Free Adobe Illustrator Course for Beginners

[Music] hi there my name is dan and i'm an adobe certified instructor and an adobe certified expert in adobe illustrator now together me and you are going to go through this course and make beautiful artwork together using illustrator during this course you won't just learn how to use the tools we'll work through real-world practical projects together now this course is aimed at people completely new to illustrator and maybe to design in general we're going to start absolutely right at the beginning and work our way through step by step we'll start with the techniques that you'll need to create just about anything in illustrator we'll customize shapes use the wonderful shape builder tool and the simple to use curvature tool we'll explore lines and brushes plus your soon to be favorite width tool you'll master how to use and manipulate type i'll show you all the sneaky secrets that illustrator has to discover and use beautiful colors like a seasoned designer you'll learn how to push pull cut and repeat just like this there's even a section in here where we'll hone our skills by practicing redrawing these real world brands we won't forget the essentials like proper saving and exporting plus so so much more so if you've never opened up illustrator before or you've opened it and you struggled a little bit follow me i'll show you how to make beautiful artwork together in illustrator all right time to get started uh there's a couple of things you need to do first one is download the exercise files there'll be a link on the page to download those so you can play along there's another link there saying the completed files you don't need these but they're handy what i do at the end of every video i kind of save where i'm up to okay so that's and maybe yours is not quite working or just want to see how i made mine you can download that illustrator file just to check against yours there's one last thing is there's a cheat sheet right at the end of this course there is a a video version of that cheat sheet okay you can watch that when whenever you're ready for cheats and shortcuts and stuff and the other thing is there is a pdf version of that cheat sheet okay you can download it for free from bringyourownlaptop.com there's our resources tab at the top just click on that and you'll see illustrator plus a load of other ones but um yeah it's time to start learning illustrator let's go hi there in this video we're going to look at getting started with illustrator basically some navigation of the interface and just getting illustrator set up so that we can all work together and you can follow along with me first thing we'll do is let's open up one of our exercise files let's go up to file and let's go to open and in our exercise files there is one called getting started let's click open okay so the first thing we'll do to get everybody kind of lined up together is resetting our workspace now in the top right here you can see it says essentials on mine yours might say something different from this drop down what i'd like you to do is pick essentials and then once it's got a little tick next to it so click on it then drop it down again and say reset essentials and that'll just kind of reset it and make it look like mine the other thing that might look a little different between yours is mine is this uh toolbar on the left here and because my laptop's big enough it allows me to see all of the tools in one big long line yours might be smaller you might be using a 13-inch say macbook pro or something okay it will show them as a double like this see this little double arrow here this little chevron okay you can decide whether you want to work this way or this way i'm going to work this way because that's my default but you might be seeing it just a little bit differently next thing to do is to do with your preferences for units and increments it's a bit strange in illustrator so it's worth mentioning here at the beginning i've got a document open i have nothing selected by using the black arrow just clicking in the background nothing selected you can see the units in this case are set to centimeters i can change them here for this document to say inches okay and that's how to change it for this document now if you've come from other adobe products you'll know that you can go into preferences and change your units and increments it doesn't work that way in illustrator what happens is you create the units and increments as you create a new document or like we did here you change it with nothing selected so say i want to make a new document and i want to make sure it's inches so i've got a print and i decide i want a letter and you'll notice that it's defaulted to points and it always does that okay there is a bit of a hack to go through and change it but we just live with points because that's what adobe said even with a4 okay so metric sizings it still defaults to points so what you need to do is pick letter and then go in here and say i want to be inches that will make sure the default sizing for that document is in inches i'm going to click on create now you might be doing kind of more web design okay so that units could be switched from inches millimeters to maybe something like pixels often i work that way especially when i'm doing maybe ui design in illustrator okay but we're going to work in inches for most of this course now if you need to change the page size afterwards a really easy way to do it is down here there's a tool okay it's called the artboard tool if i click on it okay it kind of selects the artboard and i can drag it around which is kind of strange okay you can just make up a size but often with it selected over here you can see i can give it a page size by changing the height and the width you can see here also i can change it to landscape now one thing is if you're following along with say something like cs6 so quite an older version of illustrator 95 of this course will work just fine the big change for you is you won't have this properties panel you'll have something slightly different under essentials you'll have essentials classic okay and you'll have most of these options can you see there's artboard one upper one they're up the top there but in the later version okay the one that we're using now is they just tucked them into this properties panel so you can play along just fine with cs6 or earlier versions but you just have to know that when i'm using the properties panel you're actually using this kind of control app bar on the top now a couple more things just to get us used to illustrator before we start making things as i've gone back to getting started you'll notice that there's tabs along the top okay so this is how to have more than one document open and travel between the two so i'm going to go to getting started i'm going to grab my black arrow now your black arrow is your default this is the one to use all the time okay it's your fallback tool because what it does is it just moves things around which if i click on this guy i can move him around it physically moves stuff that says job the selection tool now the selection tool moves the thing in its entirety okay there's another tool in here called the white arrow okay or the direct selection tool and what this does is it allows you to pick little parts of that object whereas the black i remove the whole thing which is if i click on one of these little dots here okay you can see it's blue versus all the rest of them that are white i can move just one part of this little fox here okay so we're going to be using both of these tools mainly the black arrow but the white arrow will be something that we use as well a couple more things that we'll need to work with is edit you've got undo and redo okay so if things go wrong you can backwards you can use the shortcut if you feel like it okay it has unlimited undo so you can go back loads the next thing is zooming in and out there's a tool down the bottom here okay the zoom tool you can click on it and hold down the option key on a mac to zoom out or an alt key on a pc you can see the icon changes from a plus but if i hold down the option key on a mac it changes into a minus and you just click once now i never use that and you'll find that we're not going to do too many shortcuts in this intro class but a really good shortcut for in and out is holding down the command key on a mac or the control key on a pc and just tapping the plus key okay and the minus to zoom out it's a really quick and easy way to zoom around another really useful tool is i'm going to go back to my black arrow is when i'm moving around you can drag these little sliders here okay that's fine but you'll find that just holding down the space bar you'll see my cursor changes from the black arrow to the hand click hold drag around okay so space bar and just click hold your mouse button it's a really easy way to move around now another thing to note in illustrator is that we've got something called an artboard now artboard is just like another page okay they call them artboards in illustrator i'm going to zoom out a little bit now i'm going to go back to my artboard tool my pages tool i'm going to click once over here and drag out and i've got a second page okay so with it selected i can click i'll drag it across a little bit give it some room and then over here i can switch it to a4 i'm going to zoom out okay so you can have more than one page i've got first page which is kind of a postcard size and then they've got this a4 page so just think of them as pages in a document you can export them as pages in a pdf okay or you just might have multiple concepts to work in between the two okay so you can have more than one artboard one last thing to quickly discuss before we get into making stuff is that grouping in isolation mode now i show you this now because everyone gets lost so i've got this fox here and at the moment it's actually just separate shapes okay so what i'm going to do is i'm going to select it all so i'm going to hold down my shift key so my black arrow shift key click on these guys so with them all selected what i'm going to do is i'm going to go to object i'm going to group them so that they're kind of like one little unit that i can move around i've missed a little white but that's okay but he's grouped now what ends up happening is when you're new to illustrator is especially if you love to double click okay i've got my black arrow if i double click him weird stuff happens right this kind of grays out and i can't select on anymore and i can work on these guys individually what's happened is you've entered something called isolation mode and the way i know is that it's grayed out in the background there's this kind of blue line along the top and you can see here i'm inside of this group layer one is home base okay so i can just click on that to come back out so that's where people often get lost okay so they're working fine working fine we can fight double click and then they get lost in here they can't work on stuff and things go a bit weird so just if that ever happens just click on layer one okay or this big arrow here it's up to you just to come back to home base all right enough boring navigation getting set up stuff let's start making stuff in the next video i'll see you over there hello hey i just wanted to quickly ask you how the video is going are you enjoying it if you are even a little bit maybe think about clicking the like button helps me out also subscribing to the channel if you want to see more and there's plenty more to come in this video but i also want to remind you that this particular video is just a small part of a larger course for illustrator essentials and there's loads more that we do in that full course if you're interested i also have an illustrator advanced course as well what you're seeing in front of you now are the things that we go on to make together in those courses so check out the links in the description if you are enjoying this and want to go further with adobe illustrator if you did decide to go on to those courses and know that i also have courses for photoshop essentials and advanced indesign adobe xd premiere pro after effects dreamweaver loads of great content all right little sales pitch over i hope you enjoy the rest of this video let's go hi there welcome to this video we are going to draw this a lovely little fox using just basic shapes okay lines and rectangles and stars just really simple stuff okay we're going to start with a template to draw over the top and end up with this all right let's go and look at that now okay in this tutorial we're going to draw from this drawing that i've made okay just to make it simple and so we can all kind of follow along okay so what i'd like to do is in illustrator is we're going to go to file new okay and pick a document size i'm going to start with print i'm going to use us letter i'm going to use landscape okay and i'm not going to change anything else i'm just going to click create i'm going to save it okay so i'm going to go to file save and what we'll do for this class is i'll put everything on my desktop you do the same i'm going to make a new folder on my desktop i'm going to call this one illustrator class files okay and that's all we're going to stick everything from this class let's call this one sleeping fox and let's click save let's leave everything as the default and click ok all right so we're drawing from a drawing i've drawn my notebook right and i want to kind of just redraw it in illustrator so a nice trick to do that is i've done a scan of it okay or you can take a photo of it and i'm going to go to file and i'm going to go to place now places import okay for illustrator illustrator likes to call it place click on that i want you to find your exercise files and there's one in there called sleepingfox.jpg now before you click place click on this one that says template what it does for us let's have a look let's click place what it does for us is it brings it in okay and i'm going to click in the background here and it puts it on a layer okay and locks it so we can draw over the top of it easily okay where i click on my layers panel here you can see it created a template layer and then a layer that i can draw on you don't have to do this okay it just makes a little easy when we're redrawing for some reason it likes to bring it in and kind of has it a little bit over here to the left so i'm going to unlock it can you see that's the locking icon i'm going to click on it drag it across a little bit more in the middle somewhere like that and then lock it again and to continue drawing i'm going to make sure i'm on layer 1. let's jump back to properties now we'll start with this body here we're going to grab the rectangle tool here he is here and i'm going to click hold and drag out kind of a rough rectangle if you don't get it quite right jump back to the black arrow and use any of these white boxes here just to kind of resize it and get it kind of close to that size there it's a bit of a guess don't worry too much what i'm going to do is i'm going to pick a fill color and a stroke color now yours might be different yours might have a black line around the outside and a white fill let's look at changing those so over here in my appearance panel there's one called fill and one called stroke okay so i'm going to click on fill and i'm going to pick a fox kind of color now we're going to use the swatches here so you've got two options here kind of the rainbow colors and the swatches let's just pick just for this class let's keep it simple and just pick something in here you can have a green fox that's okay i'm just going to have an orange fox and in terms of the stroke okay the stroke is the line around the outside yours might already be black and you might see i'll click off over here you can see there's a black line if i select on this and click on stroke color now i want to use this little red line here this little red line indicates no stroke that little red crossed out nothing there that's what i want if nothing is changing okay what you need to do with your black arrow is just make sure this box is selected then make your changes okay so that's a rectangle exciting and that says fill color let's get into something a little more exciting see these little dots in the corner here these are corner options watch this i can click and drag these corners okay the little spots there and you can notice that all of the corners come and change okay so it's kind of what i want i'm going to go to edit undo okay i'm going to use my shortcut for the rest of this course so it's command z on a mac or control z on a pc so i'm going to undo a couple of times until it's back now what i'd like to do is you can see underneath here the drawing i've just got a corner there and a corner there so what i'd like to do is use my white arrow remember the black arrow is great for doing kind of like big things moving the whole object the white arrow is good for doing little bits within that object and what i'm going to do is in this top right hand corner i'm going to click it once you'll notice that this guy is blue and these guys are white indicating that this one is selected and you can see here just one little target appears okay i can click on this guy now and go something like that same with the bottom left click on that one drag it up don't worry too much about being perfect but if you are if you really do want it to be perfect what you can do is i'm going to undo a couple of times is you can have these guys selected at the same time so click this guy once hold