How to Illustrate a Super Cute Monster with Custom Brushes
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How to Illustrate a Super Cute Monster with Custom Brushes

on Sep 19th 2012 with 19 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program Used: Adobe Illustrator CS6
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Video Length: 18:32
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Learn how to create a super cute vector illustration of a monster. This tutorial focuses on many aspects of drawing characters, lighting techniques, and unique brush creation that will help you in you future character projects. If you’re wanting to learn about expressive illustration with Adobe Illustrator, then this is a great intermediate level tutorial for you!

This video will focus on the creation of a monster in Adobe Illustrator Cs6. Although this tutorial is created with AiCS6, these techniques will transfer to legacy versions.

 
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Mike Austin aka HumanNature84 is an Illustrator and Concept artist specializing in the Vector medium. A California native, he now calls Texas his home. He also the creator of Vectology.com. You can also follow him on Twitter and Facebook.  

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  • antonio

    Now the video is correct, thanks

  • Stever

    I really enjoyed this tut and was well presented and learnt something

    Look forward to future tuts from you Mike

    Well done.. THanks

  • http://www.caegraphicdesign.com Chris E

    WOW..excellent!

    Great that you try and explain the different thought process for inking in illustrator. If you do comics digitally, this is a valuable tutorial to get you started!

    Thanks

  • https://www.facebook.com/RichardSaundersProducoesAudiovisuais Richard Saunders

    Gostei muito!!! Parabéns! ^^

  • Chu

    Thank you very much.

  • http://cargocollective.com/huahsuan Chris Lee

    Amazing! I learn a lot, thank you!

  • maia

    Hi Mike,

    I’m new to using illustrator, how do I multiply my sketch?

    • http://www.vectology.com Mike Austin
      Author

      @maia

      1.Select your sketch

      2.Open up your transparency pallet (shift=f8)

      3. From the drop down menu (normal should be the default) select Multiply.

      And Your Done!!!! :)

  • Nanda

    How are you making your fill see through while covering you previous lines? Using CS5.

  • Frowd

    Hello , maybe author can share the brush.

  • http://ericcavell.com Eric

    How do I create that brush?

    Thanks

  • Diogo Santos

    If you use Live Paint to coloring as a lot easy.

  • AimanZin

    Hello guys…

    I have one question…when I use the brush tool and start to draw some lines, I noticed that no red lines were constructed first as in the video…Why is this happens?

    someone please answer my question…really need to figure this out…

    • Aimanzin

      I meant the red path line…

  • Arnim Pommeranz

    I also have a problem with the creating of brushes. I follow your tutorial and all seems ok. When I want use my new brush, the fill color jumps every time to transparent and the stroke size to 1 pt. So it is very sad to correct the values with every line. Can somebody tell me, what I did wrong?

    • http://www.facebook.com/micshbad Albei George Bogdan

      double click on the brush tool from the menu and check fill new brush strokes

  • http://www.facebook.com/micshbad Albei George Bogdan

    really awesome tutorial, thks dude ♥

  • http://www.facebook.com/madalina.gogoasa Madalina Gogoasa

    job well done ! .. i enjoy it :) .. and now i have my own little cute monsters