23rd September 2014
Create a Crazy Sticker Bombing Seamless Pattern in Adobe Illustrator
Are you ready to twist your mind and createa super-bright and playful seamless pattern with crazy characters? In thistutorial we'll go through the entire process of developing a sticker bombingstyle pattern, rendering every character with basic shapes and Warp Effects and then gathering thecreated elements into a fancy overlapping texture with the help of the Pattern Tool. Let's get started!
1. Create the Character Stickers WithBasic Shapes
First of all, let me say a few wordsabout the actual style of our future pattern in order to inspire you and to makethe topic clearer.
Sticker bombing is a whimsical and ambitious design stylewhich came from Japan with their special JDM stickers. A similar style was also formed by a group ofenthusiasts from New York who created a lot of fancy graffiti images one overanother, the so-called "bombs".
It's usually associated with street art and theway of decorating various things (mostly vehicles, skateboards and so on) with colorful overlapping stickers of various sizes in order to emphasizesome part of an object and to attract the viewer's attention.
Sticker bombingcommonly uses some ready-made stickers with well-known characters, but in thistutorial we'll go further and create our own crazy band of heroes.
Step 1
Let's start by creating a funny hipster catwith a cup of coffee.
First of all, let's create a squashed ellipse with the Ellipse Tool (L) and fill it withbright-orange color. Then move to Effect> Warp > Arc and set the VerticalBend value to 48%, bending our ellipseto the left side. Now that we have one of the cat's paws ready, Object > Expand it and create thebody base by forming an almost even circle. Stick our banana-shaped pawstoboth sides of the body. Keep a couple of copies of the paw-shape, because we'll needthem later.
Boom! Our Crazy Sticker Bombing Seamless Pattern Is Finished!
Great work! I hope you've enjoyed styling playful characters and designing this fancy seamless texture, discovering some new tipsand tricks! Try out these simple techniques and get back for more! Good luck!
