Place it all on top of the sky with the moon! Place all the silhouettes we have drawn so far to create a background. They represent lights.Īgain, draw a half with the Pen Tool (P), and then Reflect and Unite. Place these ellipses behind the window openings of the house. Place the crosses over the windows of the house, and Unite it all in the Pathfinder panel.ĭraw an ellipse with a Radial Gradient ( #FFFFFF - #BD9942 - #000000). Finally, create a smaller copy of the cross. Use Object > Expand Appearance, and then use the Pathfinder panel to Unite both paths. Select all elements and use Minus Front in the Pathfinder panel to 'cut out' the windows in the building.ĭraw two lines in a cross shape, and then apply Profile 1 to them in the Stroke panel. Draw a few mismatched rectangles to represent windows. Starting with the haunted manor, draw an outline of it as accurately as possible and fill it with black.

Reflect the half of the tree with Object > Transform > Reflect and Unite the two copies in the Pathfinder panel.ģ. To draw the pine tree, follow my outline with the Pen Tool. Group the tree (Control-G) and set it aside for now. Step 4Īdd branches to the trunk as indicated in the screenshot below.Īdd two final branches to finish off the tree. Then draw a trunk for the tree using the Pen Tool (P). Step 2Ĭreate a reflected copy of the branch with Object > Transform > Reflect. Trace it using the Black and White mode with a Threshold of 118. Open another photo from the archive you downloaded, branch.jpg. Let's work on drawing the silhouettes of the trees! Now that our moon and sky are done, set them aside for the time being. Place the smaller gradient circle on top of the bigger one, and then place our traced moon on top. Set the Transparency of both objects to Screen. Overlay it on top of the traced result.ĭraw a circle with a Radial Gradient ( #F9F5E1 - #E3E0CD - #000000).ĭraw another, bigger circle with a Radial Gradient ( #F0EEDD - #D8D8C7 - #000000). Set its Transparency to Multiply and its Opacity to 90%. Once you're done, draw a #FAFAFA circle to put it under our traced moon.ĭraw another circle of the same size, now filled with #FBF9EA. Ungroup the image to get rid of all unnecessary parts (such as the grey border on the left). When the Tracing finishes, go to Object > Expand to fully turn this photo into a vector object. Use Grayscale mode with Grays: 20.Ĭlick Trace to begin the tracing process. Open the photo in Adobe Illustrator and bring up the Image Trace panel ( Window > Image Trace). One of the files, moon.jpg, is an isolated photo of the moon (taken by me) that we will be using in this step. Press it and, when the zip file downloads, unzip the archive. In the sidebar of this tutorial, you will find the Download Attachment button. Is very difficult to draw such a complex thing from scratch, I'd like to The one element we are missing from the sky is the moon.

Once your Mesh grid is done, begin coloring it by selecting the top row of nodes and changing their color to #1E2937.įinish this step by coloring the nodes selected in the screenshot below with black ( #000000).įinish the background by coloring the indicated nodes with the colors shown. Next, you have two options: you can either create a Mesh grid for this shape by manually placing nodes with the Mesh Tool (U), or you can create it automatically with Object > Create Gradient Mesh (6 Rows, 5 Columns). Start by drawing a rectangle and filling it with #354459 color. If you want to skip the tutorial and just use this background with some other awesome elements, purchase the Scary Halloween Banners With Pumpkins and Moon from GraphicRiver! Scary Halloween Banners In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Mesh Tool and Image Trace in Adobe Illustrator to create a spooky vector Halloween background!

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