Add Stipplism shading to your artwork

In this quick tip tutorial we will look at how to add stipple shading to your artwork in Illustrator with the Stipplism plugin. Stipple shading can be a really effective tool for adding depth to your artwork. Stipplism allows you to add stipples, and even scale the dots based on a gradient. Stipplism also gives you the functionality of creating stipples based on symbols. Once you've created your stipple, expand it into a group of vectors, or leave it as a live effect to adjust later.

✈️ Create your shading shape and add a linear gradient.

✈️ Go to Effect > Stipplism > Stipple…

✈️ Turn on the “Scale Dots By Tone” option

✈️ Change the output colour

✈️ Click OK

✈️ Open the Appearance Panel

✈️ Drag the Preview window of the object you just made onto the other shapes in your artboard to replicate the same appearance