You can experiment quite a bit with this technique. The Twirl Rate is slow so it is easy to see when you need to let go. With the texture selected, click and hold on the texture until you are happy with the knot. Double click on the Twirl Tool in the Tools Panel to bring up the Twirl Tool Options dialog.
With this tool you can add some knots to your wood texture if you want. Pick the second tool in the list called the Twirl Tool. You can do as much or as little as you want.Ĭlick and hold down on the Warp Tool (shift r) in the Tools Panel to bring up the other transform tools. I like to go up and down and slightly back and forth. Select just the texture and click and drag with the Warp Tool (shift r). Once the settings are back to default, change the Intensity to 10% and click OK. They are probably on the default settings, but if they are not, press the reset button on the right of the dialog. Next, change the color of the texture to a darker brown than the first rectangle.ĭouble click on the Warp Tool (shift r) in the Tools Panel to bring up the Warp Tools Options dialog. With the texture selected, change the width to 5 inches and the height to 5 inches from the Transform Panel. Next, press the Expand button on your tool bar. If you have read previous tutorials, you will see I use these setting all the time for tracing.
It makes it easy to recall these setting. I like to save a preset in the Tracing Options. You don’t have to change all the options, just the ones below. Or you can go Object > Live Trace > Tracing Options. Click the arrow beside the Live Trace Button and select Tracing Options. With the texture still selected, the Control Panel defaults to the Live Trace options. With the texture selected go Object > Expand Appearance. When the Graphic Pen Effect dialog comes up, change the following settings. Select the smaller rectangle and go Effect > Sketch > Graphic Pen. 25 inches in the Transform Panel and fill the rectangle with a 40% black. With the copied rectangle selected, change the dimensions for the width to 2.5 inches and the height to.
Next Copy (⌘c) the rectangle and Paste In Front (⌘f). Fill the rectangle with a light brown and take off the stroke. An easy way to draw an exact rectangle is to click on the artboard with the Rectangle Tool (m) to bring up the Rectangle dialog to enter dimensions. RectanglesĬreate a 5 inch by 5 inch rectangle with the Rectangle Tool (m). ⌘ is displayed for the Command key (mac), with the Ctrl key being the Windows equivalent (not displayed). Keyboard shortcuts are displayed in orange. This tutorial was created with Illustrator CS3.
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