How to Create a Vector Candle

The candle is a symbol for many occasions and holidays. It can be a symbol of religion or love. It can be a simple way to light a room or provide extravagant decor. An illustration of a candle can be used for custom holiday cards or invitations. They can be used for T-shirt designs or logo art.

Things You'll Need

• Vector drawing program such as Adobe Illustrator

Instructions

Creating a Vector Candle.

1. 

   With your ellipse tool, draw an oval in the color you would like your candle wax to be.

2. 

   Draw a rectangle on top of the oval. Make sure it is in line with the oval. Drawing these out with a black outline can make this easier to see.

3. 

   Copy and paste the oval at the bottom of the rectangle. For an easy way to do this, hold down shift and alt at the same time, click on the oval and drag the copy down.

4. 

   Take away the black outline. It should be a definitive candle shape. Group all three shapes together by selecting Object, then Group, or select the shapes and hit control and G simultaneously.

5. 

   Create a narrow boomerang shape at the top of the candle in a darker hue for the candle's edge. Try to be as symmetrical as you can, but it does not have to be perfect.

6. 

   With your pen tool, draw your wick. If the stroke is not thick enough, increase the size. If your stroke palette is not automatically out, go to Window, Stroke, and then increase the size.

7. 

   Draw your flame. With the pen tool, draw a flame shape that is rounded at the bottom and pointed at the top. Make this shape whatever shade of yellow or orange you'd like. The flame shape should be behind the wick. Select the flame shape, then go to Object, then Arrange, then Send to Back. Select the flame shape and the wick together, group it and go to Object, then Arrange, then Bring to Front.

Tips & Warnings

• Create different shaped and sized candles by varying the oval and rectangle lengths and widths.

Resources

• Adobe Illustrator site