Create a Cityscape in Adobe Illustrator
Today I’ll share you how to create a colorful cityscape in Adobe Illustrator. You’ll start from an Illustrator template file, where I prepared the document for you including the colors I’ve used. We go step by step through the process, creating the sky, the grass, houses, trees, bushes, clouds… I show you several different, yet very simple techniques. Hope you are ready for this very extended tutorial. I promise it’ll be fun, but before we jump right in, I share a bit of tips & info about how the illustration is set up …
General setup
Below is an image that shows the general set up of the illustration. As you can see from the Layers panel, I’ve divided things up in stacking order, with the sky & ground as the bottom layer, and the bushes and the clouds in front as the top layers. When creating a scenery like this, it’s a good thing to try to divide your layers up in such stacking order. In this case it’s easy to organize things per category (trees, houses, bushes…), and then also separate items in front from items that go in the back e.g. I have bushes in front and I also have bushes (green) in the back.
