Creating Title

Using Type Tool, Brush Tool, Inner Glow, Outer Glow and Blend Modes

To create the I wanted to use the tools available as much as I possible but I was not familiar with Illustrator as much as I was with Photoshop so I decided to look for some tutorials that could help to create a different font. I knew I wanted it to be different from my text on the DVD cover because that was very simple, I wanted to make this bloody and not perfect like the DVD cover. This way I could create a good vector based text. I started to search illustrator tutorials on bloody text and in the first few links I found the tutorial that I wanted to use. (The link to this tutorial is below). I followed the tutorial quite well even though my text doesn’t look like it, I wanted to follow the steps but also make it different and more suited to what I wanted to do so I didn’t follow all of the steps ones which I didn’t like the look of. To start with I used a quite simple looking font which was Impact; I positioned this under the label holes and to the centre. The size was until it fit the whole of the disk. Due to the fact that I applied lots of effects to the font I will list them.

-Roughen effect- made the lines on the text less perfect and more wavy like (Effect>Disort&Transform>Roughen) and I also get the default settings of this effect.

I then created the blood drips using the Ellipse Tool. I added a Squeeze and Bulge Effect (Effect>Warp) and I expanded to appearance. I placed the drips like they were hanging from the text.

I added an Inner Glow effect to give the text a different look, also an Outer Glow.

I placed two gradient effects to the text which saw the text come from light to dark; the colours I used were black and red. On one of the gradients I changed the blend mode to Color Burn and the other to Color Dodge.

I applied a Gaussian Blur which I have used before but this was on Photoshop, which is a type of blur and caused the text to become more blurred.

At this point the tutorial used the brush tool to apply ink spots, from the Brush Library > Artistic > Artistic Ink. Select the “Ink Spots” brush. I did this but I selected the whole of the text and the brush tool to apply this and it affected the whole of the text, this made it look much different from the tutorial did but I liked the effect. The tutorial only applied the spots around the font. 

Link to tutorial: http://vforvectors.com/create-a-simple-blood-text-effect/