How to Create Vector Art Illustrations in Adobe Fireworks - Tutorial - Part 2 of 2 Video Lecture | Adobe Fireworks CS6: Guide for Beginners - Design

okay so welcome to the final part of a
two-part tutorial series on creating
illustrations using the pen tool and the
vector objects in fireworks so what
we're doing is we're just to recap we're
manipulating this graph this image here
and recreating this vector illustration
in fireworks so let's go ahead and zoom
in onto one of these trees to figure out
what they did here so we're going to
create or duplicate one of these trees
so let's start off with our vector pen
tool we're just going to create the the
the tree branch or the tree stump or the
stem just going to create a simple
rectangular shape like that so then and
you can I'll just make it brown
- Brown at this point so okay now you
want to create get your vector pen tool
we want to create this little star
effect and we don't have to be exactly
like it but what we're going to do we're
going to click here we're going to let's
actually create a palm tree a different
palm tree effect so we're going to click
drag click click drag click click drag
click click drag click click drag click
click drag click click drag click click
drag click click drag click click drag
click click drag click and click and
drag
so we're creating this little effect
there and then let's give it a nice
green color let's go ahead and group
those that object so we're going to do
is to take our palm tree that we just
create it and bring it down here and
make it larger
all right so let's go ahead and create
this island here zoom in let's create
this island click here the R vector tool
click click our last point but then we
want to drag up that creates our island
effect and then we can take our paint
tool and copy the gradient colors there
okay so with that there we have our palm
tree and we want to do is drag alt art
you know and that creates a different
copy of our palm tree I'm going to scale
it down I put one there alt drag and you
can you can flip it horizontally scale
it up just a bit just to give it a
different dimension you can stick it
right there so that's pretty much this
is the the image that we started off
with that we're using in the reference
and here is the graphic that I created
it's pretty similar so what we're going
to do is finalize it and we're going to
select all the the the islands there I'm
going to do copy I'm going to paste and
group them so what you want to do is end
up with a different set like this and
we're going to then flip it vertically
and then we're going to send it to the
back send it all the way to the back
bring it up just a couple and then from
there we want to go into the command
option creative and this is cs3 so you
and do fade image I believe in cs4 it's
a vector path so I want to just fade the
image and that creates the that reflects
effect that we see here okay so let's
remove let's take a look at what we got
so this is the object we started off
with this is the one I created very cool
effect so that's pretty much it at this
point it's all vectors so I can scale it
down
you know scale it up I can make it 300
dpi I can use it for print do whatever I
want and it's pretty much that's it's
pretty much done so the the purpose of
me showing you how to use the pen tool
is because it's useful for creating
icons logos graphics illustrations like
this and I've learned to use the pen
tool in fireworks and once you master it
in fireworks I believe it's to me it's
very easier to use in file it's very
easy to use in fireworks versus
illustrator but once you master it in
fireworks you can then use the same
techniques and use it in Illustrator and
create a vector object and illustrator
and which allows you to output to EPS
files and different things like that
whereas creating these objects in
fireworks you know allows you to have
vector objects but you can't export this
these this object here to an EPS file
within fireworks you would have to do
this in Illustrator and in order to do
that so but there you have it that's the
tutorial I hope this was helpful and
what I'm going to do is upload the this
file here to the description box so if
you need to use it as a reference go
ahead and comment rate and look out for
more videos and tutorials to come
alright take care bye
you