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How to Create a Cool and Funny Tiki Art using Adobe Illustrator

Hello friends, today we are going to show you how to create a Cool Tiki art using Adobe Illustrator. Tiki art or tiki carvings are mostly used in Hawaii/Polynisian islands or in African countries as it symbolizes their culture and beliefs and it’s such a vivid art is there. Most of the tiki art or carvings are made in behalf of their ancestors or their gods as you can always check the internet to find real and vector tiki arts inspirations. Today we decided to give you the awesomeness of creating your own tiki art which is a fun to do.

Resources (all credits goes to original authors)

Step 01

  • Open Adobe Illustrator and create a new document of A4 size and make it a Portrait mode.
  • Save it as Vector Tiki Art.ai.

Step 02

  • Now as the first step of drawing, start drawing with shapes.
  • Select rounded rectangle tool from the tools pallet.
  • Use the below tones as the color pallet.
  • For each part that you draw with pen tool, add a new layer.
  • The steps are shown below.
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Step 03

  • After drawing the Rounded rectangle tool, select the direct selection tool and change the space between the top two curves in each sides.
  • Actually what we are going to do it make the two curves areas together.
  • Now do the same with the bottom curves and make the shape like an oval.
  • Fill the shape with #6D5217.
  • Now after that, to make the oval shape more obvious, draw the shape with pen tool as shown below.
  • Next flip the shape and make the whole object unite using pathfinder tools.
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Step 04

  • Next we will make the eyes area of the tiki art.
  • Select the eclipse tool and draw one eye as shown below.
  • Make another small circle inside of it as the eye ball and try make it funny.
  • The fill color is #C7B570.
  • Duplicate the eye and place it as shown below.
  • Add a stroke to the eye ball shape the color is #47370B.
  • Now on the top of each eye draw an eclipse shape small size and fill it with white and reduce the opacity to 50%.
  • Duplicate the shape and place it in the other eye also.
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Step 05

  • Next we will draw eye brow to the tiki shape.
  • Select pen tool and draw an eye brow, it should be as amazed.
  • Fill color is #2D1E05.
  • Duplicate the shape and place it as shown in the next step.
  • Next below the eye area, draw another circle filled with the same fill color and place it as shown below.
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Step 06

  • Now we have to draw the mouth area. 
  • Draw a shape as shown like an oval shape but it like squeezed from the middle to inside.
  • Next draw the teeth step by step as shown below.
  • Next draw nose area.
  • First draw nostrils with pen tool as shown.
  • Then make the contour of the nose with pen tool only with stroke.
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Step 07

  • Next we will draw some stroke shapes.
  • That will make the Tiki shape more attractive.
  • Only use the pen tool.
  • Steps are shown below.
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Step 08

  • Next we will open swatches pallet and open the Patterns palette > Nature> Nature Animal Skins.
  • We will duplicate the main oval shape (Ctrl+C) and apply a Pattern, you can use any of the patterns that you like.
  • Next paste the copied shape over the patterns fill and send it to back.
  • Now for the pattern layer, that is in the front make the opacity to 20%.
  • It will seem like if the tiki shape is made out of wood or animal hide.
  • Finally add a stroke with a dark brown color to the main oval shape in the back with stroke.
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Step 09

  • Next we will make a shape like a feather using pen tool.
  • The shape will be as shown below.
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  • Next Make a Circle with circle tool and make another small circle in the middle of it.
  • Next, use the pathfinder tool and by using minus front option cut off the middle part of the big circle by suing the small circle.
  • Then the shape will be like a ring with a hollow middle.
  • Next add another feather shape to it as shown below.
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  • Next keep it somewhere we can set it as ears.
  • Next duplicate the shape and keep it in the same area as the previous.
  • Next create a small oval shape beneath the tiki art and add black color to it and reduce the opacity to 70%.
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Step 10

  • Next for the final steps, add a white rectangle as the size of the canvas.
  • Next make another rectangle and keep on top of it and fill it with bright orange #F7941E.
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  • Next we have typed the word as Aloha Tiki Land with the font named Showcard Gothic.
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  • Lastly, the final outcome will be awesome like this.
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