shift click this guy once and you've got two dots and when you drag one they both update cool so that's my little thing for his body let's look at doing the head now so i'm going to go back to my black i remember that's the default kind of tool to go to click off in the background got nothing selected and the next tool i want is the polygon tool because i want a triangle for his head and that's considered a polygon in here so i'm going to find the rectangle tool click hold hold hold with your mouse key okay hold it down and eventually these pop out and i'm looking for this one called polygon click on that now if i just do nothing it'll drag out whatever i last drew yours is probably going to draw an actual pentagon or a hexagon it's going to draw something okay so i'm going to undo to get rid of that if you want to adjust how many sides this polygon has all you need to do is just click once with your mouse click once and you get these polygon options okay and yours is probably set to five and you're probably getting something like that okay so i'm going to undo again click once pick three sides don't worry too much about the radius we can change that afterwards so i've got a triangle so next thing i want to do is do some rotation and scaling and it's best to do that when we're back on our safety tool the black arrow i'm going to click hold and drag the center okay so it's kind of in a more usable place now to scale and rotate uh let's look at rotating first so black arrow i have this guy selected just once now what you'll notice is when i'm in the corner i get this little uh stretching arrow that's my scale but if i come just a bit further out i get this little double arrow okay so there's kind of like no man's land here too far doesn't work justin okay you'll get used to it okay so if i click and hold here i can drag it around okay clicking and holding now what i can also do is undo i want it to be kind of like i want to flip it in like 90 degrees i think it's 90 degrees um i want to while i'm dragging watch this if i hit down and hold down the shift key on my keyboard okay watch this can you see it drags in like nice big chunks okay it's 45 degrees and then 90. that's what i want now in terms of scaling same tool okay black arrow and if i grab the corner here and just drag it i can resize it any sort of shape i want clicking holding and dragging now i would like to kind of constrain the proportion so it's like this perfect triangle because if i kind of scale it down here gets a bit long and thin so what i'm going to do is hold down the shift key okay like i did when i was rotating if i hold shift while i'm scaling in any of the corners you can see if i drag it down it kind of wants to be the same height and width it kind of locks that ratio so i'm just going to drag it kind of in there and drag it up a little bit something like that okay so getting close now the only trouble with what i've got here is i can't really see through it to some some of the other parts that i'm drawing so what it might be nice now is just while i'm working i'm going to switch down the stroke and i'm going to make a black stroke and the fill i'm going to change to none okay so fill with the red line and the stroke with black now i can see through it all right like we did with the shape down here we can play with the corner options so i've got this selected with my black arrow you'll notice that i can't click in the center anymore okay i could on this because it selects the whole thing but in the middle of this i can't it doesn't you've got to select the edge now because it has no fill and like before i can grab any i can grab this like little target here and it does all the corners that's not what i want so i'm going to undo i'm going to grab my white arrow and click on just this guy here and then i'm going to drag him up to roughly the same size that i want awesome triangles and rectangles let's do the nose now so i'm going to grab my polygon tool click once three sides click ok it's way too big grab my black arrow holding shift i'm going to scale it down and then just in this no man's land i'm going to try and rotate it around now i'm going to drag it down i'm going to get it roughly the right size there now what i can do when i'm dragging this thing around often you just drag this little dot in the center okay that moves it around and i kind of want to get it perfect in there okay so there's a couple of things we need to do when we're working is that you'll notice that by default this thing kind of like you see these like little marks that appears as you can see it says intersect and tries to line up with things all over here so a couple of things we need to do is make sure our smart guides are on because they're really helpful so go to view and come down here make sure smart guides are ticked on next thing to do is just to zoom in okay when you're working this far out on things this delicate it's just really hard it snaps to everything so remember command plus or control plus on a pc gets us in nice and close and watch this if i have my black arrow just click off in the background and so so i don't have it selected i got nothing selected and if i click and you can see i can move my little cursor around it says anchor an anchor is considered like a corner point okay so if i click on and drag this anchor okay and i drag it close to here you'll see eventually it'll snap in there okay and it just kind of like wants to line up and intersect so you can find that's a nice easy way it's got to be zoomed in a little closer and then kind of just drag the corner and try and line it up where you want it to go and if smart guides are on it's it's really good at kind of snapping in there next thing i want to do is i want to have this a filler black and i want to have no line around the outside little red line okay next to we're going to use is i want to put in these whiskers so i'm going to select on this guy and even though i just put the color in i'm going to move it back to having no fill and i'm going to give it a stroke around the outside okay so i can see it now let's do the whiskers okay and we're just going to use the line segment tool just a nice simple tool click hold drag click hold drag click hold drag okay just so i've got three little lines one thing you might find is if you try and draw something kind of like straight out of you can see if i draw something and then i draw another one i want to come out that little point there it actually starts moving it so if you do want to kind of get them to come out of the same point is once you've drawn one grab the black arrow click in the background go back to the line tool and then you'll be able to kind of like start again black arrow click in the background back to the line tool start again okay i've kind of kept mine separate down here just to avoid that all right next thing i want to do is this little closed eye now we could if we hold down the polygon tool find the ellipse tool and i could draw like an open eye okay but my guy's sleeping so i'm gonna delete him and underneath the line segment tool is an arc tool okay so click on him and what i'm gonna draw is just something it's a bit random the way it draws okay i want it kind of to be this way but let's just click it down and kind of get something archy okay and then we'll rotate it so i've got something like that grab my black arrow remember just hovering out here i can drag it around move it down scale it up just kind of work with it until you find something that you like okay and in terms of the stroke say width okay it's a bit thin for me i'm going to increase it up probably the same for all of these guys they're all a bit thin for me at the moment so i can do them individually and just over here with it selected this is the stroke width okay how thick the line is you can see it get really big okay i'm going to go to something like 5 points now i don't have to do this individually so i'm going to click on this guy with my black arrow hold shift grab him grab him so i've got all three of them selected and i'd like them all to be five there you go cool so now i can go through and add my colors again i'm going to zoom out a little bit so this body here it had no stroke so i'm going to go back to the little crossed out red line and the fill here i'm going to pick my color it was going to be i think was this one okay and the head i'm going to do the same sort of thing i'm going to have no stroke and i'm going to pick a fill color of that orange that's the kind of basics to get started let's look at a couple of things let's look at this air here so what i'd like to do is i'm going to grab my polygon tool again and because it remembers what i drew last time i can just draw something out okay rather than clicking once and making sure it's got three sides i know it does now so i can click and drag out now while i'm dragging out i can hold shift to get it to go perfect that's kind of what i want okay so something like that and it just needs to be big enough because what i'm going to do is with a black arrow grab the center i'm going to kind of turn it into this air so it probably needs to be a bit bigger okay just so it kind of sits back there a little bit so what i'd like to do for this one is i'd like to have a really thick stroke and a fill of white so the fill i'm going to change to white and i'm going to have the stroke and i'm going to pick maybe just the darker color of that and i'm going to increase it to match the font size of the stroke size i'm using five everywhere else for these guys i might as well use five for the air i'm just going to pop it there now this brings me to the next point of arranging okay because basically the last thing you draw is on top all i need to do is move it to the back and there's a couple of ways and with it selected with a black arrow okay over here there's one called a range and i can go send to back there it goes there or often what i do is i just right click it and there's arrange send to back either way it doesn't matter let's look at doing these stars okay so there is an actual tool for it called the star tool okay grab on him click once decide how many points you want and by default it's going to give you a pretty nice looking star you can change the radius the two radiuses the inner which is the outside part and then the inner radius radius two is this inside part okay so i'm going to click okay it gives me a star i can click and drag it out so what i'd like you to do is i'm going to undo and just kind of drag out a start start from the center there we go roughly roughly don't worry too much about it you can have more stars you can have less stars something like that badly drawn star little stars add more go nuts okay we're going to add a bit more detail this uh tail and we'll add kind of the grass down the bottom now basically we've covered the tools that we're going to be using so you can skip ahead there's a couple of little things that we'll do in here so let's do this tail first okay so i might grab my rectangle tool can't find him there he is okay draw something roughly close to it you'll notice the smart guides here is locking to the bottom super helpful you can turn them off though remember under view smart guides if you're finding them troublesome there's a shortcut it's it's really often to turn on and off while you're building okay so they've given it a really good shortcut in this case on a mac it's command you will control you on a pc okay so first thing i want to do is i'm going to give it no fill so i can see through it okay and i'm going to grab my white arrow click on just this corner actually i'm going to click on that one hold shift grab that one and let's draw something matching this okay same thing again i'm going to draw a rectangle over this guy okay i'm going to grab my white arrow click on this one hold shift grab this guy grab that corner point and we're doing some stuff okay and what i want to do is i'm going to pick a fill color so the moment the stroke is orange i'd like to have the stroke as none fill color is the orange and i'm going to have this fill color so a stroke of none and a fill color of white exciting now he's lying down i feel like now that i've drawn it i want to grab this guy so i selected both of them clicked on this hold shift grab this guy and i'm gonna rotate it around holding shift while you're rotating remember like the head locks it into kind of fortified do you look like he's sleeping there uh you decide does it can i can't tell yeah he looks no he looks like he's sleeping there all right and next thing i'd like to do is underneath here is some grass so all i'm going to do is actually i'm just going to move that out of the way for the moment grab the polygon tool which is still set to triangle okay draw something triangly and then grab the black arrow and just kind of shrink it in there and i'm just going to build this okay i'm going to zoom in a little bit copy and paste it so with it selected i've gone edit copy edit paste okay and i'm just gonna use my shortcuts to speed it up and i'm gonna draw resize it this is where you can just build your own grass it's a little bit hard grab that dot in the middle to make sure you move it now i'm just doodling there is one other thing so hang around i'll show you in a sec okay copy paste move it around okay so i'm not too worried about these being kind of down here because i'm going to show you a technique to kind of trim them up so i'm going to select all these copy and paste it i've got another version okay and with them all selected i can scale them all in one go so it's going to look something like that and what i'm going to do is i'm going to select them all okay and i'm going to grow u and i'm going to get a fill of this kind of like dark gray color i'll show you what i'm going to do in a second you saw it at the beginning right so and move him back in nice cool so we've used my drawing now and it's kind of done its dash okay we've got our kind of full drawing now i want to go into my layers panel and let's just turn the visibility of it off so this eyeball layer here if you click on that you'll notice it disappears you can leave it there okay it doesn't really matter but i'm just turning it off so i can't see it it kind of brings me to my next point i don't know why i need to resize this my next point is when you're scaling things well that's what happened by default so if i select everything so black arrow drag a box around all of it okay under properties there's an important thing here okay actually you know before you select anything there's this one here scale stroke and effects okay so there's going to be times when you need this on and sometimes when you need it off so if if it's off look what happens if i select this and i scale it down so i just need a smaller version of them so i've selected all and i'm going to scale it down and like we did when we're drawing lots of shapes if we hold down shift while we're scaling it it locks the height and width otherwise it gets all kind of stretchy okay so shift down and look what happens when i get down quite small okay it's remembered that this is five points okay and it just does some weird stuff when it gets down to here right because it's it's trying to kind of remember the actual radiuses that we used okay around here and it's doing some strange things so sometimes you want that okay you want to scale it down a bit and retain the stroke width but i'm going to go to edit undo and with nothing selected i'm going to turn that on and it's going to scale those strokes now okay proportionally to the size that i've got now when i scale it down i hold down shift and scale it down you can see these guys these stars here they come down and they're a smaller size they're like three points now okay so that's just kind of something you need to kind of be aware of when you're scaling things is that sometimes you want them to scale with uh you know appropriately and sometimes you want them to get actually smaller so you'll turn that on and off okay last little thing is i'm just going to i don't know make this look a little nicer with some rectangles i am going to use and draw a rectangle that covers kind of the bottom here i'm just going to match the same color as my grass actually i might use the black arrow and get it to snap to the bottom of my fox and use the same color as that so fill and which one is it lucky first guess and same with the sky here okay i'm going to grab the rectangle tool and spacebar drag up a little bit and let's have a nice starry sky snaps in fill color i'm going to use another one of the darker grays that dark okay with it selected arrange center back and i might make these stars just white even though we spent ages talking about the strokes of these guys goodbye stroke and the fill might be up i don't know what i'm doing isn't about now all right so that is my uh or our fox um drawn um out of just really basic shapes and there's so much you can do just with those shapes now like i said at the beginning often it's a combination of i've kind of kept this design to specific shapes just to kind of like i guess work through some of the tools but often you'll find you'll be using things like the shape builder tool and the pen tool which we'll do in uh yeah the next tutorials also my process like um you saw how we kind of started with a drawing first i do that really often right i'll i'll kind of draw in my notebook because i find that just it's just easier and quicker and and then often i don't even do a scan okay to redraw in illustrator i just get a general sense of it in my notebook