Illustrator Tutorial - How to design a Christmas tree

hello everyone welcome to another dobby illustrator tutorial this is andrew from the GUI this tutorial i would like to show you how to design this Christmas background okay first create a new file so change the profile to print and the size to a4 now click on this landscape button and change the width to 3 140 millimeters and change the color mode to RGB and click OK the next thing what we need is a dark blue background so please choose a rectangle tool and enable smart guides so change the color none for a stroke and for the filter blue color you okay so next choose the polygon tool and click on your artboard and set the sides to 3 and click OK to know scale this Rubik change the color to none for fill and white stroke color now choose the free transform tool scale this little bit so this is form for your Christmas tree so now lock this two layers and now choose ellipse tool and create small circle with white fill color now duplicate this now choose the blend tool and click further on this talk and second on this go to objects blend and click on blend options so now enable the preview and click on specified steps so we need six steps you and click okay okay I'm going back to the blend options and change the steps to five okay now go again to blend and expand this so next go to effects and choose R and okay and now expand this click on expand appearance so now choose the free transform tool and rotate this to 90 degree now we need to copy from this you can make a copy by holding the Alt key drag this and hold down the shift key now go to the transform panel and click on flip horizontal so next select these two groups and by the free transform tool click on respective distort scale this little bit okay so now first select this group now move this and you can see this little blue dots so drag this on this place and now you can rotate this so first move this like this and now you can rotate it and now click again on free transform and scale this so make the same with the other group first selected now move this here now rotate it scale and snow move this you you so okay please lock this to groups now we'll choose the pen tool and change the color to white stroke none fill and now go and start here you you you you you you you so okay so now please make this layer invisible and now you can go make some Corrections so choose the direct selection tool and now you can first you can move this so okay next choose the scale tool and now hold down the ctrl key and click on this anchor point and now you can scariest when you hold down the control key so you can scale only this one handle and without your key you can scale both handles you you you you you so next I'm going to modify my stroke so you can change the stroke white and now you can go to this variable with profile and change this to this profile or you can create a brush so choose the ellipse tool create an ellipse with none stroke color and white fill so select these two points and now choose the schedule scale this so okay and now drag this in your brushes panel or you can click on this button to a new brush or you can go to the brush panel options and click on new brush so please choose add brush click ok and change the polarization method to thins and click ok so this is zero brush this shape you can delete it and now select this and now click on this new brush and now you can change through quite okay you so next we need the second copy of this shape so drag this down to the new layers button and now first move this and change the stroke white now choose the direct election tool and move this points make it different you you you you you and we need one copy more from this first shape and put this again you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you so next what I'm going to do is create a new brush so please choose the ellipse tool and create a circle with leg fill color and now create new brush click on this button and this time choose scatter brush click OK now change the size random spacing to random and scattered random and change the correlation method to tins and first click OK so you can delete this brush now choose a paint brush tool and create a line so now you can change first the color to white and now make a double click on the scatter brush and change this like this you you you let's okay and click on the plateau strokes so first change this through quite a little bit so now make a copy from this first Christmas tree and now apply your new brush change the stroke white so you can also change the color to you and change the opacity make a new cup here change this to white and now change the size tool you make a new copy you so next make a copy from the other layers and next what we need to do is duplicate your scatter brush first deselect all no click and drag this down to a new brushes button and now select this line click on this brush the size very small and they'll make a double click on this brush and change only will change only the skater click OK light throgs and make a copy from this shape and apply a new brush you you you you so delete this and now collect this Christmas tree in new layer go and select fastest layers now go to less pedal options and click on collect a new layer and lock this so in the next few minutes I'm going to create some shapes and then convert these shapes into symbols and I start with the ellipse tool create a new ellipse change the color none for the stroke and for the fill apply a gradient so next change the color both colors into white changes to RGB and apply white and go to this gradient slider and change the opacity to zero and change the type to radio to move this little bit and now make some copies hold down the Alt key and you can make a copy so we need three copies so first I start with this shape go to symbols and fly on this button your symbol and call it okay one so now the leg this and change the type to linear now choose the gradient tool and change this little bit okay so this is your second symbol go to symbols and click on new symbol you and now we need this move this over the other circle and now scale this you select both shapes and click on this button and this you you now duplicate this layer and rotate this to 90 degree and now select these two shapes so that's okay so please group this select this new shapes and collect it to new layer so now select this group and change the blending mode to screen and last click this three shapes and make a copy hold down the Alt key and make a copy and next select only the shape and this make a copy and now scale it a little bit smaller and rotate this to 45 degree you you you you okay now I'm going to convert this into symbols so select this and create a new symbol you you you you so we have four new symbols so please make this shape sun visible only this time move here so now I'm going to draw with the symbols so create a new layer and now choose this symbol sprayer tool and now you can start with your new symbols so I start the simple star so create some stars now you can choose for example this size Atul so when you click on your stars you can make it bigger or when you hold down the Alt key and click you can scale the star smaller so now look this and start again with the other star and choose again the sides are to where and you can choose drift a tool and you can move your stars so next lock this layer and choose again the symbol sprayer tool so this time choose December and create some okay's and now choose again the size a tool and make this bacon next choose this screener tool you and create a little bit more so this time choose the size at will and make this very small choose again the sprayer tool and this time I use this so this time choose this symbol spinner tool and you can rotate this til next choose the size at will and make this very weekend and choose again the screen a tool you you you and draw new symbols with the same rush the same symbol sorry and change this to very small let's rotate it a little bit you so if you would like to change the symbols so first unlock this and now I like to change this dot so first select this layer the symbol set now you can choose your tool and you can change this you so now I need a big symbol of this first symbol you you so with this and now choose the size a tool into screen at will okay so now go back to your background and now I'm going to change this rectangle this blue color to a gradient so first apply is back in white gradient now change the color so dark blue and this color to another blue let's okay and now change the type to radio choose the gradient tool and change this you you you you you you so if you like you can apply some snowflakes you so create a new layer and now I use this snowflake convert this know flag to a brush so I choose scatter brush click okay you change this tints and change this random click ok so delete this shape and now choose the paintbrush tool and create a line with white color slide through color we can double click on this brush you you you you you you so okay let's strokes delete this and start with one point make some big snowflakes change the opposite here you while you can select this group and change the opposite ear you you you you so last I'm going to apply a clipping mask so create a new sorry first group these three layers collect this in the new layer and now create a new rectangle or you can copy this first rectangle make a copy and drag this up on make it two forward and now to select all select this group and now click on this button make release clipping mask so you can see all these shapes are inside your clipping mask that's it I'm finished thanks for watching if you liked this tutorial please press thumbs up and share it with your friends if you want to see more of my tutorials please subscribe my channel hope to see you soon you

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Length: 40min 55sec (2455 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 21 2016