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ludwig90
ludwig90
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October 16, 2017
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Eagle and symmetric feathers logo

  • October 16, 2017
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Hi there!

I am still not very experienced with Ilustrator and I wanted to create a logo with an eagle. Does anyone have a detailled instruction how to create an eagle as the one I attached to this discussion? What bugs me the most are the feathers. How do I make perfect parallel gaps and sizes for them? I think I can figure out how to do the rest with the pen tool. Thanks in advance!

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Correct answer Doug A Roberts

i had an idea based on a radial grid of guides and using astute's free SubScribe tool (circle by 2 or 3 points) to create the feathers:

then you'd use shape builder or live paint or whatever to build the rest

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Doug A Roberts
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Doug A RobertsCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
October 17, 2017

i had an idea based on a radial grid of guides and using astute's free SubScribe tool (circle by 2 or 3 points) to create the feathers:

then you'd use shape builder or live paint or whatever to build the rest

subscribe can be found here:

https://astutegraphics.com/software/subscribe/

    ludwig90
    ludwig90Author
    Participant
    October 18, 2017

    That´s a great help Doug, I will check our your site as well!

    J
    jdanek
    Inspiring
    October 16, 2017

    Study pictures in books of eagles and items like the presidential seal, etc.  You could also look at clip art samples on the web.  Just to give you a head start, so to speak.

    JonathanArias
    JonathanArias
    Legend
    October 16, 2017

    you could use the pen tool. and only draw/trace half the drawing, and than mirror/duplicate to make the other half. you merge your shapes and now you can color it the way you want.

    Monika Gause
    Community Expert
    Monika GauseCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 16, 2017

    You could create some circular guides to align all those edges in the middle.

    Next thing are those gaps: you could make them by converting fat strokes to shapes and then subtract those from the body.

    Strokes can be made with a width profile, so that they are non-uniform.

    You could blend shapes to get even distance.

    All in all: get some experience in vector drawing and try out different approaches to see what works best for you.

    Also:  making all those gaps and feathers uniform might not work as expected, because they still don't look uniform.

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