Eagle and symmetric feathers logo

[ludwig90]

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!

[Monika Gause]

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.

[JonathanArias]

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.

[jdanek]

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.

[Doug A Roberts · Accepted solution]

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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[ludwig90]

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