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2. Getting Started With Illustrator: - Hey, - guys, - how you doing? - It's Mickey from being a brand here to begin Unit one of learning Adobe Illustrator for - fashion with learning Adobe Illustrator So if you don't have Adobe Illustrator, - this is how you get it. - You go to creative dot adobe dot com You sign up for the creative cloud if you already - don't have and counting to sign in and you will have access to all of the adobe Sweet. - So you have, - like, - illustrator photo shop in design. - Uh, - have what have you whatever design program that they have and you condone download all of - them and download the free 30 day trial. - Um, - but I suggest that you buy a negotiator because you're gonna find that you're gonna love it - , - and it's gonna be a lot of fun. - And it would be no fun if you couldn't design anymore after 30 days. - So once you have the program, - open it up and this is what you'll see. - Or you might see a little like a small variation of this or like the standard pop up window - . - But we're gonna Korean are bored, - so we're gonna go file. - We're gonna get a new I'm gonna call this unit one. - Just have one art board in the side of a letter, - which is a and half by 11. - Set toe portrait, - orientation and clique. - OK, - and there you go. - This is where you begin designing. - Now, - I just want to let you guys know that this is gonna be a very quick rundown of the program - . - Um, - at the end of this unit, - I'm going to be suggesting, - or I'm gonna be assigning you a project, - and it's like gonna be really fun. - You're gonna love it. - So which is a quick run down of the layout? - Here we have our menu bar we Africa Tools Panel over here to the left. - And also just panels more panels, - panels on panels on the right. - And this is our board here. - I'm gonna show you how to edit the our board first. - So if you want to edit the are bored, - you're going to go to this symbol right here, - which is the Arpel Art Board tool. - It's right above the handle. - You click on it and you could see that the great um shade has changed in the background. - And now you have a dotted bounding box around your art board. - And if you want to change this like, - say, - I want it not to be landscape I was gonna click up here to this little guy in the piece of - paper where it says landscape, - and you can also switch it back to portrait. - No switchback portrait if you want to. - Now say, - if I wanted to adjust the size of my our board to be a square, - I can put in nine inches by nine inches. - Or I can just edit it myself by selecting one of these points and dragging in and dragging - out. - So what I want, - but let's leave it to All right. - 11 inches by 8.5, - Um, - basically a landscape piece of paper. - You can also create new our boards by selecting Was Born here, - New art board it's and clicking anywhere. - So let's click over there, - and you could see that it created the same size of our board that it was mentioned here. - Or you could just drag your own just as long as it's in the gray square, - and you can see once we get out of this mode that suddenly have all these are boards, - but I only need one right now, - so I'm gonna go in and delete all these other ones and then go back. - So, - um, - one way that you can move around. - If you have a Mac, - you can hold down two fingers on your track pad and navigate around like that. - But if you don't have the ability to do that if you're on a PC or anything like that, - you can use a hand tool. - You can select the handle and move around, - or you can just press space bar and move around. - So it doesn't matter what tool you're on. - You could be on these tools up here, - and as long as you press down the hand tool, - you could see that it changes and you can move around here. - Zoom, - which is Z, - is the hot key for that. - So very basic. - You click and drag to what you want to go towards like or you could just click and you - could press option for all toe Zoom out racing quicken and old to click out, - and you could see down here to the bottom left corner. - This is where it shows the percentage of where? - Off what? - You're viewing your our board as so right now we're 81% nights. - Little trick that I use a lot if I'm like, - far away from my art board. - And I'm working for some reason over here and then, - like Oh, - no, - I'm lost in the greatness of space And I don't feel like zooming in and zooming out. - You could press command or control zero, - and it will bring you directly back to our board.
3. Selection Tools & Creating Shapes: - So I'm going to introduce you the tools that we will specifically be using for this unit, - which is going to be selection tool, - direct selection tool. - Uh, - the these shapes here, - Usually it would start with rectangle. - Um, - this all these shapes I'm gonna be introducing to those I'm gonna introduce to you basic - coloring of their shapes. - And I'm also gonna be introducing to you arrangement. - So the way we're gonna begin is I'm gonna just select any tool. - So let's start with a square start with a rectangle to all you do is have the rectangle - tool selected, - and you drag, - click and drag outwards, - and you can see that you're already creating a shape. - I'm gonna create that rectangle and then you know that you have your first rectangle. - Well, - say, - I wanted to create a square, - and it was hard for me to really measure that. - That's a square, - cause it tells you right here in the bottom, - like if you see to the bottom right of my cursor, - there's, - like 2.48 inches by 2.7. - But that takes so long to match it up perfectly. - One way you could do it is to have the rectangle selected drag and click or click and drag - and then press shift Hold down, - shift as you drag and you could see that it holds the ratio of a square No matter where you - move, - this concept is the same for creating circles. - So we're gonna go hold down the square here and select lips tool. - And I'm just gonna click and drag and you see that it creates ovals. - Very cool. - Well, - haven't oval Now I want a circle. - So I'm gonna click and drag and then I'm gonna press shift and you could see it creates a - circle, - holds the ratio of a circle no matter where I look. - Now that I have these four shapes, - I'm going to introduce to you the selection tools. - There's two different selection tools. - There's this filled in black pointer, - which is the selection tool, - and there's also a filled with white pointer, - which is the direct selection tool. - And the difference between those two is this right now I'm on the selection tool. - I can click any of these shapes and it will click the entire shape I can click anywhere on - any point doesn't matter what corner I'm in, - it will select the whole circle or the whole shape. - Uh, - with this it also shows the bounding box which has these little know, - little points over here, - which I can use to make things bigger, - smaller? - Just the shape, - uh, - you know, - move it side to side to distort, - do a little transforming of the shape, - and it also helps me rotate. - So if I hover over one of the diagonal corners, - I can click and drag, - and it will rotate for me a quick, - really quick aside if you want to know how to do undo the same thing is like Microsoft Word - or any other undo move. - It's gonna be commander control Z just let you know. - And the great thing about illustrators that there is no maximum toe how far back you can go - As long as you don't disrupt the timeline of what