15 Illustrator Tutorials for Creating Isometric Illustrations

We're all looking to improve our vector illustration skills, and if your focus is on learning illustration or icon design, then getting familiar with how to use Adobe Illustrator to create isometric drawings will improve your technical illustration skills greatly. Learning how to use Illustrator to create isometric diagrams, set up isometric grids, and design isometric cubes are fundamental skills that you can build upon. We've assembled a collection of tutorials that will teach you the basics of creating isometric illustrations in Illustrator, as well as intermediate tutorials that teach you how to create complex technical illustrations, and then a few tutorials that show you how to get creative with isometric in Illustrator (such as building isometric retro illustrations and vibrant pattern based isometric cityscapes). Get ready to take your skills with vector drawing at an angle to the next level. Mark Oliver shows us how to create retro illustrations on isometric planes.

Isometric vector art made easy | Computer Arts With today's nostalgia for all things retro, pixels are making a comeback. The German illustration trio eBoy has single-handedly carved a new medium pixel by pixel, and has produced work for some of the world's biggest brands. Isometric graphics have since become popular with a lot of artists and designers. Click here to download the support files (1MB) Click here to download the tutorial for free

Playing With Isometric Projection in Inkscape to Make a Minecraft Scene Inkscape has a really neat grid feature to make isometric designs very easy to accomplish. It's called an axonometric grid, and we're going to use it to create a Minecraft inspired isometric design. This tutorial will focus on creating four different isometric blocks that can then be placed to create a scene. Let's go to File > Document Properties to set our page size to 970 x 1000 pixels. Now click the Grids tab and create an Axonometric grid. Finally, set the snapping options how I have it shown below. Grab that Pen tool, because that will pretty much be the only tool you'll be using. Note: You may be wondering why I'm using a solid shape for a 3D cube instead of piecing together the three separate sides. We're going to start adding some detail to our dirt block. Now this is the tedious part. While this is tedious, it's super easy and only takes a couple minutes. With the Selection tool, just select all of the block you've just placed. It's time for the top details now. And place away!

Setting up Isometric Grid in Inkscape | KalaaLog In this tutorial, we will be looking at setting up Inkscape for Isometric illustration. Isometric projection is a type of axonometric projection. It is commonly used in engineering drawing. While creating 3D illustrations in isometric projection, it becomes easy to draw if there is an isometric grid to be used as a guide. I am using Inkscape version 0.48 here; the feature to setup the grid though should be available in couple of older versions. Open up Inkscape, and choose ‘Document Properties’ from the ‘File’ menu. Swith to the ‘Grids’ tab in the dialog box and then choose ‘Axonometric Grid’ from the drop down menu. By default, the angles would be configured for Isometric grid – that is, 30 degress for both Angle X and Angle Z. You may change the spacing parameter if you want if you feel the grid lines are too close to each other. You can close the dialog box. Make sure you have the Snap to grids button in the Snap Bar enabled. Now you are ready for creating isometric illustrations.