Aug 05

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Illustrating the Flower Pattern

Since Web Designer Wall was launched last week, I received several emails regarding on how I made the main illustration background. I thought I should put up a quick Illustrator tutorial so everyone can share. This article will outline the main steps on how I made the flower pattern in Illustrator. Hopefully, this can answer your question.

1. Sketch

Always draw your illustration on paper first. This will save your time.

flower sketch

2. Trace

The illustration was traced in Adobe Illustrator using my favorite tracing technique. First, import the scan in Illustrator and set Layer Opacity to 20%.

layer option

Then trace it with the Pen tool.

tracing pen tool

3. Coloring

After you’ve done the tracing, go to Colourlovers.com (or any color palette sites) and find the color themes that you like. What I did was copy the sample image from the site, then paste it directly in Illustrator.

color palettes

Now fill the path color by using the Eyedropper tool.

eyedropper

With the Eyedropper tool active, select the path, then click on the image to pick the color. That’s it. Quick and easy.

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  • 153 husson bano http://gogle

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  • 152 Allison

    Hello!
    I love your flower design. Would like your permission to use it on my business cards. Please contact me with more pictures that I could use of this pattern!
    Many thanks!
    Allison

  • 151 husna

    pls send me some good images of ur work.

    Thank you…

  • 150 Nagoorammal

    very nice……
    pls send some desighnes me ……. Thanku so much

  • 149 sothearoth

    I would like to learn from you.
    Thank you.

  • 148 Shar http://wickedful.blogspot.com

    MY goodness! This is cool! I just got illustrator and this one just helped me out a lot since I like to draw my designs on paper first!! Hope you have more Illustrator tutorials soon!! I’m starting to love Illustrator more and more!

  • 147 saranya

    hello i like to flower could u send me some graphics by mail i”ll be thank full to u. this pictur is beauty …… and also this webside…

    thanks…….
    this website is TOTALLY amazing.

  • 146 charlotte http://www.bebo.com

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  • 145 Keith D http://www.wmwebdesign.co.uk/

    Nice
    I’ll give it a try using Adobe Fireworks.

    Result is very impressive.

    Keith D

  • 144 tiny http://tinybirdarts.etsy.com

    Wow, how long did it take you to trace all you hand-drawn lines?

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