you're been creating. - You can go a Sfar back in time, - like undo as much as you want any time. - So now I'm back with nothing. - So I was gonna create my circle again on must square circles where there you go and the - difference between selection tool and direct selection tool. - So you see, - I So I showed you what you could do the selection tool. - And I'm gonna show you what the direct selection Wilken Dio I can click in the middle. - Sure, - but then if you notice the bounding box isn't visible, - Same thing for the square. - But if use the direct selection tool, - you can select specific anchor points, - which are these little dots right here. - His little points. - It says anchor, - and you can move it, - and everything else will remain stationary. - Same thing goes for the square and select this bottom left corner and move it and - everything else remains the same. - Um, - you can also select a line in between two points this path right here, - and click and drag. - And you could see I will move the two points and the line So everything else moves along - with that. - It's a little bit different. - When you have a curve, - I'll show you. - I'm going to select this path, - which is a curved path. - I'm gonna click and drag and you can see it is distorting curve. - Yeah. - Okay. - Things like this getting used to how lying segments, - paths and bankers move here is one of the main things that I want you to focus on during - this unit. - I just want you to literally make a shape and click and drag around. - Just get used to seeing how things look like when you drag him around, - especially for curves, - because curves are going to be something that is gonna take a little bit of time to master - . - But it's it'll be a lot of help to to see, - like how the curse react, - Um, - along with these handles here. - So this these this line that shows up when I selected this path is called the handle This - you can move around to dictate the curve shake. - So on my direct selection tool, - which is the filled in white cursor, - I'm going to select the handle and I'm gonna move it up and you could see I'm adjusting the - curtain. - I select the the anchor here, - it shows up, - it makes the other handle appear. - And I also added that handle and I could make it all wobbly, - which is great. - Now we can go into depth. - We're gonna I'm gonna teach a little bit more about editing curves in Unit two. - But even now, - just get get situated. - Just just learn how you can change up a shape like this. - Like you can just move it that way, - Stuff like that. - I'm gonna get rid of that. - And that is the direct selection tool. - Now, - really quick. - Just a few other tips and tricks using the selection tool. - If you want to rotate something Ah, - and you want it to be perfect, - like 45 degrees or something like Oh, - no, - I wanted to be straight like they do have anchor points for guides, - but a nice trick is to hold down shift, - and it will drag specifically to those even points, - which is super apple. - Also, - if you're like moving anyone that make things smaller and bigger, - but you don't want to change the shape of it Like how all the senate's a rectangle like, - Oh, - no, - my squares ruined again. - Hold down shift, - and it will keep the ratio of your shape if you want to select multiple tools with a direct - selection tool or, - I mean the selection told the black black cursor, - you can click and drag anywhere. - Just make sure all your shapes or within this bounding box that has shown up and it will - select both shapes, - and you can move them both freely. - Same thing if you just want to do one shape you don't like one click in the shape. - The difference between that and the direct selection tool is if their ex election tool - begins like all of it. - There you go. - But you get again. - You can't. - You don't see a bounding box and you can't, - like, - adjust shape. - Also, - if you come up short like I'm selecting all of it. - But I come up this short and you're trying to move it, - you're only gonna move the anchor points that you selected. - No, - it's very trippy, - but again, - just it just takes practice and for you to get acquainted. - But what's going on? - I'm gonna try that same move with the selection tool. - I still select both complete shapes rather than again with Derek Selection Tool. - It's like in the top and sucking the top and only being able to move this certain shape
4. Basic Coloring & Arrangement: - Now I'm gonna show you basic coloring. - So right now, - uh, - this black line here, - it's called the stroke. - And inside the inside colors called the bill on the way that we want to edit these colors - is if you select one. - Doesn't really matter if it's direct selection or selection tool. - Just select the shape. - Go over here to the left to where you see this bill and stroke these two squares on top of - each other, - and you can double click the square on. - You have all these colors to choose from. - You're gonna have hex colors. - If you want a specific color. - I am gonna choose Gray because I like great. - And then you could see that fill Color has changed. - And now I want to change my stroke to blue. - I know you could see it's changed a blue. - Okay, - well, - how about I do a blue fill that exact blue pill and exact green stroke? - I could just click this area here, - and it's gonna swap the fill color and the stroke color like Okay, - well, - I can't really see the red stroke, - So also, - I'm going to select the shape I'm going to go up here to my control panel. - And I'm gonna where it says stroke, - I'm gonna select stroke weight and move up to, - like, - five points. - And you could see that the stroke weight has thickened. - Just great. - Okay, - so I'm not really feeling that green color anymore. - Maybe I just want no color because you can see, - like, - no matter what background you go on the green remains. - So you just have that color selected. - Not like this. - Like, - not the stroke on top. - Because then that will remove the stroke if you press the nun, - but in here. - But instead I want toe select the pill and then press none. - And you could see that the green was removed from the square. - And no matter where I bring square now, - it is really empty. - It's not like hiding a white filled. - Then I'm gonna teach you arrangements. - This is a very helpful tool when you're designing, - because it actually it helps you design live. - It does a lot of work for you. - So right now everything is laid out. - I can see every single shape. - So what if I begin putting the shapes together at once? - Well, - you can start seeing that certain shapes are barely seen anymore. - I can't even see the yellow one. - Then this blue is taking up all the space and I can't like I could see some of square in - the back. - So the way, - if you want to rearrange these, - like, - say, - I want the Yellow Square to come a friend do you select the Yellow Square with your - selection tool? - You right, - click go to arrange and I'm going to bring that to the front Here. - You see that? - Okay, - this this blue circles the biggest circle. - I want to send it to the back. - I'm gonna select it, - I'm gonna arrange it, - and then I'm gonna send it to the back, - and you could see that it moved throughout the layers. - And this is all I'm gonna be teaching you for this first lesson. - It's very simple, - but it will help you a lot to just get oriented with how these shapes, - um, - act with certain certain commands and things like that. - Like coloring stroke, - weight, - things like that.
