Celtic Knot

This design is a Celtic knot created in Illustrator for the iPhone game I’m helping out with. The programmers gave me the design and I recreated it in Illustrator with a little web research. It’s a fairly straightforward technique, but requires a bit of patience. I’ve added an ‘exploded’ example to show how the under/over illusion is created. Note that the topmost stroke has rounded caps to overlap and hide the ever-so-slightly-visible seams beneath where the paths have been cut apart and butt together.

One Response to “Celtic Knot”

1. Lin Pearson says:

   September 7, 2010 at 11:24 am

   What a lovely piece of work, Jeff. being a Scot I certainly appreciate the Celtic knotwork. Thanks too for the wee tutorial – even to the rounded caps. I’d never have known that.