now my drawing here look really good right well look really good it's perfect you know it's kind of like follows the lines it's never that good i'll show you i'll cut to um this shot here jump across so here it is i just took a photo of my notebook here that is the glorious fox i just kind of drew a little bit and kind of got it close and i wouldn't scan that and redraw i just used it as a kind of a visual and then just started yeah drawing in illustrator kind of to perfect it i guess it look uh yeah to get a nicer shape but yeah that's kind of more of a truer sense of my process i will just do a really kind of basic drawing and then draw straight into illustrator okay so that's the end of how to draw with basic shapes and what i'd like to do now is challenge you to a challenge and it's to take kind of the same techniques so you're going to let it use rectangles stars lines those types of things and create your own animal it can be sleeping like mine it doesn't have to be okay just something simple pick some different colors it can it can still be a mammal okay so you can use the whiskers it can still be sleeping it can use stars but just pick a different animal dog cat some sort of animal and i'd love to see it as part of your project so give it a go i'd love to see what you have done so when you've done it doesn't matter how good you think it is or bad it is please post it as a project i'd love to see it all right let's get on to the next video hi there in this video we're going to look at the shape builder tool i love this tool it's absolutely my most favorite tool out of all the tools in illustrator and we're going to take this drawing that we did of the fox with simple shapes and ta-dah add some kind of shadows to it but not so much exciting about the shadows but more the technique that we use the shape builder tool to kind of be able to carve out extra colors within other shapes i love it let's go and learn how to use it now alright to get started with the shape builder tool let's start with a really simple file go to file open there is a file in here called shape builder click open now this file is not very exciting all it is is i'm on my black arrow it's just a couple of circles on top of a rectangle okay so what i'd like to do is i would like to say this circle to join this rectangle so i'm going to use my black arrow and select them all and we're going to go to the shape builder tool this guy here he is the absolute best thing that ever happened to illustrator okay and what it allows me to do is you can see by default there's a little plus next to my cursor there okay what i can do is watch this i can hover above this click hold down my mouse and just drag a line you see i drag it across all three of these kind of parts and they are fused now as one thing and that is just awesome no more pathfinder and trying to join things it's really easy simple shapes using the shape builder tool and they join another cool trick is that if i hold down the option key on a mac or the alt key on a pc you can see it changes from a plus to a minus so what i can do now is i want a minus this and this i'm holding down my mouse key okay and i can drag across those two bits to minus those bits off okay so that is its main two uses joining things and minusing things it also has another little trick where um i've got these two bits selected right and what i can do is i can pick a fill color let's say this and use it for not minusing or adding but just coloring in bits so i'm going to click off in the background here and watch this i can just click on that okay and it uses that as the fill color just really handy to go through pick a color click off click in there and it just fills shapes okay and go back to my black arrow and now if i click off it's actually just three separate shapes that have been colored in let's use it in a kind of a practical sense now so let's close this guy i don't want to save him because it wasn't that exciting okay so before we go and create our own kind of like custom shapes for the shape builder tool i'm going to show you how i use it mostly so i want you to open up the fox that we made earlier if you haven't done that tutorial you can cheat go to the exercise files and download one called shape builder 2. open them up so what i'd like to do is i want to kind of add some shadows to this like you saw at the beginning of this video okay and so first thing to do is with a black arrow let's just grab this background and just move it over to the side just to make life a little easier let's go to the layers and turn off the view of the template we'll move it back in later on so what i'd like to do is i'm just going to start with the head okay i'm going to grab the line tool i'm going to draw a line that goes from this ear and i'm going to go all the way through this kind of face here just to show you how good the shape builder tool is i'm going to grab the black arrow and i'm going to have this selected plus holding shift and grabbing this selected so i've got the head and the line there just those two and go to properties okay i'm going to go to my sheet builder tool and i want to color it so like we did earlier with the red and the blue i'm going to pick a fill color i'm going to go to my swatches here i'm going to pick the orange i'm going to move to this like color mixer pre-made swatches here color mixer here and i want to make it a bit dark watch this this k is black okay you can see if i drag it up it gets a bit dark i'm going to go to maybe 10 okay you can be a bit more flexible with yours and now i just need to click anywhere out to close that box cool now when i hover above i click once and i've got this lovely dark lovely okay it's fine and so yeah cast the shadow here now next thing i want to do is grab my black arrow and just click off in the background okay there are some bits left over that thing there if you've got some black hanging off the end here you can just select it and hit delete don't need it anymore next thing i want to do is maybe cast a shadow underneath its chin same thing line tool cast some sort of fake casting shadow thing okay black arrow hold shift so i've got both the line and this body selected go to actually you can't go to fill yet you've got to go to the shape builder tool okay then go to fill and then i'm going to use that you can see it's the last color that i used and it's pre-mixed it if it hasn't you can go back to the swatches click this one go here do 10 percent hopefully you can use the last mixed save some time okay and i'm just going to hover above remember to click out hover above this click once and this is going to run into our first problem with the shape builder tool okay grab the selection tool click off in the background you can see this is ended up above everything okay which is fine okay all i need to do is with it selected with the black arrow click arrange and send to back now we've been using center back you might just need to send backwards backwards goes back one step okay if i click backwards now it's not going to quite work it's probably going behind i don't know this and you can keep going backwards and it's just one step at a time backwards backwards and eventually you'll get there okay i'm going to go arrange send to complete back awesome now i'm going to do a couple more shadows you can follow along if you like i'm going to grab this copy and paste it make it bigger i'm going to use it like for a shadow for his bum i'll select both of these holding shift okay with my black arrow move to the shape builder tool pick a fill color last used color didn't work okay i'm going to go to here and pick 10 click off and then click that one back to my black arrow click off in the background grab him i don't need you any more buddy and i'm gonna do the same with the tail here copy paste it make it a bit bigger use it to kind of make some sort of tail shadow select both of them holding shift go to my shape builder tool you will get it after a time like shape builder tool is one of the shortcuts i use loads if i hover above the tool can you see it says shift m okay that's both for mac and pc if i hold down the shift key on my keyboard and type m it jumps to the shape builder tool and the black arrow is v so very often i'm going v shift m you can see in my toolbar i'm kind of jumping between the two by just clicking those keys all right fill um i'm going to use this one 10 percent click off and i'm going to say you go back to my black arrow which is the v key delete this one i'm going to create some sort of line here now i'm just mucking about you can skip on if you like okay select both of them shift him pick a darker color than i had before from my swatches about that kind of looks like he's doing casting a shadow from the moonlight okay i'm going to grab this one drag it back in okay snap it up you'll notice that it's it's in the wrong kind of layer order so i'm going to do is select them arrange and send to back and that's kind of how i use the shape builder a lot i kind of get the basics in with some shapes and then use other shapes and the shape builder tool to kind of construct some more sophisticated artwork all right so that's kind of updating an existing drawing let's go and make something cool in the next video totally with the shape builder tool it's pretty nice and it's one of those styles that are trending at the moment so let's go and look how to do that in the next video hi there in this video we're going to make this swooshy looking fox thing using my favorite tool the shape builder tool look at him he's all made of little shapes and bits and pieces okay let's put you back together fox and let's go learn how to make you in adobe illustrator okay so let's start with a new document file new you can use u.s letter landscape or a4 landscape it doesn't matter click on create and we're going to bring in the little drawing we're going to copy from okay so let's save this document file save and let's put it on our desktop in our illustrator class files let's call this one awake fox and let's click ok let's bring in the image we're going to redraw okay we're going to go to file place and we're going to use in our exercise files there's one called awake fox.jpg and remember like in a previous uh tutorial we could just bring it in and put it on its own layer and lock it and turn the transparency down you can do that all in one file sweep by just clicking this template as you bring it in and remember you watch this it's created two layers one's a template layer and you can't touch it okay and they've dimmed it down so you can draw on it easily and we're working on layer one let's go back to properties now there is no real particular order to start this but you might as well follow me okay so let's start with say the polygon tool and if we click once we're going to make sure it says three sides we're not too worried about the radius at the moment just click ok and what we can do is black arrow holding shift drag it out to the right size and rotate it around okay we did rotation and scale in an earlier tutorial okay i'm going to get it roughly in there now you'll notice that it tries to snap to the edge of the page and like lots of those purple arrows that's really handy sometimes it's just nice to get it close and use your arrow keys on your keyboard okay just to kind of tap it around with a keyboard to get it kind of close i'm happy with that and what i'd like to do is have no fill and a black stroke so i've got my black stroke if you don't click on stroke click black fill color let's go for no fill color now i'm not sure which part to start with i'm going to start with the ears here so i'm going to grab and hold down the polygon tool and grab the ellipse tool and i'm going to draw an ellipse just holding down shift member gets a perfect circle if i let go of shift it can get a weird shape it's up to you what you want to do i'm going to start with perfect circles something like that black arrow remember i can't click the center because it has no fill so i'm going to click the edge and kind of drag it and you can kind of see i'm going to use it maybe for that one and it's a bit big so i'm just resizing it until i get something close to that part using my keyboard to tap it around again cool so that'll do i'm going to copy it and paste it and then move it up so i've got it kind of here as well okay i think i used a slightly smaller one there we go even smaller than that try to match that circle in there that will do cool all right so next thing i'd like to do is start using my shape builder tool so i'm going to select everything okay so my black arrow select everything on the page and i'm going to move to my shape builder tool now what i want to do is i don't want to add any of these guys i want to subtract this chunk up here that i don't need now who remembers what the shortcut is that's right it's option on a mac or alt on a pc okay hold it down you see i get a minus and i can drag across all of that that click on him you can see i can kind of minus those chunks off i want to leave that because that's going to be the kind of white of the nose these guys though need they're doing some weird stuff so i'm going to join them all remember holding no keys down will add okay i'm going to add all that to it i'm going to minus that off i'm going to minus that off and yeah that's kind of the basics for it all right i'm going to grab my black arrow and what do i want to do now is i want the other ear so i'm just going to copy it paste it i've got another version this guy here i can't quite remember i don't know i'm going to rotate it around a little bit awesome okay i've got another set of ears back here maybe not so much rotation okay now with everything selected again let's grab the shape builder tool and that bit's perfect now i just want to join these together that bit there now the nose got all kind of disjointed with all these little bits you might have to zoom in a little bit remember command plus or control plus and i'm going to join all of that together so it's one unit now it starts looking a bit hard because you're like what is the drawing underneath and which is mine you might go to layers and turn this on and off just to get a sense of what it is so anything i'm really missing is the circle for the eye so let's do that grab the ellipse tool drag this out why am i dragging out up here no reason i can drag it down here have it move it around select all of this chunk and i'm going to grab the shape builder tool and i'm going to what am i going to do i want to i want to add all of that together that kind of worked cool all right uh on off on that bottom layer it's looking good now we just need the neck i'll zoom out a little bit and grab an ellipse tool try and draw a circle big enough for that outside bit and holding shift that feels about right um all right nope that's way too big hold it down remember grabbing the edge not the center of the circle so i've got him and there's one stripe two stripes so i'm going to copy and paste them and i'll use that one it's roughly the right size paste another one actually i don't need to paste another one there's only two there okay um don't need that guy go away all right so i am now going to select it all grab my shape builder tool and i'm going to say don't want you don't want you actually i do want you there's little lips there why did i delete that one i do need it okay so there was a circle that i was missing you probably saw it while you were doing it i went no there it is there we do need three circles now one of the things is going to happen here if i zoom in okay and scroll up here i'll in my spacebar you see it doesn't kind of line up here to make the shape builder work kind of nicely you need to overlap everything so i'm zoomed in and just easier when you've zoomed in okay now i'm going to grab the edge and you'll try and get it to snap in there it's reasonably forgiving doesn't have to be absolutely scientifically perfect but reasonably close couple of pixels now i'm going to select it all i'm going to grab my shape builder tool and i'm going to say i don't want that i don't want any of that i don't want that i don't need that just like that i'm going to come in here what i might do now is turn off the template because i kind of know those two i want those two i want if you're finding a little bit tough don't worry it is a little bit tough trying to work out you end up deleting the wrong bits like there's a chunk through here i'm going to add you guys together black arrow select the background and we're pretty close okay there's some weird strokes going on that are different sizes there's a thin one there and a thick one there i'm going to select them all and same properties and i'm going to give them all the same stroke width of this 0.25 points okay just a really thin one to get us going all right that is looking good if you find you've got like kind of junk in the nose like there's a little trim bit just zoom in use your shape builder tool to try and tidy it up you might even use a black arrow just click bits and delete it okay now i want to do is go and color it now i'm going to put in a nice big gray background i don't know why everything looks better on a dark gray background i'm just drawing a nice big rectangle i'm going to fill it with our dark gray okay and i'm going to have no stroke on it i'm going to click arrange send it to the back and now i'm going to fill this with color okay and there's a couple of ways of filling it i can just click the edges okay and go and fill it or i could use the shape builder technique like we did in the