You know how it is. Some days you just wake up and want to try something new.
I’ve used Photoshop and the more unfashionable (yet tons better for designing websites) Fireworks but the only experience I’d really had of Illustrator was once upon a time when I downloaded some free vector art and opened it up to change part of it from pink to green. The time was right to learn.
After a few false starts and some frustration with the gradient tool it was time to get on with things and make something ambitious and pretty. In stepped this tutorial over at Vectortuts+. In it we learn how to create a gearbox, settings-type icon (please forgive the Mac look, and bear with me) with surprising ease. The author explains each step clearly and while it’s true that I stumbled a few times through my own inexperience, I was always able to get back on track and my version of the icon looked really rather nifty.
Over the last few days I’ve done a few of these Illustrator tutorials and this is probably the best so far for both clear instructions and a truly impressive end product. The one downside is that exact dimensions aren’t given so it’s difficult to get your version looking exactly how it does in the picture, but as you can see I managed close enough.
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