I wanted to create something dark, minimal, and mysterious for SOUL.

The concept revolves around the line “Between life and death, lies the soul.” I used oversized typography, a deep blue colour palette, subtle grain, and a solitary human silhouette to create a sense of isolation and mystery.

I wanted the title to dominate the composition while the small human figure adds scale and makes the viewer feel insignificant in comparison.

The goal was to communicate the mood of the film without revealing too much of its story.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, especially on the typography, composition, and overall visual hierarchy. What would you improve?

Designed by: Abdul Manan

Sometimes, you create something simply because it feels right. You follow your eye, trust your instincts, and let the shapes fall into place.

Then, one day, you look closer and discover relationships you never consciously planned.

This is a little story about a logo, eight triangles, and the beauty of things falling into place without you even realising it.

Swipe through.

Hi all, PLEASE HELP!

So I use procreate to design. I am then exporting as PNG from procreate and opening in Adobe Illustrator for iPad. I then need to vectorise. After this I export as PDF. The clarity is perfect. The colour has completely changed. I need it as cmyk which it all apparently is.
If I export as jpeg or any other type the colours remain the same. Only as I export as pdf it changes. How can I avoid this? I’ve asked every ai app and none can help me as I’ve tried everything they say and it doesn’t change the outcome 😩

Hey! "Be My Valentine" - artwork was created in Illustrator, originally just as an exercise to improve my vector skills. Later, I reworked it in a different style, refined the background, and adapted it into a car wrap design (For now, it’s still a concept, presented with a 3D render).

I’ll share a few more renders in the comments for anyone interested.

Come to the dark side of vector art… we have cookies. 😈 Vector rules! :)

⛔0% AI, 100% Original

every time i copy and paste my original flat, it would always show up gray. I've already tried 'ctrl+d', 'alt and drag', ctrl+c ctrl+v'. nothing has worked! I've already tried filling it with colours and still nothing. are there any alternative ways to fix this problem? I do not want to restart this flat as I need to hand this in to my instructor soon

Hey everyone, Luke from Adobe here.

Sharing a feature that many of you have been asking for, and it's now available in Illustrator!

With Batch Relink, you have more control over how linked images are replaced throughout your document. You can choose to update all instances of a linked image or just the selected instances, even across multiple artboards and repeated layouts.

The Each Link Separately option also lets you relink multiple selected instances sequentially, assigning a different image to each without having to repeatedly select individual instances and initiate the Relink process.

This is particularly useful when working with multiple variations of a design.

It's a small workflow improvement that can save a lot of repetitive steps, especially when managing more complex documents.

I'd be interested to hear if you have been using it, what you think, and whether there are other improvements you'd like to see around managing linked assets in Illustrator.

Sending this design to a laser cutter, so I want to dither this gradient - but it's greyed out?

Googling says it's not supported for "Free Form Gradients" - is this a free form gradient, because it's inside a free form shape? So therefore dither is only available for basic shapes like squares/circles, etc?

Any help or suggestions are appreciated!

i would like to do the text effect and specially the union of the T and C curvature which i have tried with pen and pencil but i cant manage to make the curvature equally thin

When using enveloppe distortion (mesh) it automatically creates a curve, i cannot find any way to make it straight (first photo).

I've tried making it fit in a "rectangle" of the same shape but the top of the text looks really weird (second photo).

Any solutions ?

Good things come to those who wait (decades). 🙏🏼

Okay, I know how to draw (like drawing on pen and paper) but whenever I translate it digitally, it doesn't look good for logos and/or mascots, for some reason it just looks really... off? Beginner-looking?

Like for example there's a restaurant that wants to have a mascot as their logo, but every studies I make just translates to childish, for kids, etc. instead of getting the vibe that it's an approachable brand.

I dont know how to describe it, maybe it's a style issue. I've previously taught myself how to draw cartoon or anime. Maybe you guys could help me pinpoint how to draw logos as mascots err... professionally? Or what makes a good mascot logo? Thanks!

This is doing my head in! I want to expand some text, so the halftone doesnt expand/move as i upsize and resize the graphic.

Here are my steps:
Radial Blur > Rasterise (Greyscale, white background) > Halftone

I have tried Screenshoting then Image Tracing but its just not as clean as I want it.

Please help me expand this, I'm desperate!

I’m trying to colour parts of the red circle as seen on the right. I’m on iPad and I’ve tried everything I’ve been trying to use pathfinder and I’m still figuring it out, im pretty new to illustrator.
Tried minus front but it doesn’t separate the circle at all it just gets rid of the lines and leaves behind the red circle in tact. So yeah im at a loss I’ve seen people on pc have no problem with separating the circle into parts, it’s just on iPad I’m clearly missing something and its pmo.

If anyone knows how I can turn the red circle into what I’ve got on the right it would be really appreciated.

Why is my document window so tiny? I worked in this file a couple months ago with no issues - the document window filled the entire workspace and I can zoom in and out of the artboard no problem. When I opened it today, the document window was tiny and I'm only able to work in the upper left hand corner that I've marked in red. I've tried the following fixes with no luck:

- changing the UI scaling settings to Large

- changed the high DPI settings --> scaling override behavior changed to System (enhanced)

- changing the Windows Display settings to the default

- reset the zoom level

- window > arrange > consolidate all windows

For reference, I'm running Windows 11 pro. It is up to date. My display resolution is 3456 x 2160. Scale is set to the recommended 250%. HDR is turned on.