last video it's up to you um and yeah i'm gonna go pick colors foxy colors okay i'm gonna mix my own i'm gonna click on the mixer okay where i've got my uh got my object selected i've clicked on fill i've clicked on mixer and i'm going to click down here to try and find a foxy color okay that's my gonna be my kind of lead color i'll pick this one click on fill i'm going to use the pre-mix color and just make it a bit darker by grabbing the k lifting it up a little bit cool i'm going to use this kind of back of the head bit by doing the same sort of thing okay i'm going to use that but lighten it up okay go even lighter cool this bit here is gonna be just should be white maybe maybe i'm gonna use just like an off-white because it looks cool same with you and off-white all right i'm going to select it all as well okay now if i select all of it okay i'm going to end up with the background selected as well that's fine because i want to go to stroke and i want to say none of you's got a stroke thank you very much and that is our cool little fox thing um all done with the shape builder tool get some nice kind of swishes and swirls and it's kind of flowy okay those are words i'm just making up but you get the idea right this kind of nice swooshy thing so now it is time for the end and the time for the class project so what i've done is i've done another sketch that you can use that i want you to go through and use the same techniques from the fox but we're going to use so new document use file place and you're going to bring in this one called swan yes that's meant to be a swan okay i drew it kind of look like a swan kind of a chunky swan you're allowed to it doesn't have to be perfect like this i guess what i want to see is a better swan nice colors um yeah it's totally up to you you can draw perfectly if you like okay but using the same tools as we did using the shape builder tool and the fox okay i'd like you to go off and do the swan and again i'd like to see your projects all right uh that is it for this video let's get on to the next one actually no you gonna go off and start doing your homework draw the swan make them better alright see you in the next video though hi there in this video we're going to draw this shape here we're going to use the shape builder tool i know i've used it for a couple of tutorials already but it's a really versatile tool and i use it so much that yes it gets three videos the cool thing about this kind of impossible triangle is that it's super possible with the shape builder tool and although this video is about five minutes long it really only takes less than a minute to make this particular shape given our super powerful shape builder tool let's go and learn how to do that now in adobe illustrator okay so to make our little shape we are going to go to file go to new and like always letter landscape and hit create okay so what we want to do is we're going to start with some lines we're going to start with three of them so i'm going to grab the line segment tool i'm going to draw out a line and the cool thing about the line segment to watch this i can draw any sort of line right but if i hold down shift watch this shift locks it into kind of like 45 90 degrees nice angle so i want it to be straight so i'm holding shift and just drag out a line about that big i'm going to have no fill i'm going to have a stroke okay of black and it's going to be one point so black arrow i'm going to move it to an appropriate place and i'm going to make copies so with it selected go to edit copy edit paste i'm using ctrl c ctrl v paste another one and what i want to do is show you a couple of things one is i'm going to select all of these guys actually i'm going to get it to a rough kind of place right like that but they're not distributed nicely i'm going to select them all and first thing i want to do is make sure the spacing between them is even so i'm going to go to you can see by default under the properties panel i've got a line but you can see it only does the basics i can align center which is what i want you can see they don't quite line up so align center is great but the distribute's not there see this little dotted line here that shows you there's more options for the align panel they just show you the kind of basics the main stuff you need i'm going to click on this one you can see there's a lot more options in this case i want distribute vertical centers okay and you can see it just all lines up nicely there all right next thing i want to do is i want to make another copy of these three so i've got them all selected with my black arrow edit copy edit paste and i want to rotate them around now i want it to be a triangle so um i need it to be like i can never work out the math so nice thing you can do in illustrator is see over here these guys selected i've got in my properties panel i've got this you know way of changing the rotation and i know that i need to take 360 degrees and divide it by 3. so you can do math in these things i do them quite often because my math is terrible okay so divide by three and return and it's 120 turns out okay you probably know that already i don't uh i've got this one i'm going to copy and paste it and what i'd like to do for this one is i know that it's 120 times 2 okay so that should get me my other angle so i'm hoping return there it is there 240. i should be able to do math like that but [Laughter] so um i've got my kind of basic building blocks for this one and this is where it gets super easy i guess but bit mind-bending because we're doing like an impossible triangle but super nice and quick so i'm going to grab the line segment tool and just draw off if you're unsure which ones you've got kind of four diamonds here draw off the top of these two okay and draw these you can see it kind of goes from intersect to intersect it's pretty clever at kind of joining these things up if yours doesn't make sure view smart guides has got a tick next to it if it doesn't turn it on okay so that's nearly done right i'm going to grab my black arrow select on it all and over to my favorite tool that's why it gets three videos it's very versatile i'm going to grab the shape builder tool and now it's trying to work out what i might do it to tidy it up is get rid of these excess lines so hold down the option key on a mac or the alt key on a pc to delete them and just drag through these guys just dragging through don't need that but either it's really cool slicey tool if you ever use a scissors tool it's a pain in the bum this one here super nice and quick now we need to join some bits up and i had to practice this loads just so you know if you finding it tough don't worry everyone does well at least i did so i'm going to click hold and drag there it's the outside to the inside okay outside to the inside that's what i have to keep telling myself outside to the inside and that kinda does it right then i join these guys up these guys up i'll show you just kind of it's really complex shape okay but with the shape builder tool it's pretty quick and easy i love it so what i'd like you to do now is all these are separate shapes i'd like you to go through color them okay give it a background color as well with a nice big rectangle and i'd like to see what you've designed and built and the colors that you've used i'd love to see it as a project all right that is going to be it for the last of the shape builder tools now we need to get on to the pen tool and the curvature tool all right i'll see in the video hi there in this tutorial we're going to learn how to use the curvature tool in adobe illustrator we're going to draw these four guys yeah so let's get into it all right to get started file new document surprise surprise it's going to be letter let's click create let's save this one and we'll save it into our desktop into our illustrator class files and this one's going to be called the curvature tool so curve tool that'll do click save click ok all right we're going to bring in our image that we're going to trace so let's go to file place and it's in your exercise files look for one called redraw image and let's make sure it's a template because it's going to put it in the background and gray it out and lock it so it can't be moved all right next thing i want to do is i would like to use our curvature tool now make sure on your layers panel you're on this top layer here okay we're going to grab our curvature tool it looks like quite like the pen tool right now the pen tool is we're going to do that in the next tutorial it's like the hardcore version okay the curvature tool is newish to illustrator and man when you're learning and you're new there's very little time we actually need to go to the really hardcore tool so curvature tool we love you making the pen tool that little bit easier to learn so i'm going to zoom in remember command plus or control plus on my pc what did i hold down on my keyboard to move up okay remember how down space bar get the hand click and hold drag my mouse and now we're going to draw our alien so we're going to start with the i in the middle basically it's easier if i just show you and you get a sense for it and then we can draw the next ones together so i'm going to click once at the top or one's on the side and nothing really happens until i move my kind of cursor out i'm not doing anything it's just connected naturally click once that's all i'm doing clicking once more and clicking our last time cool huh okay just goes through all i did was click once with my mouse and it kind of knew that i was trying to draw curves because i'm using the curvature tool what i'm going to do is a couple of things before i draw this next one as i'm going to make sure the fill is set to none okay i'm going to have a black stroke that's fine also when what i'm gonna do is under view let's turn off smart guides okay so if your ticks on like this turn it off it's just uh you know sometimes it's super handy like we'll do for the crown next but sometimes it's a bit of a pain so in this case it's a pain um so what we're going to do is draw this outer eye and again like we could try like you definitely need more than two points right if i click on there and there and it just can't make it a circle so i could click once and try and do it three okay getting there getting there it just doesn't get to kind of a nice circle so a circle or an ellipse needs at least four points you can have more the more you have the kind of less smooth it looks pretty cool huh so give that a go do those circles and then we're going to look at these other ones and it's pretty much the same thing and let's start at the top here click once click here again okay and where am i looking like the circle was easy enough okay so it's all four corners um and this one here kind of turns in on itself so what you're looking for is the apex okay or where the where the curve changes the most okay so along the top here that's where it changes like this curve here changes the most at this top point because it's kind of symmetrical on this curve where it kind of changes it's about here maybe it could be a bit further up like this you can click and drag them like i just did there to move them okay and then you're looking for this curve this way and where the middle of it is just kind of about there and click once and you're like it doesn't work but then you move your mouse off and it kind of tries to kind of yeah it does a pretty good job right so where this curve goes all the way around so the apex of this one changing here is about on the corner here now in this case don't worry about the second line just yet there's a little bit of faith that goes into this okay so it's going to take some practice but i could add another one here because there's a you know there's a curve there and there's another curve here and there's a curve here and there's the kind of apexes of it there's another curve there another kind of apex corner there you can kind of start to see what i'm doing now i can adjust this afterwards i know that that one's not quite right don't worry for your first pass let's try another leg now what i've found through my practice is that the you know that the least amount of anchor points you can get away with that's what these little dots are so i know that if i click on this side and click on this side and then come up here can you see it kind of fills out that bottom part for me so i'm looking for that apex it picks up that curve the apex are out here the apex of this curve is about there there's one kind of there and there's one at the top here there i'm just going to go and click them all now after a while you get kind of confident and you get to kind of know where everything goes you can see when i get back to the beginning that's the little icon it's actually you just click on it and it works okay but just so you know see that little icon the little zero it means it's going to kind of complete this complete path okay over here it's going to be adding a new path i want that one that little icon with a little zero that kind of means i'm going to finish it all off cool so it's kind of working so that's the idea with the curvature tool you block in the kind of hard stuff or the core of it and then you can make adjustments afterwards now remember the black arrow if i click on it it moves things in its entirety remember the white arrow that we looked at earlier on okay this adjusts the finer points of it okay and what i can do is there's a big kind of mess over here so i can click on this now what you're looking for is i'm going to zoom in a little bit you can see these little anchor points here they've got these things called handles that pop out these little handles influence the way the line goes through so your curvature tool is putting these in automatically they're always there but the curvature tool just kind of hides them away because they're a bit nerdy but when we get to a point where we want kind of some fine adjustment the nerdiness helps so what we might do is and you can see here this curve doesn't actually go through the line properly okay so i might have to move the anchor points what influences the line quite a bit though is these handles okay they kind of pull the line okay watch this if i grab one of the darker dots you can kind of see if i'm pulling it in and out okay it adjusts the way the line works and i can move it left and right okay so it kind of influences it like gravity so what i'm going to do is kind of like drag it down here this anchor point probably needs a bit of work down here this one's going to move around so you can do some finer adjustment now click on this one drag it down you can drag it in towards itself as well most people forget you can do that okay so in close to it you can see it's actually quite a tight curve okay and the further out it comes the more kind of exaggerated that curve is so there's going to be a little bit of finesse that goes in this now don't sweat it for your first version okay we're not gonna make this absolutely perfect and we're looking for just a kind of a general understanding of the curvature tool even though i'm clearly in front of you trying to tidy this up perfect okay so we're gonna leave it there and what you might find is say you've put in too little okay say you've not got enough curves and what you can do back with a curvature tool here is let's say we've got too many i know we do down here there's kind of like four in this row here you can just hover above them okay and you can click on them and just hit delete key and just gets rid of them i'm going to click on this guy and delete key okay and it just gets rid of them same thing to add them you actually not actually just kind of hover above and see the curvature tool changes to have this little plus here okay say i want to add one there okay then i can go to my i can move it by just using this okay and then if i want to make adjustments again back to the white arrow you i said don't worry about it and i spend the next like two minutes worrying about it all right so that's going to be it for this guy let's leave him and move on to the next thing because the curvature tool is awesome but it does curves so i'm going back to the curvature tool i'm at this crown here and if i click once click once again click once again like it's not going to work right it's trying to do curves here it's cool looks like kind of like a lily pad thing but it's not what i want so you can use the curvature tool to do kind of straight corners it's quite easy all you need to do is double click for a corner okay so double click double click your mouse double click your mouse double click your mouse double click your mouse you get the picture if you forget and click once and you're like oops i forgot to do the double click you can just go back and double click it okay and it converts it back to a corner so one click is a curve like we've already done but double click it and it goes back to a corner double click double click double click and back to the beginning remember that little circle that we're looking for okay nice all right so that's how to do curves our very average looking alien and our very simple looking crown which is corners and we use that by double clicking now ninja time okay ninja has curves and corners and this is more typical of what you're going to be doing right so i'm going to zoom out a little bit okay so what i'd like to do is a mixture of both so i'm going to work through it with you okay and we'll start down the bottom here and work our way up so you've got to kind of just ask yourself the question until it becomes more of a habit