Another amazing thing what keep your attention alive is the color palette. Is a true challenge to use so much colors and to not overload the canvas, but Matei it seem that found the magic path to the vivid world of colors.

Being asked about source of his inspiration used in illustrations, he answered that the only one inspiration is the person or character chosen, but also use a color, different lines or shapes according to the image and the way he saw it. For example, in process of the illustration of Jean-Michel Basquiat he took the inspiration from his paintings for used colors, like blue, yellow and orange but also in the shapes. Yoaz tried to do his own shapes and style but in a way you can recognize Jean-Michel Basquiat style.

For more about Yoaz, visit his blog or Behance profile.

1. Mysore Dasara

2. Zerograv

3. Uglyfant

4. Roex

5. Rococo Peru

6. Ooga

7. NCP Coating

8. Myoto

9. Mumuth

10. Maximum

11. Mammo

2.  At any time you can switch between two shapes, selecting the blended one with a new one. Go to “Objects / Blend” and chose replace spine.

3. Now, after some training with blend tool and splines, make 3 splines using circles blended like in following image.

4. Some guides prepare the result for future use of Rotate Tool. Is important to find an appropriate point for rotate (center) to can achieve something to start.

5. Rotate  (Alt+D) and then Ctrl+D till the shape meet the original starting place. The result will be close to what you see bellow. Not looking quite rite at this moment.

1.  Making the ellipse part of the badge. Use 6 ellipses to make the following shape. A simple way is to use the “Offset path” (Object / Path / Offset Path). Use the subtract tool to have the middle area empty. The colors are: #640401 and #FFFFFF.

2. Using the rectangle tool, draw a shape with 60 px corner radius. Use same technique like on ellipse shape to make the front part of badge. Use gradients and colors on your taste to have a 3D look. To can use same colors like in this tutorial, use a free and simple color picker like “pixie“.

At this step, your badge should look like this:

3. Add a shadow shape under the rounded rectangle. From “Transparency” panel chose the “Overlay” blend option.

4. Apply a carbon vector effect for the rounded rectangle. You can make the dots yourself, or, save your time spending just 2$ to buy this Vector Carbon Metal Pattern.

5. Depending on your Adobe Illustrator version, using the middle rounded rectangle shape, crop or make a clipping mask what will be placed over the rounded rectangle badge part.

Let’s use in our play a hammerhead shark. Very often is used in corporate identities, logos for its clear unique shape what is easy to be recognizable. Is one of my favorites too.

1. Use a hammerhead photo reference.

2. Make a deep blue background with a radial gradient on a separate layer.

3. Make a contour of your hammerhead picture. Is hard to find a picture to have 100% your wanted pose. This is also our case. You will notice the shape will be a bit different from hammerhead photo. Name the layer “contour”. To use same colors like mine, use a free and simple color picker like “pixie“

4. Make a new layer and hide the previous one, “contour” (sure, you need to make it visible each time when you draw a new shape). Now you need some shapes to apply transparency and feather style (i used a 25px  feather radius). Use also deep blue colors depending on how dark / light is your zone (shadows or highlights). The rule is simple. If  a body part is close to you, will be more light in color. The dark ones are for parts placed far away.

Start with a basic square shape, copy  / paste / duplicate 3 times and apply for each a different isometric rotation (top, left, right). Those will be the faces of your cube.

Now, select all your faces and go to Objects / Expand Appearance to can manipulate them more easy. Align them in shape of a cube like you saw in the first screenshot of this tutorial. Let’s assume you want to make a multicolor vector cube icon. Using few basic perspective rules, duplicate your cube. Is easy, because you just need to follow the cubes lines. In center of your cubes is formed a star shape what is like a control shape, to assure yourself that the cubes are aligned properly.

Use 3 color tints for cube faces. One for most exposed faces (light), two for shadow / dark faces.

Another beauty of this fantastic tool, is that you can create so easy patterns for your website backgrounds, wallpapers etc. Using same steps describes above (square / isometric effect / cube) you can create a seamless cubes pattern. Align each cube close to next one on vertical and horizontal, add a clipping mask for a certain portion like in next screen and you got the pattern.

Here is an example of pattern  just created.

What about a vector logo? Nothing more easy after you understand the idea of isometric tool. You can apply a lot of effects for cube faces. Light lines can give a more sharp  / contrast visual effect of your cubes.

Feel free to explore the endless possibilities of 3D rotate tool from Adobe Illustrator with its isometric effect.

Once you have your logo, put it on these promotional products to promote your brand.

The W letter show a lot of potential in many design purposes. Is one of my favorites. Now, make a mouth for w-ram becoming shape.

Your shape should be like this now:

The W look now more like a sheep because is no horns there. To make it, use “pen tool” and make a simple shape like in following image. Select it and make a new art brush from it, using setting from screenshot.

Select “pencil” or “paintbrush tool” and using new created brush, draw shapes close to horns look. The “smooth tool” is doing a great job here.

Once you found the perfect shape, ungroup it and delete the path (line). duplicate it and transform / reflect one horn.

Place the horns in top of W brackets.

Be sure you make a proper alignment with top of W letter.

1. Find a “P” font letter close to the classic look.

2. Crop the left side of the “P”, like in the following image:

3. Duplicate your new “P” letter shape. Go to effects and from 3D, choose rotate. From 3D rotate options select in positions list “Isometric right”.

4. Same things for the second “P” letter shape, except the position from 3D rotate options will be “Isometric left”.

Your new isometric letters:

5. The “P” letters look how we want but we cannot play to much with the shapes. For more flexibility, expand the appearance. Click right on letter, ungroup, click right again and release the clipping mask, then delete the rectangle path.

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