How to Turn Glasses into a Great Geek Icon - VECTORTUTS

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How to Turn Glasses into a Great Geek Icon

Dec 8th in Illustration by Jonathan

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to make a cool, or should we say geeky, glasses icon. You should be versed in Adobe Illustrator's tools to complete this tutorial. You'll learn how to take creative license and create an illustration that uses a photo reference, but differs a bit in the final design.

Author: Jonathan

Jonathan has written a combination of almost 20 tutorials and graphics for Vectortuts! A couple of his favorites are: Make a Fairy-Tale Inspired Magical Hand Shaped Vine and VECTORTUTS Freebie Vector Pack: Browser Screens and Website Elements . He is a graphic designer with extensive hands-on knowledge of Adobe Suite Products. He has several years of experience using Adobe Illustrator, specifically, and seeks to share his skills with the design community.

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Step 1

Start by taking a photo of some glasses. Make sure to take it at a high enough resolution so it won't be pixelated when viewed at larger sizes while you're working.

The end result is much more cartoonish and geeky. If your glasses are not exactly as you would like the illustration to appear you will need to improvise while you are making the illustration. After all, the photograph is just a reference anyway. We will be deviating from the actual photo in the final icon.

Step 2

Place the photo on its own layer and lock the layer. Using the Pen Tool (P) and draw around the edge of the glasses frames. Give the stroke a thick weight. We ...

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