Premium Tutorial: Red Carpet & Glittering Star

This tutorial will take you through the process of creating a highly detailed red carpet background step by step. You will learn interesting techniques on how to achieve the stardust effect that surrounds the hovering star, create golden poles using gradient mesh and how to draw realistic soft shadows. Also, we’ll learn the process of creating reusable rope brushes and much more.
After this tutorial, you will gain an insight on drawing complex scenes and various techniques you can implement in your next vector concept art.
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Difficulty: Beginner – Intermediate tutorial
Requirements: Adobe Illustrator
What will you get?
- Instant download of PDF e-book (23 pages, 54 steps)
- Comes with Ai file for easy reference
- Detailed step by step tutorial to draw a red carpet and glittering star
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About The Author: Nikola Adzic
Hi, I'm a digital artist and designer and I really enjoy creating photorealistic artworks. Most of the time I'm just observing how objects behave in the 'real' world and it's really challenging to create it in a vector-based software, such as Illustrator.
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