Any thoughts?

TY!

This is driving me SO crazy. I know there are some objects in my file (they are invisible, no fill no stroke - I guess) and even though they Appear in the exported PDF, in both Preview and Acrobat as thick is grey lines I cannot find them to delete them. When I hover over the shape it does highlight but won't select. Help! I'm on a deadline.....

• Are visible in Illustrator’s Outline mode (⌘Y), but invisible in normal Preview mode.
• Can’t be selected with Command+A.
• Aren’t resolved by copying the artwork into a new document.
• Don’t appear to be hidden or locked using Illustrator’s usual commands.

Client sent me a dieline, everything is a single spot color from rectangles with zero difference between cuts and creases.Should I do anything with the creasing/folding lines or should I just leave the entire dieline untouched as it is? Also, how should I handle the bleeds for the outer edges since there are no bleed lines provided?

Title: Illustrator saves PDFs with corrupted text (copy/paste gives garbage characters), but only for PDFs from Word and LibreOffice and some specifics fonts. Arial for example.

Hi all, I'm stuck on a problem I haven't been able to solve.

I work on an official gazette and receive finished PDFs from other people. I open them in Illustrator for adjustments and save them as PDF again. With some files, the PDF Illustrator writes has corrupted text: if I select and copy the text in a PDF viewer, strange characters appear instead of letters.

The page looks fine visually, and the problem only shows up when copying or searching the text. When I try to copy, I get tab symbols and small dots instead of letters.

To isolate the cause, I ran a test with a short sentence in Arial, written in four different programs and exported to PDF:

Word: corrupted after going through Illustrator.

LibreOffice Writer: corrupted as well.

Google Docs: comes out correct.

Inkscape: I opened the Word PDF in Inkscape, exported it again, and took that to Illustrator. It came out correct.

Some details that may help:

I use File > Open. The text is selectable, the font shows as ArialMT Regular, and there is no missing-font warning.

If I copy the text inside Illustrator and paste it elsewhere, it comes out right. The error only appears in the PDF it saves.

The same thing happens on other computers. I also tried File > Place, which didn't help.

The defect only shows up with certain files and certain fonts, not all of them.

The source PDFs are fine: the text copies normally when they are opened in any other viewer.

When saving, I use "Save as PDF with default options".

I examined the internal structure of the test PDFs and found a difference that might be a clue. In the Google Docs and Inkscape files, the embedded font has a Unicode character table (cmap 3,1) with the real letter values. In the Word files, the embedded font has no cmap at all, with renumbered glyphs (1, 2, 3…). In the LibreOffice files, it only has a Macintosh-type cmap (1,0) with arbitrary codes. In both cases the text exists only in the PDF's ToUnicode mapping, which is present and correct. It looks like Illustrator doesn't make use of it when rewriting the file.

This explanation doesn't fully hold up: the PDF that Illustrator itself writes from the good file also has no cmap in the font and works. So I'm not sure the missing cmap is the cause. I think it's a useful clue, but not a conclusive one.

Has anyone seen this before? Is there an import or export setting that makes Illustrator preserve the text of these PDFs without going through Inkscape? I can't convert files one by one, because there are too many and they arrive already finished.

EDIT 1: I work for a "municipal official gazette"—a mandatory digital publication for municipal governments. In reality, no changes are made to these PDFs; they are simply inserted into templates that include a header and a footer.

Apologies if the question does not make sense and/or is dumb (I'm typically an AE user, and fairly new to Illustrator), but I'm using Art Brush 6, and I want to make these lines look different, but use the same brush. Is this possible? Many thanks

Now that it’s been over a month since MacOS27 has released, how is it for everyone? Is everything running smoothly? I heard Wacom Tablet drivers were causing some issues before Wacom released a patch, but is everything else working?

I made an object shaped like a cat head in illustrator for a logo, and I need to add dimension to it. I wanted to add a gradient and then bitmap the gradient so it had a textured effect. however I can’t get it to work. I applied mesh to the object so I could add the gradient to specific points, however now the gradient tool won’t do anything. usually the bar in the tool has the gradient in it, but it’s just all white, even though the opposite point is set to black. I’ve tried adjusting position and size but nothing shows up. I’ve tried all three types of gradients. i tried clearing the appearance and then trying again but still nothing. I am concerned the mesh is a problem, but I can’t remove it and I wanted to have the gradient from certain points in it anyway, so I’m not sure what to do. right clicking the object offers the option to undo gradients, so I think it must be doing something, but they aren’t actually visible at all. I would appreciate any help bc the fixes I’ve found online haven’t worked :(

I'll try to explain this as best as possible: Part of the black stroke is underneath the red square. I don't want that there. I want to be able to remove part of the stroke with the black square. I've tried removing it with the shape builder tool. Clicking on the square/dragging it just deletes the square's fill, and holding Alt while clicking on it just removes the square completely. In both instances, the stroke still appears. I'm assuming this is a problem with trying to use this tool with a stroke, but I could be wrong. Is there anyway to delete the part of the stroke where the square overlaps?

Made this while it was raining all day. The yellow on dark green felt nice. Any feedback?