5. Unit 1 Deliverable: - This is the delivery ble that I'm gonna be asking from you. - We're gonna have a little project. - What I want you to dio is to create a shape, - any item, - any noun it gives food. - It could be like in Elektronik. - Whatever. - But I want you to just use shapes. - So, - like one time I made an egg and I was super excited. - But you can You can make anything using the circles and squares. - Rectangles, - ovals. - What have you so a really easy one. - If I were gonna make one, - it can literally just be this circle copy and paste it and then copy and paste it again. - Bigger and all organists. - I'm done. - But, - I mean, - it could be this technically counts. - But if you want to be a little more fancy with it, - if you wanna do a little bit more work, - I can. - Or if I should do more work to demonstrate this, - I can start building inside the face of my Mickey here, - creating just a Siris of ovals and circles and just adjusting the shapes. - Now I'm gonna use the direct selection tool and select this bottom anchor point. - Move it down. - You can use your right left arrows to scoot things over. - And I'm just gonna create a very simple Mickey face. - Yea, - see. - And all I'm doing is copying, - pasting the same shapes. - And I'm taking this one. - I'm rotating it and I'm squishing it a little bit to make nos. - There you go. - It's just a simple that I'm gonna be selecting both of these eyes because I can be a little - too long and I'm just gonna move them up again. - The best way to learn illustrator is to just go at it. - Just start creating and using shapes to create images is probably the easiest and funnest - way to do stuff. - So there's Mickey Mouse, - which is your great It's fine. - We can also like, - I don't know, - make like a TV, - And I'm going to make a pink TV cause because that sounds fun. - And I'm going to slit my rounded rectangle tool and, - you know, - make shapes like that and the possibilities are endless. - I can't wait to see what you guys come up with. - I I made a lot of food whenever I did this project. - I don't know why I probably was always hungry but, - you know, - feel free to make make anything, - make a TV and a cereal box. - That's food. - Still that, - you know, - make a character on animal penguin and turn it in as your delivery ble. - And I can't wait to see what all of you guys come up with. - This is meant to be fun. - This is meant to be a really fun first project for you to make on illustrator. - And you're pretty much guaranteed something like cute and Schauble that you can show off to - your friends. - Okay, - so I can't wait to see what you guys come up with. - And don't forget to turn it in and I'll see you in unit two.
6. Unit 2.1: Introducing the Pen Tool: - Hey, - guys, - this is Mickey with unit two of Learning Adobe Illustrator for fashion with learning the - pen tool and other useful tips and tricks. - So in unit One, - we learned shapes. - So you have already created your deliverable. - You play around with shapes and everything like that. - Your master, - you've mastered the shapes and basic coloring. - Awesome. - So now we're gonna be moving on to the pen tool. - So here's the pendulum here. - Shortcut is P. - And you're thinking, - all right, - cool Will have a pen click and drag array. - And it will draw for me like, - OK, - go. - Well Oh, - Okay. - Well, - that didn't work. - I have his weird line here and I let go. - Um, - let's click again. - Okay, - so that's how you create a shape. - That's that was my first reaction. - The pen tool. - Um, - there are other, - you know, - tools out there like brush where you could just draw like a normal brush. - But pencil is something altogether different. - But if you master it, - you will learn to love it. - So here's how the pencil works. - Click wants to make an anchor point. - Click again immediately after that without pressing anything else. - You create a line between another anchor point. - Every click you make creates an anchor point, - as you can see, - So with a pencil you can create straight lines like I was doing earlier. - Straight C Exactly lines. - But you can also create purse by putting a point and then clicking and dragging and you see - you conform curves. - And this is where learning the pen tool can get pretty tricky. - A quick, - ah quick thing that you might get stuck with if you're working on a pencil shaped and - you're like, - OK, - sweet, - I love it, - I'm done. - Look out! - Oh, - no Click out, - I cant click out. - Quick tip is, - if you're making a shape with the pen tool and then you want to make a new shape, - press p again and it will help you start over. - The pen tool also creates close shapes, - so I'm gonna add a filled to the shape here, - and you could see this is what's going on. - And it's crazy. - Well, - I wanted to be a closed shape. - I wanted to be like a weird, - boring looking thing, - So if you just click on the first point, - you could see like I'll start over I'm about to click on this point here, - and you could see that a little circle has popped up. - That means it's going to close the shape and the Phil has been contained in this shape. - Let me do that again. - I'm gonna make cycle weird, - angular shape on right here. - You can see that there's no stroke from this point to this point Is a close shape with a - little circle popped up? - I'm gonna close it. - Okay, - Well, - how about I have this open shape and I'm doing other things over here? - I come back and I want to close the shape. - I'm gonna go to my pencil. - I'm gonna click on the anger that I want to start with where you could see that little - slash is where you're starting off from. - And then I'm gonna close it in. - There. - You get you get the little circle again, - and this becomes close shape, - which behaves like any of the other shapes that you made in Unit one. - And you can at the points things like that you could move stuff around, - but with the pencil, - you can do some different things, - So I'm going to go back to my pen tool. - Another feature of the pencil has is adding and subtracting anchor points. - So with my shape selected, - I'm gonna either select it with any tool direct selection. - Um, - I'm gonna go to my pen tool, - and I'm gonna delete this shape here. - I'm not really liking this dip. - I'm just gonna press the anchor and you could see a little minus sign popped up next to the - pen. - There goes that eliminates. - So Okay, - how about I add some anchor points and I can create another shape? - You just click on the line, - you could see a little plus sign pop up, - and that lets you know that you can add a point. - Now that I've got down those points, - I'm gonna get my direct selection tool. - I'm gonna