From the course: Lettering Comic Books with Illustrator
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Enhancing sounds with the Free Distort effect - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Lettering Comic Books with Illustrator
Enhancing sounds with the Free Distort effect
- So you've made a basic every day sound effect, but it's just sitting there on the page looking boring. Here's an easy trick to add some snaps to your snaps and make those pops, pop. In panel two we have a couple of little ZK ZK ZK's and again, the writer hasn't provided us with any guides, so we basically have to figure out what's going on here. I'm guessing these ZK's are like little bits of electricity kind of popping off this window that he's just shattered. I'm going to click. Paste in the ZK's. You can see it's kept the font settings from before. And I'm going to create outlines, cmd + shift + o. I'm going to ungroup them so each letter's an individual object. And then I'm just gonna try to overlap them in different ways. So it's not the same ZK each time. And I'll kind of put these around the electrical little bits of flying debris there. Oops missed the K. Grab those. Grab the corner. Select and enlarge. But as you can see, it's still kind of repetitive. So here's a trick I…
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