How to best get this soft distressed paper look on illustration?

[CorrieGC]

How would you suggest to get a distressed paper look like the one in this illustration?

Thanks!

[Kurt Gold · Accepted solution]

There are ways to do that using pure vector art, but it would be kind of inappropriate and perhaps even ludicrous. In Illustrator there are a lot of pixel based effects and if you are clever, you may get some very good results by combining some of them.

But often this is just a waste of time because you can get better results way more easy by just finding a paper with a similar texture, scan it and use it as a template.

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

Or get/create some paper texture image, put it on top of your artwork and use a blending mode like multiply.