10 MORE Easy Things to Draw in Adobe Illustrator Graphic Design Course

1. Learn how to create 10 MORE Easy Things!: Hi, I'm in blacker and I'm a graphic designer and illustrator. I've been a teacher here on Skillshare for a few years. And you also might know me from YouTube. I have a channel over there where I teach short little tutorials about Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. And I also run a few Facebook groups where I helped graphic designers with any problems that might come up today in this class, I'm going to teach you how to draw ten more easy things in Adobe Illustrator. So, yes, there's actually another class that I'm already teaching about how to create TIN, easy things that you can go check out. That one is a little bit easier than this class. But both classes are really meant to give you more comfortable with Illustrator in their boat for beginners. But if you're an intermediate or advanced user, I can almost guarantee you learn something in this class. Alright, let's get started. 2. A Few Small Things to Know: I want to go over a few small things before we start the class. First, I usually refer to the tools and the toolbar by the keyboard shortcut that you can jump to them by. If I say grab your a tool, all you have to do is just hit a on your keyboard. Now when I do that, I'll also mention the actual name of the tool, which in that case as the direct selection tool. And I'll show you where to find it in the toolbar. But I want you to really get used to using keyboard shortcuts because that's how you can pick up speed and Adobe Illustrator. Also, if I say, let's delete that, I'm sure it's probably obvious to some of you, but just hit the delete key on your keyboard in order to delete it. The last thing I wanted to mention is the reviews. Now at some point in this class you're going to be asked to give a review. And of course you'll want to wait till you know whether this is going to be a good class or not. But if it is, please leave me a review. Reviews helped me so much. They help other students sees a class. They helped me to know what to improve and they also helped me to know if I'm doing a good job or not. I just wanted to throw that in there anyway onto the class. 3. Exercise Files Location and Downloading: First off, you'll want to download the exercise files so you can follow along. If you scroll down underneath the video, you can see right here these four tabs here under projects and resources, you'll be able to see the resources are exercise files right here. Now they won't look like this because this is actually one of my other videos. But you'll have everything you need right here under the Resources folder. The ones for this class will be in a zip folder. Once you've downloaded them, you'll see them come into your downloads folder. If you're on a Mac, you can find that quickly on your finder by hitting Option Command L. If you're on a PC and I'll probably be over here somewhere in your favorites. To open a zip file, all you have to do is on a Mac, double-click it, and it'll create a little folder that has files inside on a PC. All you need to do is right-click the file and then choose extract or Extract all. And that will give you a similar result. Another folder with some files inside. In this folder we have a completed file of what you'll learn in this class. And that way you can check your work against mine or see how I did something if you're struggling with that part. There's also a starting color palette here, which will add to and then also keyboard shortcuts. And this is a reference you can print out to reference during class. 4. Setting Up Your Workspace + Zoom Settings: If you watched my first ten easy things class, the Illustrator setup for that class is exactly the same as this one. If you still have that workspace saved, you can just go ahead and choose that one and skip this entire lesson. But if not, I'll show you how to do that now. All right, let's go ahead and open Illustrator. We'll come over here to create new. Then I'm going to choose Print. And then later we'll come over here to create so that we can get the same starting point. I'll come up here to Window and then workspace, and then we'll choose Essentials Classic. Then go ahead and come up to Window Workspace again, and then Reset Essentials Classic. Now your workspace should look a lot like mine, except it might be the dark settings. If you want to use the light setting like me, you can come out to Illustrator preferences. And then General, if you're on a Windows system, this will probably be under Edit, Edit Preferences. Now I'll come down here to the user interface and here's your brightness. I know a lot of people like the dark setting and that's totally fine. There's no difference. This is just my preference to make it light. And now we'll come down and press OK. Ok, So now we all have a similar look for our Illustrator interface. I'm gonna show you how to customize this. You can get to the panels, you need a little easier. These tools over here are your toolbar. And I like to pull these out so that they sit right here. It gives me a little extra space at the bottom. Do that. You just grabbed the top right up here and then just pull like this. Then I just put them back in the same place. Up here is your control panel. Now if you're not seeing your control panel for some reason during the lesson, you'll want to come up here to Window control right here. And all of these panels over here are also available in window. First, I will open this little fly out. So I'm gonna click these two little arrows to expand the panels. First you'll see color and color guide, and I like these right up here in the upper right. I'm going to click in this blank area over here to just pull this out like this. And then I'll click on this hop. Instead it right up there. You can see when you hover over different parts that you'll get some blue areas. And that shows you that it's going to snap in-between those places. We went to come up here to the very top, you'll see you get a rectangle around everything. But if you move up a little higher, you'll get just a line. When will we see that line will just release that way. It'll snap up to the upper right. Okay, next, I also want my swatches to be over here. I'm going to click in the blank area, pull it out. Then I'll click on this top here, hover under color until I get the blue bar and then just release. Now for this next set, the stroke gradient and transparency. I actually want transparency to be separate. I'm going to click right on the word and pull this one out and that'll separate it from its little group. Then I'll get right on the top and pull it right underneath swatches like this. I want my art boards to be right underneath transparency. I need to pull it out of this group so I'll get right on the word itself and they're just click and drag. Come up here to the top and hover right underneath transparency, underneath art boards. I like transparency align and Pathfinder. I'm going to come up here to Window and I can choose any one of those. I'm going to choose a line right here. It'll open this little group that has all three of them in it. I want that whole group underneath art boards. So I'll come up here to the very top. I'll click and then hover until I get the line and release. Now, I don't use properties are libraries very much. I'm going to get in this area of the group and just pull it out. And then I'll just click on the X to get rid of these. If you want to bring them back, you can, of course, just go to Window and find them here. Properties is right here. Okay, so the right side of our panel is all set up the way I want. Now, I'm going to work on the left side. I like my character and paragraph to be up here, so I'm going to go to Window. And then these are a little hidden. You'll have to go to type and then you can just choose character or paragraph. And it'll open that set. I'll click up here on the very top, and then I'll hover at the top of this column. Stroke is already exactly where I want it so that it's perfect. And then I'm going to open my links. I'll go to Window and links. These, I'll put it right underneath my stroke. Next, I want to separate my appearance and graphic styles. I'll go ahead and click on graphic styles and pull it out. And then I'm just going to put it right above the appearance. Now, I have layers and Asset Export down here, and I don't want either one of those to be in the column. I'll click here and just drag it out, and then I'll click the little X. Now I do use layers sometimes, but not that often. When I need those, I just hit F7 on my keyboard and it brings them up and then I can hit F7 to toggle them off. My Illustrator setup is exactly how I want it. Now I need to save my workspace. We'll go to Window workspace. And I'll choose a new workspace. And I'll call my new workspace a. Now I already have a workspace named a, so I'm just going to override it by hitting okay? Now as you're working, you might accidentally pull some things out like this. You might be moving things around. And when that happens, it's hard to remember where they were. And that's why workspaces are so great. To reset everything, we can just come up to Window Workspace and then choose our workspace. Then we can go back to workspace and reset our workspace. And it'll put everything exactly back where it was. The other thing is a Zoom settings. When I hit Z on my keyboard, the way I like to zoom is to draw a box around whatever I went to see better. Let's say it's this right here. That'll fill my screen than the normal way that everyone else likes to Zoom is with the animated zoom. To get to that you can hit Command K or control K on your keyboard. That'll bring up your preferences. Another way to get to that as go to Illustrator preferences on a Mac or edit. And it'll be, I think down here somewhere on a PC. Once you're in preferences, you can come down here to the performance. And you can see that animated zoom on my system has been unchecked. If you want your Illustrator to act like mine, you can also uncheck yours, but if you'd like the animated zoom, you can check it. So here's what the difference is. If I'm on my zoom tool and I want to see maybe the letter C a little better. I click on the sea and zoom in by dragging to the right, or I drag to the left to zoom out. 5. Setting up the File: I'm here in Adobe Illustrator and I'm gonna come right over here to New File. I'm going to choose print up here at the top. And then over here I'm going to change it to pixels. And I've got my art boards to be 500 by 500. And I went ten of them because we're going to be drawing ten different objects. I want my color mode to be RGB. Now when I choose this, I'm gonna get this error message. The reason for that is because for print usually want to CMYK here. But if you're just going to be printing this at home on a home printer, RGB is fine and RGB is also better for anything that you upload to the web. If you want to make a Facebook cover page or something like that, RGB is best. And now we'll create, now for my art boards, I want them to be five columns and two rows. So I'm gonna come over here to my art boards panel. And by the way, all these panels can be found under Window. So they'll all be under here. Artboards is right here. I'm just going to come to the fly-out and choose rearrange all art boards. I want five rows and 20 pixels between is fine and my layout, I'm gonna choose this first one. So it'll go across first. We'll say, okay, now to move around the art board, I can just hit Spacebar and click and drag to pull the artboard around and get to a different location. I'm going to hit Z to get my zoom tool. And I'm just going to draw a box around this first art board. Now before we get too much further, let's go over to the swatches. I'm just gonna go to the fly out and go to Select All Unused. That'll select all the current swatches and you can just delete those. Will delete them and say Yes. Now if you start a new document, all your swatches, we'll be back. So don't worry that they're gone. Next, we're going to load that swatch palette from the exercise files. So I'm going to go to the fly-out and choose Open Swatch Library and other library. Then I'll navigate to my downloads on a Mac, you can just hit Option Command L. And if you're on a PC, it's probably going to be over here in your favorite somewhere. I'll go into my exercise files and I'm going to choose color palette dot ASE. And I'll open that. This will bring up our color palette. And I'm just going to click right here on Color Group one. And doing that will add it to our swatches. So we can see all our colors here in this color group underneath our swatches panel. And I'll just go ahead and close the color palette. 