move my anchor points, - and you could see I'm creating whole different shape now just from adding and subtracting - those few points say you have this shape and you want to add a curve to it. - And you're like, - OK, - well, - should I just start over making entire new shape? - Well, - you don't have to. - Which is the great thing. - Another trick that the pen tool has a feature that has his convert Anger Point tool. - If you select that by holding down, - uh, - pencil and then select into the bottom convert Anger Point tool, - you couldn't select any anchor. - And I'm just going to do this. - Just click and drag An wasn't a click and drag and see what happens. - Suddenly the handles pop up and you can see I am creating curves from that point that was - originally just two segments together, - and from then I could just select my my direct selection tool and adjust those curves. - And I say I I want this segment to remain straight, - but I want to create a dome over here. - One way you could do that is to again use the convert anchor point to make the handles show - up. - You could select this handle, - then put it back to the anchor point, - so this remains straight line. - But now you can adjust. - So now you can attest this handle specifically, - even if both handles air still showing like, - say, - I got this going on and I just want to create a more dramatic curve here. - I can just move this anchor and the other anchor will remain the same. - And if you want toe, - create straight lines. - If you want to remove all curves, - you could just simply click on a point with the convert anchor tool and eliminate all terms - like bam. - I know this might seem like a lot to absorb right now, - but this is basically it. - This is this is what the pennant Wilken dio, - and it's just a matter of mastering and learning like the rules of using the pen tool. - Um, - in order Teoh create all, - like different kinds of shapes and things like that. - So I want you to play around with that, - Um, - I am providing guys with a document a pdf called pen tool practice, - and I just laid out a few like curves and little things for you to go around. - All you have to do is just follow the guide. - Make sure your stroke is set to just one color. - You don't need to fill and just follow the directions I have here. - Click to set the first anger and just follow the guides and create the shapes that I have - created free here just so you can get oriented, - go through this many times and then you will know the pencil before you know it
7. Unit 2.2: Align & Distribution: - for the rest of unit two, - I'm going to be teaching you some more. - Um, - some more functions of illustrator that you can use That will be very helpful when you're - designing a garment flat. - So the first thing I'm gonna teach you is a line which can be found over here on the side. - It's like two bars and a line, - or you can also go toe window and the line view it there. - Um, - so I'm just gonna create a series of shapes, - Gonna create lots of circles. - Four circles, - you know, - it. - Let's have one more circle, - and they're all pretty random here. - He's gonna put him in a different border, - like, - Okay, - so what if I was making buttons, - so to say Okay, - well, - there you go. - I got it. - I got my circles in line. - Well, - kind of big. - So I'm gonna make him smaller, - like, - OK, - so it's gonna take so long for me to just align them together like this and every single - button? - No. - And then they're not spaced evenly. - Well, - this is where a line comes to play to say I have all my shapes, - all random, - really know stuff like that you can select all the shapes with your selection tool. - Okay, - well, - first thing I want to show you is a line to so right now it's set to align our board, - meaning if I press horizontal line center, - it will align it in the middle of the art board. - See how that works. - Say, - this group is over here again. - If I lined to center, - it would move to center. - But if it's over there and I want it to remain over there, - But I wanted to align. - I can go align to selection and press the line horizontally center and they're ago. - It's like not in the move our board, - but it's still aligned with the tools itself. - Also, - the other last selection here is aligned to key object. - So let's say I want all of these circles to align to this circle here. - I'm going to change the color to distinguish it, - distinguish it to blip. - I mean, - it's like all of these, - and with all of them selected, - I'm gonna press a second time on the blue circle and you could see another thicker blue - outline has outlined the circle. - And once I do that if I press, - um, - center align horizontal lines and here it will all align to that circle specifically, - and it doesn't have to be that circle. - I could do it to the circle and you could see if I do it, - it moves over there. - So that's just explaining what a line to means that now that I have everything online, - let's say I want them to be spaced evenly apart, - and it's gonna take too long for me toe, - you know, - move them all together. - So I'm gonna move this down a little bit. - I'm going to select all of them, - make sure it's aligned to selection, - and I'm gonna use distribute objects, - and I'm going to distribute them vertically. - Like so here you go. - And learning what each of these do. - Is I one of my next. - My next suggestions for use two. - Just have these Siris of shapes, - placed them in all kinds of crazy positions, - select him and then press a button and see what it does. - So, - for example, - um, - horizontal line right will make all of them a line to the very farthest on the right shape - . - Um, - horizontal. - So left will make it a line to the shape on the left. - There you go. - Also, - that was in alliances election. - But if you lined our board, - it's going to the line to the right side of our board board's gonna line to the left side - of the art board and so on. - It was also vertical line center, - which, - if you press that and a line will keep the line our board, - it will align everything. - It's horizontal, - but also vertical, - Um, - and one of my circles missing thirties. - And also the same thing goes for distributing the objects. - If I want the even spacing horizontally, - if I press horizontal distribute center, - they will be aligned evenly. - But in the are bored, - so just play around with, - um, - the align function. - It's super helpful when you're doing things like buttons or specific patterns like Coca dos - and stuff like that. - I love this tool or, - if you want things, - just seal line up. - It doesn't have to be about spacing all the time, - so that is the ally in tool
