Easy Flower - Illustrator Tutorial

Learn how to create a pretty vector flower with Adobe Illustrator. This tutorial uses version 10, but it is a simple technique so I’d be suprised if it didn’t work with other versions…
Stage: Beginner
Time: Around 10mins
What you will be learning to draw:

Create a new document and draw a rectange any shape, with a fill of any colour and no outline:

Using this tool: (the rotate tool) click under the rectangle and the little shape that appears underneath with be the central point for your rectangle to rotate around. Now, click up at the top of your rectangle (your curser should change into a small black and white arrow) and hold down your alt key now drag your shape to the left, this may take a few practices but you should end up with this:

Next press ctrl & D, which will duplicate the effect of the rectangle and create the basic flower shape, see below:

Next press ctrl & A to select all the rectangles and go to: filter –> distort –> zigzag.
Set the options as follows:

If your flower has more or less petals then mine, you may wish to set the size or ridges to 1. Keep playing around until you have a petal-like shapes instead of rectangles:

Next, add a center to your flower, resize or move the petals until you are happy or add more flowers until you achive something like the following:

I’d like to credit this tutorial, as it is where I learnt the rotation technique. If you visit be sure to check out all the other illustrator tutorials there!

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