Today, at YouTheDesigner – we’re teaching you how to make a very simple vector of a penguin in Adobe Illustrator. This is a very basic tutorial that’s perfect for beginners.
PART 01.
The first thing we do is make an oval. Select the Ellipse Tool (L) on the illustrator and make a long oval. Next, use the Direct Selection Tool (A) to play with the paths until you have something that’s similar to the figure below! Don’t worry about it being perfectly even, as long as one side looks decent!
PART 02.
Create a rectangle over the side you’re satisfied with. Open up the Pathfinder tool and select CROP. So that you’re left with one side of the penguin.
PART 03.
Select the object, copy (CTRL+C) and paste (CTRL+V) it on the document. Highlight the opposite part, now go to OBJECT > TRANSFORM > REFLECT – and select Horizontal! Make sure your Smart Guides are on and position it next to each other. Select UNITE.
PART 04.
Duplicate the penguin’s body by copying and pasting again. Now using the Selection Tool (V), change the fill to white. Make it smaller and skinnier then the penguin’s base!
PART 05.
To create the arms, we now duplicated the penguin’s body again and make it skinnier. Now, I aligned to the tip of the penguin’s belly. Made another copy and pasted it. I went to OBJECT > TRANSFORM > REFLECT > HORIZONTAL again to flip it over. The beak is made from the same concept. It’s the body flipped over vertically and attached on-top of the body. The eyes are just circles with stroke! The feet are made with the use of the rounded rectangle tool.
PART 06.
Add your extras! I made a quick background using the pen tool and some gradients. Here’s my end result:
If you want to read more tutorials like this, you can check out last week’s edition of Tutorial Tuesday. Like it? Love it? We hope this tutorial has helped you in some way! Whether you liked it, loved it or thought you could have done it better – let us know in the comments. If you’ve made anything using this tutorial, let us know in the comments!