How to make Funky Illustrative Backgrounds and Florishes

The world is going crazy i mean so much and so many of those flowery florishes are seen everywhere. Here is a simple tutorial on how to make one of your own.

Step 1

Draw a square, that will be the size or shape of your finished background so it really depends on you what size and dimensions do you want it doesn't really matter.

Step 2

Click and select mesh tool, here we would like to add a little light into the background so selecting a color lighter than the shade of your selected background color will give it a nice glow.

Step 3

You don't necessarily have to use presently available brushes here the ones i am using are available to download from the site as well you can get them here! .

Step 4

So just select the brush of your choice and using a pencil tool draw some swirl shapes on your work board.

Step 6

Select the lines drawn, use a brush adjust it draw more lines select another brush adjust it, keep playing until you get something interesting.

Step 7

Now the background seems a bit too boring lets give it a little bit of life use the pen tool and draw a wavy path somewhere.

Step 8

Now repeat and draw another path but with a different kind of wave.

Step 9

Select both paths go to Object > Blend > Blending Options a window will pop up give some specified steps say here i have given 25 then hit ok!

Step 10

Select stroke color go to Object>Blend , so you will get something like this!

Step 11

Choose paint brush tool pick up any other scatter brushes and start playing around.

Step 12

It Really depends on your own creativity that how you accomplish this here is my finished product i would love to see what you come up with!

Finished image: