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Tutorial in Adobe Illustrator
How to Draw an Angry Bird in
In this drawing with Illustrator tutorial, you will see how easy
and fun drawing a red angry bird vector (from the popular Angry
BirdsTM game) really is.
Using the Pen tool in Illustrator, we start
drawing an Oval shape for the body then modify the shape. All pieces of the
angry bird are ovals, or we just draw the shapes with the pen, and then modify
We can copy, scale, and reflect pieces until the image is done. Since
this is a vector image, you can scale the image up or down without any loss of
clarity until you save to a non vector file. Don’t miss watching the video.
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How to make an angry bird vector in Adobe
Create a new Oval Shape . Make the Fill red and
the Stroke black . Increase the stroke to
5 point . Use the Selection tool to move and
resize the oval. Now use the Pen
tool to add anchor points and Direct Selection tool to move
them. Use fill color #ed1f24 and a strong black
stroke. It should look like the image below. Watch the video if
you have problems here.
Now for the top hairs, make 2 oval shapes, modify them with Pen
tool and place them at the top
of our character as like the image below. Use same fill and stroke. Then select
all of the shapes and click Unite from the Pathfinder
panel (Windows >> Pathfinder) to combine them. WATCH THE VIDEO to
see how I did all this.
Now we’ll make one eye first. Make a new layer. Make two oval shapes for the
eye. One with black stroke and white fill and another one
inside the first with only black fill.
Now use the Reflect tool to copy the first eye and
reflect it horizontally. To Reflect, use
Selection tool to select both ovals of the eye, then Right
click >> Transform >> Reflect. Use the setting below. Then click
Now scale the right eye to make it smaller. To Scale, use
the Selection tool and hold Shift while
dragging the corner of the object. Then draw the eyebrows with Pen
tool. Fill the object with black. Move, resize, scale the
same way described earlier.
For the beaks, make a triangle looking shape with the Pen
tool. Now go to Convert
Anchor Point Tool
, and pull out the hands so you can curve the shape (takes some
practice). When you are done the shape of the upper beak, use the
Reflect tool copy and reflect it vertically. Then scale it down
vertically a little bit.
Now go to the layer you made the body. First, select the shape of our
character then go to Object > Path > Outline Stroke. This
will convert the strokes into fill. Now ungroup it. Then make a shape like the
image below using pen tool but no stroke
and a light yellow fill. Go to the Selection tool. Hold
Shift and group select the new shape and the inner body. Now click
Divide from the Pathfinder panel. When
creating the shape, just make sure that the shape goes outside the red area.
Note the Divide button at bottom left arrow, and that we are in the body layer
at the arrow at right.
Now ungroup it (Object >> Ungroup) and select the overlapping piece and
One more thing… Click the black stroke of the body. Then Right Click >>
Arrange >> Bring to Front. Now your art should look like
the image below.
Now make a new layer between the current two layers. Then make a few oval
shapes for the body, and fill with #B21F28.
Now the final thing that you need to do is the tail. Make a new layer below
all the layers and use the pen tool to make the tail. You can also make 3
rectangles and transform them to look like this.
That is how you make an angry bird in Illustrator.
So here are the final layers. It is good to put different art in separate
layers that make sense.
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