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1. Intro To Your Class: Have you ever had an idea for a digital illustration and then downloaded and
opened the software to make it and thought, Shoot. Yeah, that was me too when I
started my design journey. Hi, I'm Milla. I'm
a graphic designer, and I started to sing. I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't know everything
about Atollustrator, which brought them did something or when
I needed to start. So when I got more comfortable
with Ato Wellustrator, my designs went crazy. It's insane how much I grow. So right now I'm helping creative beginning designers to understand Adobe Illustrator. So with this class, I'm going to teach
you how to learn and use Adobe Illustrator so you can make all those
amazing artworks. From scratch, after this class. In this class, I will teach you everything you need to know from basic elements to how to
make a poster design. From reviewing fundamental
tools to text effects, shapes, patterns, everything you need to know to work in
Adobe Illustrator. In this class, I will show you my tips how I like to work. What you need to remember
to make your work easier and just to have fun because that's the
most important thing. If you have fun,
everything will be. Okay, nothing is wrong. I've practiced a lot, I make
errors, and make mistakes. That's how you learn.
Push those buttons, let's see what you
can do and what it does and what you don't like. And let's get started because
I'm excited for this class. I hope you are too. So let's go.
2. Class Orientation: Welcome to class, as you can imagine a lot of
things you need to learn before you become an Adobe Illustrated
master. But don't worry. I have everything chunked out for you in all of these lessons. This means that if
you're a beginner, you can start by the
basics. So lesson one. If you're already familiar
with Adobe Illustrator, you can choose what
you want to learn. So if you want to
learn how to make abstract shapes or how
to make a pattern, you can choose those. But I will take you from A to Z. Called the whole beginning
of Ado Illustrator. In the following lessons, we will review the
basics of Illustrator, how to add shapes, texts, and color
to illustrations, how to add effects
to text and shapes, how to make abstract shapes, how to explore in
the program and create unique illustrations and how to complete a design and an awesome post with
everything you've learned. In each of my lessons, I will give you a project, an exercise to do to learn more what you learned
in that lesson. That's how you become more comfortable in
Adobe Illustrator. Instead of copying what
you've seen in my lessons, I want you to discover
your own style, your own colors, your own ideas. Your design will be 100% you. Be sure to share your
final project in Skillshare gallery so I
can see what you've made. The question, why only posters? That's because I
always design those. Because you can do a lot
of things in a poster, like text, shapes and
illustration, different colors. Everything you've
learned in my lesson, you can add in one
poster design. All you need for this lesson
is Adobe Illustrated. You can find that at Adobe site. You need to make an account
and then you can download it. A tip before we start
this class is to have a vibe or mold or a color palette
already in your head. Why? That makes it
easier than you start. If you're more colorful,
already choose your colors. If you're more black and white, then go with black and white. By the end of the
class, you have at least one completed
poster design and a lot of knowledge
about Adobe Illustrator. You're excited. Me too. Let's get started and
I'll see you soon.
3. Creating Files: If you start Illustrator, you need to make a vw. No board, your workspace. So let's see what
I'm going to do, what am I going to make. I'm going to make a poster.
So what size do I need? So I go to the tab print. It's right here. Then I see let's do a three. Then I'm going to call
it poster, Bs one. Let's see the width and height
is o I want one artboard. Bleed will keep that at zero. Then the most important part, what color mode
am I going to do? Am I going to print
this poster or will be only digital
on my social media. For me, it's going RGB, digital. Why? Because I want to show it on my YouTube
channel. Insagam account. So that's why I choose RGB. If you want to print your post, then you need to
choose CMYK. Why? Because CMYK is for work
you want to print out. It's like RGB is more colorful. You have more color options because you're
seeing it on screen. The color options are a little bit less than digital like RGB. Then I want my DPI 300 and
then you click Create. So now you have your
artboard ready to go. Let's do a recap of this class. The most important
thing you need to remember when you're
making your artboard or file in Adobe Illustrator is to know what is the endgame. So is it for digital
work or for print? So do you need to
use RGB or CMYK? RGB is for digital work, and CYK is for print. Don't mix that up.
