: Recreating Ink in water effect in Illustrator Does anyone know how to create this in Illustrator? I contacted the person who made it but the gave me a very vague answer like a bunch of selections

@Ogunnowo857

I just tried it on a random image of ink in water from Alberto Seveso's high speed ink in water and to me it looks like what the people on Shutterstock are probably doing is either taking a high speed photograph or purchasing one and then using Adobe Illustrator Autotrace:





If you have the camera or could hire someone especially with like a Medium Format and then experiment with the technique yourself you could get better results from a photograph for sure, its just a matter of having the ability to take the high speed photo and with a camera high enough resolution for whatever size you need

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@Michele215

I would create it in Photoshop, not Illustrator. Obviously, Photoshop won't give you vector art, but the transparency effects shown aren't really suited to vector output.

Search for custom Photoshop brushes. These brushes look like they might do what you're looking for

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@Jessie844

With some insane amount of work could be done in ilustrator, with some real life photos for reference.

Here is a first attempt using a Mesh fill on Corel. But as you can see this will become extremely complex...



But they are a heck more easily done taking a photo... you guessed... Ink on a water tank.
www.google.com/search?q=ink+on+a+tank+photo+tutorial
They also can be done in 3D with a specialized particle generator and render engine: www.afterworks.com/FumeFX/Overview.asp

or try blender

www.google.com.mx/search?q=blender+smoke https://www.blender.org/manual/pt/physics/smoke/index.html


I really would not waste time doing it natively in Illustrator. Of course, you can vectorize it or trace it after you have a base image. But... That is cheating :o).

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