Custom String Art Templates - Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

[@bagbunny]

This is wonderful, thank-you! And you are more than welcome for the suggestion, glad I helped you to come across something new. Just getting into string art myself, so this is going to be a huge help, I can already tell. Love your maple leaf as well, it just pops against the wood you used for it. :)

[@davewatkinscreative]

That's awesome! Glad to hear that this will end up being helpful. I had a blast making the video and the maple leaf piece I made will certainly find a home in my studio.

[@eranabramovich]

Awesome Dave! Gave you a thumb up! Keep up the good work!

[@davewatkinscreative]

Thanks so much for that Eran. Really appreciate it!

[@RoystonD1]

Awesome Tutorial Dave!! 👍

[@davewatkinscreative]

Thanks for checking it out Royston!

[@vanessa3972]

Such a great video! Thank you for making this! Can this only be done on adobe illustrator?

[@davewatkinscreative]

Hi Vanessa - Thanks so much for the comment. This technique works best in Illustrator because of the built in control of the location of corner points. You can create similar dashed lines in photoshop around the border of a shape but there isn't a feature in PS to force the dashes into the corners. I did however find a PS script online created by David Jensen called "dashed_line_nice_corners" that looks like it can achieve the same result.... it will just take some more steps to get there.

[@pamelaauble9806]

I really appreciate your straight-to-the-point approach. Very clear directions!

[@davewatkinscreative]

That's awesome to hear! My goal has always been to provide as much information as possible without adding unnecessary filler.

[@vinnieALCD]

This was great. Thanks for the vid.

[@davewatkinscreative]

Appreciate that! Thanks for checking it out.

[@rhondadickson4798]

This is perfect, and a WHOLE LOT EASIER AND FASTER than using PowerPoint or free handing! Thank you so much!

[@davewatkinscreative]

Glad it helped! I can't even imagine trying to free hand one of these...

[@LawrenceRinconLoRinKo]

Dave - someone needs to get in touch with Adobe to give you credit for showing us how powerful illustrator is. Hell since the last post about photoshop I switched back to illustrator :) I thank you again for the well easy to follow tutorial. Keep up the great work.

[@davewatkinscreative]

Wow! That's such an awesome compliment! Thank you and welcome back to the vector side.

[@rachelbayne5466]

I knew there had to be a way to add the points but hadn't figured it out myself. I really appreciate this video. Thank you!

[@davewatkinscreative]

I use this dotted line trick in illustrator on a lot of my projects. Turns out it works perfectly to create these string art templates too. Thanks for checking out the video.

[@joximoxi]

This is great! So glad this video popped up on my list. Looking forward to more tutorials!

[@davewatkinscreative]

Hey Andrew thanks for the comment. Glad you enjoyed this tutorial. More to come!