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Illustrator Tutorial on Designing paper Dolls


1 To form the head, make a circle with the Ellipse tool.

2 Using the Rounded Rectangle tool make a neck.

3 Choose both. Click on Shape Modes and press Add to shape area.


4 Form an oval for the body.



5 Choose Shell Upper at 10% for the body. Apply Expand Appearance. Combine using Add to shape area. Press Expand.


6 To create the arm, draw a circle. Add a rectangle. Copy the circle and drag down to the end for the hand. Combine using Add to shape area.



7 Reduce the width of the shape if needed and duplicate.

8 Choose the Rotate tool and pick an angle for the left arm of -280. Do the opposite for the other arm. Make a leg with the rectangle tool. Add a circle and you know the rest.

 


9 Select all and apply Add to shape area.

 


10 Form two circles in black. Add a white dot to the eye. Make some rosy cheeks with circles with no stroke. Make the nose with the Pen tool, a black stroke of 6 pts., and Rounded Cap and Join. Choose the Line Segment tool and draw a straight line for the mouth. Open Warp Options and apply Arc -42 (Bend).

 


11 Make small circles for the fingers.

 


 


12 Open a new layer. Lock the doll layer. For the girl, make some ponytails using the Pen tool. Then use Reflecting and Copy. For the boy. Use the technique of the Line Segment tool and the Warp Options. Use the Pen tool to connect the two endpoints and increase the stroke size to fit.




13 For the girl: open a new layer and draw half of a dress with the Pen tool. Make flaps with the Rounded Rectangle tool. Rotate slightly and duplicate. Set into place. Add decoration to the dress. After duplicating, use the Add to shape area to combine only the dress and not the decorations. While printing it, hide the dress layer, print the doll, come back, hide the doll layer and print the dress.

 


 


14 Do the same for the boy’s clothes.

 

 


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