HOW TO DRAW BITCOIN (CRYPTOCURRENCY). ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR TUTORIAL

hey guys my name is elena i'm a graphic designer and welcome to my channel about a graphic design and today i want to show you how to draw that bitcoin but at first i want to tell you what is a bitcoin bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 by a known person or group of people using the name satoshi nakamoto each bitcoin is basically a computer file which is stored in a digital wallet app on a smartphone or computer people can send bitcoin or part of one to your digital wallet and you can send bitcoins to other people every single transaction is recorded in a public list called the blockchain in 2010 the first known commercial transaction using bitcoin occurred then programmer laszlo henich bought two papa john's pizza for 10 000 bitcoins oh my god bitcoin first started trending from around [Music] 0.0008 to 0.0 dollars in july 2010 for coin the average price of one bitcoin was approximately 40 000 dollars in january 2021 it will be unusual tutorial the reason why they are going to create a real bitcoin and we are going to work a lot of pencil and geometric shapes and many times make the same things so sometimes it will be speed art but of course the explanations and if you're interested guys please keep watching [Music] to make this tutorial you need bitcoin photo you'll find the link to this photo below this tutorial or you can find other photos okay let's start our tutorial at first let's open our photo file place here is our photo place and press here okay now select any color as you like for example this one and ellipse tool hold shift and let's draw the ellipse okay now stroke to fill filter stroke sorry and let's move the photo here okay now again stroke to fill and object path offset path and we need here minus eight okay and select for example this one color object path offset path and here the same options okay and select this color for the stroke okay select this one object path offset path and here minus 50 okay now again object path offset path and here 12 okay now select uh again this stroke and we need this tool select the stroke here this is the text it's basic text we need this font and here 38 now we need to write the bitcoin text select the help of this to the text ctrl a and delete and now let's write the bitcoin text okay guys now i'm going to play with the text here 50 and let's move the text like this okay now select the text tool and make more space between words okay let's move let's add the help of edibles to here some ellipses now hold alt and make the copies okay now select the text again and move okay let's look great and now guys i need to move these ellipses as i said guys it will be a long tutorial and a little boring but the result will be great so the heart broke here but in the end it will be as i said great fantastic and awesome okay move the text and the ellipses [Music] okay now we need to select rectangle tool and you need to draw rectangle rectangle the shape like here okay select dark selection tool and you need to round corners okay now move this shape here and like this copy and paste it and move here now select both align them okay and now groove them and move them now select the round and the shapes and align them okay now select that shapes and transfer rotate and here 10 copy and press ctrl d as many times as you need copies okay now here let's work here let's create the bitcoin logo select rectangle tool and here in the stroke red color and let's create the shape of bitcoin it will be easy now select these shape copy and paste it sorry and here select both shapes and align them copy and paste both shapes and move them here okay now i can select rectangle tool and draw here rectangle select this point and move here and this one and move here okay now guys select again rectangle tool and let's draw rectangle like this select these two points and round rounded corners and move a little down the shape now i can select rectangle tool and let's draw hang and rectangle again with direct selection tool a little up here and the dark selection tool select these two points and rounded corners and a little up here now we need to make the photo for a while unvisible here now select the contour and make stroke to feel and here the dark selection tool you need to fix their mistakes like these okay now select the bitcoin per finder unite now make the folder visible and stroke the fill for our bitcoin sorry filter stroke and let's draw here one more rectangle and these two corners we need to round okay and the same here one more rectangle select these two points and round okay now select the shapes of our bitcoin and move them here i think the shape is great now stroke to fill select these shapes finder into exclude and again for finder exclude and let it be for a while this color now select this shape and here we need three and the same for these shape 3 okay and now let's work here object path offset path minus eight okay great now unselect and select this color for this shape copy and paste this brown shape now select this brown copy and this light shape and the finer exclude and grow okay and sorry and we need to make this shape this color and as well here here we have the stroke and as well here okay now let's work here select ellipse tool and you need to create ellipse like the first edibles in the bitcoin shape okay here stroke and here three okay now select the shape and object above offset here minus eight okay and you need to make these as many times as you have adapses in these bitcoin okay now we need to lock the layer with photo and let's work here it will be long and hard work