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AI The Dreaded Redraw Illustrator Tutorial

Posted on 27. Aug, 2009 by Che McPherson in Illustrator, Intermediate

We’ve all dealt with it as designers at one stage or another, or if you haven’t listen up this tut may just save you some valuable time in the future.
As designers we are used to getting files supplied to us, unfortunately it never comes just how we planned we constantly get bombarded with ” oh just take the one off our website it will be fine for the new sign we want out the front” or “here’s something my son designed earlier.” and don’t think this is limited to small stuff agencies deal with the same problems everyday.

So in this tutorial Ill show you it is some times quicker to redraw rather then work with a pixelated jpg. I show you how to redraw a fairly simple character one most of you would already know and love “The WOO Ninja” but the point of the tutorial is that you can learn the skills to redraw the next time you run into this problem.

HUGE shout out to the WOO Themes Team and to my man Adii pronounced ay dee not how I say it on the video or maybe its just my aussie accent you be the judge

Also I have to laugh a couple of times in the video I call the gradient mesh tool the magic wand tool… I sort of don’t use the words to much I have them buried right next to comic sans.

As mentioned in the video here’s some M&M’s characters I had to redraw for a project which just goes to show you no matter how big the project still be prepaired for the dreaded redraw.

If you have any questions at all please drop me a comment.

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32 Responses to “AI The Dreaded Redraw Illustrator Tutorial”

Holly says:

October 29, 2009 at 1:52 pm

Thanks for the great tutorial, looking forward to the next one.

BTW The Woo Ninja is way cuter than those Ninjatown characters!
Jonathan says:

November 8, 2009 at 3:21 am

Thanks mate; I’m 16 and hoping to become a famous graphic designer/artist as a future career
this was really helpful

cheers
Ramses says:

November 14, 2009 at 10:56 am

Thanks soo much, really appreciate it! This rocks, now I kinda know how to work Ai.
One thing i did miss was how u managed to make those white lighting stripes, but thats ok. Love the tuts!
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Mario says:

January 20, 2010 at 8:00 pm

This is such a good tutorial. I can’t tell you the amount of times I have traced a bitmap logo or icon. I have always battled with which part to start with. It seems so obvious to start from the back and work forward. Why didn’t I think of that before.
Pollux says:

February 6, 2010 at 4:21 pm

Che, you’re THE Man ! this was so incredibly hepful (particulary those F***ing gradient Meshes)… that gives me the idea to be less lazy… and I now think to myself “yes, it took 15mn… but WOW !”
Now you should learn french and that would be PERFECT (try Rosetta Stone ;-))

THanks again !
Kev says:

March 14, 2010 at 11:28 am

thanks for the educational and entertaining tutorial… cool.
Intway says:

April 5, 2010 at 7:11 pm

Прикольная тема, продолжайте. Иногда нахожу ответы, которые получить самому просто реально не хватает времени. Большое спасибо!
TetAttizeuncoxloono says:

May 18, 2010 at 5:09 am

Честное слово, получилась новость
mando says:

June 23, 2010 at 12:38 am

what if the picture is to blurry & small ?
like this 1 , i have been trying to recreate it & failed
can you help me ?
http://www.smartfoxes.com/files/mainlogo.gif
Lisa says:

July 6, 2010 at 12:09 pm

Great tutorial! That has taught me a lot … well … I think it has - I’m off to try it!
Cheers,
Lisa
WordPress Fiend says:

August 2, 2010 at 2:00 pm

Sweet tutorial I am a fan of woothemes as well. Are you the author of WooThemes?