The fastest way to ensure you get what you want is to return the item you have, and once the return is accepted, make a separate purchase for the new item. Unfortunately, we cannot accept returns of gift cards. Please inspect your order upon reception and contact us immediately if the item is defective, damaged or if you receive the wrong item, so that we can evaluate the issue and make it right. You can always contact us for any return question at and issues Items sent back to us without first requesting a return will not be accepted. To start a return, you can contact us at your return is accepted, we’ll send you a return shipping label, as well as instructions on how and where to send your package. You’ll also need the receipt or proof of purchase. To be eligible for a return, your item must be in the same condition that you received it, and in its original packaging if brand new. I created the lines with the Line Tool (\), applied the VM-Conté-01-Open brush to them, and adjusted the stroke weight for the other text.We have a 14-day return policy, which means you have 14 days after receiving your item to request a return. That is pretty much it for this chalkboard vector! Pretty easy, right? You can add more text, strokes, and other elements to your chalkboard vector like I did in the final image. With your text selected, choose the VM-WC-Paper-Seamless-Rev-White pattern swatch for the empty fill item in the Appearance panel. So right after you copy it into your doc, you can delete it. The pattern swatch will automatically copy into your Swatches panel once you paste the rectangle shape into your document. Note: the rectangle has a couple of fills associated with it just so you can see the seamless pattern. Copy the rectangle filled with the pattern from the freebie document to your document. To make it look a little thicker, change the stroke weight to 2 pt.įor the fill of the text on this chalkboard vector, we need the last freebie in the Vector-Mill-Sample.ai file. With your new white stroke item selected, choose the VM-Conté-01-Closed brush. They now should be available in the Brushes panel. Copy both brushes and paste them into your document. Now hop over to the Vector-Mill-Sample.ai file again and select the brushes. This makes it easier to use Appearance panel for the following steps.įrom the pop-up menu of the Appearance panel, choose Add New Stroke and change the stroke color to white. After you have your text, remove the fill and stroke color. I’m using Vitesse Book for my text, but you can use whatever. With the Type tool (T), type out some text and choose a font. Once you have these settings, select your Paintbrush tool (B) and draw some erratic overlapping paths on the chalkboard vector. In the Bristle Brush Options dialog, make these changes: If you have CS5, start by pressing the New Brush button at the bottom of the Brush panel and choose New Bristle Brush from the dialog. As an alternative, you can use some of the watercolor art brushes I created a while back. If you are still not on CS5 you won’t be able to create this step like in the tutorial. We are almost done with the chalkboard vector background texture, but let’s add a little more depth with a Bristle Brush. Fill the texture with white, set the Blending mode to Overlay and set the Opacity to 10 from the Transparency panel. Open the file, Copy (Command C) the big concrete texture, and Paste (Command V) it over your green gradient. Next, expand the gray fill item in the Appearance panel, click the Opacity item, and change the Blending mode to Multiply.įor this step, you need to download the Vector-Mill-Sample.ai file. In the Grain dialog, change the Intensity to 60, the Contrast to 50, and the Grain type to Sprinkles. With the new gray fill item selected in the Appearance panel, go Effect > Texture > Grain. With the rectangle still selected, open the pop-up menu of the Appearance panel, and choose Add New Fill. This will be our chalkboard vector background.įill the new rectangle with a radial gradient, change the first color stop in the gradient to a green color, and the second color stop to a darker green color. Required Files: Vector-Mill-Sample.ai (compatibility CS4-CS5)Ĭreate a new document and create a rectangle with the Rectangle tool (M).Estimated Completion Time: 15-20 minutes.Topics Covered: Grain Effect, Bristle Brush, Brushes.In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a chalkboard vector with some gradients, a bristle brush, and some freebies from Vector Mill! The tutorial is relatively simple and can be applied to many other Illustrator projects.īelow is the final chalkboard vector we will be shooting for.
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