Illustrator swirl curl background tutorial ~ Design Articles and Tutorials

Illustrator swirl curl background tutorial

-File menu Open New File (Ctr+N)

Now select the “Spiral” tool, and click once on the artboard without dragging to bring up the tool options.I use Radius 33px

Select curl brush I use this brush Select stroke 1px Next step I reflected my shape

Select second shape stroke:0,75px and rotate

Next step first shape copy Select first shape Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V and stroke:0,50px

Next Step Select all shape Ctrl+A and

Object>Expand Appearance

Select shape and Shift+F7 or Window>Pathfinder>Click Merge

First shape finish.

My shape on drawing Circle

Select Curl Shape and reflect

Select curl shape copy and change rotate

Copy shape and Reflect and Rotate

Finished rotate and reflect curl shape

Finished

Uly said... January 12, 2008 at 9:18 PM I really like this a lot. Its much better than doing it by hand and then tracing it in Illustrator. O_O;