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I'd be thinking of tracing around just the outline of the top drawing to make one shape. Then make a black box behind the drawing, then make the drawing a Clipping Path. When you place this under the top drawing, only the background will show thorugh. You... You're good.

Is there an easy way to do this? I want to fill in the background only in areas behind my drawing... I guess it requires a masking technique but I am not sure how to do that.. For illustration purposes I drew in the black lines manually but on a large piece of artwork that would become very tiresome. Any help would be great. Thanks.

Shhh... listen closely... do you hear my heart breaking?

Thanks alot quantumfreak! I took the tutorial and soon after was able to create this rendering of my intended subject: compare with Not too bad for a first effort. Obviously I need to increase the angle of the 3d portion. I will keep practicing. This was a little different in the tutorial in the fact that it uses 3 colors instead of the tutorials 2 colors.

Nobody here knows how to do this? I've seen the work of some of you guys and it is really impressive. I thought this would be a pretty simple request with the talent level on this board. If I am asking for some trade secret that must never be shared then I apologize...

Thanks for your post.. I originally thought Playbill as well but there are some notable differences... For the A N and V all have additional slab type serifs on them that Playbill does not. The K in my sample has the angular lines meeting in the middle of the vertical line whereas the Playbill K the lower angled line connects to the upper angled line. I can't imagine this being a custom font but for the life of me can't figure this one out.

Can someone help me identify this font? Thanks!

OK so I see this question was asked for Photoshop... http://boards.sportslogos.net/index.php?showtopic=25581 But how do I create this shadow effect in Illustrator (I am using version 10)? My novice self has spent all day trying to recreate this but it was all for naught. Thanks.