#Illustrator textures how to#
#Illustrator textures full#

Set the вЂStroke LengthвЂ™ slider to 9 and the вЂSharpnessвЂ™ slider to 4. To finish the jeans texture, go to Effect > Brush Strokes > Crosshatch, which brings up another dialog box. Set the вЂGrainвЂ™ at 12, the вЂHighlight AreaвЂ™ at 0 and the вЂIntensityвЂ™ at 10. While the object is still selected, go to Effect > Artistic > Film GrainвЂ¦ and the dialog box will appear. Go to Color Panel and set the color of the selected object to pure black (R=0 G=0 B=0). Make a copy of the previous object and place it on top using the Bring to Front (Shift+Ctrl+]) command. Now, go to the Gradient Panel and fill the selected object with radial gradients as shown below: light blue (R=158 G=177 B=191) and medium blue (R=85 G=130 B=163).Дў. Grab the Rectangle Tool (M) and create a rectangle which dimensions should be set to about 700 x 415px. Create a blank document and set the Artboard dimensions to about 800 x 600px.

#Illustrator textures how to#

YouвЂ™ll learn how to create stitching, apply fabric textures, and create seams using the Mesh Tool. If you liked this post, why not share it! It lets me know what posts you like so I can make more posts like this.After studying this simple tutorial, you will learn many useful and necessary techniques that will help you to create a realistic jeans texture. If you have any questions about this tutorial, leave a comment down below and I will try to answer it. Again, if you want to learn how to apply your texture to a pattern click here. Your texture is done! You can use this texture to apply to your patterns, layer on top of your handlettering, add depth to your digital artwork, etc. In order to do this, you want to use the direct selection tool, select all of the paths you want to delete, and press delete. At the very bottom of my texture there is a line that I want to get rid of so I will probably delete the whole bottom row. The last thing you need to do is clean up your texture. You now have a texture that is almost ready to be applied to your pattern. With your texture selected, go to object in the top toolbar and press expand. This will get rid of the background color. Open up the advanced settings in your image trace panel and make sure ignore white is selected. You can also mess with paths, corners, and noise in your advanced settings and see how that affects the look of your tutorial, but for the purpose of this tutorial, changing the threshold is enough. If you want your texture to be more compacted increase the threshold even more and if you want a less busy texture, you can decrease the threshold. The threshold number is just a preference. The threshold started at 128 which was too little so I increased it to 192. We can fix that by increasing the threshold in your image trace panel. If you cannot see image trace in your toolbar you can find it by going to window and scrolling down to image trace.Д¬hange the mode to black and white and press trace.ДЄs you can see with the above picture, when I traced my texture it got rid of a lot of the detail. Select your texture and in your right side toolbar, go to image trace. Right away I notice that there is a line at the bottom of my texture that I do not want. Once you are finished scanning your texture, save it to the desktop.Дrag your texture from your desktop into Adobe Illustrator.

#Illustrator textures full#

If your texture doesnвЂ™t take up the full page you might want to also crop your image so it is only scanning in the texture.

Make sure you are scanning in black and white and change the dpi to 300.

Before you scan your texture there are a couple of details that should be changed in your scanning settings. I recommend using a black crayon since it creates a more clear distinction between the black and white, but if you donвЂ™t have something black to create your texture that is still ok. If you want to follow along with this tutorial, the texture I am using is the product of a crayon turned on itвЂ™s side. Putting a little bit of paint on the paintbrush and working all of the paint out of the brush is a great way to make textured brush strokes, but when you just make a square that is completely black the texture wont show up well. There are a lot of things you can use at this stage, but if you are using something like paint you have to make sure there is some white in it. You want something with texture so a marker that is losing itвЂ™s ink or a book with a woven texture would be perfect for this. The first thing you should do is figure out which medium you want to work with. After reading this tutorial, if you want to learn how to apply the texture you made to your patterns you can read that first post here. This is a continuation of that tutorial except you are going to learn how to make your own textures. A few weeks ago you might remember I taught you how to add texture to your patterns.