How To Vectorise Rough Hand Lettering | Adobe Illustrator

[@dimitrijknight]

I hugely appreciate these videos. You do an excellent job at explaining and making these processes easy to follow. Keep up the awesome work. Day by day you are teaching me to be a better designer.

[@SteBradburyDesign]

I love reading messages like these! Thank you, it really does motivate me to do more of these videos when I see people are both enjoying them and learning a lot from them!

[@SteBradburyDesign]

To clarify, the dislikes aren't from people who disliked the video, they're from butthurt Keemstar fans who can't comprehend logic and think i'm jumping on the hate train for thinking he's an idiot for the stuff he has done over his years on KZbin. Just wanted to make that clear to any new visitors. The likes & comments on this video paint the true picture of the information in the video. Thanks again everyone for your continued support!

[@AmendArts]

*Cringestar. Major Cringe.

[@m.a8735]

You'd make an amazing teacher one day if you decided to teach, your tutorials are always easy to understand and follow, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us ,keep on being great :)

[@SteBradburyDesign]

Thank you! I try to explain everything I do as simply as possible, and i don't rush through the process! I glad these tutorials are helping you! :D

[@PXLGraphics]

Ahh great! I really love your tutorials, it's so easy to follow along, thanks for helping us out :)

[@SteBradburyDesign]

Not a problem :D glad it helps!

[@darioassis3065]

Can you tell me how does the lines appear before the next pen tool click? I mean, you click once and while you're moving the mouse a "line preview" is visible so you can see where it's best to put the next anchor point. That's really helpful! Keep up the good work

[@Dariush02]

Hi Steve, first of all many compliments for your videos. Please tell me how you create the white stripes inside the colour. Did you use a different kind of paper or brush? Thanks in advance

[@fistbanger1720]

Dope work dude!

[@finn511]

Hi! This may be a dumb question but i was wondering how i could get those preview lines with the pentool before you place you anchor point, so you get an idea of the way it will look. Is it only available on CC versions? Because i am using CS6

[@tix987]

Awesome!!Thank you so much for this tutorial!! It helps a lot!! 😁

[@SteBradburyDesign]

Happy to help! :D

[@rodolfoassuncao9521]

When you make a new point and move the pen tool a line follow the icon (like a preview for the curve you gonna make) how enable that on Ai? Sorry about my English haha, great video!

[@genchsoy]

Hey cool tutorial! Can you make a after effects tutorial of your intro?

[@jsslywng]

thanks a lot for this tutorial. It really helped

[@vincenlac]

Yeah Stephen, thanks a lot for this tutorial!

[@SteBradburyDesign]

You're very welcome! :D

[@vincenlac]

Ste Bradbury Design :D

[@glud3145]

Absolutely gorgeous!

[@SteBradburyDesign]

That's the first time someones called me that, thanks! hahaha nah but seriously, thanks for your kind words regarding the tutorial, I appreciate that! :D

[@glud3145]

+Ste Bradbury Design hahaha, no problem man!😁

[@NoVegan]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!

[@SteBradburyDesign]

absolutely! I hope this tutorial helped in some way or another :D

[@lIAltair1191Il]

Hey Ste, What about image tracing and then refine the work? What do you think about it? cheers

[@SteBradburyDesign]

If you wan't to create a nice clean piece of lettering, I would not recommend using image trace because it's not very accurate, especially for lettering. Even when it comes to refining it, it would take you forever to make it look clean because it generates so many anchor points where they're not needed, so you end up with messy curves etc. If you use this method, it is very easy to adjust any curves by simply moving the anchor arms. I would definitely recommend getting used to this method of vectorising because after a bit of practice, it is one of the most useful things ever! But of course image trace does work for other, more rough looking styles.

[@lIAltair1191Il]

Get it, thanks. Keep up the good work!

[@SteBradburyDesign]

Maschera Veneziana Thank you! :D

[@GabieRetana]

I feel like I repeat myself all the time but - another great tutorial! It never occurred to me that I could use the strokes to get this done, ugh fuck my brain lol Thank you so much for this!

[@syedreza72]

Ah man you are getting better and better btw congo for your new MAC lol

[@SteBradburyDesign]

ahh ahah thank you man!

[@introfy]

Awesome 👍🏻

[@Jezz_Mcfly]

Highly Proficient - Great Job √

[@muges1476]

Thank you :D Good Tutorial as always :)

[@Mark-kb4ng]

Great video, thanks.

[@joeymason6908]

can you make an intro tutorial?

[@Nils_ley]

nailed it :)

[@VehzuhTM]

Great vid but i ran out of my illustrator trial. :(

[@radekusnacht4268]

what song is in the intro ?

[@SaeedMasri]

20syl - Voices feat. Rita J.

[@1wabbit]

well done u helped me out :) , tut make intro like yours i'd to watch that ^^

[@macrxss]

he didn't make the intro animation unfortunately..

[@1wabbit]

+Dave Adiastha can you like me his channel or give a name :(

[@SteBradburyDesign]

His name is Koencept :)

[@1wabbit]

+Ste Bradbury Design thx dady x) .

[@radekusnacht4268]

+Ste Bradbury Design what song did u used in intro ?

[@LewIsJr]

Where are you from? The North of England I'm guessing? ;)

[@SteBradburyDesign]

Im from Manchester :)

[@LewIsJr]

+Ste Bradbury Design Ha! I knew it! Same :D

[@loneletter]

if you have left some shadow trikes for vectors, I'd be glad to see tutorials :3

[@SteBradburyDesign]

im not sure what you mean?

[@loneletter]

Ste Bradbury Design im mean like you have on your logo, if it's possible to do such masked shadows in illustrator only ( if background won't be black)

[@SteBradburyDesign]

Lone Leon Khachaturyan I think I know what you mean, and those shadows can either be the same colour as the background, or you can simply cut the shadows out of the letter so that when you place it on any background, it is always there? I think thats what you mean anyway

[@loneletter]

Ste Bradbury Design I mean i Ps if you want to make such shadow you just draw it, then cut out or mask excess part using main shape selection. But in Ai it doesn't work like this some things dissapear witch i dont want to (or i dont know how to make it yet). So if you know how to repeat that mask effect witch has Ps.

[@iderayoub]

Thanks a lot! It really helped! (Y) (Y) Keep it up =)

[@SteBradburyDesign]

Thank you, and im happy it helped you! :D

[@HarderStylesInc]

0:01 - name track plss~

[@sebastianramirez9081]

That chill song call 20syl- Voices ft Rita J

[@HarderStylesInc]

thx!

[@NoucheDozzle]

You should check Keemstar's Twitter, he used one of your comments in one of his tweets. I agree with what you said though.

[@SteBradburyDesign]

Hahah I know, that's why this video has 15 dislikes and I've had to remove a few comments from his 9 year old fan boys jumping to his rescue ahhah this had 1 dislike last night

[@NoucheDozzle]

+Ste Bradbury Design That's Keemstar fans for you...

[@SteBradburyDesign]

+Corvux yup! I'm actually surprised this this video didn't end up on hundreds of dislikes and get spammed with comments, that's how it usually works with his fans haha

[@pukingdeserthobo]

awesome

[@enjoymate]

the sirens were the police going after kai spliff