What you can see here on my screen is the illustration I’m gonna be working on. I will also put a link to the download page in this post in case you haven’t got those images but want to download them.If you downloaded them you can use those to follow along or you can obviously use your own photos. In this tutorial I’m using some of the textures I gave away on last week’s blog post.I’m telling you that as a kind of disclaimer because of my accent! So I will do my best… I’m Colombian but have been living in the UK for a very long time.I also run the blog Pitter Pattern, which is a blog all about surface pattern design. For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Veronica and I’m a designer.Hello everyone, today I’m gonna show you how to use bitmap textures on your vector designs for those times when you feel like you want to add a little something to them.How to easily add texture to your Illustrator designs I hope you enjoy the video and, better still, find it useful… Please let me know in the comments below if you have any questions about the process, if you have any topic requests for small tutorials like this one, or if you want to share your own ideas about how to add texture on your designs… I would love to hear them!

You can also, of course, use your own images!īecause I’m very aware that I have a strong accent and it might be difficult to understand me sometimes, I have added the script below the video (including some timings that might come in handy, and excluding some of the hems, buts, sos, etc!). If you haven’t downloaded them but want to, here is the link: 17 free textures that can help your designs kick ass. If you downloaded the free texture images from last post you can use those to follow along. This technique is very useful and can produce some gorgeous and interesting results. As promised in my last post, I have created a video tutorial on how to add texture to your vector designs in Illustrator by using bitmap images.

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