reADactor » hat http://www.readactor.com A mixer of inspiration and tips, a reactor of your future design ideas, tutorials, freebies, wordpress and joomla templates, showcase of great looking websites. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:11:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Create a student character mascot with Adobe Illustratorhttp://www.readactor.com/tutorials/create-a-student-character-mascot-with-adobe-illustrator/ http://www.readactor.com/tutorials/create-a-student-character-mascot-with-adobe-illustrator/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:10:49 +0000 reADactor http://www.readactor.com/?p=1888 Make a sketch or use mine for following steps.

sketch

1. Make a full contour the character.

contur-step-1

2. Duplicate it and apply an “offset path” with 3px.

contur-step-2

3. Make the following shape for coat with “Pen Tool”. You can draw it above the sketch. Apply a blue gradient to it. To use same colors like mine, use a free and simple color picker like “pixie“. Will be more easy for you to copy the code of color instead writing it.

coat-step-2

4. Make the pants. Use the following gradient settings.

pants-step-3

5. Make the legs shape, using same “Pen Tool”.

legs-step-4

6. For shoes we will use three layers (in second one we mix and the socks). First shape:

feet-step-5

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