Shaded Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

In today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial we’ll be creating a shaded type effect, which applies little shadows to cursive lettering where the strokes loop and overlap, to give the impression that the characters interweave. The artwork we’ll be producing in this tutorial features the word ‘Love’ in a bold, flowing script font with the addition of those shaded elements, further enhanced with grain filters and dusty textures to distress the artwork and finish it off with a low-fi appearance.