you need to expand all lines and now select pen tool okay and let's draw uh the shapes like you see in the bitcoin as i said it will be hard and long work but the result will be absence in my opinion okay now select the shape and here as well we need three for all shapes here we need here three object expand okay [Music] and now select these shapes and the new one and now for finder and divide ungroup and delete these unnecessary unwanted parts and we need to work here now select pen tool and last draw well guys if you know how to work with pen tool or geometric shapes you can not watch this part of tutorial and move on to see how i create gold backgrounds highlights and make the bitcoin perfect again as i think so if you don't know how to make here then let's make it together so let's draw the bitcoin so okay guys that part is almost ready now we need to create rectangles [Music] this it's okay if your design not look like the bitcoin design because bitcoin has copyright and if you design a little differ then the then there are should be no complaints so let's create our bitcoin so okay now here guys with help of pencil i create the shape to cut off unnecessary unwanted parts now select these shapes and the new one and the finder divide and now ungroup and delete unwanted parts okay and now keep drawing the bitcoin it's pretty simple work but it's a long work now here the same with help of pen tool you need to cut off unwanted parts and the same exclude them okay and now move on to draw so now here guys we need to put the shape a little up and object expand okay and when you can work with the points of the shape to make their shape more perfect and better you see okay [Music] yes legs stroke as like this option okay now here's the same this option i make it very very fast so guys i think you have more time and you can make it more pretty but i want to show you the process and when you understood and when you understand the process you can create easily the shapes like this okay let's move on now we need to delete this part so the same create the help of fan tool the shape select these three shapes for finder exclude ungroup and delete unnecessary parts okay now select this copy and paste and move it here and paste angle and we need to move these shapes here okay now here will be very hard shape so select pen tool and i'm going to make it very slowly to make it right stroke filter stroke and here you need to see how to cut off the shape okay i think it's here here and like this and like this okay yes great now select all these contours and then you shape and now the finder divide ungroup and you need to delete all unwanted parts okay now let's work here we need to round here corners select these two points and round and here the same now here select these two corners and move the shape down now select these two corners and move the shape down and rounded corners okay now let's create a rectangle here to cut off unwanted part select these two parts and the finder exclude ungroup and delete this one and here to round corners okay now let's create let's draw the bitcoin now here you see is very very bad but here it looks awful so object expand okay and these four not this object under this point you need to move here and now it's great and the same here and here and here and here okay now let's create here the rectangle and we need to cut off here unwanted parts select this three part and the rectangle and the finder divide ungroup and unselect these three parts and delete okay now pan2 and we need to draw something sorry the line okay and here free now select this line object font and you need to fix here with direct selection tool okay guys you see the main tools here is pen tool uh ellipse tool rectangle tool and that's all and of course your time okay now select these this shape copy and paste it here like that and make it a little bigger and let it be here now paste copy and paste here and just paste here now the same here with help of pen tool you create the shape and wanted parts you draw the new shapes and here you paste these shapes and here the same view the help of pen tool and the finder delete unwanted parts and and create the new lines for our bitcoin okay guys select the shapes move them here group them ctrl g now move them here okay and bring the bitcoin to front now select the shapes and hold shift and make them a little smaller just play with the shapes okay like these now ungroup these black shapes now delete them and now again here object expand and with help of pen tool you need to cut off here unwanted part okay now select these and these shape finder exclude ungroup and delete these and these great and now here we need to draw the line with help of pen tool fill the stroke and here three okay free now you need to fix here mistakes object export okay and dark selection tool and move their points okay now these shapes and the text and well these shapes and this one we need to send back okay and now here we need to make these shapes more longer select these two points and make like me and as well here okay where you need you need to expand and now let's work here we need to create the shapes of our bitcoin here i think it's the last hard part select the shape and move here make it bigger and group okay a little down and the left like this now the last part here [Music] okay now move the new shapes group them ctrl j and move them here now select this we need to expand okay now as well here object expand and here object expand okay now here for finder unite and for finder unite and now here select black and white gradient okay now you see it looks bad it's okay don't worry now we'll fix it now select uh sorry not selection