Step 8 - Make the Texture As Wide and Tall as the Square and Dark Brown Next, click the Expand button in the Control panel at the top. Step 7 - Expand the Newly Created Texture In the Image Trace panel and under the Advanced section, use the following: Step 6 - Use Image Trace on the Rectangle Step 5 - Expand Appearance on the Rectangle With the rectangle selected, click on the Effects (fx) icon at the bottom of the Appearance panel ( Window > Appearance), and go to Sketch > Graphic Pen. Step 4 - Apply a Graphic Pen Effect to the Grey Rectangle As another example, if your square is 400 x 400 pixels, you can make your rectangle 200 px wide and 20 px tall. For example, we entered 70.556 mm for the Width and 7.056 for the Height. With the reference point set to the center, enter a number that's half the width of the square for the Width and a relatively small number for Height. When it’s disabled, it’ll have a line through the icon. Disable constraining the width and height proportions by clicking the small chainlink icon to the right. Then go to the Transform panel (Window > Transform). Step 3 - Duplicate the Square and Make It a Long Thin RectangleĬopy (Ctrl/Cmd + C) the square and Paste in Front (Ctrl/Cmd + F). Step 2 - Fill the Square With a Medium Brown Colorįill the square with a medium brown and with Stroke set to none. We entered 140 mm for both Width and Height. Then click on the artboard and input the square dimensions in the Rectangle dialog.

Step 1 - Make a Square With the Rectangle Tool You’ll want to use the wood texture pattern with vectors, such as these deer vectors from Design Bundles. Then we’ll continue on to create a pattern with the wood texture and apply it to a vector image.

Did you know that you can create a wood texture from scratch in Illustrator? In today’s tutorial, we will show you how to do just that.

Wood hatch pattern