Hello. Welcome to three bees in my bonnet blog. A blog of lots of things from nonsense to AI, PSD and AE tutorials. I also like to get proper hands-on and bake, sew, crochet, paper cut pictures and sometimes, pop-up cards and 3-d paper models.
Hi There! Today I’m sharing a fast and wicked little tip to show you how to create a background shape for text. The power of this tip is that the shape will extend or shrink to the length of the text automatically. Yes! Edit the text and the shape will stretch or shrink to fit.…
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I’ll give you two, actually. Remember the tutorial from a previous post back in Dec 2020?: Do you wonder if there’s a quicker way to do something in Illustrator? There’s a tutorial on there to create the As in illustrator. I used them to create a very quick and simple animation in After Effects And you…
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I posted this a while ago but it was nested inside a post about something else. This morning, I couldn’t remember the easy way to make puckered stars in Illustrator and went foraging for this cheat sheet. It’s very handy and needs its own page. Here’s the link to the pdf:
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The Transform Effect options in Adobe Illustrator are very powerful but can be hard to master. Take touching triangles in a circle. I know of two ways to create them. Using Trig or a dead simple way. Download my free pdf tutorial to learn both ways.
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How about a Rainbow Mesh overlaid with circles of varying transparency? It has vibrancy, lots of colour as juicy as you like, and offers a refreshing antidote to the grey feel of last year. You can work this up to fit in with loads of design applications. Colour yourself happy 🙂 It looks like it’s…
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You need to whip up a colourful design that can suggest dynamics and direction. Geometrics is one way to go. Triangles. Dynamic planes of colour. But how? How much time do you have to create a triangle? give it a fill? go through aligning and offsetting…? So much to do, so little time… Well, there’s…
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Do you find yourself getting stuck in the middle of a design wondering how to achieve the image in your head? Then panicking about how long it’s taking you to figure it out? Then throwing the towel in and opting for something lamer but safer? Promising yourself you’ll make the time to find out for…
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The Japanese philosophy of Ikigai is the pursuit of happiness through being busy in a way that brings meaning and joy to your life. If you know there is a passion inside you and a talent that gives your life meaning but don’t yet know what your Ikigai is, then your mission is to find…
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Today I’m going to show you how to create a ‘triquetra’, also known as a “trinity knot”, a popular design element in Irish jewelry such as Claddaghs and wedding or engagement rings. Like all Celtic Knots, it’s comprised of interwined loops and lines that may look difficult to reproduce. Illustrator has the tools to make…
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Today’s tutorial shows you how to create a spread of equilateral (60° angles) tesselated triangles and fill them with colour using the Live Paint Tool. Download the free tutorial here:
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