Mysterious Illustrator Tool

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January 16, 2022
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OK, so THREE different artists are using a specific tool within Illustrator to make AMAZING elliptical illustrations. The MAIN artist whom started using this style is name Martin Sati. The other two artist are Marina Okhromenko and Triyas Isa. All three artists use Illustrator to create these illustrations, and it seems to be a specific tool or use of a tool to create this elliptical pattern. If anyone has ANY ideas how these three artists are finessing Illustrator to create these illustrations I would be more then happy to hear. I have attached a picture of each of their artworks below.

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Anna Lander

Inspiring

As far as I can see, there is a combining of the Geometry drawing tools, Pen tool, Curvature tool, and some shape editing like Corner widget, Pathfinder, and Shape Builder. Nothing magical :-), but creativity, mastery, and attention to the details.

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breGAuthor

Known Participant

What exactly is the corner widget tool and how can you use it? I have taken Martin Sati's class and seen him use the corner widget tool but cannot figure out how to use it...

Anna Lander

Inspiring

The corner widget is a set of small circles which you see when selecting the object by the Direct Selection Tool. If you don't, turn it On: View > Show Corner Widget.

You can select all the points together or just some of them and move "inside the corner" to get the needed curvature.

This works for any corners on your shape even if the shape is open.

michelew83603738

Community Expert

There is no magic in what these artists did, it is just a current popular style. They could have used the pen tool or pencil or curvature tool for that matter. They used the tones of the images they were working from to block out the underlying shapes and went from there. Many experienced illustrators use plug-ins from AstuteGraphics to make their workflow easier, they are great, but again - no magic! Hard work and years of use are usually what goes into great illustrations.