Postby flamingolady » Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:17 am
First, welcome!
Well, offhand I'm not sure what 'path offsets' means, so I need to look that up too, lol.
This can be easily created, basically, this style of drawing in plain language is layering various sizes and colors on top of each other.
Here's what I do: For example, lets start with making the 'bark' inside the tree. What you would do is make a circle, color it a very dark brown hue (remove the stroke), and change the circle to a path, then move the nodes around, this will be piece one in a piece of bark. Duplicate it, use the ctrl key and make the duplicate smaller, and change the color to a few shades lighter. Do this two to three more times, lighten the color as you go. Then make adjustments in the end, moving a few nodes, add blur, lower opacity, add a highlight, whatever makes it work. then group all the pieces together. Do this for each 'piece' of bark you make, being sure to change the shape of each piece.