tool select direct selection tool and here we need to delete unwanted shapes they will be between the circles okay it's okay now it will be looks better and here [Music] so okay let's look now it's great select and for finder and unite select the bitcoin shape and move it to front now you need to fix bad parts what you see in your design you have more time to fix it i fix it like this okay great oh let's look i think here well it's great great now select that shape and let it be this color to see our lines now you can unlock the layer with the photo and now delete the photo now we need this recolor to create here the gradient for the first round select black and white gradient add one more slider here we need this one color and here one more and the last one here and here 180 now select this shape and here black white grated and now select new color group and we i'm going to add here the colors what i need for the gold gradient and you'll find these colors in the file below this video and as well you find the design [Music] okay now select these and now let's add the colors at first i'm going to add the colors and then i'm going to play with the sliders okay now just move a little the sliders it's almost perfect okay like this here 45 and select the text and create outlines now select here the yellow color for these text delete these switchs and select here expand okay now select uh no at first select these three points and make them the same yellow color now select these two and select black color and and white gradient and here this color and here this one move the slider like these and gradient two and move like me okay here great now select these lines black and white gradient and add here this one here this one and here this one okay and now let's play a little with the crazy end with help of gradient tool okay you can play as you like and i am playing as i like okay and the last one i think it will be great like this let's look yes now i like it now select the text copy and paste it send the copy backward move a little right and down and brown color the same here copy and paste this shape send backwards so to the right and little down and brown color the same here copy and paste the shape send backwards to the right and a little down and brown color okay and the same here copy and paste and now select to the right and a little down brown color and backward and the same here copy and paste center backward brown color and now copy and paste these shapes and to backward a little writing down brown color and opacity multiply okay now select this brown shape this background or gradient and here minus 45 and here black one now here this one and the last one here and let's play a little with the sliders okay like this now select this shape copy and paste it uh send the copy backward a little right and down and brown color now select both shapes and set bring them to front okay like this now the same here copy and paste this stroke send backward to the right and down brown color and select both shapes and bring them to front okay now let's look great now select these and their gradient of the first round and let's make like this like this is like these half of gradient tool copy and paste this shape and bring to front now delete this slider add here pin color and here this one and let's play the gradient like this okay now here opacity soft light now copy and paste the soft light shape and here select rectangle to the gradient and create the background and move it to back now here we need gray color and in the pink we need this one okay now move the slider a little select the bitcoin and move it to the center okay now select their line and one of their soft light shapes and bring them to front okay now it's better now i'm going to create the shadow for my bitcoin select the ellipse tool and draw the ellipse like this now select the background and ellipse and move them back select a so sorry only this one and radial gradient here white here green and move the sliders like this opacity multiply and select effect blur gaussian blur and these options here were there was 4.22 and let's play with the gradient like this okay okay and here select the ellipse tool create the ellipse like this and black and white gradient radial and this yellow color here and now opacity screen and make the ellipse like this and turn it and make it bigger and put it here [Music] okay now i can select black and fine gradient and ellipse tool now radial and let's make it closer and one more white color here and brown color here okay and here let's move the slider like this make it more thinner copy and paste it and make it smaller and like round copy and paste this shape and make it smaller select all three shapes move them here now opacity screen okay now select the first symbol symbols plus okay select symbols plus okay select symbols plus okay now delete these symbols and let's work with our bitcoin select the smallest one and spray two and spray like me all like you want okay now select this one and spray like this okay and the biggest one sorry at first one more time the smallest one and now the biggest one okay like this i think this way will be pretty and i think you can just select this highlight copy and paste it and put it here well guys our bitcoin is ready well guys it was a hard tutorial but we did it if you decide to make this tutorial i'll be pleased if you share with me on my instagram account it was mostly process tutorial so if you like my tutorial please give me a like and subscribe and see you in the next 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Length: 57min 36sec (3456 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 12 2021