Digital Line Art Effect in Adobe Illustrator
In today’s tutorial, we will create a Digital Line Art Effect. You must have seen many tutorials of line art in which Transform Tool or Brush Tool would be used but we will create our Digital Line Art with the help of Blend Tool and Shape Builder Tool.
Launch Adobe Illustrator and create a new document. Now follow the below steps-
Step 1
Firstly, place an image on the artboard of which you want to create the Digital Line Art Effect and expand it. I have selected the silhouette of a wolf.
Now select the Pen Tool and draw a Stroke Line.
The Stroke Size is 4pt.
Step 2
Now with the help of the Alt key make a duplicate copy of the stroke line.
Now place both the stroke lines close to the silhouette; i.e.; one stroke close to the foot of the wolf and the other stroke close to the tail of the wolf.
Step 3
Select both the stroke lines and click on Object in the Menu Bar. Now place the cursor on Blend and select Make.
As I want to reduce the blend steps so I will double click on the Blend Tool and will reduce the Specified Steps.
Step 4
Now select the blend result and click on Object in the Menu Bar and select Expand.
When you will click on Expand, a dialogue box will appear on the artboard.
Click OK.
Step 5
Press Ctrl + A to select the line strokes and the silhouette.
Now select the Shape Builder Tool. Press and hold the Alt key to delete the stroke lines which are not covering the silhouette.
Now delete the silhouette.
Your Digital Line Art Effect is ready.
If you want you can change the stroke size and type.
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