8. Unit 2.3: Reflect & Grouping: - next tool I'm gonna teach you is appreciate.
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Unit 3.1: The Mirroring Technique Part 1: - Hey, - guys, - it's me, - Mickey here with ah Unit three of Learning Adobe Illustrator for fashion with garment flats - for tops. - So in this unit, - I'm going to be spending all the time just going over the certain challenges and steps that - you have to take when you're making a top. - So tops in this case, - I will teach you shirts like a normal T shirt or a button up shirt. - But I will leave it to your interpretation to how you can use it. - This is just how you begin with a top. - So he took my last class also here on skill share. - Basic garment flats. - I provided these crow keys here. - They're gonna be attached again in this class, - and they are for you to use freely. - You do whatever you want with them. - They make a great template, - and I'm gonna show you how to use it now. - So if you save it to your desktop, - which I have it saved here, - save it to some folder. - Just remember where you have it. - You're gonna start out on adobe illustrating in the press command or control end and create - a new document. - I'm gonna call this Unit three and you're gonna have it sent a letter size and make sure is - portrait Orientation press. - Okay, - there it is. - We're gonna go back to file. - We're gonna go back to We're gonna hit place here. - I'm gonna go to my desktop where we have this saved. - And today I will make amends T shirt. - So I'm just gonna go to male croak. - E pdf. - I'm gonna make sure link is checked off and template is also checked off, - and I'm gonna press place And what that does and press OK again when this little puppet - shows up. - Well, - that does it. - Places it on your art board for you. - And as you could see, - it's kind of transparent. - It's lighter. - It's on a completely different level, - or layer, - and it's already been locked, - so you could just start working, - which is great. - So again, - if you took my last class, - which was basic garment flats, - I showed you something called the mirroring technique. - And I'm going to be going over it briefly here again that we build an entire or as much as - we possibly can off one side of the garment and then we flip it and that saves us just a - world of time. - So to begin with a shirt you begin at center friend, - if you're familiar with pattern making, - this is where you begin drafting all patterns. - So I'm gonna start at center front, - middle. - I'm gonna give him, - like, - a normal krunic neckline. - I dragged out with shift toe, - create a straight curve, - and I'm just going to click to where the neck meets the shoulder and just adjust that curve - . - There you go. - Next thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go over to the shoulder and I'm gonna make the shape - of the shoulder seam. - Remove this feel really quick so you could see what I'm working on. - Now this is that where, - like, - this is a really great example to see where the crow he comes in handy. - I'm going to trace around the arm hole seem and as you could see where the sleeve I could - just trace where his armies and go around and I'm pressing if you could You could see like - what we learned in unit two about clicking again on your anchor to remove any other curves - that it's gonna be implementing. - You want to start it with a brand new segment, - you could just end it points as you go so that I'm gonna go down. - I'm gonna do side seam. - I'm gonna make it a straight line because he doesn't want no curve. - And then I'm gonna go back to the hem at centre front and make a slight Kurt. - There we go. - That's your body and gonna put a fill on it. - You could see that we've got this going on, - so don't reflect just yet. - We're gonna work on the sleeve, - So I guess I'll just make this a standard short sleeve. - Zuma been here? - I'm going to start by just tracing over the arm and just giving him a nice sleeve shape. - And then I'm gonna close it up close of the shape. - Always close your shapes. - You're looking at this in your leg. - That's not right. - Instead of having the trace exactly this blue line that I had, - which indicates my my body shape on the bottom, - I was gonna click this and I'm gonna arrange it to the back, - which is what we learned. - Send the backs. - And there you go. - And then after that, - you could just add it. - More points, - click And you the arrow keys to kind of adjust the shape. - All right, - cool. - Now we're gonna make the caller, - which is just gonna be a line without a fill and just gonna trace it. - So that's one way to do it. - If you wanted to be really precise, - you can take the segment and select it with your direct selection Tool command. - See copy on a place, - or I'm gonna show you a trick. - Right now it's called paste in place. - Command F. - So it pasted it exactly in place, - if you could see. - So if I were to just press command V, - it will show up over here. - But if I press command f, - it showed up exactly where I had copied it. - And after that, - you could just move it down a little bit and then just move the curve to match where you - want it, - Teoh. - Now, - that might have not have been the greatest example of use of Commander control after, - believe me, - it comes in handy. - And I think I have another example for you a little later on, - which is great. - All right, - so now we're gonna be adding scenes. - So seeing line stitch lines and stuff when we're gonna add it here on our sleeve first. - And this is where pace in place comes in handy. - We're gonna use our direct selection tool to select copy and then paste it in place and - then just scooted upwards and you could see it already created the curve of the line. - I'm just gonna remove the fill from this, - and you could even screwed it over so that it's not going over the edge. - Get in their closer. - There you go. - So this is a straight line, - but I wanted to be a stitch line like this. - So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go to the right hand side of Adobe Illustrator hit this - little icon here. - That is stroke. - You're gonna have all these options for your struggle. - Eight. - And I'm gonna press dashed line. - And it instantly changed it to a dash line. - But you can customize your dash and gap with, - so I'm just gonna do, - like, - a three dash and a three Gap. - Yeah, - uh, - maybe a little closer to two. - Yeah, - that's fine for me. - I even go to and anyway I'm also gonna change the weight of it. - 2.5. - So it's thinner so you can distinguish between the outline of the garment and also the - stitch. - So sometimes people have two lines here on the sleeve and you're thinking, - Oh, - no, - the sleeve is the stitch lines or scooting over again over the body. - So I'm just gonna select all that and again arrange and send it back. - I'm gonna do my hem line, - selecting the bottom him with my direct selection tool pacing in place with command f - excluding it up a bit. - And now I'm gonna use my eyedropper tool instead of having to go back here. - Press dash Like what? - If you want that to be if it's gone and you're like, - Oh, - no, - it takes too long. - Here's another great wayto use the shortcut. - Is your gonna be using this eyedropper tool over here on the left? - The command is I for I for I and I'm just gonna select this other line over here and you - could see that my my segment over here took the attributes of the stitch line that I had - made earlier Again, - I'm gonna copy and paste in place and make to just great. - And we can add one more here just for it's good. - Good. - Okay, - so last one we're gonna do is this sleeve, - uh, - the's take a little bit of Eddings. - You could see it doesn't reach all the way down on the bottom. - So I'm just gonna drag it there, - and I have to just my curve. - Using my handle. - You use that. - This is the beauty of the croquet is just keeps you in proportion.
