Adobe Illustrator Ladybug Tutorial Part 1

Adobe Illustrator Ladybug Tutorial Part 2

Like I promised this is the third, and final, part to our ladybug tutorial. If you want to read up on how to make your own ladybug you can get to the first two parts of the tutorial above. As with my tutorials before, I want to give some usage examples for the subject of our tutorial. Those wonderful lipid munching ladybugs. Here we go.

My first example uses the ladybug directly as you see it in the tutorial. This is a simple example tri-fold flier from an imaginary flower shop. I made this flier using the my Floral, Vine, Flower, and of course Ladybug tutorials for a combined effect. I like these fliers because their simple, cost effective, and straight to the point. This by the way was not done in Indesign. Illustrator can do just as good a job making fliers like these if you use your head a little when your setting up your drawing.

My next example is the illustrated ladybug. This takes our drawing, removes the gradients, and applies a simple charcoal stroke. Simple, but the effect is something your likely to see in a lot of children’s books. I’ll give you a hint; this is how a lot of children books are illustrated. Bright colors, solid fills, and the warm feeling of hand drawn sketches will probably remain in children’s books for a very long time to come.

Now what if you want to have a more antique china feel. Take your ladybug from the tutorial. First make a copy of your ladybug, then apply a gaussam blur to the original, and set the stoke to transparent. Now paste your copy over the original, and remove it’s fill. Instant china plate lady bug.

Well we now have antique bugs, and old china bugs, what about modern robotic bugs? Change some colors around, apply a stroke and curl to your antennas, and your ready to go. Robo ladybug all ready for your metallic theme.

Well that’s all my examples for this portion of the tutorial, but this barely touches the ideas I had. I hope you enjoyed the tutorial, and thanks for reading.