Create a Textured Journal Icon

核心提示：Illustrator is an amazing tool for building scalable vector art. With the sudden icon craze, it is ideal for creating these little doodads. Many of them are shi

Illustrator is an amazing tool for building scalable vector art. With the sudden icon craze, it is ideal for creating these little doodads. Many of them are shiny, glossy, icons, but I must admit that I sometimes get tired of them. With a little help from a suggestion by Tarains in the Suggestion Box, I’ve decided to see what you can do for texture within Illustrator. The results of this experimentation are summed up in the tutorial below…

First, things, first, let’s have a look at what we’ll be creating.

Step 1

Create a new document in Illustrator. Grab the rectangle tool and draw out a rectangle like the one below. If you are following along with the colors I will try to give you what I used. In this case the fill is: #191E28. It’s a pretty dark blue, but it will end up much lighter when we add the texture later on.

Step 2

Using the direct selection tool (shortcut ‘A’ on the keyboard) skew the rectangle like below. To do so double click on the top left anchor point, then click and drag to the left, repeat, for the top right anchor point. To help you make a straight line along the x-axis, it is a good idea to have smart guides turned on. To do so, click View->Smart Guides.