6. Cloud: Now we're ready to create our shapes, will create each simple shape, and then it'll show you a few ways to add interests, because these simple shapes can sometimes look a little plane or boring without something a little extra. The first thing we're going to create is a cloud. I'm going to hit L on my keyboard. That will get me to the Ellipse tool, which is right over here. It's underneath the rectangle tool actually. Now I'm going to hold shift and click and drag to create a circle. Then I'll hit D on my keyboard to get a white fill and black outline. The reason I'm doing that is because sometimes you won't have a fill or a stroke, so you might not see it at all. So I wanted to make sure you had the same fill and stroke that I do. And then I'm gonna hit V to get my selection tool right up here. I'm gonna click and drag holding Option or Alt, and that'll make a copy. So when I release, I'll have two of them. I want you to make a few different circles to form my cloud shape. I like the ones at the bottom of the cloud shape to be smaller. To make it smaller, I'm gonna get right on a corner like this. Now if you're not seeing this bounding box, you can go to View Show Bounding Box. Mine says hide because it's already turned on, but yours would be right here too. Then we want to get right on the edge, hold Shift and Option or Alt, and just drag in shift or resize proportionally. And Option or Alt will resize from the center. I'm going to make it a little smaller still, I'm just holding shift this time. Now I'll click on this one and hold Option or Alt to bring it over here. And then I'll grab this one. This is all with my selection tool up here. Hold Option or Alt to make a copy over here. Then maybe one more of these bigger ones. And I'll fill in the spaces with some bigger circles. Then on top I want to make a bigger circle. So I'm gonna hold Shift and Option or Alt. And just make it about like that. Maybe I'll pull it over here and I'll hold Option or Alt. To make this last one. We have a bunch of circles that form our cloud shape. Maybe I'll move this up a little bit. I'm going to select everything by just drawing a box around it with my selection tool. Now we're gonna combine these to form one piece instead of all the circles. But I think it's a good idea to keep your original drawings off to the side. I went to hold Option or Alt. And I'm going to click and drag to make a copy over here off of the art board. It's nice to keep your original pieces and that way if you wanted to change something, it's easy to do. Once we combine these, they won't be easy to change anymore. Okay, so I'm gonna select all of these and then I'm gonna hit Shift M on my keyboard. Shift M is going to bring us to the shape builder tool. And you can see a little video of how it works and it's funny that they drew Cloud two. Now the way this tool works, you can click and drag across all the pieces that you want to connect. But I'm going to show you another way because we have so many pieces that might take awhile. I'm gonna hold shift and just draw a box around this. And it will combine all of them. Alright, so I'm gonna click on my Cloud and I'm gonna make it a little bit bigger by holding Shift and dragging a corner. I'm just going to center it up in the space. Then I'm gonna come over here to my swatches and I'm going to choose the very light blue kind of grayish color. We'll click on that one and then I'll hit X to bring my stroke to the friend is kind of activates it. And I'm gonna hit the question mark or slash to get rid of the stroke. So if we click off to the side, you can see our cloud shape. Now to add some interests to this, I'm going to add a little shadow right underneath it. So to do that, I'm going to make two copies and put them right on top. Then we'll cut away part of it and you'll be left with a shadow. So let's click our Cloud. I'll copy with command C or control C. Paste in front with Command F or Control F, and then paste in front again Command F or Control F. So you have three copies and they're right on top of each other. I'm going to just click this one and offset it a little bit. I'll hit E on my keyboard to get my free transform, which is this right over here. And I'm just going to kind of offset this. If we get right on the centerpiece and then hold Option or Alt, we get kind of offset that can be interesting. And let's just color this something different. So I'll hit X to get my fill in front over here. And then I'm just going to make it yellow so we can see what we're doing. Nami, we're gonna hit L on my keyboard and draw a little piece to fill out this shape over here. I'll click and drag. I'm holding Shift. Now I'll select both pieces by holding Shift and clicking both. I'll get back on my Shape Builder Tool over here and I'm going to connect those pieces by just dragging across both. Now I'll hit V to get my selection tool backup. So I'll move this around until I have a solid shape underneath. It's okay if it crosses over, I just think it looks a little nicer if it doesn't. Now, I want to get just this shape for the shadow. I'm going to click the yellow. I'll hold Shift and I'll click the next piece down. We still have the full Cloud underneath these two pieces. Then I'm going to use that same shape builder tool. So Shift M on your keyboard. Then I'm going to delete parts of it by holding Option or Alt and just dragging through the parts I don't want. Now I'm left with this little shape under here. Alright, so now we have our full cloud shape and we have a shadow. Let's make the shadow a little darker color. I'll hit V on my keyboard and select just that piece. And then I'm gonna come over here and choose the light blue. Now we have a little gray cloud that has a little bit of interests because of the shadow. Okay, so let's save our file. I'm gonna hit Shift Command S. That's Shift Control S on a PC. And I'm going to create a new folder for our designs to keep them nice and organized. So I'll come down here to New Folder on a PC, you can just hit Shift Control in. That should make a new folder right here in this window. And I'm putting this on my desktop on a Mac, that shift command. And if you want to do it that way, I'm just going to call my folder ten. Easy things will create it, and I'll also call the file to and easy things. Now your format is going to be Adobe Illustrator and you don't need to change this, so just leave it as AI will save. All of these things are ok. So I'll say OK. Next I'll hit my spacebar to click and drag over to the next art board. 7. Sun: Now we're going to draw a sun to do this. I'm going to hit L on my keyboard. That'll give me the Ellipse Tool. And I'll just click and drag a circle right in the middle of my art board. And I'm holding shift to get a perfect circle. I'll hit V and I'll move it up to just center it. And of course, I want this to be a yellow color, so I'll come over here and choose yellow from my color palette. Now furthest sun rays, I'm gonna go ahead and make a stroke. So I'm going to click on the stroke and my appearance right down here. As I said before, all of those are available right up here under Window. And I'm going to click on the Stroke part right here. My stroke, I want it to be orange. I'll click that and then I'll come down here and increase the stroke. I want to make it 14. Now we'll come up here to my Stroke panel and I'm gonna make some changes. So this looks like sun rays. I'm gonna double-click the word to get the most options. You can just keep double-clicking the word stroke and you'll eventually end up with this. I want to make it a dashed line. So you can see that we're starting to have some sunrise now, which is pretty awesome. We can change the dash and gap to get a different look. If we want them really spread out, we can increase that dash. If we want to close together, we can decrease it. We can also have the dash stay the same, but then have the gap increase or decrease. I'm highlighting this and using my up and down arrow keys or holding Shift and using my up and down to make it jump even further. I think I'm going to keep it at 1113 and I want my race to be a little bit longer. So I'm going to do the same thing, highlight this area in the stroke weight, and then hold Shift using my up and down arrow keys to make those rays a lot longer. Now as you can see, half of the stroke is coming inside our sun and we don't want that. So I'm going to click on my appearance. I'm gonna move this over a little bit and I'm going to come over here. It is a blank area of the stroke and click and drag it so it goes underneath that fill. Now that fill area is in front of the orange strokes and it's covering it up. And if we wanted to change our stroke, we can just get back in here, go to our stroke, and increase it even more. If we want to change our dash and gap, we can always change this as long as we leave it unexpanded. Now I want to show you something. If you hit Command Y or Control Y on your keyboard, you still have just a circle. You can't see those rays anymore. Let's hit Command Y or Control Y to get back. If you wanted to actually modify and maybe make this one longer, you would need to expand. So you go up here to object expand appearance. And let's just do that. I'm going to undo here in a second to show you what it does. What's happened is it's split those two pieces apart. Now if we go ahead and expand one more time, we do the fill and the stroke. You can see now we are able to actually modify those little pieces separately. I'm just going to undo all that. I just wanted to show you that because that is an option. But if you decide to do that, go ahead and make a copy off to the side. That way you still have your stroke settings and as easy to change. Okay, Now I'm going to add a little shadow to this too, in a similar way that we did this one. I'm going to make two more copies of this circle. Then I'll cut part of it out. So I'm gonna copy, I'll click off over here, and then I'll paste in front with Command F or Control F. Now it doesn't really matter that we have this stroke on here, but I definitely don't need it. So I'm gonna click and drag that to the trash. It's not going to change our appearance because the one underneath still has it. But now I just have a circle with yellow inside. And I'm gonna copy that and paste in front again. So now we have three copies, two that are yellow circles, and one in the very back that has a yellow circle with this stroke on it. I'm just going to grab that yellow circle with my selection tool. The top one, I'll change the color so you can see what's going on. I'll hit X to get my bill in front and I'll change it to this green color. I'm gonna hold shift and select the one just underneath it. And then I'll hit Shift M to get my Shape Builder back right over here. And I'm going to hold Option or Alt and just dragging through the part I don't want. So now I'm left with this little piece. I'll hit V to select it. Then I'm gonna come over here and choose the orange color. This added just a little more depth to our Sun. It made it look a little bit more interesting. Just then I hit command minus or Control minus to zoom out. All right, let's move on to the third panel. I'll hit Z and just draw a box around that one. And then I'll use my space bar to center it up on my screen. 