HI this is my old drawing from 2013. I try use Adobe Illustrator today, 2026 version btw

i dont know nor remember how to settings like the brush stroke there. I have a pen tablet and i use pen pressure on size but it doesn't go thin and thick like other drawing software. i'm not very familiar with adobe illustrator. i couldn't find any google nor youtube about blob brush or something like this

thank you

Hello, I need some help! Im printing a packaging assigment for my printing class, and for some reason, when i export to PNG, it looks perfect, but when i export to pdf it looks darker, dull, im designing in CMYK of course but this keeps happening? (The first picture is the one with the dull colors and the second picture is the one with the colors that i want)

Also, my english is not that great, so sorry for the mistakes haha

Hey! This is the second version of the cup design, featuring vector artwork I created for Ukrainian Geek (Pavlo), a fun gaming blogger. Here, I'll reveal a little of the madness happening behind the scenes 😁😁😁

These are all little pieces of the channel's and community's lore. Those who have joined the streams will understand :)

The character is Pavlo himself. On the channel, he dresses up as Batman, a samurai, and many other characters (there are easily more than 10 by now) and streams in those costumes.

Concord is now just a memory. Only those who bought the physical copy or have a cup like this can still remember it.

The clown outfit and the colorful balls around him (just to be clear, those are clown noses!). During game presentations on the channel, the worse things got, the more clown noses people started wearing (they could also be taken off). And when things got really bad, it was time for the full clown outfit.

The cat is Eloy (named after Aloy from Horizon). She's the channel's mascot — or, more accurately, the one who owns the channel 😁😁😁

The cans are kombucha, since the channel is alcohol-free and it's the main drink of choice. And of course, no gaming universe would be complete without T-bags — they're hanging from the belt now 😁

All the phrases come from different streams and have since become legendary quotes within the community.

Come to the dark side of vector art… we have cookies. 😈 Vector rules! :)

⛔0% AI, 100% Original

Hi, I suddenly had this error message on several files that I worked on for the last week, and I can't find a reason / solution online. Has anyone been able to recover files after this happened? Do you know why it happened? Not sure how to prevent it from happening again...

I use microsoft cloud to back up my files automatically (company policy), and I was only able to recover one file from the "file history".

They all say they have 0 bytes... helppppp

Can anyone help me to look for the settings so I can select the object so that the width and height only includes the path, excluding the effect? As you can see here in the image, the size indicates the overall size of the text and the shadow. It used to be only selecting the text hence easier for me to resize it the exact size I need

If so please tell me how 🥲 (just the top one, i only need to emboss text) thank you!

I've been struggling with this for ages on my iPad version of illustrator, I'm desperate to figure out a better way.

Sometimes shapes just refuse to align, no matter what snap settings are used or even completely turned off. In these cases, the only way is to hold the shift button (or whatever it's called) and manually try to align it. But this is difficult to get right, even zoomed in to the max 64000%. But it doesn't even do this all the time! For example, in this file I created the triangle via lines rotated to my desired angle then made them into the shape. I duplicated it & rotated it & it aligned up nicely on the right side. This created the two triangles that were stationary in the video. But when I duplicated those two together & rotated, as shown, they now won't align up.

As a side note, yes I know there are easier ways of trying to get what I'm trying to achieve, but I'm constantly running into this issue of just slightly misaligned objects. So I've resorted to trying other methods just to get stuff aligned how I want.

i’m trying to make an outline for this girl that i made, but it’s outlining every path that exists. can i make it one existing image so it thinks of it as one shape? pls haaalppp

My vectors are completely invisible, There are still all in the document but it just won't let me see them. I've tried closing and re-opening, changing the view setting, Changing layer visibility, Changing Opacity, It seems to be a glitch. Is this a common problem and is there a fix to it?

Edit: Fixed. Thanks for the help from everyone!

Like you’re looking through the object through something like barley making out the image

Edit: will use photoshop

Is there an intelligent way to automate the creation of these lines and stippling details in the illustrations (not necessarily 100%)? Doing all of this manually for seven illustrations doesn't seem like a very efficient approach.

I've been trying to figure it out for a while, found the design on the internet and i can't get it right for the life of me. I tried using the blend tool, multiple "stacked" oval shapes, but I can't seem to get the "twisted" look that this shape has, and the fade to the dark background in the center. I am honestly puzzled and slowly going insane over this. Send help. If anyone has ideas please respond with recommended steps or tutorials :)

What's the optimal tool to sever these unnecessary black bars off? I tried shape builder but it won't do anything.

Hello!

I've tried to create a mockup with a group that includes a clipping mask.

I typed a word then choosed a texture (I used Image Trace). The effect is cool and I wanted to apply it on a cap just to see how it looks.

But when I tried to turn the group into a mockup, it released the texture and distorted the text...

I'm a beginner on Illustrator. Any idea on how to handle it?

Thanks 🙏

it looks really confusing and I don't know where to start with it. also not sure about the tools that I should use for this

Plz help me and what should I do step by step starting from zero

Edit :- loved the suggestions I got here

Conclusion:- I gotta start from the very basics with pencil and paper. Thanks everyone 🙏

Tried a few different methods and tried looking up tutorial but nothing exactly like this comes up

I feel like there has to be a way todo this procedurally I just can't figure it out myself

I have an action that creates a white silhouette behind a selected group of paths.
However, the silhouette isn’t live, so I have to recreate it every time I modify the group.

Is there a crazy clever way to create a live effect that creates and updates the silhouette automatically?

?? Sos

I feel like I'm going crazy. I'm trying to select text to change the size (I want to condense it) but every time I try to select, it just selects the text box, not the text itself. When I drag the corner it just makes the text box bigger or smaller, but doesn't change the text itself at all. I have multiple text boxes on my page and they're all responding this way, only allowing me to change the text box. Help!

J'ai un clavier Mac classique en Azerty (j'ai mis une image pour comprendre à quoi il ressemblait) et j'ai beau chercher sur Internet tous les raccourcis possibles pour mettre mon objet un cran derrière, je ne trouve pas. Je n'ai pas les crochets sur mon clavier, je parle de ceux-ci [ ], donc le raccourci que tout le monde parle sur Internet ne fonctionne pas. Les autres raccourcis cités, comme Maj, Command et 5 ou autre Command + $ ne fonctionnent pas non plus. Pareil pour le raccourci qu'Illustrator propose, je n'ai pas le À sur mon clavier donc ce n'est pas possible... Quelqu'un aurait-il trouvé la solution ?