{"id":831,"date":"2007-08-29T16:19:57","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T00:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=831"},"modified":"2007-11-09T14:11:47","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T22:11:47","slug":"adobe-illustrator-very-simple-tutorial-designing-a-custom-coffee-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Illustrator Very Simple Tutorial: Designing a Custom Coffee Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nLast night, I came back home really late. My wife was already at sleep. A cold front came down from Canada. So it was cold. I wanted to have a cup of hot cocoa. I looked for my favorite coffee cup and couldn’t find it. I spent another 10 minutes in vain. Eventually, I became very frantic. After another 10 minutes of search, I still couldn’t find it and had to resort to Plan B. What’s my Plan B? Adobe Illustrator… I went to my work room, started up my iMac and then launched Adobe Illustrator CS2. In a matter of 10 minutes or so, I managed to recover my favorite coffee cup.<\/p>\n

The following tutorial shows steps to design a coffee cup, using Adobe Illustrator CS2. There is nothing special in this tutorial if you are a member and have seen video tutorials like ‘#16: Designing a 3D Wine Bottle’ from the Illustrator Basics for Dummies series. You just create a shape, rotate it and then create a label and paste it with 3D Revolve > Map Art.
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  1. Using Pen Tool<\/strong>, draw a path for the right half of a coffee cup with no fill color. Use any color for the outline stroke.<\/li>\n
  2. Apply 3D<\/strong> > Revolve<\/strong> to the path. Create a 3D shape. Then adjust the path to get the right shape. When finished, apply none to the stroke color and go back to 3D Revolve Options<\/strong>. This time, you probably want to apply a gray color to Shading Color<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  3. Next, let’s work on the coffee cup handle. It’s no fancy. You just create a shape with Pen Tool again. A simple way of making it look better is to give some 30 pixels of weight to the path stroke.<\/li>\n
  4. If you want some shadow behind and under the coffee cup, create a shape with Ellipse Tool<\/strong>. You probably want to apply gradation and also Stylize<\/strong> > Feather<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  5. If you want a label on the coffee cup, create one with Type Tool at first. When finished, drop the text layer to the Symbol Palette.<\/li>\n
  6. Let’s go back to 3D Revolve Options by clicking on the effect icon in the Appearance Palette. Click on Map Art<\/strong>. Select the right surface and then choose the text layer you have added from the Symbol drop-down menu.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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