just ask yourself is this a double click or is this a single click so is this a corner or a curve this thing here is a corner like an edgy corner thing sharp okay so double click now and if i uh this is a curve here so remember where is the apex it's kind of it's only a small curve but it's about there so i click once for a corner or double click for a corner that's right one's for a corner okay now this guy in here you can kind of see it's doing the curve nice now this but here is a corner okay there's a nice sharp change of direction and double click up here double click click our crown double click double click you might be tempted to go all the way across here but no we've got to address this curve here okay and it's clicking once because it's a curve here sharp corner double click now a circle remember needs like at least four points so one two three let's give that a go so let's go one there or one there don't worry about it you know it's like oh it's not quite working but then if you come around oh look at that it's looking good and then back to here and you're like whoops i click once and i've got a curve again what do we do we double click it and it goes back to a corner click once for a curve double click for a corner double click for a corner this is a tricky one because you're like where's the curve there's the curve out there i say click once there for a core as frickiv double click here for a straight line okay and i double click here that's kind of a weird one right because there's kind of a curve and then a straight line and let's go to here curve double click for a corner back to beginning looking for that circle and we have some sort of some sort of like squat ninja he's he's like lego ninja or something anyway let's have a look at doing this inside one because that's uh i guess an interesting one as well the circles we could just use the ellipse tool i realized but we're not going to because we are learning the curvature tool and just like at the beginning we did the eye it's just four clicks because they're all curves and we're doing all corners it's pretty cool hard they're pretty good circles now this guy here so i'm going to start at this curve because that's clearly a curve okay and then go around to here and this is one of those tricky ones again where there's a curve finishing and a straight line starting and i know that um because it's curved there we've got the curve part that's what's making the line curved now here i want to double click okay i want to double click to get a straight line over here click once for a curve and double click for a line you can see this you're like that's not working it's because uh we haven't finished the line yet okay so double click here to get a straight line and then back to once uh you can see here it's going to work click once for a curve okay there's a little bit of i guess experience that comes along with knowing some of these more exaggerated lines but if you're thinking like why didn't he just grab the rectangle tool and then grab the black arrow and do that because that's exactly what i would do but we're learning the curvature tool okay so we draw ellipses and we'd probably do that for the center let's have a look at the next one actually we're not going to have a look at the next one you're going to do this one by yourself okay i want you to see if you can do this owl okay i want you to do them i want you to color them and i'd like to see an image of it so stick it in the comments or in the projects i want you to see how this al goes and yeah you can fancy them up if you like or just do them nice and simple a nice simple icon give them some color and yeah i'd love to see this guy to prove you've done it and if you're up for it let's color them all okay you do some sort of ninja alien montage okay so i'd love to see what you're done with these and yeah we're going to move on to the next exercise hi there it is time to learn the pen tool pen tool is the hardest thing to learn in illustrator we're going to do it together we're going to make this ninja we're going to make an owl we're gonna make an alien and we're gonna make a crown let's draw those now together in adobe illustrator okay to get started no i'm not gonna make you import it again and make it as a template i am going to save you some time go to exercise files open up one called pen tool and i've kind of done that for you okay and just make sure on the layer one okay go to your properties panel and we're gonna zoom in on this alien okay and we're gonna build the same things okay to show the kind of differences between the pen tool and the curvature tool now basically the curvature tool does a lot of thinking for you and it's pretty good and pretty intuitive but there's times we just need to like get the pen tool to do exactly what you want okay so grab the pen tool he's just above the curvature tool here okay and what we'll do is you can see mine is set as a crosshairs it's because i've got caps lock on some people prefer to use the pen tool like this okay and it comes out of the tip of that little pen or you can hit capstock on your keyboard okay and you can see it becomes our crosshairs okay i'm going to do it just like this so i'm going to zoom in see my whole guy and okay so what happens with a pen tool is that by default it wants to do corners kind of the opposite of the curvature tool so if i click once click once click once it's only going to give me it's going to give me a very interesting octopus okay so clicking once gives you corners i'm going to undo all that go back okay so what you do with the pen tool is you click and drag to get a curve so at the top here i click and drag and this is probably the hardest thing to do is to get it started because i click and drag out but there's no curve but i'm on apex but once you've got it out here you can see it's kind of you can see it's a curve because it's connected plus you see those handles instantly whereas the curvature tool they were hidden okay so same thing on the apex here i click and people just click once remember clicking once gives you a corner for the pen tool okay so that's not going to work so i'm going to undo so click and drag down i know dragging down because you want to kind of like continue the line so follow the line drag that way but that can be a little confusing sometimes people drag this way and move it around you get a bit of a sense for it after we've done our full kind of alien so i'm dragging it out to get this to kind of line up don't worry if you don't quite get it okay you can fix it up afterwards with the white arrow it's quite easy next thing i want to do is before i carry on i want to give it no fill so i'm going to go to the fill here go red line go click off so remember i'm going to look for the same same kind of like technique as the curvature tool i'm looking for this apex here i'm going to click hold and drag down for a corner and this is going to be clicking and dragging for the whole thing because there's no curves right sorry no corners so here i'm going to click and drag and you're like oh no i can't get it so don't worry too much about getting it perfect on the on the first go around we can fix it with the white arrow and add and remove anchor points afterwards same thing here click and drag and you're just like oh it's too big it's not quite working it's okay we can adjust these afterwards get it kind of close okay and i'm just going to click hold and drag on all the apex of these curves click and drag so remember the apex is just kind of where the curve changes the most so the curve changes quite a bit across here clicking and dragging clicking and dragging clicking and dragging clicking and dragging clicking and dragging if yours is going horribly wrong and it's still attached and it won't work okay and you're like ah okay what you can do is go either undo so edit undo or command z on a mac or control z on a pc or you can hit the escape key the escape key says detach okay stop trying to draw lines everywhere so i'm going to undo go back to here so and again if you kind of click off and it's like half finished what you can do is watch my cursor i've got my pen tool i'm kind of just hovering above hovering above see that little change in the icon there get a little straight line that means like do you mean this i'm like yep that's what i meant okay so i'm going to click and drag that to get a curve and click and drag u click and drag u another one there okay so i'm just going to work my way around this alien come here alien you back to here and this is another um kind of gotcha for people that are new is i come back here and you're like great just click once and unlike the curvature tool it doesn't kind of like automatically adjust it kind of when you click once see me in the corner i put a corner in so i'm going to undo so i'm going to click and drag because i meant a curve all right now yours might not look anywhere near like mine mine's not that good either but yours might be looking a little worse for wear what we can do remember is the white arrow tool the direct selection tool we can click on these guys okay and we can adjust them so i can click on the anchor point move the anchor point along to make sure it's on the flow of the text or sorry the flow of the line and grab these handles okay that influence the way the line passes through and i can kind of just wiggle it around don't be afraid to move it around to get a feel for what it does and kind of start doing these adjustments so here as well i'm going to tuck him in i'm just going to work my way around just to kind of fix this up a little bit i'm not going to spend too much time on it i say that every time and then i spend loads of time trying to make this thing look beautiful as much as my quick little nap alien is there you go oh yeah beautiful dan and with this one as well i've got my smart guides off just because they can be a little hassle when using the pen tool trying to free form stuff the um smart guides remember under view smart guides there is the algorithm off cool and let's do the inside one click and drag maybe that's the hard one because you're like okay then you follow whichever way you've dragged if i drag up i've got to kind of follow the line this way because it's coming out that way if i drag down it comes out of there there click and drag and with a circle it needs at least four points to kind of look half decent okay and you can see with the curvature it does a lot of kind of like fixing up for you which is quite cool um but sometimes you just don't want that as well so you the pen tool tools a little bit easier because it gives you a lot more kind of control a lot more manual all right that'll do yes i just used the ellipse tool probably to get it looking really nice and i am totally going to cheat now because i'm bored of this alien i'm just going to grab my black arrow click off click on copy paste and my terrible circle is now just going to be a bit smaller done all right let's look at the crown this movie becomes easy pen tool loves this stuff don't have to hold anything down just click once click once click once okay so with the pen tool clicking and dragging gives you a curve clicking once gives you a corner point awesome okay so then we get to our ninja hello ninja okay i'm going to zoom out a little bit you'll find notice that when you zoom out and you've got something else selected it goes hey did you mean this and so it kind of zooms out and moves back up there you're like no no down here please okay you can turn that off in the preferences so we're going to start down the bottom right hand corner with the pen tool and that is a corner okay nice sharp corner click once now where is the curve the curve here is the apex of it is halfway through here so i'm going to click and drag this is a little hard because you're like just need a little subtle one okay so you end up kind of give it a wiggle around give it a feel for it okay as you're dragging out the handles and when you get it here that's it now this is going to be a corner because it's a change of direction okay and this is going to be a corner so just click once corner click ones corner click once and there's a little curve in here okay and click and drag cool click once for a corner and okay we've got curves again how many like do i just want one i could try and do one you're just never going to get the like right shape with just one of them it's a fine old helmet thing i'm looking for a perfect circle though this happens lots yeah okay if you get close to the edge it really wants to jump out and you can let go go to undo and then zoom in or out and it will kind of jump back to the center again cool so what do i want i want i know through experience that a circle needs four we kind of did it for the alien up here okay so i need one there one there one there and there's no bit down the bottom so i don't need him so clicking up and down that's another one like drag down and people kind of which way does it go okay remember you want to kind of drag and follow the line there's another one there clicking and dragging clicking and dragging click once for a corner if you get it wrong okay and you come down here and you click once and you're like oh no what do i do okay you can just leave it and we'll show you how to fix those up in a second just kind of leave it there we'll leave it there okay got a curve i'm dragging it out don't i'm going to try and fix it but there's a bit of a problem there so i'll come back and do that click once for a corner click once for a corner curve click and drag once for a corner to get this kind of straight line started another straight line click and drag for a curve and so that one's a corner where it should be uh yeah so that one's a curve when it should be a corner and this one i'm going to draw as a curve but it should be a corner go back to here click once now i've got a full shape now to do some adjustments okay these are two major things i need to fix is i need to change these two okay and there's a full tool to do it it's called the anchor point tool okay so i click on this if you're using an earlier version um i think it's called the cur anchor conversion tool something like that okay so it looks like that in both versions click on this guy and what we're going to do is we're going to zoom in okay and we'll look at this guy and if i click on him once he was a corner oh sorry it was a curve and now he's a corner and this guy here is a curve well both of these are curves when they should be corners geez dan okay let's uh let's change something else let's say let's click on him okay now he's a corner great let's see i want to make this guy a curve and all i do is click hold and drag him okay i have to move it around a little bit you can see now he is a curve so there are yeah this tool does both click it once to get rid of the curve and if it's a corner and it should be a curve click and drag it out give that a practice now there's a few things that need tidying up grab my white arrow there's this guy here and you can see well you might not be able to see why but i've got this anchor point here right there he is okay he's down here and the handles come out quite far and they actually go past the point here and that's trying to like force the line to go like i'll show you kind of an exaggerated version it's trying to go back towards itself so often with these handles they can't go past kind of like the next anchor point otherwise they start doing some weird stuff so both of you guys can be dragged in closer to the home here closer to the anchor point okay you're going to get it like this and i should go through and fix the head okay cause he's a little bit off now if you are looking at things you're like man why isn't it symmetrical because it looks just a little bit wonky often if i click on this point here and to make a perfect circle i'll show you what a perfect circle looks like the ellipse tool drag it out it's made up of the same points go with the white arrow if i click on one of them you can start to see right i'm going to select on them all actually click on one of them you can see click on the top one that one's flat and these handles are exactly the same length so and these ones parallel okay so that's kind of what we're looking for you can see here if i click on this top point this guy's flat which is awesome but these guys are kind of both hitting off at an angle so what i'm going to do is first get them to line up roughly the same kind of point so it's roughly kind of about there from each other and i want them to be kind of like straight up and down and watch this when i'm dragging this guy around if i hold shift it does lock them into like a nice um nice little thing there same with you straighten up buddy and okay both of these top bits i want to drag in a little bit in a little bit and don't be afraid to move the anchor point as well it's maybe just a bit high in that line better better not perfect but better okay so i would like you your next mission okay is to draw the owl okay so i want you to go through uh draw the owl okay as complete shapes and then see if you can use your amazing new illustrator skills and show me uh a version of your owl and i'd like to if you've done the previous tutorial just kind of a side by side just copy and paste them from one document to another and i want you to see what you did with your curve tool and what you did with your pen tool they're both perfect awesome if one's better than the other i'd like to kind of hear your feedback about which tool you like the most are you a precision pen tool person from