To finish things off, with your notebook fully grouped and selected, double click on the rotate tool and apply a -5º angle to your notebook.Copy the notebook covers and color them grey, then place them behind everything and offset their position for a final touch of extra depth.Create a thin vertical rectangle colored dark blue and place it on the far right side of your notebook for your bookmark.Add in the extra rectangles to mimic illustrations/photos within your notebook and drag your text rectangles over so they ‘wrap’ around those illustration/photo rectangles.Create a copy of them on the other side of the notebook. To separate them into individual shapes after the blend, go object > expand and then ungroup. Use your blend tool again to create 17 evenly spaced lines. Create a thin, long rectangle colored grey to mimic text within the notebook.Use your blend tool to fill in the extra 10, evenly spaced. Using a rounded rectangle, create the wire for your spiral binding, connecting the two dots at the top and at the bottom.Duplicate those circles on the opposite cover. Add a circle at the top and bottom of the interior page and use the blend tool to create 12 evenly spaced dots along the interior edge.

Group your notebook paper together and create an additional copy colored dark blue just behind it to add extra depth.Next, with your covers selected, go object > path > offset path and create an offset path of -.1″ to create the paper inside of your notebook.05″ wide rectangle and separating the cover using the pathfinder palette.

Create a rectangle that’s 3″x2″ and pull your corner radii to 0.1″.

First, begin by making your base notebook shape.

Here’s the written version of this tutorial on how to create a cute notebook icon in Adobe Illustrator! Creating your base There are also quite a few additional components compared to the coffee icon, but this is still very doable for beginners! Read on to create your own cute notebook icon in Adobe Illustrator! Pin it for laterĬreate a Cute Notebook Icon in Adobe Illustrator After the positive feedback from the coffee icon tutorial, I thought it would be fun to follow it with a cute notebook icon since they go so well together in real life 🙂 This one is slightly more advanced We’ll be working off of my illustration vs a stock photo (though you can totally use a stock one if you’d like!).

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