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Today, we'll look at five ways to draw stylized hearts that will be useful for creating greeting cards. It will be a simple and quick job if you use the tools I recommend in this article. Happy Valentine's Day!
1. Creating a Valentine's Day Card with paper hearts.
It is quite difficult to draw a beautifully shaped heart with the help of drawing tools. But this can be done very quickly using the Dynamic Shapes tool of the VectorScribe plug-in. Simply select the Dynamic Heart in the Dynamic Shapes panel (Window> VectorScribe> Dynamic Shapes panel), create the shape using the Dynamic Shapes Tool and select the parameters.
Fill the heart with a linear gradient from alternating shades of red, as shown in the picture below.
Add drop shadow with the corresponding effect (Effect> Stylize> Drop Shadow…).
The red paper heart is ready. Duplicate the heart and change the fill gradient. This time it consists of alternating white and pink colors.
Create a postcard shape using the Rectangle Tool or Dynamic Rectangle. Fill this shape with a radial gradient consisting of two shades of pink.
Create a dotted texture on this background. Duplicate the lower rectangle and apply the Phantasm Halftone effect (Effect> Phantasm> Halftone…) to it, with the parameters as shown in the picture below.
Using the Clipping Mask, hide the points that go beyond the shape of the lower rectangle. Create a new rectangle with a white stroke and apply the Drop Shadow effect to it.
Create a simple composition of red and white hearts, then add the appropriate text.
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