Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: Art In Under 5 Minutes #4

http://screencast.com/t/N03ddNOidz2

The above link will take you to a 5 minute tutorial showing how i created the image below.

The above image took under 5 minutes to make in Adobe Illustrator CS5.

Side bar: What is a Font? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font

The above image involved:

1) Choosing a font,

2) Re-sizing the font,

3) Duplicating the font or Copy and Pasting it,

4) Applying a 21% Gaussian Blur to the Black Font,

5) Changing the other font to Blue,

6) Positioning and Arranging the font so that the blurred font is on the bottom and slightly down and to the right of the blue font,

7) Creating a yellow rectangle that is larger than the font,

8) Positioned and Arranged the Yellow Rectangle behind the Fonts,

9) Added a Black Dashed Stroke with Arrowheads to the Yellow Rectangle,

10) Applied a 0% (placeholder) Effect,

11) Added, re-sized, and re-positioned a Red Bow from the Symbols Pallet.


12) Save and Export to Web.

Please view my other tutorials and comment on them.  These tutorials are completely new and I am still experimenting with all aspects of the format.  So any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

William Ryan Kus