8. Apple: For the next design, I'm going to draw an apple. I'm gonna hit L on my keyboard. I'll go ahead and get this red color. Now. I'm just going to click and drag a big circle. I'm holding Shift to constrain proportions. And then I'm going to take this circle. I'll hold Option or Alt, and that'll make a copy and just drag it down here. And so this is going to be 1.5 of our Apple. I'm gonna hit V to get back on my selection tool. I'm going to select both pieces and then I'll hit Shift M for the shape builder. And I'm going to draw across both of them. Now I want this piece to kind of round out down here. I'm going to hit P and then the minus key to get to my Delete Anchor Point tool, I'm just going to click on that one and click on that one. And that leaves us with more of what you would expect for an apple. I'm gonna hit a on my keyboard to get to my direct selection right up here. I'm just going to kind of pull this until it's more rounded over here. I can also hit Shift S to get to my smooth tool that's underneath your pencil tool. And with the smooth tool, we can just kind of go over that part few times and smooth it out. All right, I think this looks really nice. I'm gonna hit V to get back on my selection tool and just move this down a little bit. And then I'm gonna hit O to get my Reflect tool. That one is right underneath your Rotate tool. I think I went this to reflect right along this axis. So I'm going to put it down here. I'll hold Option or Alt and click. I went to reflect along the vertical axis. And then I'm going to hit Copy. And now you can really start to see our Apple coming together. Then I'll hit V to get all my selection tool and just select both. And then hit Shift M to get back on my shape builder, hold Shift and just draw a box around everything. Then I'll hit V to center it up in this space. Now I'm going to hit a to select this piece, hold shift and select this one. Then you get this little white dot was blue inside and that is a corner widget. So we can just select that and then pull this in a little bit too round it. And since we had both selected at rounded both of them. Now this is looking at a little wide, so I'm going to select it with my V tool, this one right up here, the selection tool, I'm going to get right on this handle and hold Option or Alt to bring it in. Option or Alt resizes from the center. This is looking pretty nice. Now I'm going to make a little stem and a leaf. So to do that, I'll hit P on my keyboard. And that'll give me the pen tool. And I'm just going to click up here and then click and drag to make a nice little stem shape. Now since we have the red fill, it's kind of filling it in a weird way. I'm going to hit Shift X. Shift X will switch your fill to a stroke. Then I'm gonna hit V to get back to my selection tool, I'll hit Z to zoom in, and now I'll hit X to bring my stroke to the front. I'm willing to make this brown. Now I'll hit Shift W. Shift W is the width tool and it's right over here. And the way they use this is to find a point, an anchor point, and then click and drag. And I'm also going to click and drag this on a little bit. You can also add anchor points here in the middle. But if you do that, it can get pretty crazy. So I tried to just stick to the anchor points that already exist. So I'm gonna get back on my selection tool. I'll move this up a little bit and I'm going to send this behind the Apple so we can hit Shift Command left bracket or Shift Control Left bracket. You can also come up here to object, arrange and send to back. Now I'm gonna do that same process to create our leaf. So I'll hit P to get on my Pen tool, I'll click right here and just click and drag. Then click to make a point. I'm going to make this green. So I'll come over here to my swatches and choose the green color. Now I'll hit Shift W to get to my width tool. I'm going to start right on this anchor point and click and drag. Now these two points at the ends probably will look like they're sharp point, but I doubt that they are. Let's zoom in really close. I'll hit Z on my keyboard. Zoom in there and yes, we need to actually make those points. So Shift W to get back on my width tool. I'm going to click and drag and pull those in all the way to the anchor point. And then I'll use my hand tool to come down here. That's the space bar, and I'll do the same down here. Then I'll command minus or Control minus to get back out, I'm gonna hit V to get my selection tool and I'm just going to bring this down a little further and then I'm going to rotate it. I'll hit R on my keyboard. That will bring me to the Rotate tool right over here. And then I'm going to click right on that anchor point. When I do that, it sits where it's going to rotate from. Right now, it's going to rotate from down here. And then I'll click and drag somewhere else. And it'll rotate up. And this is fine. I think I need to make it a little bit bigger so I'll hit V, grab a corner and hold Shift. And I'll move it a little bit further down. I'm going to command minus or Control minus to zoom out. And now our apple is done, but I still want to add a nice little shadow. Oh, no, it looks like this one got changed at some point. I'm a sedan that by accident, so I'll click it. I'll hit X to bring that to the front and change it back to orange. Now I'm going to add a shadow to this and maybe a highlight right over here. So I'm going to click the apple shape copy, and then I'll paste in front with Command F or Control F. You have to write on top of each other. And then I actually want the top part of this shadow to be kind of a big circle like what we have over here. So I'm gonna hit L on my keyboard. That'll give me the ellipse tool. I'm going to start all the way up here. I went to come right down to about there. Okay. I have my biggest circle and what's showing now this little piece right over here is going to be our shadow. I'll hit V to get back on my selection tool. I'll hold Shift and grab that apple to. I've got the top copy of the apple and the circle. I'm gonna hit Shift M to get back to the shape builder tool. And I'll hold Option or Alt and drag across these two pieces. And now I'm left with just the shadow on the apple. I don't have a darker red swatch, but that's what color I want to make it. So I'm gonna show you how to add a swatch. I usually start with a color that's closest to what I want. And then I create a new swatch. I'm going to drag these sliders to get a darker red tone. This looks pretty good. And I'll say, Okay, you can see it's added it right down here, and then just click the darker swatch. Now I have noticed here in Illustrator 2022 that sometimes that doesn't work. So if you're having trouble or re-coloring part of your artwork for some reason, just save your work and then reopen it and that should fix the problem. Now if you think this is too dark, you still have the red underneath. I'm going to undo. We can change the opacity here to get a lighter color. I'm gonna come up here to opacity and changes as 70. Now if you're not saying this panel, come up here to Window and it's the control panel right here. This is looking really nice. So let's add a highlight now. Now you probably notice I just clicked on accident and drag this a little bit. You can always hit Command Z or Control Z to undo the last thing you did. And then you can keep undoing things. If you just keep hitting Command Z or Control Z, you can do it like ten times in a row to get back a few steps. Alright, let's select the apple. I'm going to copy and paste in front with Command F or Control F. And then I'm just going to hit Shift and Option or Alt and resize this and make it smaller. Now, it's not lined up exactly, but it doesn't really matter. But I could've done like an offset path to make it perfect, but I don't really need perfect right now. The fact that it's not perfect isn't a problem. I'm going to choose white. I'm going to hit Shift X to change my fill to a stroke. I'm going to increase my stroke by quite a lot. I'll hit Z on my keyboard to zoom in here. Now I only really want this little piece right up here. I'm gonna get on my a tool, the direct selection. I'm going to click off first and then come back and click right on that path. And now I only have this little section selected. So I'm gonna cut it with Command S or Control X. Then I'm just gonna hit Delete on my keyboard and I'll paste in front with Command F or Control F. Now I'm just going to use my arrow keys to move this over and down a little bit. I want my stroke to be rounded. So I'm gonna get back in my Stroke panel and I'll choose cap and corner. I'm gonna go ahead and just select this anchor point and use my arrow keys to move it over a little bit. And this highlight is a little too strong. So I'm gonna come up to the opacity and just knock it down to 70%. So adding these little details, I'm really makes a big difference. I'm gonna hide those with Command Z or Control Z. You can see how it does is not quite as nice. Okay, so I'll unhide with Option Command three or Alt Control D on PC. And you can see that adding these two little things really gives it more depth and more interest. I'm going to zoom out with Command minus or Control minus and move over to the fourth art board. And let's just say if with Command S or Control S. 9. Shamrock: The fourth thing we're going to draw is a Shamrock. To do this, we're going to start out with hearts. Then we're going to kind of piece them together. So I'm gonna hit M on my keyboard to get to my rectangle tool right over here. I'm gonna hold shift and draw a rectangle. And of course I went my Shamrock to be green, so I'll get my fill in front by hitting X to toggle my fill to the front. And then I'm going to click my green color. Now I'm going to rotate this, so I'll hit R on my keyboard to get to my rotate tool. And I'll click and drag and hold shift. It's like a diamond. Now I'll hit P on my keyboard to get to my pen tool. And I'm going to hold Option or Alt, get right on that line and then hold shift to round it out like a Caffa by heart. And I'm back on my V tool this way and the selection tool, to just center this a little better. I'm going to reflect this. So to do that, I'll hit O on my keyboard, which will give me that reflect right over here. And I'm going to set my anchor right down here at the bottom. I'll also hold Option or Alt first before clicking there. And that will bring up my reflect dialogue box. We want a vertical reflect and we want to copy it. I'll go ahead and hit Copy. And now we have the first leaf of our clover. So I'm going to select both of these with my selection tool. And there