Create an Embroidered Icon with Adobe Illustrator (Icon Design)

Kate McInnes – Associate Editor of Vectortuts+ and author of Rockstar Icon Designer (Published by Rockable Press) will teach you how to bring a little bit of nostalgia to your designs with a set of embroidered patch style icons.

In this tutorial you will learn how to use fills, strokes and special effects in Adobe Illustrator’s Appearance Panel to create a complex embroidered patch image using just one circle and a few shapes.

This tutorial is great for people interested in creating retro style illustrations and icon packs and people who want to learn how to make great looking vector effects that are scalable and re-usable.

Source Files Include:

  • 2 Illustrator files with 12 editable Graphic Styles (CS4 & CS5 )
  • 1 “Flattened” EPS Version 10
  • 4 Transparent PNGs

Estimated completion time is 1hr, if you have any questions feel free to ask them in the comments section

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