• Adobe Illustrator

  adding shadows to a character

  Posted by Keith Vickers on January 30, 2013 at 10:12 pm

  I have created this character.

  

  Right now I am creating shapes, drawing my “shadows” over the top of the character and using the path order in the layer palete in order to hide things. I am having trouble getting some shadows to fit snugly to the outline of my character.

  To any wise forum member:
  Is there a way to create these types of shading quickly?

  Many thanks in advance

  Peace.

  Per Arne sandvik replied 13 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Vincent Rosati

  January 31, 2013 at 2:39 am

  My initial thought would be to put all of your structure, the black ink, in a new layer on top. Then do all of your coloring in the lower layer – maybe even create multiple ‘color’ layers, like; base, shadows, highlights, etc.
  Just some initial thoughts.

  Vince

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  Per Arne sandvik

  April 25, 2013 at 4:02 pm

  This thread is pretty old, but if you’re still keeping an eye on it, you should check out the “draw inside” function.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As3cOFA18Mk

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