Illustrator Tutorial: Shading a Flat Design Illustration
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For this design exercise, I’ve created a simple flat illustration of Homer Simpson and using the Knife tool sliced the vector shapes to shade the character.
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Given that this is a flat design illustration you shouldn’t aim for something photorealistic, just try to show what kind of volume you’re working with, whether that’s something rounded or angular.
One important thing to note when you are working with the Knife tool is that if you’re following a curved path, you should go slowly.
If you speed things up, you will get very weird curves on the slice, which means you’ll need to either try again or make an additional adjustments, ending up with you wasting time.
When you’re shading white elements, I usually recommend sticking with monochrome shades of grey, but if you are working with color, then you have way more room to experiment with which kind of darker shade you’re going to use, you can even have different colors.
Hope you enjoyed this quick Illustrator tutorial and start incorporating the knife tool in your work, don’t forget to like this video so more people could see it and subscribe to get notified about upcoming tutorials.
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I greatly appreciate how this video demonstrated exactly what I was looking for, and it did it in under 2 minutes. Quickly getting to the point is vastly underrated. Not every tutorial video needs to preface the lesson with all of the controls, the setup, the color pallete etc.
This should be an example for how to make a very valuable tutorial video.
Here I am messing around with gradients and complex shapes... Thanks dude!!
my pleasure Johan, thanks for watching!
Thank you for this, a lot of other tutorials I've seen are so complicated, this was super helpful and straightforward!
I love your tutorials Cosmin. They are awesome. Thank you very much!
You are awesome! thank you for watching!
Whenever I draw the cut with the knife, it drops a stroke onto my shape even if I have none selected. Then when I remove the stroke, it removes the stroke across my whole shape. What am I doing wrong?
Nice quick tutorial. Some subtle art tips in there picked up on the second viewing.
That's great to hear, thank you for watching!
Extremely straight forward! Thank you!
wow thank you so much for the tutorial. it really saves my time a lot!!!! before i know this tutorial, i make shading and highlight manually lol.
Really good tutorial! I am a bit confused as to how you get your cuts so well rounded. Is it just practice, or is there some type of button that you can press to make it a cleaner curve?
I created my image with the pen tool. When I select them, it only grabs one stroke. How do I make my image one before using the knife tool?
Nice Technique.....Awesome
hey, thanks for watching! I've always used the knife tool, thought I'd share this technique 🔪
Lol I learned in less than 2 minutes what they reach you in graphic school in one hour. Merci mult!
Straight to the point? Subbed
Sautare. Felicitari, faci o treaba foarte buna. Respect!
Mersi mult! 🙏
thank you so much!
yes, quick tutorial, yes.
Nice to see you enjoy these types of videos 👏
Thank you this was so helpful
My pleasure 🙌 have a great day!
Thank you.
My pleasure, thank you for taking the time to write this comment 💛
Thank you for the quick tutorial
Thank's mate
No problem @Kevin - have an awesome day!
The slice tool!!! That is so fucking smart
Thanks you, simple but helpful
very useful for beginners!
Thank you so much 👌🏽
Thank you !
Tq share
Beautiful ❤️
haha thank you so much ❤️
@@CosminSerbanDesign You are always welcome :)
How do you seperate the colour fill and the outline ? Thank you much quicker then the copy and paste of each shape method
did you find any solution for this?
how do I prevent it from highlighting all of my drawing? everytime I use it everything gets highlighted
I get unwanted seams between these color shapes. Any idea why that would be?
hi, can you create a new video on Shading i dont understand this one can you make a easy one
How to separate line and fill like you?
I usually create the basic shapes, then duplicate them and add an outline on a separate layer, hope that helps :)
@@CosminSerbanDesign Thanks
bro why your knife tool, so smooth
did you duplicate the layer before you cut it with knife tool?
yes
Thanks a lot, but my knife tool keeps adding a stroke to the line I create, but when I reduce the stroke to 0 it removes the entire stroke from the original object. How can I resolve this? Thanks!
same issue did u find a fix
not sure if it’s relevant but highlight two shapes then select “shape builder” tool. Hover over an area where the two shapes intersect, press ‘option’ (Mac) and click to delete that area.
Or experiment with similar things under shape builder tool
@@jackiego1 thanks i figured it out but ur way might be quicker
😭 it's so hard for me
the whole picture is turning into the color instead of shading in those corners how you're doing it. Maybe you should do a video on preventing the whole illustration from turning into a solid color because i see what you're doing but thats not working on my end you need a step-by-step tutorial. Are there any button commands that make the knife slice shade the corner you just sliced? because my whole picture turns into the color
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This so annoying at this point i just shade a bunch of stuff and erase to see what would make it look decent