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Most of the given Tutorials are taken from various sources on the Internet and I compiled some of them for you. Hope you understand. More are in the line.

I like to blog, I like to share my ideas, thinking and my works with friends. Here In this blog I will post my design works which i have tried in several design contest in online and offline.

Few Years ago, I just started to learn Illustrator as hobby. And to continue i learned myself illustrator and its some basics. Obviously I got a big volume of support from internet and my friends to learn this design techniques.

Here All the design I'll post is copyright protected as all the design done by myself.

Most of the Tutorials are collected from net as I got those while I was searching Tutorials for me and what I still search in the net. So respective tutorials are copyright protected as per their writer.

If anyone interested to get logo design or illustrator work he may contact me.

If anyone has anything to discuss about any tutorials, he/she may mail me to share and discuss on that.

Some of designs I have posted for my bids in http://www.99designs.com long ago.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

How to draw a beveled star ?


Follow the steps to draw a beveled Star
Step 1: Draw a vertical path. 
Step 2: With the path selected, go to Effect>Transform. Enter a roation angle of 36° and 4 copies. Click OK.
transformeffectspine.jpg 
Step 3: Go to Object>Expand Appearance, which will result in 5 paths, grouped.
Step 4: Draw a star (hold down Shift and Option to constrain it to a right-side-up, 5-pointed star). 
Step 5: Center-align the star and the line group horizontally. You may have to move the star up or down so that each line bisects the star’s points. 
Step 6: Select the star and the lines and go to Pathfinder>Divide.
dividestar.jpg 
Step 7: Take the Live Paint bucket and color every other shape for the beveled look.
makelivepaint.jpg 
Yum! You’re done!

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