pen tools like the one that's been around forever the courage tools new and is it cheating it's not cheating you're still drawing but it's helping you out a little bit i want to know which you found better so get them side by side give me a screenshot i'd love to see what you're doing all right that's it for this tutorial i will see you in the next one hi there in this tutorial we're going to learn how to use the pencil tool to do some kind of creative hand drawn effects we're also going to take the lines and make them dashed and dotted we'll also do things like this with a kind of sushi add arrowheads okay hopefully yours will look nicer than my ones and we're going to go and do that now in this tutorial all right let's jump in alright so let's get started let's go to file let's go to new we're going to have our print document it's going to be letter and it's going to be landscape okay let's click create let's bring in an image so file place okay and the difference in this case is we did before we're going to use drawing one and in previous tutorials if you've watched them we've clicked on template and that kind of puts it on its own layer it fades it out a little bit and locks it so that it's easy to draw over the top of we don't want the kind of fading part of it so we can't use template we're just going to leave drawing one we're going to click place okay and you can click and drag out and that'll give you like a specific size or if you click once like i'm going to do here it's going to kind of just put it in at its full size so depending on your image you might drag it out or just like i've done here click once and it comes in full size and also just to make sure i've got view and make sure smart glides is turned back on we turned it off in a previous tutorial i'm going to click hold and drag it so it kind of lines up it's a little bit big for this page that's okay so in your layers panel we're going to manually kind of do that template part that we did in the previous video so this one here i'm going to double click the word layer 1 and this is going to be background this is not essential just it's just handy when we're doing this tutorial together so i've named it and um this kind of mysterious icon here this kind of empty space click it it locks the layer okay so just mean to know that that's the place to click and i'm going to make a new layer this is a little turned up page down the bottom here i'm going to click on that once okay i've got layer 2. i'm just going to double click layer 2 and call this one drawing okay and i know i'm on this layer because it's blue so the pencil tool is this guy here okay and underneath that paint brush tool you might find you've got the shaper tool okay out by default so click hold it down and grab the pencil tool now the pencil tool by default is a little bit weird a little bit hard to use so we're going to change that so let's say i'm going to draw a smiley face i'm going to draw around here now the weird thing about it is watch this if i keep drawing can you see it doesn't draw new lines it redraws over the existing ones and kind of disappears it's kind of a strange thing to happen so we're going to change that by default so i'm going to delete that putting the delete key on my keyboard what i'm also going to do is i'm going to go to my properties panel and i'm going to make sure that i've got no fill and have a stroke of white okay just to fit with what we've got in the background here to change the pencil tool options you just double click on it so double click the pencil tool and in here there's the things we want to change like keep selected okay we want turned off okay and the other thing we want to do is here it says fidelity okay and it's going to try and help you out make your drawing look a little smoother and a little better i love it right up okay especially if i'm drawing say with my mouse like i am here or my touch pad wacom is a little different okay even with a wacom tablet okay where you're drawing with a pin uh i like to crank it up you may be not as high as this but we'll go full max smooth and now when we draw look what happens just kind of makes everything fluid and nice that's probably not the nicest okay but let's grab our black arrow i'm going to delete them what i'd like to do here is just some kind of freeform i'm going to do flames out the bike for no good reason but you can see when i draw and i let go it's done quite a nice job and what i'm going to do is actually do one piece and watch when i let go kind of smooths that out nice so my flames are going to be terrible what i'd like to do is instead of doing them in one go i'd like to have two parts it's just going to help us when we do the next bit of example when we have a little look at brushes so i'm just going to kind of draw these flames now i really want to go grab my wacom tablet here because this is looking pretty bad these are meant to be flames by the way looks like a pineapple's growing out the back toe looks like pineapple that's okay and what we're gonna do is look at some of the techniques for stroke so some of the first things you need to know about drawing lines like this is with the black arrow let's select them all and because we've got the background layer locked okay it doesn't select any of that stuff so i've got them selected and over here under our properties panel okay the basics are stroke we've got the stroke weight which we looked in at a earlier example okay i'm going to crank it up to say six points just so i can show you some of these other options for stroke now to open up all the advanced settings for stroke you just click on the word stroke and it kind of opens them all up if you want to go a different way there's a way of opening up that panel forever by going to window and open up strokes if you're getting sick of having to open it and you've got a big enough computer okay you can just go to window and stroke and it's only giving you the tiny options weird i know but if you double click the word stroke double click it again it's got like three modes uh four modes small version stupid version massive version i don't know why they've got these different versions okay but if you keep clicking on it you'll find that's the like big big version i'm going to use this option in here okay just so it collapses back in and better use of my space i'm going to click on it and the first thing we're going to look at is the capping okay so this changes quite a bit of the look so i'm gonna zoom in a little bit of my pineapple flames okay so i'm gonna click on stroke by default you're gonna have what's called a butt cap okay right there by cap unfortunately named and it's just kind of just flat at the end if i click this next one rounded cap can you see i'm going to go on off on off just kind of rounds off the ends and that's really nice especially when you get a low stroke okay a small stroke like this you just don't want to have like really pointy ends or butt caps okay just kind of curves it off a little bit nicely i'm gonna go back up to six points let's have a little look at some of the other options so butt cap is flat at the end this one here i very rarely use projecting cap kind of goes out past the line ends here and it goes back past so let's go bud cap projecting cap i think i just like saying butt gap okay projecting cap actually i'm going to leave it on butt cap okay and we've got these corners here so lots of these lines aren't corners they're just straight lines this one here's a corner and did i do any other ones i think just this one here look what happens when i change it from a corner of a miter join to a round join okay can you see where it goes around this curve it's rounded on the edge okay so the joins are different and this last one here kind of bevels it off like an edge i never used that one either so either with those first two are quite good and i'm going to leave those as is and what might look good for our flaming pineapple now is down here right at the bottom something called profile profile is a nice way of just changing the line instead of being perfect all the way along click on this one here just kind of makes it tapered at both ends you can kind of see that gets projected onto our lines that's kind of why i wanted having separate lines because you get this kind of like pointy ends on both sides whereas this one here it's pointy at the tippy tips okay but not it's quite thick through the middle here up to you okay but have a little play around with the rest of them so i've got them selected click on stroke and down the bottom here in profile i can go through and say i want this one which is kind of strange yeah more pineapply okay you can flip them okay depending on how you want them on the line and yeah let's have a look at some of the other ones i'll let you have a look okay points other ones other ones i'm going to probably go back i like this one i think this uh width profile 5. i'm going to use him okay now there's a couple more things i want to show you about strokes drawing with strokes and one of them is say arrows okay so i'm just going to grab my pencil tool again okay and i'm going to draw something like that meant to be like the wheels turning that's what it's meant to look like okay that's okay okay um with it selected i'm gonna grab my black arrow i'm gonna click both of these by dragging a box around them and what i'll do is go to stroke and this one here arrowheads are quite important well quite useful okay so with it selected the two lines you've got a beginning and an ending and it really depends on which way you started drawing play with both okay i'm going to go arrow here it's kind of not the way i wanted it so that's actually the end at the beginning i want it turning this way okay so if you scroll down the arrow heads eventually they turn into the kind of tail ends of the arrow and this is going to look better for the beginning okay and by better it's a pretty wonky error i'm going for this hand-drawn look okay so profile as well i might go through and try and make it look nicer now you can see i added that kind of profile the same as this one over here it just doesn't look the same if i click off okay it's quite thin just means the stroke width isn't that high so with them selected i'm going to raise the stroke width now what happens with arrowheads is that by default they've got a weird proportion to the line okay so a four-point arrow here is really big so when i click on stroke there's a percentage underneath both of these ends and you can see if i scale this one down it's going pretty slow so i'm going to twirl it down to maybe say 20 percent of the line and 20 of the line why because i that looks a bit weird but i want to increase this kind of stroke width okay and maybe flip it across i don't know i've made really ugly lines but you're getting the sense of it right with uh you can add arrowheads easy peasy okay next thing we're going to do is we're going to look at dashed and dotted lines and we're going to try and make it look better like i promise you when i practice this i had flames out the back and cool arrows stand not so good in actual practice all right and so what we're going to do is like do a little dotted line around here so it looks like it's cut it not a dotted line a dashed line so it looks like she could be cut out so a pencil tool again i'm going to just draw a really rough kind of line around the outside lying around the outside now stop to the edge of the desk and we're going around okay back to the beginning the good thing about going back to the beginning watch this and remember that a little icon with a circle see that changes there it kind of shows you it's going to kind of complete it cool so not hard if i select on the line and i click on stroke there is a dashed line click on it magically dashed if i click off okay dash line there's a couple of things you might want to do with a dashed line so i've got it selected i'm going to increase it so i can show you and back under stroke things like the rounded cap can you see the difference between those two depending on what you want to do the other thing is is that the dash line here if you leave it's just going to do 12 and 12. so 12 points and then a gap of 12 points you can increase this okay so maybe 22 okay and it's just going to do 22 points and 22 points and you could have a smaller gap say i want 10 so it's going to have smaller gaps and larger kind of dots or dashes okay you can do the opposite so the dash can be quite small so maybe two point and the gap is going to be quite big okay depending on what you want to do i feel like that's kind of like a zipper detail or frankenstein stitches one or the other um let's go back up i'm going to do 12 and 12. now you don't have to if you want them to be x identical you can just leave 12 and it will kind of guess that then what you mean by the gap is 12. let's look at dotted lines weirdly there should just be an option this is dotted as well but it doesn't and they're really hard and even when i'm making them i'm like how the hang do you make a dotted line again okay it's a it's a funny old thing so let's grab the pencil tool and i'm going to draw like tassels from this okay and i'm going to grab my black arrow select both of these and get rid of the dashes so click on stroke you might not have yours okay so let's turn it off so straight line um i'm going to have my weight at about four point now weird thing is dotted is actually part of dashed okay which doesn't make a whole lot of sense but if you make the dash zero and you make the gap anything so 12 it makes kind of dots actually they're just lines okay so with them selected in here all i need to do is change it from that default which is a butt cap to a round cap that might makes our little dotted lines okay so you just need to make sure one of them or the dash is zero so it's actually got no length okay but there's a rounder cap around it so it kind of wants to wrap itself around that nothingness dotted lines they're kind of weird okay so turn on the dashed line make sure the dash is zero and you can have the gap any size you like okay 20 will just space them out you can have them really kind of close together they can even kind of like overlap like that i'm going to go for 10. nice all right zoom out let's have a look at our magical drawing we've learned of things about strokes we haven't made anything very pretty though but what we'll do in the next tutorial is we'll add brush strokes and things will get marginally prettier so let's go and do that now in the next tutorial hi there in this tutorial we're going to look at brushes where we take kind of ordinary lines like this and give them lovely cool artistic brush strokes they look hand-drawn we're going to add wings we're going to add a crown we're going to make a star okay we're gonna fill the star all sorts of awesomeness in adobe illustrator let's go and do that now okay so it's time to use brushes and yes in between videos if you're following along i went back and made my flames a whole lot cooler in my arrows a lot nicer just by redrawing them with the pencil tool okay um i couldn't help myself so what we're going to do is brushes first of all we need something to add the brushes to okay so we're going to grab the pencil tool and let's add kind of like wings to her so i'm going to do them in lots of little bits now the reason i don't do them all in one big go you could um let's do one with one big go okay so one really good wing but remember smoothing's on so when i let go it looks marginally better i'm going to add more wings on this side but i'm going to do them as separate pieces okay and i'm just going to show you the difference really i'm going to draw some circles and you can see that one there completed the circle which is kind of cool to see how it works okay we'll draw some a little more half circles in here and great so with my black arrow i'm going to select all of these guys it's a little bit harder now because we've got things all over the place so you might have to click one hold shift okay and keep clicking until you got them all but i can kind of drag a box around all of these guys great first thing i'm going to do is stroke is going to be white and i'm going to open up my brushes panel now before we open our brushes it's nice especially with the brushes if you use a smaller size to get started with it doesn't matter you can do it afterwards but let's get down to 0.25 a really thin line now your brushes there's lots built into illustrator okay the basics are in here but there are actually lots that you can go and find online often they're free okay so window let's go to brush libraries and in here probably the most exciting ones are ones under vector packs these two ones here we'll look at these two plus one other okay grunge brush vector packs we're going to do i'm going to move it off to the side here i'm going to drag the bottom of it so i can see the different options and click on the first one okay and by default it's gone back to one point so don't listen to me okay you can change it afterwards go back to something a little bit smaller now you can see that's the smallest option for the drop down and it's kind of cool kind of looks quite artistic right but it's still maybe quite thick so you can actually just type in here so 0.25 is kind of a hairline which is quite small but i can go to 0 0.05 hit return okay and again quite small and click off so yeah cool so the difference really is now we're just looking for things that we like to look up right so i'm just going to draw a box around these guys and shift-click