ILLUSTRATOR LIVE DRAWING TRICKS *MIND BLOWING*

today beginner and advanced techniques which you can use when using the livelong function which is really awesome in Adobe Illustrator what is that people welcome back to Satori graphics then graph design content right here on YouTube so today we're going to start with the beginner techniques when using the live drawing method in Adobe Illustrator we first need to make an artboard and I'm actually going to use a square one the measurements being 1200 pixels squared stay tuned throughout today's video for the entire tutorial to soak up all of the techniques and the skills for use in the live drawing method press M for the rectangle tool and then click once on your outboards we want to make a square slightly bigger than the canvas itself so I'm going to add 50 pixels onto my already 1200 pixel size artboards we just want the square to be a stroke with no fill to align it perfectly change the align settings to fit the artboard and then align the square horizontally and vertically now press command R on a Mac or ctrl R on a PC to open up your rulers and then bring down a guide exactly halfway down so in my case here 600 pixels along the outboards once you have two guides like you can see on the screen now press P for the pen tool and then draw a line like so and this is going to act as a guide increase the stroke weight and then we can change the stroke style to suggest a direction that is pointing which will become more clearer later click on one side of the stroke to change the direction using the pencil now we need the layers window open so we can perform the live drawing function using illustrator click this icon here which will select every single layer on your document and then come up to the effects distort and transform and transform option if we choose to reflect our shape on the x-axis and choose one copy we can preview the final outcome now hide the guide layer that we just made and now you're gonna find that whatever you drew on one section will be mirrored over onto the opposite side now this is pretty neat but there's a lot more to come in today's video to quickly finish the beginner section of the live drawing function instead of just using one coffee we can choose to make three copies and also choose 90 degrees on both the Y and the x-axis by selecting the preview button we can now see how the reflection will turn out when using the live during method again hide the layer and begin your drawing process you can use the brush tool you can use the pen tool and even the shape tools everything will be copied and reflected around like so so for the advance technique let's first grab the pencil and draw a vertical line by holding down shift again using the align tool and keeping the alignment related to the artboard align it vertically and horizontally this is quite an advanced technique but follow along and you should be able to perform it for yourself we're going to transform this line here but in the transform window make two copies and set the degrees to 300 degrees checking the preview box we can now see the eye board is split into six different sections in the layers window create a new layer and then lock it down and hide the original layer by clicking the icons select the new layer and access the pen tool by pressing P and through another vertical line like before I line it perfectly on your artboards now copy this line command or ctrl C and then paste a duplicate already with the top width command or ctrl F we're now going to rotate that duplicate by 90 degrees Syrena have two perfectly centered lines on our board make the original layer visible again in the layers window and then press B for the brush tool the mark I'm going to make now is just a guide like we did in the beginner section so it doesn't matter if it looks good or bad make sure to highlight this layer in the layers window and then go back to the transform window under the effect section we are now reflect this over by one copy onto the x-axis and then here okay with the same layer selected go back into the transform window and click apply new effect this time we're going to generate two copies and we gonna use 120 degrees and you should end up with something like this but again remember this is just a guide now finally press P for the pen tool and draw an area that covers 120 degrees ie two sections of the artboards and you must be really precise of your path making sure it's on the lines properly make sure the layer that we just created is at the very top of all layers in this group in the play a clipping mask like so now anything you draw in the top right section where the clipping mask exists will be reflected around the entire design but the clipping mask actually keeps everything neat and tidy and stay tuned as I'm going to show you one final addition in today's tutorial with the same format as before I'm using a clipping mask open the brushes menu here and then create a new brush I'm gonna use a calligraphy brush and I'm gonna make the stroke quite large now when I go ahead and make my design you will see how neat this looks the clipping mask function of the live drawing technique really helps to make some cool designs if you make a mistake just press command or control Z and if you didn't fully understand the advanced technique in today's video just go back and watch it again step-by-step recreating it for yourself as you go it's not too difficult once you go over a few times so yeah I had lots of fun making designs with this technique and a lot of them I used the calligraphy brushes there is one final point that you need to take into account however once you have a design you notice that the only part that is selected is the clipping mask section so corrupt object and expand and you design will now be vectorized around the entire 360 degrees of your artboard so there was my tutorial for beginner and advanced techniques using the life to learn function if you enjoyed it and found it 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Id: NcOPo1LrgD0

Length: 10min 6sec (606 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 13 2018