10. Unit 3.2: The Mirroring Technique Part 2: - So now that I have completed everything that I can for one side of the garment, - I'm gonna select all of it. - I'm going to Right click. - I'm gonna transform. - Reflect a copy. - Vertical, - a vertical reflection on the copy. - And it created a copy for you. - So while all of this is selected, - you're gonna drag it and you could drag holding shifts. - So you know that it's staying in line and you're just gonna let the guide snap you to meet - the ends of the first half that you made, - like, - OK, - great. - I created a shirt. - But if you notice if I select this part of the body, - it's still separate from this side of the body. - Like like that. - I want this to be one solid piece. - I'm gonna teach you a trick right now. - We're gonna go up to center from the very first point that you made. - You could see that this is where two points should meet. - I want only one point here. - I'm going to select my lasso tool, - which is cute rescue for the hockey. - I'm gonna circle around the two points that I want to join. - And now I'm going to join them. - And I'm gonna press, - command or control Jay to join join And what you can see that that does is that it joined - this to be one solid piece. - It's not closed yet, - so don't get confused. - But it's now one piece. - And the reason why this got brought up is because the ordering of layering and stuff like - that. - So you have to play around with layering later, - which is a great exercise. - Now I'm going to close the bottom point because you can see that these points also don't - meet. - If I drag it out, - show you they don't meet. - So I'm gonna last woman. - I'm gonna join them together. - And now this truly is its own closed shake. - Now, - to get seem lines back together, - I'm just gonna reorder some things. - I'm gonna send this backward. - It's gonna take a while. - So I'm going to use a hockey, - which is Commander Control left Bracket, - and I'm just gonna let it go back. - You could see that this sleeve came to the front, - so I'm just gonna select all this and then send it to the back. - There you go. - So there's more things that we have to close. - You have to remember to close everything. - Everything. - So these two here aren't closed. - So I'm just going to select those with my last tools Command J. - Move that, - Phil. - Here's another open one. - The stitch line Command J That and you could see the stitching adjusted because it knows - now that it's one shape instead of looking kind of long, - we're gonna go down here. - These two need to be joined together. - A glass of it. - Command J join last of these points, - man J for joint. - The last step for this shirt, - it looks almost done. - It's gonna be great. - Soon we're gonna do is add the back of the shirt because for the crow key yeah, - makes sense. - Uh, - you know, - his back is behind him, - so you're not going to see it, - But then you're not gonna always have a crow key visible when you're turning in your flats - to somebody. - So if it's just gonna be a normal T shirt, - I just remove the visibility of this layer. - You're gonna want the back of a shirt visible. - So what we're gonna do is we're just gonna create nice Cymbal shape. - Gonna start over here. - Gonna connect where my neck line for my in the neck meets the shoulder. - We're going to go to the middle. - You can use these guides is gonna hold down shift to make an even curve. - Oh, - it's on a dash line. - But I'll fix that later. - Go to the other side and then create this nice little shape here. - And I'm going to use my eyedropper tool. - Take the attributes of the main body of the shirt. - Now I'm gonna click it right. - Click, - arrange and send it back. - There you go. - You have the back of your shirt. - Simple. - Is that do you want to get really fancy? - And if you wanted more practice with the pencil, - you can spend time making your ribbing here for the neckline. - Uh, - I mean, - go ahead. - If you totally feel like it like I can I can show you some tricks later on, - or I will show you some tricks later on how to make that easy for you. - But for now, - this is what we're making. - So there you go. - You have your own T shirt? - Yeah,
11. Unit 3.3: Going Further - Long Sleeve Button Down Shirt Part 1: - Now we're going to be making a long sleeve button up shirt again. - Start at center front. - Same way that you started the T shirt center friend, - Make curve to the shoulder. - You're making the body. - It's gonna go around armful straight down. - It's gonna be a little longer. - Now I'm going to make a series of curves. - So selecting this point here, - I'm gonna pull down option and drag with shift so it already starts out. - Occur for you. - Then you click to where you want and you create a nice bell shaped you can edit bell shape - . - This is just gonna be a really simple caller. - Start packed where you want the rise to be and make a simple little rectangle gonna make it - curved. - It's like a curvy rectangle. - You could just edit the points to where you'd like it to lie on the shirt. - Now we're gonna begin making the sleeve. - It's gonna be the same as the T shirt, - but we're gonna go farther down. - I started my shoulder. - I'm gonna go around the arm again. - Little curve at the shoulder, - a little curve at the elbow and bring it down to the cup. - Gonna make a slight curve for the cuff and then bring it back up and then closed by shape. - Now I can edit the cuff little bit. - However I want to I'm gonna click on this. - I'm gonna range and send it to the back so I could see what I'm working with. - So looks like I'm finished with the first half of the body and was gonna add stitching - before I move everything over and make some adjustments. - Gonna copy this segment like so. - And then I'm just gonna just it a little bit too fit the edges. - Nice. - Gonna make my seam lines here, - Take the attributes of stitch line of me before I know I'm moving pretty fast through this - , - but hopefully you guys keeping up And I am totally open answering any and all questions. - You can also make my stitch line for college. - This is very nice. - Just line it up. - Just play around with your points and I'm gonna make the hem. - So this is a very it's a more detailed curve to make If I were to just make it by hand, - so I'm just gonna copy it, - paste it place, - screwed it up they got that part. - That's stitch line. - The differences between a button up shirt and a T shirt is that this doesn't actually have - to be a close shape. - The body does not have to be a close shave because button up shirts do not have this. - As a result, - that looks like you're wearing a sweater vest over a button up shirt. - So this difference is you're still using the mirroring concept, - but you don't have to join the shapes together. - So I'm gonna close this shape here. - And the centre front is where buttons lie. - So you know that the seam of a button placket doesn't lie, - actually, - on centre front. - So I'm going to scoot this over just a couple points before I mirror my two sides. - I mean, - at a yoke just cause you look nice. - Well, - you seen all right? - Just just for detailing.
