Illustrator Tutorial: Flat Illustration With Grain And Noise Texture

You can add some dimension to your flat illustrations by adding a grain and noise texture inside Illustrator CC. In today’s video tutorial I’ll go over the 4 steps you need to take in order to design a flat illustration from scratch. For more grain and noise texture in Illustrator video tutorials check out this playlist: The first step is to sketch your idea out, I’m using my iPad Pro to try out concepts, but you don’t have to. In other videos you can see me sketching on a piece of paper with a regular pencil. For this illustration I’ve wanted to explore the idea of creative burnout, since the final image was used for a medium post you can read here: If you want to follow along and design the same thing as me, you can download the sketch and the vector file for free here: