I have made a new tutorial on using Adobe Illustrator, I have split it into various sections including making brushes, and using gradient blends. It isn’t the best tutorial but I tried to make it as informative yet simple as possible.

Read the Tutorial

There is more to add, when I have more time.

I am also thinking of revamping this whole site, with a new layout, tutorial section etc, and making it a more personal/less information site. When I first opened this domain I said I didn’t care ho read it, whether they were enemies or old friends from school or some random. But it has come to my attention that I think my mum has been reading my blog ¹, and I know my dad has googled us kids names before to see what we have been up to. I can’t just say to my mum, hey have you been reading my blog.

^{1. With all the questions she asks me relating to the posts I have written, the day after I write them, like yesterday she asked me if I still use my sewing machine that she gave me}

In this tutorial we will use the same blended circle copied and pasted to form an arrangement, like bubbles as seen below.

Select the whole design of bubbles and drag it to the symbols panel.

Choose the newly made symbol and using the symbol sprayer tool, spray the bubbles onto the canvas.

This is what you get:

llustrator Tutorial

This tutorial is here to help you understand the very basics of Adobe Illustrator. I am not saying this is the right or wrong way to do everything in this tutorial, this is just my personal way of doing things. The tutorial will be split into the following parts:

Basic Tools

Making Brushes

Fancy Brushes

Using Gradients

Pencil Tool

Gradient Blends

Making Symbols

You may also go back to the visitor page for more tutorials on Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop