Create a new vector illustration — AI Prompts for Adobe Illustrator

The four heights

The same task, four distances: today's deadline, the next reviewer, the stuck moment, the pattern.

Execute — do the immediate task

I need a new vector illustration for a product landing hero that reads well at 1440px wide and as a…

I need a new vector illustration for a product landing hero that reads well at 1440px wide and as a 320px mobile thumbnail on Friday. Use the brand’s color palette with the teal and coral accents, keep file size under 5MB, and deliver layered vectors so the developer can animate the shapes. Check paths for stray points and include an outlined font layer for the headline before you send it to Maya in marketing for review.

Improve — make it easier to accept

Before I hand this hero illustration to Maya in marketing, make the composition easy to adapt:…

Before I hand this hero illustration to Maya in marketing, make the composition easy to adapt: bring the focal subject slightly left so the headline sits on empty space, make the teal-coral contrast accessible at 4.5:1, export a mobile-crop preview, and flag any complex gradients or masks that will slow the frontend team.

Decide — diagnose the stuck moment

I created the hero artwork and grouped elements for animation, Maya asked for animatable layers,…

I exported the file and the developer says the layers aren’t animatable.

I created the hero artwork and grouped elements for animation, Maya asked for animatable layers, and the frontend lead says some assets are flattened or masked in ways they can’t separate. I’m not sure which masks will break animation or how to restructure without redoing art. What’s the most likely cause and the exact sequence to make these shapes truly animatable for the developer by Friday?

Become — change the pattern

Across projects I repeatedly lose time rebuilding illustrations to fit desktop and mobile hero…

I keep rebuilding heroes for responsive sizes at the last minute.

Across projects I repeatedly lose time rebuilding illustrations to fit desktop and mobile hero areas and the engineering team complains about flattened masks and oversized files. Which three habits should I change in my handoff routine so my art is responsive, small enough for the web, and immediately animatable for developers?

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Every task here came from the work, not from a feature list — which is why the prompts name what you want done and never the button that does it. The tool changes; the work does not.

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