are two ways we can combine these, Vs with the shape builder tool. But I also wanted to show you the Pathfinder. It works really similarly to the shape builder. I'm going to choose my first shape mode right over here. It's this one right here. It's called unite. Those two pieces are joined. Now, I'm gonna hold shift and option and make this a little bit smaller. And then I'm going to copy and paste in front with Command F or Control F. And then I'll hit R to get our I rotate tool, I'm going to just click this bottom anchor point and then I'll start dragging until I'm right about down here. And now I'm going to mirror this over here. I'll hit O on my keyboard, which will give me that reflect. I'll hold Option or Alt and click right in the middle and then make a copy. Okay, So we're pretty close. I don't want this much space between these though. So I'll click both of these and just move them up a little bit with my arrow keys. And I actually think this should be rotated down a little bit more. So I'll hit R on my keyboard. Click right in there to set my anchor point and then move it down a little bit. I'll do the same over here. Okay, This is looking good. We'll probably want to make a copy of this in case we want to adjust this later, hold Option or Alt and bring it right up here. Then we'll select these three and we'll go to Shape mode unite. Now we still need a nice little stem on this. I'm going to hit P on my keyboard and I'm going to click right in the center. Then I'll come down here, maybe about right here. Click and drag. So we need this to be a stroke. This is the same issue we were having before. We have a fill, but it's trying to guess where that other part of the line is. So I'm gonna hit Shift X to switch the fill and stroke. Then I'll come over here in my Stroke panel. I'm just gonna make this a little bit bigger, but I'm also going to make this part wider. I'll hit Escape to get out of the weight. And then I'll hit Shift W. I'll get right on that anchor point and make it a lot thicker down here. And I'm not really liking this angle. I'm gonna get on my a tool, the direct selection, and click right on the anchor point. And we're gonna grab this handle and just pull it up a little bit. This looks really nice. I'm liking this a lot better. Okay, so this is our basic clover. So let's add a little more interests by adding a drop shadow here to this one too. I'm gonna select everything of my Selection tool. I'll copy it and I'll paste in front IF command F or Control F. And now this is just a line down here, so we need to expand it. So it goes all the way out to the end of this to show you what I mean, I'll hit Command Y or Control Y. And you can see that this stem just isn't expanded right now. I'll hit Command Y or Control Y to get back, I still got that same one selected, the one on top. And I'll come up here to object, expand appearance. Now we can see it's been expanded to that whole shape. Now, I'll Pathfinder Unite that. Right now we have two copies, one on top of the other. The underneath one still has that stroke going down the middle and the one on top has been expanded. Now I'm going to make another copy of this. So I'll copy with Command C or Control C and paste in front with Command F or Control S. I'm going to change the color to yellow or something so we can see better. And I'll move this over just a little bit. I'll select the yellow, I'll hold Shift and select that next green one down. And then I'm going to use my Shape Builder tool. So Shift M right over here. Now I went this green part, this green part in this, but I don't want this one. So I'll hold Option or Alt and get rid of those. Sometimes it can be a little hard to tell what you want to keep, but you'll get used to that. I've got some issues right in here and a little bit right here, then I'll probably need to fix. But let's go ahead and make a new swatch that is a little bit darker green. So I'm gonna create a new swatch. If I hold option and command down on a PC that is Control and Alt that you'll need to hold down and then click on the sliders. They will all move and make a dark tonal. I think this one looks pretty good, so I'll say, Okay, and it's added it right over here in my swatches. Okay, Let's zoom in to fix these pieces. I'm hitting Z on my keyboard. And to fix this one, I'll hit a to get my direct selection tool. I'll get right on this point. I'm going to bring it down right to this crease. And then I'll click this one. And I'm just going to use my corner widget to round that out. Same down here, I'll click on the edge and then that shows me where the anchor points are. I'll click this and drag it up to this point. Now when I did that, you can see it move this part and you can see what's underneath. I'm going to undo Command Z or Control Z. And I'm going to add an anchor point right here that'll keep everything down here the same. So I'll hit P plus. And that will give me the add anchor point tool, which is right over here. I'm gonna click right underneath the anchor point. And then I'll hit a to get back on my direct selection tool. And we can click this piece again and try again. Now this anchor point is holding all these pieces to be in the same position. And that worked really well. All right, Let's command minus or Control minus to zoom out. Alright, and that's our clover. I'm gonna go ahead and select all of these pieces and group them with Command G or Control G. All this go back and do the same with all the other objects we've made. I'm hitting Command G or Control G. After I've selected all the shapes in it. I'm just going to center this one in this space. Now, if you want it to be completely centered in the space, you can come down here to the Align Panel and go to the fly-out and choose Show Options right here. Then you'll see a line to write down here at the bottom. You can choose align to art board. So we'll click that. Then I can choose Horizontal Align Center, and Vertical Align Center. Now this is perfectly centered in this space, although honestly it looks a little high up because this is throwing it off a little bit. All right. Now before we get too much further, let's go ahead and say it with Command S or Control S. 10. Ladybug: The fifth thing we're going to draw is a lady beg to do this. I'm going to hit L on my keyboard to get me to the Ellipse tool right over here. And this time I'm going to click and drag an oval so I don't need to hold shift. That looks about right. I want my color to be the lighter red. So I'll click that one. Now, I'm going to copy and paste in front with Command F or Control F. And then I'm going to hold Shift and Option or Alt, Shift and Alt to make the circle smaller. And I'm going to use this color over here, which is not quite black, but it's close. Then I'll get all my selection tool. And I'm going to hold Shift to move this along the same plane. I'm going to put it right about here. Then I'm gonna send to back with Shift Command and left bracket. I think I'm going to click right down here on this handle and just bring this up a little bit. Maybe we'll make it a little bit bigger too. And I'm using my arrow keys to nudge this up. Now we have the ladybugs head and the lady bugs body. Now I'm going to draw an antenna and some legs over on this side. We'll just duplicate this and put this over here on the other side and just reflect them. So I'm gonna hit P on my keyboard to get my pen tool. I'm going to start right about here, click once, and then come up here, and then click and drag. There we go. And I went this to be as stroke instead of a fill. So I'll hit Shift X, which will switch my stroke and fill. I'm going to increase my weight on that stroke. And that looks pretty good. Now around the cab in the corner, I'm gonna get back on my selection tool and then I'm going to use this same shape to make the legs. So I'm gonna hit V to get back on my selection tool. And I'll hold Option or Alt and just click and drag this to make a copy. Now I'll hit R on my keyboard to get to my rotate tool. And I'm just going to rotate this around like this. I'll hit V and select it and move it down a little bit and rotate it a little more. Now I'm back on my V tool. I'm going to hold Option or Alt. Add another leg here. And this time I want to set my anchor point right here. Then I'll just move that up like that. And then for the last one, I'll do the same thing. I'll hit R to get it to rotate the opposite way. I'll hit V to get back on my selection tool. And I'm going to place that right there. Now I'll select these two shapes with my selection tool. And I'm going to bring those to the front, which is Shift Command and right bracket or Shift Control right bracket on a PC. You can also go to Object, Arrange and Bring to Front right here. Now I want to select only the legs and the antennas. To do that, I'm going to draw a box around everything with my selection tool. Then I'll hold Shift. And I'm going to draw a box over here that just touches these two pieces that will deselect those. Now I have just the pieces I need. I'm gonna copy command C or control C, paste in front with Command F or Control F. Hit O to get my Reflect tool. If I get down here at the center that you shouldn't be able to see a little anchor point. I'm going to use that. I'm going to hold Alt or option, and I'll click down there to set the anchor point. I'll do a vertical reflect. And with Preview turned on, you can see what will happen now that time I made a copy before doing this, I don't want to hit Copy this time I just want to hit Okay, I hit V to get back on my selection tool and now I'm going to select everything and just move it down to center it in the space. I went this circle that look like it has a little split right here. I'm going to just draw a line that goes from here to here. I'll do that with my pen tool. So I'll hit P on my keyboard. I'm going to start a little bit above the middle click. And then I'm gonna go a little bit past the circle holding Shift and click again. Now make sure you don't click and drag. Because if you do, you're going to get something like this and you don't want that. I'll undo and I'll hold Shift and just click once. Now I've got a fill on this, but you can't even see it because there's nothing there to fill. So I'm gonna hit Shift X to switch to a stroke only. Right now it's red. I'm going to hit X to get my stroke to the front. And then choose the black. And I'll hit Shift W to get my width tool. I'll get right on this anchor point and then I'm gonna hold shift and pull it out right down here. Now hit V to get back on my selection tool. I went the bottom of this to be rounded to match that circle. I'm going to use this circle, are actually a copy of it to make a mask that will enclose this shape. And I'll show you what I mean. So I'll copy this with Command C or Control C. I'm going to click off and I'll paste in front with Command F or Control F. I wanted to change the color of this so you can see what's going on. So I'll hit X to get the fill in front and then make it yellow. Now this is going to be my mask and it's going to completely disappear once I mask it with this shape. When we use a mask, we want the mask part to be on top. And then you went whatever your masking inside that to be below it mass can be a little bit tricky there. One of the harder things to kind of understand in Adobe Illustrator in my opinion. So just bear with me. We'll click that. I'll hold Shift and I'll click right in the middle of that other piece. Then I'm going to go to object, clipping mask and make you can also hit Command