these two to get rid of what's i don't even know what that is that was a smiley face i drew earlier so i'm going to shift-click all of these i've got them selected i'm going to go to a white stroke okay i'm not going to worry about the size yet i'm going to pick one of these other ones and you can see um let's have a look at one of these ones okay there's a couple of things that we need to be aware of is that because this is such a long line it's trying to smear itself down quite a long part now some of the problem is the size so i'm going to turn it down to 0.05 like the other one okay and it's looking better but it finds it hard to what to do at these corners okay because this it's kind of like a really detailed vector brush and kind of has to go in and out and kind of do some weird things so ways to get around that if you've got a really long stroke and it's doing strange things at the edges i'm going to go up to maybe not one point but back to 0.25 just to show an example because we did this earlier remember under stroke okay we've got these butt caps and corner options so let's go to round join and it will try and kind of get around the corner and the ends of it as well which does absolutely nothing on this brush it does on different brushes okay but this is kind of one of the things you can do you can see the miter join here is just trying too much to get around this corner but when i get to this rounded join it looks marginally better okay so you might have to play around with this depending on the brush you pick so what i like to do when i'm using the brush tool is use these kind of like shorter strokes because they tend to have a better result selected let's have a look at these guys pick one dan pick one all right that'll do cool so i've got my kind of drawing exercises those guys done let's draw one more and look at some of the other brushes and that'll kind of give you an idea of how to go off and find your own and so i'm going to grab my pencil tool again i'm going to draw she's going to be a princess remember i'm going to draw them in separate strokes um you can't really see them so i'm going to undo them so before i start drawing i'm going to have stroke but i'm going to crank it up to say one point so you can see what i'm drawing so yep she is not a princess she's more like i don't know some sort of ah maybe that's what it needs totally what it needed now she's a queen okay um let's grab the black arrow i'm gonna select all of these guys i'm gonna show you another one so another cool one is under brush libraries vector packs and this hand drawn brushes i'll let you explore those ones and some of the other ones lots of these are really lames are strong word but not some are lame um artistic has some really good ones though so if we go to maybe chalk chalk or pencil or ink and these go quite cool click on ink i want to show you ink because these have some instead of just solid black they have some kind of like textures to them can you see it's kind of they're a little bit transparent now again i'm gonna have to turn the stroke down to something a little bit more useful but where they start overlapping they start adding kind of extra depth and yep the reason i want to show you this one is you'll run into brushes that have this line along the top here and you'll be like oh awesome they do weird stuff okay these mean to be used as just kind of like one off so i'm going to undo and i'm going to pick say this one here and then i'm going to click off these guys here if i drag them off okay it means that i can for some reason if i drag it across this image here they're kind of disappearing behind it which is kind of weird so i'm going to drag it up the top here and that's meant to be used as elements at the top okay just as like separate things by themselves rather than following a path okay and what you can do like with this guy here selected here's lots of different options i can right click them and go to ungroup okay and you can keep ungrouping them okay until you get kind of the individual parts takes a little while okay the shortcut might be handy okay when almost there right click one more time short ungroup okay and we start getting individual elements i can select you guys and make you white awesome and so yeah that's how they're meant to be used just as like single little options okay and let's look at the next part let's close down the ink brushes and let's look at kind of like filling in brush strokes so let's say we're going to draw a star i'm going to grab the pencil tool and i'm going to draw what's this if i let go you're like where'd that line go okay it's because i'm drawing with a pencil tool with a fill but no stroke so the line is considered a stroke and there is no stroke there's a fill but it doesn't need a fill okay it's there if i give my black arrow you can kind of wave your mouse around and go that's random line get rid of him and there was this circle here we found earlier on i don't know where he's from so i'm going to grab my pencil tool and just make sure you're quite purposeful when you're drawing pencil tool pick a stroke color doesn't need to fill and i'm going to draw a kind of a starry thing my drawing tool is helping me out okay so with this selected black arrow select all of these guys i'm going to pick a brush and i told you i wasn't going to show you any other ones but i'm going to look at one more brush libraries i'll use hand drawn brush vector and so i'm going to grab him way too strong let's get down to a smaller yeah we're getting there maybe 1.5 cool so i've got this shape here right and i want to fill it in now and the trick is i'm going to close these down is i'm going to copy and paste it so i've got a second option i'm going to keep the strokes there but this guy here these lines okay what i want to make sure is i want to kind of fill in the gaps and what i should have done before i started drawing is i should have made sure they overlapped perfectly so we'll check that out and over here i want to turn it back to a regular line so over here it says brush i'm going to say actually no brush go up to the top here and pick this first one okay just a nice thin brush and they do overlap so if you didn't do this you're going to have to make sure that lines overlap at least a little bit so with them all selected we're going to go to our best friend the shape builder tool we're going to pick some colors for it okay so i'm going to go in here and i'm going to pick a color i'm going to use the color mixer and if yours is like mine and it's defaulted to just black and white which might happen quite often okay with this selected i'm going to go to this option here okay and pick rgb which can't be done so i'm going to pick black first then go in here and pick rgb cool so i can pick from any of these colors in here and when i hover over i'm going to say that's going to be filled with the green okay i can fill in all of these guys now they fill in because they overlap if they didn't overlap they might not fill up and i'm going to pick another color yeah and the reason i do this is i'm going to select all of these guys now and i'm going to get rid of the stroke go by stroke by going new and going to no fill these guys down here left over don't need you guys and i'm going to select this and put it back over the top okay line it up cool so it's just a nice way of kind of i guess adding fills to kind of hand drawn rough stuff okay shake builder tool is perfect for that just making sure that the rough lines all overlap now one thing you might see or noticed is that if i grab like say i've got a line and they don't quite meet up okay so i'm saying i'm drawing some stuff uh here we go so i'm drawing a square but the gap is i'm drawing with a brush great then select all of these turn it back just a regular brush maybe this first guy here cool so you can see there's a big gap here okay mine was probably too big but you can also see if i zoom in there's actually a little gap in between here okay so what that means is that it shouldn't fill but there is a little bit of freedom that the shape builder tool has that's probably too big but it's going to fill in these automatically you can kind of adjust that to say like come on just give me a little bit more gap joining ability and you do it by double clicking on the tool double click on it okay and up here there's the gap depth okay so you can go in here and go from small okay through to large custom you can make it huge okay um so i think by default is it small i can't remember okay but double click the tool to change it and it just gives you a few different options like this one here is not going to work because it's way too big if i go in here and i say go to large because it's still not going to work it's not going to work too far apart okay but you get the idea all right i'm going to delete those zoom out marvel at my awesomeness okay but you're getting the idea right we're doing hand-drawn stuff and then adding brushes to add a little bit more realism to what something is actually vector and scalable and beautiful but can look quite custom as well okay so now it's project time okay so i've got an image that i want you to draw on okay it's and i'll show you here in the exercise files there it is appeared okay and what i'd like you to do is i'm gonna set you a task i want five separate doodles okay i can all use the same stroke and kind of brush style but i want five things okay and if you're looking if you're like what am i gonna draw come up with a theme okay this could be you could use a holidays theme so there could be holiday stuff like sun and beach things okay or you might go finance okay might be dollar signs and graphs and stuff just to give you an idea i guess to what to doodle and draw on this and what i want you to do is experiment both with obviously the drawing tool but look at the brushes as well um maybe you look at dotted or dashed okay it's up to you but i'd love to you to go off and have at least five and at the end i love as a project okay to take a screenshot or save it as a jpeg and send it to me as a project or in the comments all right i will see you in the very next video hi there in this tutorial we're going to start with some basic lines like this and then do this to the with the width tool okay it's going to take our simple lines add a bit of dimension to them and a little bit of sexiness all right that is the width tool let's learn how to do that now in adobe illustrator all right to get started let's go to file and go to open and in your exercise files okay there is a file called width tool okay click open all right we're going to start with the kind of like leaves at the top here i want you to kind of complete uh i want another leaf down the bottom here to show you how i drew it okay it's a pencil tool i'm going to have a fill of none a little stripy line and i'm going to have a stroke of white and i'm going to have the stroke width down to a hairline which is 0.25 and i'm double clicking on my pencil tool to make sure the smoothing is way up and i've turned off keep selected okay click okay so what i want to do now is just kind of click and drag and you can see the because of the curving is quite up high it's making me look a whole lot better than i am good all right so we've got a bottom leaf now and what i want to do is do what we did at the intro there and have those lovely lines okay and the trick with it is to get started the black arrow and it's best to select all the lines and make sure it's really thin okay so the stroke weight needs to be at either 0.25 or less okay uh yeah that was it needs to be quite thin to get started next i'm going to do is deselect in the background and we're going to grab the width tool it's this guy there looks like a kind of a bow and arrow click on it okay and this magic tool okay if i zoom in a little bit okay means i can grab any point on this line okay and click hold and drag if it doesn't and it kind of just goes nowhere dragging the wrong way give it a wiggle okay and you can see here beautiful if you've ever tried to do that before with a pen tool again you try and draw one line and then the other side i love the width tool so cool huh clicked on this line i didn't really select on it just grab my width tool and just start pulling them out wherever you feel like you should okay i'm just going to work my way around this one it's amazing you can transform something quite simple okay got this moving on to make it look a little nicer but yeah just kind of giving it some fullness here we go now you can do more than one point on a line i'll show you how to do that in this next part okay i'm happy with it yeah i'm happy enough with it okay uh i imagined it better but anyway down here okay i've got a path that i've drawn and what we're going to do is with the width tool we're going to end up with multiple kind of widths on it so i'm going to start with one about here okay and you can see it's kind of working its way all the way around okay from thickest here all the way to thin at the two ends now that's fine okay if that's the look you're looking for but what i'd like to do is i want it to get kind of skinnier along the top here so watch this i can click out another line okay i click the wrong way click and drag up okay i can make it thicker up here which is cool but actually i just want to make it thinner so i'm just dragging this little point to make it quite thin then i got this kind of like bulge there thins there and then maybe across the middle here i'm going to drag out a nice thick one you can start to get these kind of like cool into place of thick and thin okay maybe down here i want it to be nice and thin but over here i wanted to give a nice little kind of like whippy tail thing there you get what i mean right so i'm going to drag this nice and big um but potentially i want it to get a lot smaller through here and then get nice and big again at the end here cool another thing you can do is you can slide these so say that they're in the wrong point this guy here you can click on them and just drag them around you can see you can kind of work his way all the way around you can't go past that guy and that i've already got there but you can drag these along with another one and you can kind of you can see it's kind of moving and adjusting you can also hold down the shift key okay and drag one side not the shift key hold down the option key okay and you can drag one side at a time so it's option on a mac or alt on a pc okay and just grab any of these either side doesn't really matter and you can just do one side rather than both cool now we've used the pencil tool quite a bit now to get our curves we're going to go back to the curvature tool because i guess this is a font and i guess i want a little bit more preciseness to it okay rather than really hand drawn stuff so i'm going to grab the curvature tool and before i start drawing it's going to make sure i've got no fill and i've got a stroke and in terms of the stroke width i'm going to pick just one point for the moment okay and it can be hard to know um with the curvature tool how many points you need it's a little bit of trial and error right so if i click once and twice i get a straight line and it's obviously not going to be enough okay so if i click once and maybe a third okay so just three of them you can see it's just got to bend in the middle it's not what i want so what i do want is there's two curves there's one going this way and one going that way so one there okay at the tippy top kind of one halfway through the apex of this curve it's very slight one so i'm going to click once and then one kind of at the apex of this one and then it's going to come out here click once now i get a kind of a nicer line now it wants to continue on i can grab the black arrow just click off in the background now if i grab my width tool now select on this width tool it's going to work 2 degree okay wow it's going to work nicely but what you'll see here is if i zoom in on the end here you can see i get this kind of like stubby into it okay it's because i didn't change my stroke width before i started drawing so i'm going to zoom out okay so with this i'm going to undo actually and so before i use my width tool i'm going to make sure the stroke is quite thin you can't have zero but you can have like .05 something super thin okay i'm using black as well as my fill now if i grab my width tool okay and i i don't know how many points i need i might need two i want one there to kind of get the top bit and maybe one more for a fuller middle that's not what i want i'm just going to do one in the middle come on down if it's not quite right i'm going to drag it down yeah okay remember this is drawing is not meant to be perfect okay it was just kind of a hand drawn get it going one so the other thing i might do is that um there's this like little white whip in the middle there okay so it's a little bit hard when there's something already there okay so if i grab my say curvature tool now it wants to join up and wants to do things so black arrow i'm just going to click and grab the center and just kind of move it off and we'll get back we'll move them back in a second now curvature tool or pins or two i probably want the pencil tool for this one or a pencil tool i just want a kind of like a curve out of here yeah we'll see how that works okay and i'm going to make it a stroke color of white okay and now i'll move this back in and because i drew it after this black line it should be on top so i'm going to kind of move it into position using my arrow keys just to kind of tap it