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How to draw swirls illustrations in Adobe Illustrator, Part Two

I assume that you worked on your swirls creation technique with a little help of my previous tutorial (How to draw swirls illustrations in Adobe Illustrator, Part One).

Now, let’s make a little case study. To make a Swirl Illustrations that looks like the one in the header of graphics-illustrations blog, we need:

Determine the size and shape of the blank space. We will now use simple quadrant shape.

How to draw swirls illustrations in Adobe Illustrator

Create a new layer bellow. Use the simple artist brush symbol below the layer that contains the quadrant to create an “outline”
How to draw swirls illustrations in Adobe Illustrator

Again, create a new layer. Now add some ink splatters around, on that layer.

How to draw swirls illustrations in Adobe Illustrator

Add some swirls on the layer above the layer that contains ink splatters (but bellow the layer with the shape and layer with it’s outline)

How to draw swirls illustrations in Adobe Illustrator

Add some more swirls, and also add some swirls on the new layer on the top.

How to draw swirls illustrations in Adobe Illustrator

In the end, add some stars… and that’s it.

Blue banner illustration
© Photographer: Bsilvia | Agency: Dreamstime.com

If you’re wondering how to colorize the symbols or even change their shapes: select all symbols and use the “Break Link to Symbol” – now you can manipulate shapes and colors until the dawn breaks or until you’re happy with the results – whatever comes first
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How to draw swirls illustrations in Adobe Illustrator

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  3. Emma says

    This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! You have saved me a bunch of time (I’ve been drawing each swirl one at a painstaking time!) My designs have been simple because of that, and now I can’t wait to go WILD. Thanks for your time!

  5. Brandon says

    I’m working on this tutorial at the moment and have a “noobie” question. – When I add the lines to my page (as shown in your 2nd picture) how do I change the color? I’ve tried everything it seems. That line just wants to stay black. 🙁

    – New to Illustrator (Love the look of your tutorial) (:

  14. phemmy says

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  15. InterestingJohn says

    I’m guessing that you made the symbols in Illustrator CS3? Because I’m on CS2 and they won’t load, they tell me they were made in a newer version of Illustrator. It’s probably a smart idea to make them backwards compatible for those of us who’s boss won’t upgrade them to CS3 yet 🙁

  20. john says

    Cheers. Can I use these for the banner on my site? (Im making it now)- it’s still nameless.
    If I make any money from it I’ll be happy to donate some to you.
    Bye.

  22. Sigh says

    You didn’t even explain HOW to make the swirl, you just said “put some swirls here and there”.

  23. bsilvia says

    Well SIgh, you didn’t EVEN visit “Part one” of this tutorial, you didn’t EVEN left your web site address, you didn’t EVEN left your mail address… but sure your comment is APPROVED, despite your ignorance.

    S

  25. Tim Roderick says

    Hi, This is AMAZING!!! Exactly what I was hoping to find.. What a lovely person you are to spend the time to show people like me how to do this!! I studied Music in University but have always loved Photography.. Used Photoshop for years & quite new to Illustrator!! Thank you so much for helping me & thank you for the free downloads!! I will enjoy & use to create artwork for years to come!! Tim *_(“,)/

  28. beatrice says

    so, so, so happy with the tutorial and the free stuff; thank you so much for taking the time and energy to share this with us.

  29. Samantha says

    Thank you for the great tutorial, these swirls are very hot right now and I am looking forward to using them 🙂

  30. daniel says

    THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH this is great inspiration and thanks for the brushes mane…..you rock

  33. Fraser says

    Just one question, once i have download your freebies, how do i load them into photoshop because whenever i try it will never let me extract the files from the zipped folder and claims that it is empty?

    Please Help 🙂
    Fraser

  35. Tori says

    Hey…thanks for the inspiration and tutorial…I have a final assignment coming up in my Color Theory class and was looking around the loverly googlyweb for some “muse” type love..you gave it!..can’t wait to get to work..o..thanks for the brushes and other whirly gigs..will most likely use them..ill be sure to send you a shot of the finished product…much love!

  36. Sunny says

    I’m new at all of this, but your tutorials are written so well that even *I* can use them. Thank you for taking the time to inspire creativity in all of us!

  38. mickie says

    what exactly do you mean by “quadrant shape”?
    I am new to illustrator, the rest of it i could figure out, but not that
    when i tried to use the tool i know as a vector type tool from ps, the brush stroke tried to go all of the way around, so .. am i using the wrong brush stroke? or applying it to the wrong things?

  39. bsilvia says

    Hi Mickie!
    “quadrant shape” is something like form to follow with the rest of the elements and you should use Illustrator brushes and “Classic Artist brush symbols set” – one symbol above and another one below…

  40. Saronite says

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