► VIDEO GUIDE: 0:00 Intro 0:12 1st way: add textures using opacity mask and linear gradient 01:23 2nd way: imitate a noise brush using opacity mask and freeform gradient 03:01 3d way: learn how to create multilayered textures with rim light, shadows and different settings to bring your illustrations to the next level 05:35 bonus tip on how to control texture resolution Thank you for watching!
i have just spent hours crying over trying to get this to work via my college's technique. found your video, and this is incredibly effective, elegant, clean techniques. Thank you, so much. I really needed this.
This is really game changer due to illustrator work with vectors, also when using SCATTER brushes, they tend to use vectors to draw lines. Which increases the processing of your computer. Adding masks and layers it is a really smart solution to this problem
You are a lifesaver! using effects in illustrator has been a pain for years for me and I never knew why my vector illustrations never looked as good as those from other professionals. Now I can finally achieve exactly what I want with my shading, thank you!
Learned something new! I am using Illustrator since Version 9.0 (before cs/cc) but felt like I had missed most of the cool innovations of the recent years. Very well explained and also nice to listen to you! Thanks :-)
Hi there, thanks for the video, my grain texture seems to be really high resolution and quite fine.. I tried playing with the settings, but I can't seem to get the sizes of the grain to increase.. do you have any idea how I can increase their size?
Thank you so much for this video; it helped me a lot! I just have one question. Do you know why, when I drag the gradient sliders (after adding grain), my grain pixels grow in size and look terrible?
I like the last method, please do another in detail tutorial on that, just that alone and explain what doing every step mean, because it gets a little confusing. Thank you sir!
@@tt_tutorials please let me know which video exactly so I can understand better what is the purpose of each step. I just want to understand the reasoning and not just blindly follow :) thank you
Thanks for this tutorial. I see that you make a new layer of each object. Is it also possible to use the Apperence panel and in that use another fill what use can do the same?
@@tt_tutorials When you select an object and opens the appearance panel, you can add another fill in the same object. I was asking myself if I could use a second fill for the texture, instead of making a new layer and use it as a mask. Hope I made it clear?
This may be a super basic question, but why are you adding a layer mask to each shape, rather than duplicate the shape and just change the gradient fill?
Thanks for the video. If i follow all your guide and try to also adjust the gradient afterwards with the gradient tool, the gradient is going to be destroyed and looks like a very rough Bitmap. Nothing as yours. Any idea what could cause such a wrong effect?
I'm following your tutorials since you showed how you're applying textures and I'm so happy to have this video! Thank you SO MUCH for sharing with us. P.S. 3d way is astonishing! :D
Once we apply the transparent, and we want to move the object, but the object doesn't move, the transparent layer moves, how do I move both things to another place?
@tt_tutrorials 2:28: when you click off the texture you're creating it looks less pixelated, and more rounded. Mind doesn't do that and stays pixelated, is there a fix for this?
Can someone explain to me what is the benefit of creating an additional object and then also creating a mask? When you can add a new fill to the original object and then simply apply gradient directly from the darker colour to zero opacity and also the grain texture directly to the fill. This way you don't deal with two separate object and also don't deal with the masks and jumping back and forth between normal and mask mode in transparency window. I just don't get it, why everyone's doing it this way
When i use the mask and i change the gradient direction there is no realtime change - i need to click on invert so that i can see how the change looks - does anyone have the same problem? It´s very annoying to always update the look of the gradient and not seeing the change in real time...
