7 Creative Ways to Add Texture in Adobe Illustrator

Learn some of the best ways to add texture and interest to your vector illustrations in Adobe Illustrator. All of the examples in this video are from our Illustrator Fast-Track course. Click on the link below to access the FREE version including an entire illustration workflow with downloadable exercise files!

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:25 Scatter Brush
05:16 Grain Effect
08:07 Grain on the Stroke
09:16 FREE Course Giveaway
09:57 Texture with Symbols
13:14 Opacity Mask
15:08 Artbrush
16:44 Texture on the Stroke
19:10 Halftone Effect

[susanne]

Thanks for that tutorial! I‘ve learnt so much new stuff. Got my subscription.

[pablocampos]

By far the best texturing tutorial this year. You've got my subs

[alexandersterz]

The best video I've seen, since a long time. Thank you! It was really helpful. Pls more of it.

[clvermariii]

Watching this video feels like one of those breakthrough moments, i seriously have just learned so much. I am learning graphic design having previously been into drawing and animation, so I’m still getting the hang of the differences between making vector art and raster art. Thank you so much!

[thomasjoel]

Really great to see application of textures in so many different ways in one single tutorial! Thanks for sharing!

[ElleMann-cb]

I learned how to use .bmp textures as a student more than ten years ago, but I have not had a texture lesson since then. This is all WAY cooler! Thank you!!

[mw]

bruh you are so talented man, you know illustrator inside out. I just learned so much new stuff thank you Sir.

[vardhanarts]

Thank you so much, I've learnt so many new things that I didn't know before

[stanleychukwu]

thank you boss, i've learnt so much from you

[kosaladissanayake]

I was did art use draw inside (shift+D),
after that cant use the offset path. please teach Thank You Lot.

[laurarandazzoch]

Hello, thank you so much for this Tutorial, I learned so much! I have a question though: I'm using the first mode with the scatter brush and the draw inside tool. Now if I have an artwork with multiple shapes, that I am applying this same technique. And I would like to make color variations of the same artwork. Is there a way how I can for example put all the texture brushstrokes into one layer in order to change the color of all the paths at once and not having to select each individual patch and change the color. Thank you so much in advance for your answer. I appreciate it a lot. :)

[antihistamean]

5:25 How did you get the transparent grain in the surrounding leaves?

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[FairyLiquid]

10:50 really like this gradient, and it's so simple :)

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[NyxGrap]

Thanks you so much ! I've learned a lot 🫶🏾