How to Make Festive Vector Gift Boxes - VECTORTUTS

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How to Make Festive Vector Gift Boxes

Dec 22nd in Illustration by Jonathan

Get ready for the holiday season with this festive gift box tutorial. Successful completion of this tutorial requires a solid understanding of Adobe Illustrator's tools as this advanced tutorial moves at a quick pace. We'll be working with Illustrators 3D tools, Brushes, Gradients, and Blurs to create these holiday presents.

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

Using basic shapes, draw a Christmas ornament that will become the pattern in the wrapping paper of the gift boxes. If you want each gift box to have a different patterns then be sure to make those designs at this point too. Merge the shapes together using the Pathfinder.

Step 2

Open your Brushes Palette by pressing F5. Drag the shape into the Brushes Palette. Select New Scatter Brush and press OK.

Step 3

Move the sliders around to suit your liking. I usually set each of the options (Size, Spacing, Scatter and Rotation) with extreme values so my pattern has enough variation.

Step 4

Select your newly created Scatter Brush from the Brushes Palette. Using the Paintbrush Tool (B) draw, in one continuous stroke, an ...

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