3d Wood Guitar

Hi friend

I am back here with a new tutorial that is 3d wood guitar and so interested to teach you my experience during creating guitar by this example, it has complete steps those are helpful and sure you can also draw guitar by using them so follow now.

Take a new document with any size as you like, select Ellipse Tool (L key) and draw a circle on the document with "#c69c6d" color. select top and bottom anchor point of the circle by the Direct Selection Tool (A key) then move up by the up arrow.

Make duplicate shape and decrease the size then right click and choose "Rotate" option, a window will come on the screen put value 180 and make them align vertical center. After align make them join by click on "Add to Shape Area" button in the pathfinder window.

Now you have to make it 3D so follow this path (Effect menu > 3D > Extrude and Bevel), make all the adjustment as done below picture. 

The guitar should look like this.

Now expend picture by following this path (Object menu > Expend Appearance) and apply glow inside the guitar by following this path (Effect menu > Stylize > Inner Glow) then make adjustment of the color and another settings.

Now draw a circle by Ellipse tool (L key) in the middle top of the guitar with "#603813" color and press Ctrl + C + F then make duplicate circle with changed "Gradient Color" and move a bit left side. Select both circle and click on the "Intersect Shape Areas" button in the pathfinder window.

The guitar should be look like this.

Select Pen Tool (P key) draw a shape like guitar hand with black color and adjust the position as done below.

Come on top of the guitar hand and draw two circle by Ellipse Tool (L key) with different color then select both and apply Blend Tool (W key).

Select Pen Tool (P key) again and draw a shape then apply gradient color as given below pictures.

Select Both shape and make more copy and paste then adjust the position of them as done below.

Select Rectangular Tool (M key) and draw rectangle shape with different colors and position as done in the bottom of the guitar picture.

Draw some line on the guitar hand and make same distance each, select all of them with Shift key and make them group by pressing Ctrl + G key. Select guitar hand and press Ctrl + C + F to make copy on, select copied hand and group lines then click on the "Intersect Shape Areas" in the pathfinder window.

Select Pen Tool (P key) draw six line with stroke "0.5" but make sure the fill color should not call with line. You have to draw line and adjust their position with carefully as done below.

It is time to apply a wood look in the guitar box, select guitar and make duplicate shape by pressing Ctrl + F key then apply grain filter by following this path (Effect menu > Texture > Grain), adjust the value and choose type "Stippled" as done here.

Still grain shape apply radial blur by following this path (Effect menu > Blur > Radial Blur), choose option and put amount "100" then adjust the blur position by the mouse, after done press ctrl + F key to apply same blur effect again.

Now make settings in the transparency window, change the blending mode "Normal" to "Hard Light" and reduce the opacity as done below picture.

The final guitar picture is here, use it and enjoy.

Santosh Kumar

This is santosh kumar living in New Delhi (India) and love to work as a Web & Graphic Designing. I like to create sketch, background, illustration and vector graphics. Tutorialbunch.com is a very good place where I express my creativity.