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Help please...

Hello!

I've just finished reading a book on using Illustrator 9, so I'm still fairly new with it yet..
I am creating a logo for a customer of mine and I want to have the look of a lake - a water sort of effect. I hope im explaining it right... what I mean is, I dont want to just have a blue box as the water, I want it to actually look like water. Does that make sense? I know there must be a way to draw that effectively but I'm still so new to using this program that I wouldnt have a clue!
Any help would be so much appreciated as I have to have this done very soon..

Thanks to everyone for their consideration of this!

Best Regards,
=inlove Mareena

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Hayley Marie Harder

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I'm far from an illustrator expert, but I threw this together:

To be honest, you can produce a much better water effect in photoshop... but when needs must

Really it's just a case of fiddling around with distort, pixelate (crystallize), underpainting, texturizer, and gaussian blur

There's plenty of people on here that can give a better image, or description, mine is just a starting point

Best of luck

Edit:

I just tried something, seems ok, depending what kind of water you're looking for. To get that I just duplicated the above one, then chrome-sketched it, and brought the other one above and set the layer transparency to Color.

If you want to give it a bit more texture, or if it's meant to be big water, then make a 3rd copy and make it an overlay gradient filled object, then turn the opacity down so it's not like Color Dodge

hohum, last one I promise, different kinda water I guess, more turbulent. Used Accented Edges brush effect on the existing effects (without the chrome overlay one).

Curious....and yes, I'm this bored

Last edited by Nephand, April 29th, 2002 10:15 AM (Edited 1 times)

Thanks so much for your help!

Nephand thank you so very much for your help, your kindness was much appreciated!

I really liked the first idea that you had, and that is the idea i am going to use.

I think you are just being very modest in saying you are not an Illustrator expert..

Thanks again!

=inlove Mareena

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Hayley Marie Harder

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www.thesitesaver.com

Heh, glad it was useful, let me know if you have any problems recreating and I'll go into more detail, or even send you the .AI file via email, if it isn't too big

(going to take the pics down from the host now, for anyone trying the links)

Thank You!

Hi Nephand,

Thanks so much.. i just saved the first picture and worked off of that basically, was that ok? I think the best way to really learn something is to learn tips and techniques from the ones more experienced than you. So that's what Im trying to do.

I put out another post on here last night and did get a kind response, but then realized "why would i do this when I got such wonderful help from Nephand?" So i decided id get my advice from you again... if you dont mind..
Here was what i posted:

This is what I am creating:
It is a logo for a 'Canal Boat' directory. I am making a picture of a winding water canal with the front of a boat at the bottom, but at the side of the picture I want to have the look of trees or some sort of greenery hanging from the top... how could I draw something that looked like part of a tree or some sort of bush/greenery?

I can tell you are obviously very talented with drawing in Illustrator so I thought maybe you would have some more ideas for me..
I really appreciate your help so much!

Have a great day!

=inlove Mareena

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Hayley Marie Harder

info@thesitesaver.com
www.thesitesaver.com

Ok, I didn't think I could do this, but being a sucker for flattery I went and gave it a try

To make that, if you don't know, I just drew a single leaf, scaled up so I could use the pen tool more easily. Once I had all the bits, including highlights and stem, I then grouped them, and scaled them down (shift-corner-box to get a constrained ratio).

Once down to a relative size I just went to the symbol panel, hit the little arrow in a circle there and went to create new symbol.

Now you can start spraying your symbol to your heart's content. Just mess around with the features under the spray can icon.

Ohhh, just thought as I get to here, I'm really not sure if symbols were part of illustrator 9? *frown*

Well if they're not I'll have another go a different way for you

Good luck, and thanks for the task