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In this tutorial, I’ll take you behind the scenes on one of my not so easy jobs. Once you get your head around what’s going on, you’ll see it’s less complicated than it looks!
So, have you ever wanted to twist type in a way that is a little more advanced than some of the options you have seen with the Warp feature?
How about making type that looks as though it has been wrapped around a face! Think you need a special 3D app or some "hifalutin" plug in?
No, you can do it all within Illustrator v10 (or higher) with the Mesh function. It just needs a bit of planning and few little shortcuts to get it all happening, stay with me and I’ll take you through it…
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- Program: Adobe Illustrator V10 or higher
- Difficulty: Intermediate to Advanced
- Estimated Completion Time: 4-5 hours
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Nooooo, its plus…
I wish if I had a plus account..
I don’t either, but here’s the gist: create a sketch, toss some type around, use envelope distort to get your text to fit your sketch.
The hard part — as with most of these tutorials — is taking the time to do it.
Awesome.
neat-o
Man, that looks awesome. Wish I had more access to it.
BTW, great job on choosing Dizzy. Are you a trumpet player?
Hey Tom,
Matt, my Illustration agent who got me the gig is a trumpet player, he blows really well too.
I sadly, can only play the fool
RT
Awesome result!
This tutorial seems very interesting but i don´t have a premium
I don´t have a job, if have it a premium would pay
At my country there is approximately 20% of unemployment
Thanks vertortuts for a lot of free tutorials
Sorry for me english
I would pay you a Plus account if I can, I promess
man… i might need to sign up for plus
my free loading days on here are over 
Thank you very much Joey, you are a very good person.
I don´t want to seem ungrateful but I can´t accept it,with some luck I expect to get a new job at the beginning of the year.
Sorry for my english
this is def one plus tut that you dont need to see, to know how its done…
Is your next tut will show us how to make this : http://crowdsourcing.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/01/long_auction_hires_3.jpg ? ^^
Thanks, really inspirationnal like says the guys here.
Best,
R.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Hey Raoul,
I can do a Tut for that Illustration no probs, drop Vector Tuts head Honcho Sean Hodge a line see if he is up for it.
I do like to use a lot of shortcuts and what I call slacker mentality, in my work and that one has quite a few in it.
I have some more Slacker examples here…
http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=363
RT
These are good suggestions. I’ll send you an email Russell. On a side note, when I see RT, I think of Retweet, to much social media.
Some more examples: http://mockduck.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/james-brown.jpg
This has been documented as a rip-off of Sergio Moctezuma’s fine James Brown poster. Isn’t it unethical that Russell Tate continues to make money off if it?:
http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/blog3/?p=1056
http://blog.iso50.com/2008/05/02/moctezuma-james-brown/#comment-20156
I disagree with this assessment. Both of these artists are inspired by a whole era of poster design from the past. When two artists have retro influences there work will have similar solutions. This type of work used to be hand drawn lettering.
I encourage all artists to look at the history of design for inspiration for current solutions. Thx.
Good tutorial.
Thanks.
great tutorial
I think that was very creative! But I guess it is also coupled with a little bit of drawing skills in order to make the outline of the face.