How To Design A Bevelled & Embossed Letter In Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator doesn't have a Bevel & Emboss Filter. There are workarounds with 3D & Materials, but once you create outlines from them, they fall apart. Thankfully it's not a huge effort to create a chiseled letter manually. 0:00 Intro 0:14 3D effect 1:15 solve rasters and get vector paths 1:40 problem with generated paths 3:26 manually create it 5:05 generate the center line 6:00 draw the center line 6:47 fill the parts 7:44 add gradients 9:19 highlighting the spine About this channel: My name is Monika Gause and on this channel I'll be showing tipps and tricks on Adobe Illustrator and other graphics applications. For more than 15 years I've been writing books, tutorials and magazine articles on it and record video tutorials for different companies. I'm an Adobe Community Expert. Videos on this channel focus on specific and individual subjects. Don't miss following videos: subscribe to my channel    / @vektorgarten   Social Media Links:   / monikagause   http://be.net/vektorgarten