Animal Silhouette Moonlight Vector Illustration – Illustrator Tutorial

SHAPE TOOLS AND PATHFINDER TRICKS TO GET THIS EFFECT! | Learn tricks of the scatter brush, layer styles, masking and more!

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Tutorial Overview

In this Adobe Illustrator tutorial, we’ll cover all the steps required to create this silhouette moonlight illustration with sparkling stars. We’ll use a custom scatter brush to create several layers of clouds, blend them with some shadows and opacity adjustments, we’ll use offset path to create a moon graphic with glowing vector rings, we’ll create a starry sky with randomized dots by scattering dots with the brush tool, we’ll mask everything as needed to blend the illustration into our background, and then we’ll drag a photo in a go over how to trace it with multiple shape tools and the Pen tool to create our silhouette. Check it out and I hope you love it!

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