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How To Create Skull With Grunge Texture Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

How To Create Skull With Grunge Texture Adobe Illustrator Tutorial


Texture in Adobe Illustrator is very rarely done especially in vector work, most of texture work is done in Photoshop, but it's not impossible to do, Adobe Illustrator has the ability that allows us to create a artwork by adding textures in it.

So Today, I’m gonna show you how to create this Skull Grunge Texture in Adobe Illustrator. It doesn’t need any plugin or import any image into adobe illustrator, all it takes only adobe illustrator. It’s very easy to do it only takes a few steps to make this grunge skull texture. First create a gradient and lastly we just give it a texture or you can start from making a texture first and then making a skull gradient.

You can watch the tutorial video. Or scroll down to find another way to learn this technique.

Texture in Adobe Illustrator is very rarely done especially in vector work, most of texture work is done in Photoshop, but it's not impossible to do, Adobe Illustrator has the ability that allows us to create a artwork by adding textures in it.

So Today, I’m gonna show you how to create this Skull Grunge Texture in adobe illustrator. it doesn’t need any plugin or import any image into adobe illustrator, all it takes only adobe illustrator. it’s very easy to do, it only takes a few steps to make this grunge skull texture. first create a gradient, and lastly we just give it a texture, or you can start from making a texture first and then making a skull gradient.

You can watch the tutorial video. Or scroll down to find another way to learn this technique.

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Step 1: Create Textures with Simple Shape

Create document with any size, But before I create this skull shape, I'm going to create a simpler shape first to show you how this technique works, so that you can understand it more easily before continuing to make more complex shapes.

Create rectangle according to the artboard size, Give it a gradient color and change the gradient type to radial, and it has to be gradient because this is the core point of this technique.

How To Create Skull With Grunge Texture Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

Next step is just give it a texture. Go to the Effects Menu > Texture > Grain. Set the intensity by 45, contrast to 100, and type to vertical.

How To Create Skull With Grunge Texture Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

And here we are, we just did this effect with the simplest. Cool isn’t it?

The cool things about this technique is we are still possible to modify it. Open the Appearance Panel or you can open it in Window Menu and look for Appearance. In this Appearance Panel we can get information about the 'appearance' that contained in an object in this case the rectangle that we created earlier, There is information about Stroke and Fill. And here we have filled the fill with a Radial Gradient and the Grain Effect itself that we have added. There is an eye mark whose function is to enable or disable the appearance of this rectangle.

How To Create Skull With Grunge Texture Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

Let's try another shape so you can see the impact of the gradient to the texture, temporarily disable this Grain Effect so you can see the gradient without texture when modifying it. Open the Gradient Panel and set the Gradient Annotator like this with 3 color stop.

And when we go back to the Appearance Panel and reactivate the Grain Effect again, this is what we get. We have different result then before.

How To Create Skull With Grunge Texture Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

Its look like the ‘O’ shape and the Grain Effect gives the impression of a Grunge Texture on the white to black transition. And the cool part is we can still change the Grain settings again if we feel the texture is too contrast.

Just open the Appearance Panel again and click the Grain FX to open the Grain Panel and just play with the setting there. And if you still want to get more different result, just play with the gradient to create more gradient model or you can play with the colors.

How To Create Skull With Grunge Texture Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

The image above is a sample of several experiments playing with gradients. You can see the result is more satisfying and we can get more variation just with the Gradient.

I think you already understand the concept of this technique, just play with Grain and Gradient and the shape of the texture is depend on gradient shape.

So the next question is, 

            What about more complex shapes like this?
            How do we make it?
            And what we need to solve it?

The answer is, Just Play with grain and gradient.


Step 2: Create Skull Grunge Texture

So in the next part, I'll show you how I made this Skull Grunge Texture.

How To Create Skull With Grunge Texture Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

This skull is only one rectangle with gradient color.

How To Create Skull With Grunge Texture Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

You can see the picture above that is a silhouette of skull formed using Gradient. If you open the Gradient Panel, you can find three types of Gradients, Linear Gradient, Radial Gradient, and Freeform Gradient. And to make skull gradient above, we use Freeform Gradient.

The first step to this Create Skull Grunge Texture as usual is create a Rectangle. Now we just need to give this rectangle with Freeform Gradient. Open the Gradient Panel and activate the Freeform Gradient.

By default, we will get four points in each corner.

How To Create Skull With Grunge Texture Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

To edit these points we just need to select each of these points and move them. Besides that we can also change the radius of each of these points by using Widget, modify it with numbers in control panel overview you can change it there and it's easier.

Next, I'll give these four points a solid black color. just click on it, and pick color in the Swatches Panel.

After all of these point in black, draw the skull using the Lines on this Freeform Gradient.

How To Create Skull With Grunge Texture Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

Using this Lines is the same as using the Curvature Tool in the Toolbar.

Just draw a skull shape and color each point with the color I show in the picture above.

How To Create Skull With Grunge Texture Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

After the Skull Shape is finish, create another Lines to create the detailed parts of the skull such as the eyes and nose.

Just follow my Freeform shape to get the same result, or you can head over to the video How To Create Skull With Grunge Texture Adobe Illustrator Tutorial to see in detail how I created these Lines to form a skull silhouette.

How To Create Skull With Grunge Texture Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

When you're done with the Gradient, just give it a Grain Texture.

Go to Effect Menu > Texture > Grain. Fill the Intensity with 65, and the Contrast remains at 100.

How To Create Skull With Grunge Texture Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

The rest, is up to you to experiment with this technique. You can freely create other shapes apart from this skull. I hope this Adobe Illustrator Tutorial is helpful and feel free to check out other tutorials here:

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