seven or Control seven. So this is our desired result. This piece is being contained by this circle. Now it actually does go outside that circle, but you can't see it because it off right here. And that's a good thing. I'm going to command minus to zoom out. And now the last step on our ladybug is just to add some polka dots. I'll hit L on my keyboard. Now I have a stroke only. I want to switch that to a fill with Shift X. And now we're just going to hold Shift and draw one little polka dot. I'll zoom in with my Z tool and then I'm going to hold Option or Alt and just make some copies of this circle. Now let's add a little shadow to him. I'm gonna get on my selection tool. Now we're not selecting the mask. Mass has no fill or stroke, but if you were to select right on the edge, you probably would have the mask selected right now. And you can tell that right over here. If you have it selected, go ahead and just click right on the red area. And that'll make sure you select just that red circle behind the mask. Okay, so I'm gonna copy this. I'm gonna click off, and then I'll paste in front with Command F or Control F. I'm going to hold Option or Alt. And I'll just make a copy. I'm going to make this a different color so you can see what's going on. And I'll select both pieces of my selection tool. And then I'll hit Shift M, which is my Shape Builder. I'll hold Option or Alt and drag across these two pieces. Now we have a little shadow area for our ladybug. I'm gonna make this a darker red. Now you'll notice this is covering up some of the things we actually want to see under there. So the way to fix this is within opacity blending mode. If we click on the word opacity up here in the control panel, we can come over here to normal. These are your blending modes and choose multiply. When you use one of these blending modes, it reacts with whatever is underneath. It can create some really nice effects. Now this is looking a little too dark. Now. I'm going to knock the opacity of that shadow down to 70. Alright, I think that looks really nice and it makes them look a little 3D to, okay, Let us save and then we'll move on to number six. 11. Ice Cream Cone: For number six, we're going to make an ice cream cone. To make the ice cream itself, I'm going to use a lot of circles. I'll hit L on my keyboard and I'll click and drag holding Shift to make a perfect circle. Now I'm gonna change my color to the purple. And I want to make a lot of little circles here. If for the ridges along the bottom of the ice cream cone, I'm gonna make these a different color just so you can see what's going on. Now I'm gonna hold Shift and Option or Alt to make a copy. And the copy will be along the same plane. If I hold Shift, I'm gonna do that with the first one and then I'll hit Command D or Control D to make more. And what that does is it duplicates the last thing you did. So that's pretty nice. I'm gonna do one more and I'm going to select everything and then hold Shift and deselect this one. I want to move these up to right about here. I'm holding Shift and using my arrow keys and then letting off shift and using my arrow keys. I think right about here looks nice. Now for the ice cream cone area, I'm going to use a rectangle. I'll hit M on my keyboard to get to my rectangle tool. And I'm just going to draw a perfect square holding Shift. And then I'm gonna hit R on my keyboard for the rotate tool, I'll click and drag and then I'll hold shift so it snaps into place. Now when I get back on my selection tool, I'd like to squeeze these in. But when I tried to do that, my bounding box is not allowing me to. The bounding box is rotating along with the object. And that is because it's a shape, it's still a rectangle. We want to make this a compound path. So to do that, I'm gonna go to object compound path and make. And this resets our bounding box is kind of hard to explain with a compound path, but basically it changes it to a different type of objects which can reset the bounding box. Anyway, let's bring in these two sides. I'm going to hold Option or Alt to bring it in from both sides. There we go. That's a pretty good cone-shaped there. And then I'm gonna hit P minus. That'll get me to my Delete Anchor Point tool right up here. And I'm going to click right on that anchor point to get rid of that top one. Now I'll click and drag this up. And obviously it needs to be a little bit bigger. So I'm gonna make it right about here and then I'll move it down. I'm gonna eat my ice cream cone part of a light hand. I'll send it to the back with Shift Command left bracket or Shift Control Left bracket on a PC, I wanted to send her these things. So this side goes off exactly the same amount as this side. So to do that, I'm going to select all of the blue pieces, hold, Shift and deselect what I don't want. And then I'm going to group these command G. Now, Illustrator, we will recognize these as a group of objects instead of single objects. And now I can select all three. I'll come down here to my align panel and choose Horizontal Align Center. It moved them slightly. But on yours you might notice you need a little bit more, something like that. Okay, let's take this entire shape and hold Shift and Option or Alt. And I'm going to make a copy of this off to the side. Now I'm going to select just the ice cream part. I'll hit Shift M to get my shape builder and then I'll hold Shift and I'll drag across the top parts like this. I'm going to hold Option or Alt and click this bottom part. Don't forget you can undo if you need to. I definitely want this color, so I'm gonna use my eyedropper to select that. I'll hit I on my keyboard. I'll just click that color and it'll make this color too. Okay, so now we have two pieces, this piece and this piece. Now when I select the top of the ice cream and zoom in with my Z tool. I notice I have some weird things going on right down here. So I'm just gonna go to my Pathfinder and choose the shape mode unite. That gets rid of those. I'll hit Command Z or Control 0 to sin as the art board in the space. Now this looks nice, but I think I went around this edge right down here. I'm going to hit a to get on my Direct Selection tool. I'll click right on that bottom point. And then I'm going to use that corner widget to bring it in a little bit. Now I want to make a waffle cone texture that goes inside here. So to do that, I'm gonna come over here on my line tool, hold that down and then choose rectangular grid tool. And we can hit Enter or Return to look at the options. For a horizontal dividers I want five and for vertical dividers I also want five. So I'll say, Okay, now I'm going to click and drag grid shape. I'm gonna hit D on my keyboard to give it a white fill and a black outline. And I think I'm going to increase this to maybe six or so. That looks pretty good. Now I'm gonna get rid of the fill which is in front for me. I'll hit backslash or question mark key to get rid of it. So now I want this to match this same angle. So I'm going to rotate it by hitting R on my keyboard. To get my Rotate tool and then hold Shift to make it snap. I'm going to have that same problem with the bounding box. I'm willing to hit Command or Control a on a PC, which will give me a compound path. You can also go to object compound path and make to get there. Now, I'm going to re-size this. Some weird things happen with this tool. Sometimes these triangles don't really exist. So it's a little weird that is definitely an illustrator glitch. So don't let it bother you. I'm going to bring in the sides by holding Option and getting on this handle and then just dragging those in like that. And I'm gonna make it quite a bit bigger. So it fills up the entire cone area. It doesn't have to be exactly the same angle, but just try to get it close and definitely ignore all those weird triangles that are happening. I went this grid to be darker brown, so I'm gonna hit X on my keyboard to get my stroke in front. And I'll choose my darker brown color. Now I want to mask this inside here. I'm going to select my cone and the background. I'll copy it. I'm going to click out here. And then I'll paste in front. I'm going to change the color of this. Let's make it green. And I'm going to offset this because I don't want my grids that go all the way out to the edges, a cone. I wanted it to be offset somewhat in the center. So I'm gonna come up here to Effect Path, Offset Path. That'll bring up this dialog box. Right now you can see it's offset ten pixels outside the bounding box area. And we wanted to actually be a negative number, so it'll offset inside there. If I hit negative ten and then hit tab, you can see where that's going to fall and that looks pretty good. So we'll say, okay, but if we zoom in, you'll see that this triangle shape is actually where the shape is. We need the shapes that exist right here to get it to match what we see, we need to come up here to object, expand Appearance, and now it matches the green area. This is going to be my mask, and this is going to be inside my mass down the mask always has to sit on top. And you need to select both. And then I'll go to object, clipping mask and make. Now, if we want to move this grid around inside there, we can use our group selection tool, which is right over here. And we can click it once and click it twice. And then we can move it around inside here, those triangles are very strange. I think I fixed it and the way I did it, I selected those inside there by clicking once and then clicking again, and then I joined them with Command J or Control J. And I hit that a few times and now it seems to be working. Okay. I'm going to come over here to the stroke and round the cap and corner of those because I had that little thing sticking out and that will solve that. Let's see how this looks. I think that looks nice, but I need to put the ice cream on top. So I'm gonna hit Shift Command right bracket or Shift Control right bracket on a PC. I think I'm gonna get rid of this piece over here. I selected it by clicking right on it with my a tool which is the Direct Selection and then deleting. I see I have one here too. I'm going to delete that for this little piece. I'm going to just drag it up here. This is looking pretty good right now. But I want to use some of these circles to shade this little part of our ice cream. I'm gonna click those. They're already grouped. I'll hold Option or Alt and just drag a copy exactly where it was before. And I'm gonna bring this to the front with Shift Command right bracket or Shift Control right bracket on a PC. I'll zoom in with my Z tool. Now I'm going to combine this into one shape. So I'll hit Shift M to get my shape builder and just drag across all of them. Now I'm going to copy, paste in front with Command F or Control F. I'll change my color to green. And I'm willing to just move this over and down a little bit. This darker blue part is the part I want to keep hold Shift and select that blue part two. And then I'm gonna hit shift in to get my shape builder hold Option or Alt to delete parts of it. I'll just drag across this. Now I went this top little blue part to actually be purple. So I'm going to click the purple swatch and then I'm going to add a new swatch. I'll hold option and command, that's Alt and Control on a PC and then click a slider to make a light tone. All of this, this looks about right, and I'll say, Okay, you can see it's added right over here. Now I want to put a little highlight right up here. So I'm gonna copy this shape with command C or control C. I'll click off. And then I'm going to paste