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Drawing a diamond is pretty simple in illustrator. First, let’s do some research on the anatomy of a diamond. We don’t want to do some fancy cut and get rejected by our clients. Here’s a proportional diamond line art taken from the website. We will use this as a guide to help us create a perfect diamond.
1. Create a template guide
First, place the line work by going File>Place and select the graphic. Go to Layers Palette and click the arrow to show the menu and select Template. This will lock and make the graphic transparent for easy tracing.
2. Placing a guide in the center
Turn on your Rulers by pressing Ctrl/Command+R. Drag a guide and place it in the center.
Next turn on the Snap to Grid by pressing Shift+Ctrl+”/Shift+Command+” or go Window>Snap to Grid. You will see the grid appear at the background.
3. Tracing the artwork
Create a new layer in your Layer Palette (new layer icon at the bottom of the palette). Using the Pen Tool, start to trace each facet. The points will snap to the grid. Make sure to close each shape and make the points meet in the same spot. Do this until we complete the right half of the diamond. We can turn off Snap to Grid and manually adjust the points to fix the curves which doesn’t snap to the grid very well.
4. Reflecting the diamond
Select the whole half of the diamond. Select Reflect Tool and Alt/Option+click on the center guide line. This will pop up a menu. Select Vertical for Axis and click Copy.
Let’s start combining the center facet. Select both the facets at the bottom and hold Alt/Option+Click and click Add to shape area from Pathfinder (Window>Pathfinder). Repeat this step for the top facets too.
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March 29th, 2008 at 10:52 am
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March 30th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Great thanx 4 sharing…:).great tutorial
April 5th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
I just wanted to say thankyou very much for this tutorial
You did a brilliant job of explaining, and the visuals were extremely helpful.
April 12th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Thanks Bekindi, I will keep up with my new tutorials. I’m now writing on a tutorial to create a cool disco ball. Be sure to catch it. =)
April 16th, 2008 at 1:24 am
Great tutorials.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:53 pm
it was a good tutorial.
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:10 am
Great stuff. Keep it up
April 25th, 2008 at 7:33 am
This was really helpful. Thank you for the quick lesson.
It was cool too.
April 25th, 2008 at 9:07 am
very nice.. i just hope that theres a lot more tutorial will share to your site.. tnx..
April 30th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Illustrator tutorial: The Perfect Diamond…
Looking for a nice image of a beautiful diamond? That perfect one? Why not create your own design in Illustrator in just minutes? Follow this tutorial and you’d be amazed by the results…
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:09 pm
actually this tutorial is give a variance design to the person.great tute
May 4th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Hello. I tried your disco ball tutorial. it was very cool.
now before i get onto the perfect diamond tutorial, please tell me how you can make shinny stars!!! and how did you make the disco shine like glory!!
thank you!
May 5th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Hi Sumilux,
What I did was I brought it to Photoshop to boost up the contrast and brightness.
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