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Unit 3.4: Going Further - Long Sleeve Button Down Shirt Part 2: - Now I'm going to copy everything, - select everything I'm going to reflect and I'm gonna copy. - And now I'm going to drag it over, - and I'm going to drag it to where? - The two points of the collar meat. - Because then that is center friend. - You know McGinnis, - You have a button up shirt. - Now you just have to give a little bit. - You have to make some adjustments to make it more of a button up shirt, - for example. - Just for for my own fancy. - I like to move this down so you can tell you can distinguish really that there is two flaps - instead of one continuous body. - I like to make the boat colorize over here, - so I just make a simple shape, - like a because you're not gonna really see it. - It's gonna be underneath the caller, - give us like curve. - I know that I am making a stitch again. - I'm going to take the attributes this but I'm going to select the collar pieces and send - them front so that he hides in the back. - Yeah, - that's awesome. - Good job. - So one of the things that we didn't make first and then mirror over his pocket. - So I'm gonna show you how to make a pocket before you continue. - One way to do it is you could really just start with a square using the shape, - tool, - rectangle tools and then use your pen tool while it's still selected to add anchor in the - middle and then move that anchor down using your arrow keys. - And there you go. - You have a talking simple is that after that, - you could just a copy lines to make your stitch lines. - Or you could just draw your stitch lines by following around the bucket. - Very nice. - So here's a great example of using groups while you're working. - Say, - I want to move the pocket down. - But I don't wanna have to, - like, - move this and then move every single stitch line. - I'm gonna just one time going to select the pocket. - I'm gonna select stitch lines and then I'm gonna press command G and group together. - Now on. - All I have to do is press anywhere within being group with my selection tool, - and I can move it around at will. - Great. - Nice pocket. - Often, - we're gonna finish up the button placket, - so I'm gonna select the edge of the T shirt or the button up shirt. - I'm gonna coffee that line. - I'm gonna place it. - Remove any Phil, - and I'm gonna scoot it over to where it should be over here. - So that's about rate. - Make sure the line matches down here. - Good. - All right. - And see, - now you have your bed Black it awesome. - Lastly, - I'm going to just add the back of this collar again. - You just start at the edge of the color and create that back shape and close your sheep and - then select it. - Arrange it and send it back. - Well, - uh, - again, - um, - this is not as detailed as it should be, - but this is just the basics. - There's there's other details that we should be adding, - but we're not gonna get into that right now, - so I last time to show you his buttons. - So remember when I taught you alignment? - Gonna make a little little button, - See if that works like a button. - Yeah, - that's fine. - Gonna make it dinner. - Gonna drag it out first, - and I'm gonna create needle holes. - Teoh show that it indeed is. - And this is where we get to play with a line for the first time. - Let's play around. - Miss Lee pulls in about home. - I'm gonna group all of these together so that this group aligns with main button circle. - This is the line it to center where you go at your button. - And after all that, - I'm gonna greet the whole thing. - So now I just have a little bit in the playground. - So now you're gonna place your buttons. - So I want a button up here, - little big, - so I'm gonna make it smaller, - But I'm gonna be Now I'm gonna a copy paste all my buttons texting again. - How many buttons I'm gonna have? - Probably due late six or seven. - There you go. - And what would normally look like a nightmare in trying to get these aligned is gonna turn - into something super easy. - I'm just gonna select all of my buttons. - I'm gonna select the top button again because that's the button that I want all of the rest - of buttons to align to. - And then I'm gonna press horizontal line center and Mullah, - they're all in line. - I'm gonna distribute them evenly by vertical distribute center. - There you go. - You see, - they shipped it over and Now all the buttons are falling down evenly. - And then the last thing I like to do because buttons it's very tedious. - But all of them, - we're gonna have some, - like group inception in here. - You're already groups within a group in another group, - and I'm gonna group this button to be its own group in Africa. - Anybody, - All the buttons air selective. - So there you go. - Now you have a T shirt, - and now you have a button up shirt. - So my deliverable that I will be requesting from you for this unit is to create five shirts - . - They could be button up shirts. - They could be T shirts, - but just make five of, - uh and they all have to be different in some way. - So, - like a short sleeve button up shirt, - a V neck T shirt, - a Raglan T shirt, - anything like that. - And I want to see five room just in black and white. - Don't You don't have to color yet, - but I also want all of them to have stitch lines. - I want one of them to have buttons so you can practice this button process here, - and I want to make sure I want you guys to make sure that you have the backs toe all of - them like so if you want to color anything, - color the back piece. - The Phil a slight gray gives it a nice little little effect there. - Okay, - so that's your deliverable for unit three and I will see you and unit for
13. Unit 4.1: Designing Flats for Bottoms Part 1: - it's making here again When the unit for the last unit of Learning Adobe Illustrator for - fashion for this introduction to garment flats. - And I'm gonna be teaching you garment flats for bottoms Now it needed three. - We made T shirts and a button up shirt for men's, - and now we're gonna be making bottoms for women. - Um, - it's It's the same concept we're gonna be doing mirroring like before, - but it's gonna be a little different. - So we're gonna create a new document. - Let's go through this process again. - Gonna call this unit or bottoms. - Make sure you're on letter size and portrait orientation Press. - OK, - go to file Goto place. - Go to where you saved your crow keys and select the female croquet template and select link - and template and press place and then press. - Okay, - there you go. - Our template has been placed, - as you can see here, - and we're already on a new layer. - So we're gonna begin with Creating a skirt skirt is the easiest thing you can use. - His bottom you can make for a woman. - So we're gonna begin. - Maybe let's do a pencil skirt gonna begin at centre front like we did for T shirts. - But now, - at the hem line, - I'm just gonna follow the curve of the crow key, - Which is again why? - The kruky is awesome. - And I'm gonna make it knee length. - It's gonna be a very, - um, - modest scared pencil. - Scary here. - Going to make a little bit more of a curve right there. - There you go. - That's already half of your skirt. - So I'm just gonna create my my waistband by copying and pasting in place like we did in - last unit. - And then just anything that line to fit to the edge, - like just like that. - Very simple. - And I'm gonna add my stitch lines. - Gonna go over here. - Dash lines already set. - So, - what I wanted to be gonna do half a point for the stroke weight and I removed Phil, - go make that again. - Appear. - Sure. - Go. - And that's it. - That's really it. - Um, - if you wanted Teoh, - you can make a pocket, - so I'm gonna make a pocket here. - Would say it has a little slash pocket. - This is one way fills really help to cheat what you're making. - So you don't actually have to make an entirely new shape. - I just have to make sure it overlaps