today I have a quick nifty technique
using the blend tool to make illustrator
line art follow along in today's
satori graphics tutorial
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I've made a tutorial about six months
ago in this technique but we used two
technique to make an animal in that case
today we're going to make an actual
digital line art design using the blend
tool make a new document in Illustrator
and then choose a dark black color in
the color palette
using the rectangle tool create a shape
over the entire canvas and then lock in
place so it doesn't move around
then select a stroke that is white in
color and then choose a brush tool you
can use the pen tool as well if you want
to on the canvas make some lines like
I'm doing here and you need at least two
lines that intersect you can experiment
with this method using different lines
and the blend tool to give you different
outcomes
once you draw the lines change the
stroke away to something very thin and
then go up to object blending options
and then blend
you need to choose specific steps and
then use a first setting on the left
here you have to experiment the number
of steps you use but I'm gonna use 18
you then need to go up to object
blending options and then make to
activate the blend tool from here you
can use a direct selection tool to
adjust your line art design this may
take a while but play around with there
I also go back and change your line
layout or number of steps with the line
I selected you can then add a gradient
like so again play around the colors in
the gradient style as this can look
really cool over a dark background so
here's my line art design using the
blend tool and now we can add more
details to finish design add a dark
square and put Italy with the design and
then open up the transparency window
changing the blend mode to overlay or
something similar will have a kind of
transparency effect again play around
with the blend modes and add as many
shapes to your design in this fashion
I'm simply showing you guys a method in
today's tutorial
here I've added some type and some white
lines to my design you can really have
lots of fun using these techniques to
make your very own line art design using
the blend tool in Illustrator let me
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it useful have fun playing around with
the blend tool to make your own line art
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