down something like that i rotate it around a little bit now i'm messing about okay you got the idea of what we're doing here um i'm going to turn the stroke down to .05 okay and i'm going to grab my width tool and i'm going to drag this out it's a little bit hard because there's there's lots of things fighting for the width tool attention so i might go something like that drag it down a little bit how do i like it yeah i like it enough okay so what i want you to do is uh your task is to go through and finish this okay so i'd like you to go through and do this part okay one thing when you are drawing this part down the bottom here let me have a quick little look with the curvature tool is that if i draw one draw one draw one and come back here everybody wants to join up to that existing one so you've got to make sure when you're coming to this end point is just to stay away okay and you can fix that up afterwards move with the white arrow okay and you can drag it in afterwards it won't kind of join up after it's been drawn okay and start with that okay all of these lines here the one little hint i've practiced this already okay i've taught this a few times so let's go and change it back to black the one thing that can catch people out is this uh oh and i only let it through practice as well okay how many points does it need looks like it needs about four okay turns out it works out nicely click once click twice click again click again you get this kind of like boxy circle and it's kind of close to what we want that was a bit quick but yeah with the width tool you can move these and adjust them and yeah see if you can give it a go give the viago the ear go then do all these like little extra bits and yeah go through color it i'd love to see how you get it like i've never actually gone through and completed it fully myself i love to see what other people do with it i know it's not the best one but i'd love to see yeah your interpretation you can totally adjust it and make it as you want but i'd like to see it as a project yeah so screenshot it and send it to me that'd be awesome all right that is it for the width tool it's pretty cool huh makes drawing those kind of sexy lines super easy i love it thank you illustrator all right on to the next video hi there in this video we're going to make this simple postcard we're going to look at fonts that are installed on your machine okay and we're going to look at something called typekit which is fonts that adobe give you and we can download them for free and use them as part of our designs all right let's go and learn how to do that now in illustrator okay so let's make our postcard for our text to go on i'm going to file new and we want a postcard size now there is under print um you can see view all presets and there's no postcard size in here under art and illustration there is a preset for postcard okay but if i click on it and switch it over here to say inches or millimeters it's it's got a really weird uh ratio okay not what i consider a traditional postcard maybe that's where in the world depends on what's traditional i'm going to just put in 5.8 and 4.1 that's a kind of a really kind of standardized postcard size if it's in millimeters very similar and it's 148 by 105. okay i'm going to go back to inches awesome everything i'm going to make sure it is landscape and let's click create all right let's put in our background color so just grab the rectangle tool pick a fill color and i'm going to go to my color mixer and up the top here i'm just going to make sure i'm on rgb okay you might be on cmyk rgb let's go on rgb for the moment we're going to look at color a little bit later on just kind of click through here and decide on a color i'm going to pick a bluish greeny color okay i'm going to drag it across the whole thing there you go awesome i want no stroke okay so i'm going to go in here and go no stroke please don't worry too much about the color um because we are going to go and change it in a future tutorial i see that and i'm like it's too blue okay a little bit more green all right i also want a rectangle on this side i want to break it into three groups two two columns for the text and one on the left here for just i'm going to put an image in later on okay you would have seen that at the beginning there so what i want to do is break it into three the easiest way is to copy and paste this so i've got two of them okay i'm going to change this to a dark gray i'm going to go back to my swatches and pick just the dark gray for the moment and this is going to get switched out again so divided by three remember we can do the math in these so the width i'm going to break the link so that the height and width aren't joined and i'm going to say i'd like the width just in here and put a divide by which is a forward slash and i want to divide it by 3 there hit return okay and it's just divided it to 3. cool so i'm going to use two of these for my text and this is going to be my image what i'd like to do for the moment though is to lock the background okay so layers i'm going to call this layer background all caps for no good reason i'm going to hit the little locking icon new layer and this is going to be my type all caps for no reason okay so when you're adding type uh there's two kind of types of type boxes grab the type tool which is this capital t if you click once you've created what's called a point type box don't worry about the names basically the point type box is a box that just keeps on going keeps on going forever and goes off the screen good for titles and logos and stuff but when we want body copy we need a different kind of type box so grab the type tool again and down here kind of this lower part we're going to add some body copy if i click hold and drag okay so up here i just clicked once and i got a point type box okay whereas i click held and drag down here you can see you get a box that has it's called an area type box kind of basically it does it has a kind of an end to it and it snaps back around okay and which is if i resize it now it kind of you know expands and contracts whereas this one here if i try and expand and contract it it's kind of a weird sort of function using a point type box and there's going to be times where you need to convert the two so i'm going to delete that one is that say i draw a click once for a title in here and i i add some stuff and some stuff and what happens let's say later on i want to make this a lot bigger so i'm going to go to my properties and i'm going to make the font size a lot bigger i want to break onto two lines right so what you can do is you can change this by with my black arrow see this little kind of circle on the side here that's the kind of conversion tool if you double click it it changes it into a area type box like the bottom one here nothing really looks like it changes except now when i drag the edge can you see it snaps down into two lines or i could snap it down three lines if there's enough room okay so that's what i want this box to be i want it to be nice and bigish and we're going to add some actual type and look at fonts next so at the top here and there's a bit of text we're going to put in uh we're going to say how to murder a designer and we'll go this will be our tip number one okay and how to motor designer is asking them to send can you send it over as a word doc i hate when that happens um so there's that this is just going to leave us body copy um as lauren epsom in the moment let's say we don't have that yet lauren if some is just placeholder text it's latin there are actual words that is mixed up so they make no sense but yeah good as a placeholder until you get your text so let's move him down what we will do is we'll start on this one at the top here and look at fonts first of all i'm going to change my fill to white okay next thing i want to do is pick a font so i'm going to drop this down and you know how to pick fonts it's no big deal so i'll add a little bit of extraness to it and what i really like is these filters so these are all the fonts that are on my computer okay so they've been installed in some previous life okay so up here it says filter this can be really handy because i'm looking for a serif font which has those basically a serif font has the little feet they kind of look like times new roman okay it has the little serifs on the edges here let's zoom in just so i can give you a bit of font notary go back to our font let's pick times just because if i zoom in so uh a serif font has these little feet okay these are called serifs this is a serif font a sans serif font is this one here sans is without so sans serif is without feet this one has okay this one has no feet so serif font um let's look at a font i've gotten i've gone through and had a little look about what i want to use already and what you can do at the top here is once you've picked serif you'll notice that all your fonts are cut down to only serif fonts super handy okay and now the only trouble is next time you come back in it's going to have the same filtering on so you've got to remember to probably turn it off after you've used it to go back to all classes of fonts serif font and you just kind of scroll through and you can see my text updating on the side there so it's best to have your text already drawn like we have so you can go through and just check it and i'm going to use i can't remember where's my notes here gowdy old style i'm going to use the italic okay that's the one i decided i want to use in terms of the font size i'm probably going to use 12 point okay just so you know in terms of font sizes say the body copy down here body copy a small body copy or the if you open up pretty much any magazine in the shop it's going to be 10 point okay that's like super common font size it's legible it's readable looks kind of big but this is a small postcard okay where and the smallest you want to go is about eight point okay that's kind of more business card size where you're just trying to squeeze lots of stuff in cool so we're gonna have ten points so people can read it so that's that font i'm gonna do the same here i'm gonna use the same font so gaudi you might not have this one you can go and pick your own i'm going to make sure it's white and um i'm going to move this down i'm probably going to play with that a little bit at the end this font here we're going to look at something called typekit okay so um gowdy it's just something that happens to be on my machine already right but what adobe do as part of your creative cloud license okay as you get access to typekit and basically what it means is i can with any sort of font selected i can drop down my character panel and go to this one that says add fonts from typekit click on him okay and it's going to open up a website i've already opened it up here and it'll ask you to log in okay because you'll need a paid creative cloud license if you don't have one of this it's not going to work um but basically what we want to do is we want to go to browse which is this first option here and it's just fonts okay now there's lots of places you can go for free fonts like da font or 1001 free fonts those are those are fine but what you'll find is that they're i don't know um if i need a font shaped like a cactus i'll go to 1001 free fonts or just kind of like really fun but i guess free and they don't have a lot of um the stuff i need for maybe more professional work uh glyphs and ligatures and like i live in ireland i'm from new zealand both the maori and irish languages have all the fodders and all the accented letters okay so i need a more mature font something like typekit is perfect for it they're cool fonts and they're free so what you can do at the top here is you can type in let's say can i can you i like doing this because before you download it you can kind of see what it's going to look like okay and sometimes it's pain you kind of download one and then it doesn't look the same in the fonts you need to use it for okay so in here you can also kind of wrangle the fonts into some say you only want to look at kind of script fonts or say hand-drawn fonts okay so you can go through and just kind of work out which ones you want and also i like is say i'm looking for headings so i want kind of a you know more of a bold handwriting font so i'm going to turn that off so i want hitting fonts i'm going to turn that off another nice thing is in this case i want a quite a narrow width okay because i want to fit a lot of text across the page um yeah there's a few a bunch of other options you can have a little look through here now the one i want i've already had a little look through so i'm going to kind of cheat and i'm going to go to league and where are you lea there you are league gothic that's the one i've decided i want to use already okay so this is the font okay and now there's a few different weights okay i'm just going to say sync all and basically what that's going to do is hopefully you can set up at the top right here you'll see in a second that it's downloading onto my computer and magically four fonts rated it's that simple i also noticed that i've somehow i'm allowed a hundred but i've got 323 i just don't ask questions somehow i keep giving more fonts so let's jump back into illustrator now the cool thing about it is that it should already be installed if i go to league if i can spell league now what i might have to do is i'm going to turn the filtering of serif on because this is a sans serif font there it is there installed and ready to go it's that simple there are professional fonts there's a there's you know some really nice ones in there i'm going to use lee gothic just this one here cool i'm going to switch it to white now you can switch over to the next video because now i'm just going to play around with fonts and font sizes i'll give you some tricks let's do that before we go i'm going to select all my type okay and i'm going to use command shift and full stop or period depending what you call it now if you're on a pc it's control shift um and full stop or period okay so it just kind of increases the fonts i want them up to three lines okay so i'm getting it quite big and in terms of the leading i'm going to select it all you can use the leading over here if you hover above it it should tell you it's a line spacing it's another word for it i can decrease it okay but a shortcut is if you hold down the option key on a mac or the alt key on a pc and use up and down arrows i find that's just a nice quick way of doing it yeah i'm happy with that so you are 10 point you are at 10 point i feel like there needs to be something different about the bottom here i'm gonna go you there lining them up now i'm just messing about um if you find that say i want an extra line in here okay just wanna fill with placeholder text because it did it automatically for me but say you've you just need more with the box selected go to type and go to fill with placeholder text just kind of fills it up it doesn't really matter if you cut it off so i just want an extra line there you go i'm going to put in a full stop there so it looks like the end of a paragraph come on pulled up awesome actually i changed my mind i go back to u and i'm going to lower it down a little bit and i'm going to grab the line too i'm going to draw a line either side just to kind of section this off actually i want to be the same length now mine had no stroke no no stroke no fill so if i click off it looks like it's gone basically it won't print because there's no stroke on it i'm going to go white please one point probably half a point just so you know when you are printing stuff um like if this is going out digitally it doesn't matter how thin it is but if it's going out physically i've printed stuff with lines that are really small so the lowest you should go is this one here 0.25 i kind of made one that was like 0.18 or something like that and literally it rubbed off like you put your hand on the page and it was so thin that it couldn't hold on to the paper and it just kind of rubbed off on people's hands so that was a big printing and disaster all right so don't get too thin on lines i'm just kind of using my keyboard now to tap this around oh man how does this look what do you think people needs a full stop down here all right so that is it for type and fonts there are other things in here that i'm not going to cover like there's space between letters over here the space between letters there is left align right align i'll i'll assume that you'll be able to work those out yourself but yeah let's get in and start doing uh some type on a path we'll do that in the next video so hide it up see you in the next video hi uh what did you think of the video if you enjoyed it give me a thumbs up and consider subscribing also leave me a comment let me know what you liked about it um also this is kind of a short part of a longer course okay if you want to check that out it's at bringyourownlaptop.com this is the essentials course okay there is also another course there is an advanced course okay for illustrator and also a ui web app design version of illustrator course as well check all those out and also it's quite a visual course i'd love to see what you've actually made on instagram i'm bring your own laptop okay check that out also remember there's a cheat sheet you can download bring your own laptop it's free under resources check all that out and yeah i'll see you in another video bye now you

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Length: 133min 30sec (8010 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 15 2020