Customizing a DIY Vinyl Toy – Vector Premium Tutorial
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Customizing a DIY Vinyl Toy – Vector Premium Tutorial

on Nov 4th 2010 with 4 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Illustrator CS 4
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Estimated Completion Time: 5 hours
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Today, we have another Vector Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to take your custom toy skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you where you’ll learn how to create your own decals in Illustrator, then apply them to your own DIY vinyl toy.

This Premium Tutorial is Filled with Creative Tips

Toys are a good way for designers to break out of the computer and take their art into the real world. This tutorial will aim to teach you how to create a vinyl toy using Illustrator, decal paper and a blank toy.

I’ll start by talking about how to find and procure a blank toy, where to find the templates for sketching your artwork ideas, what type of paper we will need when printing our graphics, how to draw all the artwork in illustrator, how to print the graphics, and finally how to apply them to our toy. Even if you don’t have access to a toy, you will still learn a lot of techniques, which you can apply in various creative situations.

About the Author

Author Neil Hanvey (AKA neilakoga) is a programmer and illustrator. He’s a talented vector artist born and raised in Manchester, UK. He’s been awarded daily deviations on DeviantArt, wallpaper of the week on Abduzeedo, t-shirt of the day on Teefury, various features on DeviantArt, featured in magazines like Computer Arts Projects, Digital Arts and Digital Artist, featured artist on SlashThree and numerous design blogs and art sites including Psdtuts+, vector.Net and designFlavr.

Professional and Detailed Instructions Inside

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Vector Premium Membership

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Hi my name is Neil Hanvey although you may know me as neilakoga. I'm a programmer / illustrator, born and raised in Manchester, UK. I currently live and work in Herefordshire spending my days developing websites at Pepperneck and my nights doodling. I'm also a member of the SlashThree collective.  

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  • http://cargocollective.com/unknownbeing departed93

    Another fine tutorial from the great Neil Hanvey. You all should definitely check him out, lucky me that knows him. :D

  • http://www.facebook.com Mr. Blonde

    NICE! I need gift ideas, this will be perfect.

  • flyingfox

    This is cool.

    Wanna know what would be really, really awesome? Creating your own 3D character with Autodesk Inventor for example, sending the file to a prototype milling company and having your very own character produced which you then breathe life into as shown in this tut.

    Custom made instead of customized.

    Just dreaming, nice tut – thanks a lot!

    • http://bucketothought.com/loungekat/blog/ LoungeKat

      3d is something you can find over at Cgtuts ;) http://cg.tutsplus.com/