In this tutorial, you will learn to draw nice looking mailbox icon. Final output of this mailbox icon tutorial can be seen below :-



Start by drawing this shape with pen tool. This will be the base of our mailbox :-



Adjust the nodes of mailbox after zooming in to 200% as shown :-







Apply gradient overlay and stroke in the mailbox as shown :-





Due to similar white background, stroke effect of our mailbox is not visible here :)



Now, draw this shape with pen tool :-



Adjust the nodes. Change the shape color to #AFAFAF.



Now, draw this shape. Use #BFBFBF as shown :-



Draw a white color line with 1 pixel wide line tool as shown :-



Draw this red color flag shape in our mailbox with pen tool :-



Apply drop shadow in it as shown :-



Draw this white color shape above the mailbox with pen tool :-



Reduce its opacity around 40%. Our mailbox is ready to receive mails :)

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