Very important. If you don't know about size
you need for your artwork, search it on the Internet. You can find everything there. It's for Instagram. Is it a poster or a flyer, Google it, and then
you can find it. Always put your DPI on 300. This will make your
artwork sharper and it won't mess it up when you go to the
printer. Now it's your turn. Go set up your Canvas
in Illustrator, then join me for the next
lesson where we will learn all about the basics in Adobe
Illustrator. See you then.
4. Basic Selection and Drawing Tools: Now I have my working space. So if you take a look around, you see a lot of things things as in different
tools, different settings. It's a lot when you
first start, I know. But don't worry, we're going
through everything together. For each tool, I will
tell you it's name and keyboard shortcut
very handy for later. I will show you what
it is, where it is, and explain what you
can do with it and demonstrate a little
bit of the tool. The tools you'll be learning
in this lesson will become your most used tools
for Adobe Schrader. It will become
your best friends. So don't worry if you
don't know the first time, but later on, you can dream it. So the first thing
I'm going to show you is the hand
tool, shortcut edge. So you push it push or you
use the keyboard edge, or you go to the work part on the left
side of your screen. Here it is, you click it and you have a little hand.
You see it on your screen. What does this do? It's handy to rotate or move your artboard without moving your illustration
where you're working. If you press on your keypad or your mouse and you move it, you can see that you
can move your artboard, but you don't move
anything else. It's a safe tool for not
messing anything up. The next one is the direct
selection tool, shortcut A. If you use it, you
get a white arrow, or you can use it or
you can find it in YouTube bar way on top
in the second one. This, I'm going to
show you a quick tip. I select one point of your
square and you drag it down, you see that you're you see that you change one side of the square
and not everything. Me later for this one. The next one we'll
show you is Zoom two. Easy, you can zoom
in, you can zoom out. The shortcut is commands
plus for zooming in, if you want to zoom
out, is command min. That are the shortcuts. In your work to bars right
here next to the hand tool, you select it and you select where you want to
zoom in and there you go. Then the next one
is the lasso tool. Let me see where I can find it in my workspace bar for you. I know the shortcut is. There it is right under
the direct selection tool. What does this do? It's like something.
Not everything, but something you want. Let's say I want only the yellow squares that I'm going to
make right here. Let's make some. Make
it something easier. I want the yellow square
and the yellow circle. I take the less two, I'll make a selection around it. Any O Okay. That wasn't going as planned,
so let's do it again. Make a selection, and
there you have it. Selected both yellow and circle. Selection tool, the lesson two. Then your best bell is the pen. Let me see that is shortcut P, or you can find it here right
here, you invert to bar. And the pen tool is everything
illustrator almost, you can draw like this. You can make this, you can do a lot
of stuff with it. So what I just said,
you best spell. Then another one is like the cousin of your pen
to is the bras too. Shortcut B. You can find it
right here t bar. What it does is, what it says, the name, you can paint with it. Let's choose yellow and
I want to make a circle. There is, I want to
make a triangle. There is. It's like paint. Easy. The last one for this
lesson is the eraser tool. Shortcut is a little bit
longer than the other ones, if it's Shift E, you can find it right here like a little eraser in
your work too bar. And what you're
going to do is you can erase things
from your artwork. I'm going to errase
this part of my square. I don't like my circle, so let's do this and make it
there. You can erase stuff. Easy. Now it's your turn to
practice with these tools. Go with the flow,
see what you can do. Don't think about it, just do it because if you're
not ready with these things, it's a little bit complicated. So get to know each other. L dating. Just try out. Let's see where
it stops for you. But you still need to learn, go with the shortcuts to make it easier for you and
make your work faster. A little recap from this
lesson is learn the shortcuts. For pento it's B,
for brush, it's B, for the selection to its A, it makes you work
faster and easier. You don't need to search
in your B bar where is it? No, press one key and
you have it easy. If something gos wrong, if you don't like what you
just made, don't worry. Just use the shortcut command for Mac or control
for Windows and Z. That will undo your last step, or if you want to do unto
your last six steps, just keep on clicking. Try simple shapes first. So circle square,
start with the basics. If you have them, you can move on to something more difficult. And please don't make the same mistake I
did when I started. Learn the short cuts.
