This was a fun illustration piece I had the privilege of working on for Answers Magazine.
The biggest challenge was making a 2D illustration feel like it had depth. I used vector shapes stacked on eachother to give the feel that the man was standing in a tunnel. Below is some of the vector shapes I started with.
In this short video, I'll show you a quick way to get type in photoshop to appear to fade into the underlying textures. Leave me a comment below if you have any questions. I'm looking forward to working on some more tutrial/breakdown videos like this in the future.
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Fall Family Fiesta is our yearly fall festival here at PVC. This year I decided to change up the look a bit by keeping it vibrant while still having a Fall feel. Here's how I added the stitch effect to the text without having to add each small line manually. If you have any questions feel free to drop a line below.
1. First thing make two (red & blue) copes of the original text.
2. Vertically & horizontally align the blue and red objects. Selected the blue object, added a 5pt black stroke and take out the fill color.
3. With the stroke object selected go to OBJECT/EXPAND and check that the stroke & fill are both selected. This will turn strokes into a regular object.
4. Select both the red object and stroked object. Open the pathfinder window and clic the DIVIDE icon. This will group both objects together, you will have to UNGROUP it before going to the next step.
5. Once the objects are ungroup select one of the red letters and go to SELECT/SAME/FILLCOLOR and OBJECT/GROUP. Move the red trimmed object on top of the original black text and align them vertically and horizontally.
6. The final step is to add the stitch stroke. Selected the red object, open up the stroke window, add a 1pt stroke and select the dash option. (If the dash option doesn't appear on your stroke window, click on the right triangle and select show more options)
Below is time lapse video of me designing this sermon series graphic. Because of the crazy schedule this week I had to work on this over three days in bits and pieces. I have to thank all the design peeps, from the Church Marketing Lab & tweeter world, that gave me some great suggestions to finalize this.
The track on the video is "Mystery" by Phil Wickham. Great music when working with stars & galaxies.
One Minute Through My Eyes (another time lapse video)