in front with Command F or Control F. I'll hold Option or Alt and bring this in a little bit. Now we're going to do the same process that we did on our Apple. I'm gonna hit Shift X to get just a stroke and I'll change the stroke to something else. Now I just want this little piece over here so I'll get right on it with my a tool, the direct selection tool. Click that, cut it with Command X or Control X, delete everything else, and then paste in front with Command F or Control F. I'm going to increase the size of that. And I think I want this to be that lighter purple color we made. I'll click on that and I'll go ahead and round the cap and corner. Now this is a little too long in my opinion, I'm going to erase part of it. So I'll hit Shift E to get my eraser tool is right over here. I'm going to increase the size of my eraser by hitting the right bracket key. And then I'll just drag over that to erase parts. Now it looks like it's going to erase the ice cream, but it shouldn't, it should only erase this thing you selected. And maybe we'll make it even bigger. I'm just gonna move this over so it's a little more centered in the area. That looks nice. Then I'll select all and group it with Command G or Control G. Then I'll come over here to align and then align horizontally and vertically. And that will align to the art board itself. All right, so our ice cream cone is pretty much Denton. Let's go ahead and save with Command S or Control S. 12. Tulip: Enumerate seven, we're going to draw a tulip to make the top part I'm gonna get on my Pen tool. I'll hit P on my keyboard and I'll click once and I'll come up here and just start clicking and dragging. And that looks pretty good. Now I'm going to get my width tool by hitting Shift W on my keyboard. It's right over here. And then I'm just going to click and drag out a petal. Now I want these to come to a point. So I'm gonna zoom in and I'll click on this part out here and bring it all the way in. And same with down here. Now this actually has rounded points because my stroke has around cabin join. I liked the way that looks, but if you don't like it, you can change it to cap and corner. We told make him more sharp. Now, I went this part of the petal to be a little wider on this side, but not on this side. I need to get right on that anchor point and then come out here like this, hold Option or Alt and bring just this side over. This is looking pretty nice. I wanted to be the lighter red though. I'll click that. Now I'm going to expand this because right now all we really have is just a line. I'm hitting Command Y or Control Y to seize a preview mode. I'll come up here to object, expand Appearance. And now the head shape has been expanded and we can manipulate it to look a little more like a tulip. I'm going to hit a on my keyboard. I'm going to get right down here and they're kind of too many points down here. I don't think we need this many. So I'm going to hit Shift S. I'm going to just smooth those out. Shift S is your smooth tool and you can just go along the line over and over until it smooths it out. Now we'll get back on my a tool, the direct selection. I'll click on that bottom point and I'm going to grab that handle and just move it out like that and maybe move this one down a little bit. Changing the handles. It's pretty tricky at first, but you'll get the hang of it and the more often you do it. Okay, I'm gonna click off and then I'll use my selection tool. I'm just going to get right outside the corner and rotate this. That's another way to rotate. So we've got the first petal of our flower. Now I'm going to copy and reflect it over here. So I'm going to hit O on my keyboard. I'll hold Option or Alt and click right down here on this point, we'll do a vertical reflect and then copy. I think I'm just going to rotate this one with the our tool. I've got my anchor set here by clicking once and then I'll just pull that piece up over here. Then I'll select both of my Selection tool, the V tool. I'll get outside and rotate them a little bit like this. Then I also want a little flower petal back here. I'm going to hit P on my keyboard. I'll start right about here. And I'm going to hold Shift and just click again down here. I'm going to change my fill to a stroke. Then I'm gonna get my width tool with Shift W, this one right over here. And since we don't have an anchor point in the middle, I'm gonna go ahead and just click and drag to make one. I'll get it back on my selection tool. And I'm going to send this to back with Shift Command left bracket. Let's Shift Control Left bracket on a PC, I'm going to change this stroke to a darker red, and I'll use my arrow keys to move it over to the center. I'll zoom out with Command minus or Control minus. I'm going to select it and just center it up in the area. And now I'm gonna make the stem. I'm going to click P on my keyboard. I'm going to start from about right here, click once, and then just click and drag and then click once down here. I'll hit Shift X to get a stroke instead of a fill. I'm going to increase the weight to about 12 and I'll make the stem green. This is a little too bent. So I'm gonna hit a click on that anchor point and then just take a handle and kind of straighten it up. We can also use the Smooth tool Shift S to go over that to get something a little more natural looking. Alright, now I'm going to take this stem and send it to the back with Shift Command left bracket or Shift Control Left bracket on a PC. And now it's time to make the leaves. I'm actually going to use my stem to create my leaves. So I'm gonna copy, paste in front with Command F or Control F, and then hit R on my keyboard, come down here to set my anchor point. I'm just going to put that over here like this. Then I'll hit Shift W to get my width tool, I'm going to click right in the middle and pull that out. I'll come in here close with my Z tool. Then I'll hit Shift W and get on that tool again and pull these in. Now I don't want my other leaf to look exactly like this one. So I'm gonna go ahead and just draw a leaf over here. I'll hit P on my keyboard. I'll click once. Then I'll click again. And I'm going to end down here and click and drag. I'm going to hit Shift S to get on my smooth tool and smooth this out a little bit. I'll hit Shift W to get on my width tool. I want to start at this anchor point and pull this out. I'll make sure to zoom in and pull these in. Command minus to zoom out. Then I'll hit a to select my point and just make sure these are lined up down here. I'm gonna zoom out with Command minus or Control minus. Okay, Now the add some interests to this. I'm going to add another copy of this leaf right on top of it, and then make a little line right down the middle of it. So I'll copy it and I'll paste in front. I'm going to make a new green color, a darker green. So I'll get on that green and choose new. I'll hold option and command or Alt and Control on a PC. And make a dark tonal, say, Okay, now I'll use my width tool, Shift W to pull these in, maybe even a little more. And then I'll do the same over here. Copy paste in front, change to the darker green, and then Shift W to get the width tool and pull these in. This is looking pretty nice. Now I want to create a shadow to kind of differentiate these two petals. I'm going to click on this one. I'll copy and I'll paste in front. And then I'm going to paste in front again. So we'll have three copies on top of there. Then I'm gonna move it over a little bit. I'm going to change the color of this one. Now it's kind of hard to tell what's going on, but I want to make a line right in here to kind of differentiate this one from that one. I'm going to zoom in. I'm gonna go ahead and select these two and hide them with command or control three. Now I just have these two shapes, so work with it. Just a little easier to work with. Now I want this piece to line up pretty well with this one. So I'm going to just get on a corner handle and get it to overlap and kind of line up. Now I'll select that piece, hold shift and select this one. Then I'm going to use my shape builder tool hold option and go over all the pieces I don't want. So I'm left with this little piece. I'm going to make that this darker red. Now we need to bring the other pieces back. We can hit Option Command three or Alt Control D on a PC. Now this piece is in front, so I need to select my shadow and my pedal and group them with Command G or Control G. And then bring them to the front with Shift Command right bracket or Shift Control right bracket. I'll zoom out to see what we've got. Alright, I'm liking this, but we need to fix the bottom. I'm going to hit Z and zoom in down there and see what we can do. The first thing I'm going to do is select the whole thing, hold Option or Alt, and just drag it off the art board so that we can have these pieces in case we need them lighter. Now I'm going to select the bottom. I'm going to expand Object, Expand Appearance. That expanded our width. If I hit Command Z or Control Z, you can see we just have the line down the middle, but after I expanded, I'm gonna redo. It, expanded all the way out to what we can see except this line here. The stroke did not expand, so we need to go back up to Object, expand and choose that. And now we can expand that stroke. So we'll say, okay, now everything has been expanded. I'm gonna zoom in down here at the bottom. And I think the quickest way to fix this would be just to select the green colors, the lighter green, and create one shape from them. I am going to, I'm gonna hit V and select this green hold Shift and select the other two. Then come over here to Pathfinder and unite with this shape mode. And then we lost the detail here. So we'll want to send it back. Shift Command left bracket or Shift Control Left bracket. And I'll zoom in down here. And now we can easily fix this. I can hit P minus and get rid of that. And then select these two anchor points with the a tool, the direct selection. And click one and drag it up to be within the shape we want coming in minus or Control minus to zoom out. I think we're done with this one. I'm going to select all of it with my direct selection and group it with Command G or Control G. Alright, let's save our work with Command S or Control S. 13. Tree: The eighth design is a tree and light the Cloud. This one is also made of mostly circles, but I'll also want to make a trunk and some limbs for this. So let's start out with the circles. Now I want my tree to be this lighter green. I'll click on that one over here in my swatches panel. And then I'm going to start drawing circles. For the outside of my tree. I'll hit L on my keyboard. And the thing about trees is you want your big circles to be on top more. I drew that one holding Shift and now I'm going to hold Option or Alt and just make copies of this circle. Now I'm gonna make a smaller version. I'm going to bring those around like this. And finally I'll make an IV as smaller version of the circle. And then I'm just going to hit Shift and Option or all to re-size from the center. I think I'll make these three just a little bit bigger. I think I went these parts to be a little more uneven. And I'll pull this one up. So now we have all our circles created. I'm gonna select all of those, group them with Command G or Control G, and then make a copy right down here so we don't lose those. Right now, I'll select everything, hit Shift M on my keyboard for the shape builder tool, and then hold shift and just draw a box across all those. Now we have the top part of our tree, but it's way too