Vector Drops Freebie

9 Responses

1. Florian Grunt

   I tried to create the perfect water drop, which looks realistic, picks up the colors from any background (dark/bright) and can be distorted to have lots of unique drops – and all of that in Illustrator. I ended with a drop that consists out of 4 objects (2 gradient meshes, 1 linear gradient and one solid area). Altogether I created 51 unique drops over a sample background. Color space: CMYK (ISO coated)

   They can be used with any background you want!

   Freebie available here: Vector Drops (2nd sample)

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   5 months ago

2. Jonathan Shariat

   Very nice, I like it. You could even use smart objects to make what's behind them appear bigger inside the droplet.

   5 months ago

3. Florian Grunt

   okay, how does that work, do you have any resources or tutorials for that? never heard that in Illustrator! @Jonathan Shariat and can those smart objects still be distorted?

   5 months ago

4. Jonathan Shariat

   I used them in my Map Fold PSD Template. Feel free to download and poke around. Basically, you create an instance of something. So if you change it in there it changes in all instances. So what you could do is make the background a smart object. Then copy that and use it for the droplets. So when someone replaces the background, the droplets still show the enlarged copies.

   Make sense? or is this more confusing haha

   5 months ago

5. Jonathan Shariat

   Oh sorry this is Illustrator, my bad. The smart object is part of Photoshop.

   5 months ago

6. Florian Grunt

   okay, yes I understand that. cool idea!

   but you're right too that I did all that in Illustrator. I'm not sure if I can do such an enlargement with Illustrator too. But I think that it looks pretty realistic even without an enlargement.

   Thanks for the cool input!

   5 months ago

7. Dreamix Studio

   Cool Florian! Thanks for sharing!!!

   5 months ago

8. Florian Grunt

   you're welcome @Dreamix Studio! and feel free to share it on twitter ;)

   5 months ago

9. Hartwig Salzer

   Thanks for sharing the shiny drops! I'll definitely use them someday!! :)

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   5 months ago