepare it for digital printing – the CS4 way. Let’s get to it!

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Plus members can Log in and Download! Otherwise, Join Now! Below are some sample images from the tutorial, which show the development of the skate design, which is explained in this tutorial.

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Kate McInnes specializes in Communication Design and Digital Illustration. Based in Melbourne Australia, she is the Associate Editor of Vectortuts+ and one half of the creative duo McKelly. Find her on Twitter as @bittenbypixels and Blood Sweat Vector.  

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  • http://www.dsaportfolio.com.br Diego SA

    That’s the kind of work that I always pray to get!

    Am I the first to comment?

    • B

      no, I am

      • http://www.dsaportfolio.com.br Diego SA

        No, you’re not! I am

  • lum0

    lol! this is ugly! and easy too

    • http://aiburn.com Sean Hodge

      @lumo – I disagree. I think this looks cool. Take a look at Kate’s (Loungecat’s) folio http://www.loungekat.com/ Her work is awesome and she has loads of real world illustration experience to share.

      The tutorial is fairly easy for an experienced illustrator, though just right for a beginner to intermediate artist. She also covers loads of new Illustrator CS4 tools and techniques in the tutorial, which everyone can benefit from.

      • http://www.spgrafiks.com Simona

        I agree with Sean, it’s cool looking and a great idea.

        Please stop calling things ugly and start showing some respect.

    • Paige

      It’s far more attractive and complex than some recent postings. Besides, I think the focus is on prepress, which doesn’t get enough exposure on these tutorial sites.

    • lum0

      is portfolio ist great but this skateboard….. oO

  • Mike H

    LoungeKat took the time to give us a tutorial. Might be easy to you, but to some it might be a big help.

  • http://www.opensourcehunter.com OpenSourceHunter

    Well done, always good to see tuts about print work.

    greetz

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  • http://www.frankyaguilar.com Franky

    Very nice. This was one of our packaging projects at school. wish this was on 2 months ago. :D:D:D:D:D

  • Jonathan

    Great job. I like the design.

  • http://iamscotty.com/ scotty

    A very good tutorial by an awesome illustrator. Respect due LoungeKat:)

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  • Kane

    I dig this. Such a clean design.

  • http://www.nymcnj.org Jose Gonzalez

    Awesome!!!!

  • http://www.youtube.com/coreyjay4 Corey

    I’m not a skateboarder but I can already tell that once when you put the trucks & wheels on the board, you’re going to cover the design

  • kevin

    Nice work, but not such a cool design for a skateboard though. 99% of skaters are guys, dudes, you know? If you know anything about the skate community, this is just not acceptable. If a “guy” showed up at a skatepark with that deck, he’s probably going to get beat up…or at least snaked a lot! Well…no we would beat him up. :)
    And after skating for more than 25 years, I think I’m right.

    • http://bucketothought.com/loungekat/blog/ LoungeKat
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      You may have a point, but considering I sell skateboards as part of my job it could be a cultural thing. Australians generally like art for art, not art for boys and art for girls ;)