big. So I'll hit V on my keyboard to get to my selection tool. I'm holding Shift and Option or Shift and Alt to re-size from the center. Okay, so the next step is to draw the trunk. I'll hit P on my keyboard and I want to start right about here. So I'll click once and then I'm gonna come down here and click again. I'm gonna hit Shift X to get a stroke only. Then I'll click my stroke. I'll come over here and make it brown. And now we're going to work with the width tool. So I'll hit Shift W and I'll click and drag that. And now we need to make branches, so I'll hit P on the keyboard. I'm making mostly straight lines when I do this. I don't want to connect over here, so I'm going to hit Escape. Then I'll start drawing from over here. I'm gonna hit Escape again, and I'm going to create a new branch coming over here like this. Then I'll hit Escape to release that part. All right, I'll start this one from right here. I'm gonna come up here and go up here like this. Hit Escape, start from over here and come down here like this, hit Escape again. And then I'll come from this part of the tree. Make a little branch here, hit Escape. Then come over here. On this last one, I'm going to make a little bit of a curve and then I'll hit Escape. So now all our branches are in and now we need to use the width tool to make some parts thick and other parts. Then I'll zoom in with my Z tool. I'll select my first branch and then I'm gonna hit Shift W for my width tool. And I'm going to start right in the middle and just pull these out a little bit. And it can be a little tricky. Now, the thing about trees is the branches always go from thickest at the base to thinnest at the ends. So you need to be careful of that when you're creating your branches. Now if one gets in the way like this, go ahead and select it with your V tool and hide it with Command three. Then select what you want to work on. Hit Shift W and go from there. I'll select my new branch. Hit Shift W will start adjusting this one. Okay, moving on to the next one with my V tool, I'll hit Shift W and continue on. Needs a hide this one too with command or control three. Then to unhide, I just go to Object, Show All right here. Or you can hit Option command three on a Mac or Alt Control three on a PC. I'll hit Shift W to start with this one. Then I'll go up here to get that one. I'm going to use my a tool, the direct selection to kind of move this over a little bit. It looks a little bit off center. So our tree is looking good, but there are some things I need to clean up. For example, this right here isn't connecting quite right? So I'm going to make another copy of my tree, hold Option or Alt and put it down here. And then for this one I'm going to go to Object, Expand Appearance. That expanded all of my strokes. Now I don't have access to the width anymore. I'm gonna zoom in on this piece right here. I'll hit a on my keyboard to get the direct selection. I'm going to click right on that point and just drag it over. I'll put this one up here. Now these also don't come to points, but it doesn't really bother me on a tree that much. I think we're looking pretty good. So I'm going to zoom out. And now let's add a little shadow right here. We'll do the same process as we've done with a lot of our other illustrations. I'll copy this, paste in front twice with Command F or Control F. And then just move this one up a little bit. I'm going to change the color of this one. Yeah. Maybe about like that. I might just pull it over a little bit too. Then I'll select this one hold Shift and also select the one underneath it. Then I'll hit Shift in, I'll hold Option or Alt to delete these extra pieces. Then I'm just left with this little piece down here. And that little piece I'm gonna make the darker green. Our tree is looking good, so I'm gonna select it all and group. And I'll go ahead and save with Command S or Control S. 14. Birdhouse: Okay, now we're ready for our ninth thing. I'm going to click on this artboard and hit Command 0 or Control Zero to center that art board on my screen memory nine is going to be a little bird house. To do that, Let's hit M on our keyboard to get to our rectangle tool. And I'll just draw a rectangle holding Shift. Now I'm going to use my a tool, my direct selection, to select these two points. And I went to resize these and make them a little bit bigger. I'll hit S on my keyboard and that will bring me to the scale tool. And then I'm just going to click in the center to set my anchor point there. And then I can hold Shift and make these a little bit bigger. Then I'll switch over to my V tool, my selection tool. I'll just move this down. Next. I want to add a point right here in the middle where this handle is. I'll hit P on my keyboard and I'm going to click right here where they intersect is. For the center, I'll click once and that'll add the point. Now I will get my a tool, the direct selection right up here. And I'm gonna click and drag to make the top of our little bird house. If you wanted to have the same fill and stroke, just hit D on your keyboard, then it'll give you a white fill and a black outline. Now we don't really need the black outlines, so I'm gonna hit X to bring it to the front right over here. And then the backslash or question mark key to get rid of it. Now I have a white fill. I'll hit X to get that to the front. And I'm going to make our field blue. Now I went separate pieces for the roof and the base. I'm gonna get all my a tool again, my direct selection. I'll click this point. I'll hold Shift and I'll click this path. You have to be right on the path for this to work. Then I'll copy. And now I only have these two lines selected and this line selected, I'm gonna click off and then I'll paste in front with Command F or Control F. And now you can see those two lines segments that I copied. I'm gonna hit Shift X, which switches my fill to a stroke only. Then I'm gonna hit X to get my stroke in front. You can also just click this and then I'll click the darker blue. Now we'll come over to my stroke. You can click it a few times if you're not seeing all your options, I'm gonna highlight the weight. And then I'll use my arrow keys and shift arrow to make it jump quite a lot further. I'm going to bring the sides in a my blue, so I'll hold Option and Alt. And I'll just squeeze this in a little bit. Now I'm going to add a little circle up here, so I'll hit L on my keyboard to get to my Ellipse Tool. And I'll click and drag. I want this circle to be a darker gray. So I'm gonna hit X to bring the fill to the front. And I'll click that. Now I'm going to click and drag this and hold Alt or Option to make a copy. And then I'm going to hold Shift and Option or Alt to make it quite a lot bigger. This is the hole that the little bird will go in. And then finally we just need a perch down here. So I'm gonna hit M on my keyboard to get my rectangle tool. And I'll just draw a little perch down here. Okay, so our basic shapes that are done. Now let's add a detail to make it a little more interesting. First, I'm going to select everything with my selection tool, and then I'm going to center it with the Horizontal Align Right up here. By the way, if you're not seeing this panel that is under window control right here, I like to add a little flower shapes. So this whole, I'm gonna click it. Then I'm gonna come down here to my appearance and double-click that. I think I wanted to change the fill to the darker blue. I'm going to add a yellow stroke to this. Now in the appearance panel, I'm gonna click on Stroke. And this will give us some options. It's really similar to just go into your Stroke panel. I'm gonna choose dashed line and I went to increase the wait to see what we've got here. This is looking pretty good. I'm going to round the cap and corner and I'm gonna make it it a bit bigger. I'll increase the size of the gap. Maybe I'll make that dash even smaller. This is looking pretty nice. Now I want to put my stroke behind my fill here so that only half of it shows. I'll click on this blank area and drag the stroke below the fill. And actually this isn't showing up very well. So I'm gonna go ahead and make that white. And I'm gonna go ahead and make this white also. I'm gonna go ahead and bring my fill to the front by hitting X. And I'll make that white to nano. I'm going to click on this stroke. I want to put a little dotted detail up here. To do that. I'm going to make another stroke right on top of this stroke. So I'm going to click in this blank area and pull it down onto this little square with the plus on it, and that will duplicate it. Now I have two blue strokes are the same size right on top of each other. I'm going to try this more orangey yellow and I'm going to reduce the size of this stroke. I'm just using my arrow keys with this highlighted in here. And that looks pretty good. Now we're going to go out to my Stroke panel, choose dashed line. I'm going to round the cap and the corner and then I'm going to increase the gap between them. Okay, and I'm really liking this. Our appearance says two strokes right on top of each other. And I actually want to apply that to this line down here too. So I need to pull out my graphic style. I'll just grab on the word itself and pull that out. Then I'll double-click it now to get this appearance, which is this right here, into my graphic styles, all I have to do is just click that little square and drag it in. And now I can click this and apply that graphic style. That's how appearance and graphic styles work together. You can build a whole appearance here and then apply it to other shapes and objects. Now if you don't like how this is overhanging, these two strokes are tied together in the same appearance. So you will need to expand the appearance to separate them. And in this case, it actually separates parts of that path. We can just select this one and delete it, and then select that one and delete it. I'll go ahead and expand the appearance here. Click on that one with my group selection or direct selection and delete it. If you like that, look better, you'll need to expand your appearance first. Now let's go ahead and add a little shadow along here. To do that, we can take this shape, copy it, and paste in front. We can do another circle like we did on the apple. So I'll hit L on my keyboard and draw a big circle right about there. Then I'll hold Shift and select this piece, and then I'll hit Shift M to get my shape builder. I went to hold Option or Alt to delete these pieces. Now I want this piece to go in front of the light blue, but behind these other two. So to do that, I'm gonna cut it with Command X or Control X. I'll use my group selection tool to select the light-blue. And then I'll paste in front. So it's right on top of the blue, but not on top of these other pieces. I'm going to choose that darker blue for my shadow. And actually I think I want it to be on top of these pieces. I wanted to bring to front with Command right bracket, that's Control right bracket on a PC. Then I'll move this other piece up here in a minute. I'm gonna change my blend mode to multiply here. Then I'm also going to make the opacity 70%. Now these pieces are grouped together, so I need to ungroup them with Shift Command G or Shift Control G on a PC. I want to bring these pieces to the front. I wanted to draw a box around this part was the selection tool and then hold Shift and deselect this lighter blue piece. Then I'll hit Shift Command right bracket or Shift Control right bracket on a PC, which brings it to front. And all these the same down here. I'll