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Human Perspective

I have never been good at drawing people, but it comes with practice! I drew this quick sketch of a male, attempting to use proper proportions. I found this great guide to drawing body as a reference to draw people in illustrator.

Telescope

telescope under a stary sky

Telescope vector under a night sky.  Download the free vector, half-moon and all, here.

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Rockwall Pattern Illustrator Vector File - Free!

rock wall pattern

You can download this seamless pattern and use it in vector illustrations for free!  The vector is saved as an Illustrator CS2 file, along with a photoshop pattern file if you like raster images.

Please comment back and show us what you create with your vector pattern!

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Rocky Moss - Free Vector Pattern Download

You can download this seamless pattern and use it in vector illustrations for free!

Please comment back and show us what you create with your vector pattern!

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How to Close Multiple Paths in Illustrator

Many vector stock sites such as istockphoto require that all paths in your illustration must be closed before submitting. I like to add some fine detail to my vector graphics, a lot of times quickly drawing circles or small texture shapes zoomed in with the pencil tool. Unfortunately all these paths are left open, even though the appear to be closed when zoomed out. Here is a quick fix to close all your open paths:

1. Draw details on your illustration, not worrying about open paths
2. Use the selection plugin which can be downloaded here.  Select all open paths
   Which selects all the open paths!
3. Use another illustrator script to close all open paths.  Make sure all the paths you want to close are selected.  Download the script here.  (Install the script by unzipping, and putting the files in your illustrator/presets/scripts folder.)  Then run the script by navigating to File/Scripts/[Script Name] or by selecting “Other Script” and manually navigating to it.
4. This produces closed paths acceptable by all stock vector illustration sites!
   

Note: If you need to smooth out the connected path, use the Smooth Tool  (hold down on the Pencil Tool, or undock the Pencil palate).  Draw over the section of the path that needs smoothing.

The graphics presented here are very primitive but hopefully you can see the application this technique can have, plus all your illustrations are now stock site friendly!

Edit:  I used this technique in the red candles detailed drawing, it definately speeds up my workflow in illustrator.