How to Create a Illustration / Surreal Poster Design in CorelDRAW

In this tutorial we'll create a wild, surreal poster design. Combine simple shapes with fountain fills, drop shadows turned into outer glows, the blend tool, custom pattern fills, various blending modes, and other drawing tools to form a funky, fresh design fit for a black light poster. This tutorial encourages you to combine all of your ideas into one cohesive design.

Step 1

Create a New Document that measures 7" by 10.5" at 300 dpi. You can, of course, make your design any size you want, but this is the document size I used for this tutorial and my piece.

Step 2

Use the Ellipse tool (F7) to draw a circle (hold down Control in order to keep it uniform). Overlap the top right of the first circle with a smaller circle. In the Property Bar, hit Back Minus Front with both circles selected to delete the smaller circle from the larger one and form a chubby crescent moon.

Use two circles to create a simple crescent moon

Step 3

Let's work on those drips.

Start by arranging several little circles with the Ellipse tool below the moon.

Select a circle and Convert to Curves (Control-Q). Using the Shape tool (F10), pull the topmost node upward to form a raindrop shape.

Repeat manipulating some of the circles. Manipulate their shapes so the drips aren't uniform.

Make sure several of the circles and drip shapes overlap each other. Additionally, Copy (Control-C) and Paste (Control-V) a few of the circles and drips away from the larger group.

Use circles to form raindrop shapes below the moon

Step 4

Now it's time to finalize the drip design.

Select the overlapping circle and drip shapes, and hit Weld in the Property Bar.

Use the Freehand tool (F5) to draw a squiggly overlapping shape on the bottom of the moon. This allows the top edge of the compound dripping shape to be smoother.

Once again, Weld the two shapes together. Modify and Weld additional circles and drips as needed. Group (Control-G) these drip objects together.

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