select all of these by drawing a box. I'll hold Shift and deselect these and then bring these two front with Shift Command right bracket or Shift Control right bracket. I'm going to object arrange and bring to front. Now this is still much too dark, so I'm gonna click it and I'm going to knock it down to about 30%. Let's see how that looks. I think that looks way better. Let's select everything here and group with Command G or Control G. And then we'll say with Command S and Control S. 15. Watering Can: All right, we're finally ready for number ten. Let's click on our last art board and then hit Command 0 or Control Zero to center it on the screen. For number ten, we're going to draw a watering can. I'll hit M on my keyboard to get to my rectangle tool. And I'm just going to draw a rectangle right here. I'm going to change the color. So I'll come over here and I'm gonna choose this orange color. Now I'll use my a tool, the direct selection tool, to select these two anchor points at the top. And then I'm going to scale this. So we'll hit S and then Enter or Return. So bringing to my scale tool right over here and enter or return will bring up the options. Actually, if there are options under any of these, you can always just click on that tool and then hit Enter or Return to bring up the options. Now this is going to make it a 130 degrees bigger. I went into be a little bit smaller. So I'm gonna put 80% and I'll hit Tab to make it preview. I think this is fine. So we'll say, okay, now I went the bottom two corners to be rounded. So I'm going to select both of those with the a tool, the direct selection. I'll draw a box around them. And then I'm going to use these little corner widgets to round those out. Now it's looking a little tall to me. So I'm gonna get all my selection tool. And I'm just going to squash it down a little bit. Next we'll want to make the handle. So to do this, I'm going to hit L on my keyboard and I went to hold Shift and just draw a circle right over here. Now I'm going to copy it and paste behind with Command V or Control V. And I'm gonna change the color to the one that we put underneath. So I'm gonna make it red just so it shows up. Now I'm gonna hold shift and option or shift at all to resize it to be a little bit bigger. Now this sets it, make it perfectly equal all the way around and that's okay. Maybe you want it to be that way you could do Effect Path and then Offset Path. And that will give you exactly the same around all the pieces. But I'm not too worried about that, but I just wanted to let you know. Now I want to punch out this piece from the piece behind it. So I'm going to select both. I'll hit Shift M to get my Shape Builder. I'll hold Option or Alt to punch that piece out. I went this handle to be the same color. So I'm going to use my eyedropper tool by hitting I on my keyboard. And then I'll just select this yellow and it'll change my selected object to that yellow. Alright, I'm gonna rotate this piece so I'm gonna hit R on my keyboard. I'm just going to click and drag till it's about where I want it and that looks pretty good. Now hit V to get to my selection tool. I'll just move this up a little bit. We've got our handle and now we need our little spout. Automate that I'm going to hit P on my keyboard. I think I'll start it from right about here. And I'll make it go up at about that angle. I'm only clicking once and then clicking again. If you click and drag, you won't get a similar result. I've got a yellow fill on this and I need to switch that to a stroke so I'll hit Shift X. And now we have a little thin stroke on this. Let's get on our width tool. I'll hit Shift W to get that. I'm gonna come down here to this anchor point, and I'm just going to pull this out, which actually looks a little wide to me. So I'm going to hold option and just bring this side in that's Alt on a PC. This is looking a little better. Now for the spout, I'm gonna do the same thing. I'm going to hit P on my keyboard. And I'm just going to click once and then click again. And since the last thing I made was this is going to also give me a stroke here. I'll hit Shift W to get my width tool. And I'm just going to pull this out. I'll get on my selection tool and I'm just going to click and drag this down a little bit. We have the shape of our watering can. Now let's add some details. I'm going to zoom out. I'm gonna grab this whole thing with my Selection tool hold Option or Alt and drag it off the screen because I want to expand these pieces. I went to a copy of them below. Now let's select those two and go to Object Expand Appearance. Now I went to kind of fix this part down here. I zoomed in with my Z tool. And now I'm going to select with my a tool, my direct selection. I'll get right on this anchor point and just pull it to line it up a little better here. I'm going to command minus or Control minus to zoom out. Ok, now I've got a little shape in here. I want to add apart where the water comes out. I'm going to zoom in a little bit. So I wanted to draw a line right here, and I'm gonna do that with my pen tool. So I'll hit P on my keyboard, which will bring me to my pen tool right over here. And I'm going to start just a little bit inside here. And then come all the way up to here. Click and drag to get a shape like this. I'm going to hit Escape to release that pin. And then I'm gonna hit Shift X to give us a stroke. I'm gonna change it to red, but I think I'll make it orange here in a second. I'll hit Shift W, which will give us our width tool. I'm just going to make this a little bit thicker. And then I'll come up to the ends and make them a little pointed. You can zoom in to see what you're doing a little better. Okay, This is looking good, but I think I will switch to an orange. I'm going to create a new swatch by clicking on the one I want, creating a new one and then holding option and command, that's Control and Alt on a PC. And making this a dark tonal will say, okay, that looks nice. I'm going to command minus or Control minus to zoom out. And now I'd like three little holes where the water comes out. So I'm gonna hit L on my keyboard. And I'm just going to draw three little circles. I am going to hold shift and select each one with my V tool, which is the selection tool. And I'm going to switch my stroke to a fill by hitting Shift X. Now I'm going to rotate them. So I'm gonna hit R on my keyboard and just rotate them around to about where they should be. Now I think I went to add a flower right here in the middle. I'll hold Shift and draw a perfect circle. I'm gonna make the center of my flower this orange color. So I'll make sure my fill is selected and then I'll come over here to the orange I made and click on that. Then I'm going to add a white stroke to this and I'll increase it to about 22. I'll click on my Stroke panel and then I'm gonna do a dashed line. I want to make sure the cap and corner are rounded. I'll change my dash to one and the gap can be 20. Then I'll get my appearance up. And I'm going to drag that stroke underneath my fill. And now we have our watering can. I'm gonna select it all and group it with Command G or Control G. 16. Exporting and File Types: Now our tin new objects are created. Okay, so go ahead and save your document with Command S or Control S in your files. You'll always want to keep this AI document. Don't throw it away. All right, I'm gonna show you how to export these. First, you'll probably want to center each one on the art board. To do that, go to your Align panel and make sure that you have it set to align to art board. Then go ahead and choose the Horizontal Align Center and Vertical Align Center. And I'll go ahead and do that with all of these. If you haven't grouped your objects, make sure you do that first. I think we actually did it with most 7. First I'm going to export these as PNG files with a transparent background. To do that, I'm gonna come over here to File Export and Export for Screens. I'll click on art boards and you can see to art board now I'll make sure that all our checked I held Shift and click this last one and then I'll change my export location. So I'll click that little folder. I want to put it right here in ten easy things. I want to make a new folder and call it PNG will create that. I'll choose that. And now I'm gonna come over here and change my format to PNG. And I want to click this little gear right here. Under PNG, I want my anti-aliasing to be art optimized because all of this is art. It doesn't have any texts in it. Then the background color, I want it to be transparent so I'll save settings. And now I can export art board. When I do that, I'll get this little folder with a one x. And now here are all the designs. Each has its own file. I'm gonna hit my spacebar on a Mac to preview these. On a PC. I don't really think it's possible to do this, but you can probably see them fine without doing it. Now if you wanted to print these, probably your best option would be a PDF. So all you have to do in that case, it's good to File, Save As and choose PDF right here. I'm going to put this in the same folder. I'll save illustrator default is fine. And I'll save PDF. I'm gonna go ahead and delete these extra ones down here since we still have our AI file and we can just open that if we want to get back to those. And now I'll save when I come out here and look at my file in Acrobat, this is what we'll get. Each design is on a different page. These are actually saved at seven by seven inches roughly. Alright, I'm gonna close this file and reopen my Illustrator file. Now let's say we want to have one art board with all ten things that we drew to do that I'm going to hit Shift O, which will bring me to my art board tool right over here. And I'm just going to draw an art board and completely cover all of the objects. I want to make sure none of these other objects outside are touching it like this ice cream cone. I'll get back on my selection tool. I'm just going to move all these things away. Now when I go to File, Export and Export for Screens, you can see the one with ten objects right here. I'm gonna go ahead and deselect everything except for that one. I'll change my location. I'm going to put it in the PNG folder, so it'll be with the other ones we created. And I'll choose that and export Artboard. So when I go and look at that, it's actually added it to the end. And now all of my designs are here. Now if you wanted a white background, you can just export as a JPEG and it's exactly the same process. You would just change your format here to JPEG. 17. Your Project: All right, Now it's time for your project. I'd like you to draw four designs and add something interesting to each one. Try to figure out ways to use shapes to create your designs dislike we did in this class with the Cloud. We just drew a bunch of circles and then combine them all to create the Cloud. Using shapes is the easiest way to build an object if you need inspiration on why to create, try working around a theme like a holiday, or maybe different fruits or animals. And once you have it created, just upload it to your project section on Skillshare. I can't wait to see what you create. 18. What's Next?: Alright, if you're ready to take a deeper dive into Adobe Illustrator checkout some of my other classes, for example, creating a coffee icon set in Adobe Illustrator or picking up speed and Adobe Illustrator, although that one is more for intermediate students. All right, thank you so much for taking my class. And if you have a second, please leave me a review. It helps so much. Thank you.