appropriately over another shape and see, - There you go. - It looks exactly like a slash pockets, - not the best slash pocket. - Okay with that. - But it is one. - There you go. - So now we're ready to mirror just like that so fast We're writing mirrors gonna sludge all - that we're going to right click, - transform and then reflect and copy Drag it over just like we did before. - And there you go. - And we're gonna join the scenes or the points together like we did in the last video. - So select the first top to join. - It's like the bottom two Create one solid shape And now it's all weird looking So I'm gonna - select this right click arrangements into the back. - We could see everything else getting great. - I'm gonna work on my stitch lines. - You could see that it's not joined because there is this doubly long stitch right here, - you know, - selected with last. - So enjoying it again. - The hot key for lasso is cute. - Going to select these points here. - They need to be joined with lasso joinem on last my stitched down here should be right - there. - Yep. - And join those together. - All right. - See, - now you just made your first pencil skirt, - and you can add whatever design that you want here. - If you did want to design, - um, - now I'm gonna be showing you how to create the back of this. - So before I do that, - I'm gonna add the back of the skirt, - just like I did for the T shirts. - Select it, - and then I'm going to send it back. - Simple. - Is that in that? - Great. - There you go. - Now you have your skirt. - Super simple to make. - You can add whatever stitching you want or things like that. - But that's basically how you make a very simple
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Unit 4.2: Designing Flats for Bottoms Part 2: - so I'm gonna group all of us together and move to the side. - And now we're gonna make a pair of pants. - The pair of pants is gonna be just as difficult as making the button up shirt, - Uh, - for men, - because you're marrying things and there's gonna be a lot of detail. - Also, - just like the button up shirt. - You don't need to join the two halves together and I'll show you how so Right now, - just creating the centre front of my pant. - It's gonna be a low waisted. - Make it a little bit more higher, - right? - Like that. - You can adjust that curve later, - and I'm gonna again trace the curve of the leg. - Very nice will be like like a street ish kind of relaxed, - I suppose. - Not not relaxed its straight ish, - but it's not skinny. - Yeah, - not cleaning leggings here, - But we're creating nice form fitting, - James. - I'm going to remove my fill just so I could see what I'm working with. - Continue building up on the leg. - You think I'm satisfied with that? - And then we're gonna close the shape so, - you know, - put the fill back and see what kind of pants we've got going on here, - So I kind of like this curves on. - Remove this curve by just believing that point. - Sure. - I'm fine with that. - They look like but like, - trousers. - Kind of sure we're making traveling now it's gonna edit those points on, - maybe use it at the bottom of it to make more. - Okay, - now that we got that done, - we have this close shape and I'm just adjusting things that I know I want to adjust - beforehand creates a perfect not perfect, - but I mean, - it'll dio. - Now we're gonna add the waistband again. - We're gonna copy the top of it, - paste it in place and screwed it down. - Teoh, - whatever size you want, - your waistband a B makes you move your fill. - You also get weird coloring problems. - Afterwards, - I will demonstrate in the next class I'm gonna add another slash pocket using the same - method I did for the pencil skirt. - Because it's the easiest pocket to demonstrate. - Doing jeans, - of course, - is gonna be a little bit different. - You don't have toe overlap like this year to do a gene. - Say you just make this pocket shape. - Add stitching around this end and there you have a pocket, - but I'm gonna be doing Hey, - is that that's nice at this point, - if you wanted to add belt loops to you could do that. - You can go to your rectangle tool, - make a rectangle, - bring it over to where you want to place it and just rotate it, - please it You just adjust the shape after that. - Right now, - we're gonna add stitching before we near all this over based in please gonna go grab this - stitch line over here using my I dropped tool back to the front and again, - I'm just going through and adding stitch lines I'm gonna add, - especially for the pocket. - Then I'm gonna go down my hem. - That's stitching here. - It's a stitch line. - Lastly, - I'm gonna do my belt loops here, - which we're just gonna have to little stitch lines inside. - We're doing this very all right. - You are done done with one side of the likes and that we're gonna do is select everything - just like before, - right? - Click transform reflects on, - reflect vertically and copy it on while holding down shift. - Drag it over to where the guides naturally let it. - You see that you're holding it on its snaps. - Perfect. - You have pants. - Amazing. - And now, - just like what we did for the button up shirt. - We're gonna differentiate a little bit, - just so you could see, - um, - what's going on here? - That's different than the other side. - So they don't confuse it as, - like, - a like leggings that have fake button placket on the front or like, - later on the front, - we're just gonna screwed it over using our arrow keys, - and he's gonna screwed it up just slightly. - It's very slightly, - just so they could see that it is, - in fact, - two different pieces. - Now, - I'm gonna add our little stitching. - That implies that there is, - um, - Zipper, - I'm gonna start over here, - is gonna go straight down a slight curve. - There you go. - Use my eyedropper tool to make it essentially and that does it. - Now, - you just have to make a button. - Gonna make a super simple, - very simple tax. - But maybe it's the button. - Place it in the center, - Gonna make a little bit more detail into the button. - So looks nice frutos through together and place it where you would please. - But now you have it. - There's a pair of pants. - Very simple pair of trousers in a very simple pencil skirt. - But this is how easy it is once you get the method down and once you know what you're gonna - be making and what details to add, - how easy it is to create government flats and the last step before I forget, - because I would be mad at myself if I ever got this two days to add the back of the camp - has just like we did before on all of the garments, - always at the back, - because it's not just a floating piece of front garment, - its entire garment laying down. - There you go. - You did it. - That's great. - So deliverable for this is just the same as delivery ballin you three. - I want you to create five different bottoms now for women. - I mean, - you have, - like, - such a variety of things, - making you make skirts getting an a line skirt or anything like that, - like jeans, - trousers, - anything for men. - You know, - you could make shorts. - You can make different kinds of pants. - You could also make trousers, - or you can make like a drawstring waist things like that. - Whatever it is, - you choose. - Just make five baden bottoms black and white again, - and then just turn him in. - Show him to the class and just keep practicing. - Practice makes perfect. - You're on your way to knowing how to create your own garment flat. - Thank you guys, - for taking this class. - It has been awesome. - I hope that, - um I didn't move too fast for you guys. - If you have any questions, - any questions whatsoever, - feel free to contact me and my email Michaela rohaas at yahoo dot com or Mickey at beta - brand dot com or just contact me here. - Three still share. - I am willing to answer any and all questions so we can get through this together. - Okay. - See you. - Bye.
Mickaela Roxas, Graphic Design, Calligraphy