It saves your time. It saves so much searching
in your artwork. Just learn it or write it down. I just had when I started, I had to post it with
the most used shortcuts on my desk on my laptop. It makes life so much
easier. Trust me. Now that you know the
basics of using Sator, I can wait to show you what
other tools there are left. See you then.
5. Text Tools: In this video, I will
go through all tools is while working in Ado
Illustrator with text. So that means text tools. Of course. You can use those
in your designs to add text. But you have a few options while adding text
to your design. So don't worry. I will go through every tool
where you can find them, what they do, and how
you can use them. So a little demonstration
in Adobe itself. The first thing you're going to use for text
is the type tool. Shortcut is T, you push it in on your
screen and you have it, or you can find it in
your web tool bar. I have it, select it. I'll make an rectangle
and I release it. You see, I have a lot of text
right now in my rectangle. If I want to change
it, double click and select everything
and type what you want. So I will type, type two. Then it's a little bit small too small for
my poster design. So what I'm going to do
is on your right side. You see a lot of options right here is the
size of your text. Right now it's 12. Let's make that 72.
That's a lot better. That is the simple one, the most used one, the tattoo. Then we have the area type two. If you push the T a
little bit longer, you get a lot of options. You have the area type two, type on a path two,
vertical type two, vertical area type two, vertical type on the path
two and touch type two. It's a lot. I know. But let's go through them
together one by one. We already did Type two. Let's do the area type two. So you see right now, I just clicked it
and I get an error. It says, you click on a non
compound no masking pad to create text inside PED. Now. Okay, so I'm going to
make a square and do it again. Here you go. I made a square. I used every tattoo, select the square, and now my
text is in the same shape. So the shape changed in text. That's what it does.
Let's put it here, and we go to the next one. That's the type on a path to. That means I need a path. So we're going to take the
Pen tool from next class. I'll make a path. Go to the text
two, tag path two, and select my path. And there you go, my path
changed into text. Easy. Et's put that right here
and what's the next one? The vertical type two. It's a little bit different. You just click on your artboard and you
see that your text is not from horizontal,
but vertical. It says everything
you need to know. We put that right here. Then the vertical area type two, that's the same
as the first one, make a square, back
to the type two. And now, my square
changed into a text. What else do we have? The vertical type on path two, is the same as the last one. So let's make a path
again with the shortcut P. Go back to the text
tool, select path. And see why I don't see my text. Oh, it's too big. Let's change that up. You see right here,
it's too big. I made it 21 points and you
see the text right there. The last one we have guys, it's a touch type
two. I love this one. I'll take my text two, and I'll type. What
do I want to type? Let's say we do
type two is cool. Make it a little
bit better, bigger. Is up, go back to the text
to touch that to select B. There's one letter
and I can change it. Just the selected letter. You can do some funky
things with this. You see? You can
change the angle. You see right now. I need to make my square a
little bit bigger, sorry, make my square
a little bit bigger. That's everything you need
to know about the text tool. We did the text tool, but there's something
else you need to know. I just showed you how to
change the size of your text. But what if you want to
center it right here? You have all different options. I want to center my text, you push on this button
and it's centered. If you wrote it on
the right side, you push that button
and go on, go on. If I want to change my font, here you have all
the fonts I have. Let's see what I want.
This looks good. I'll choose this one.
If I want let me see a little bit more Space. You can change it right here. You want to change the color, grab it right there, so
let's make it orange. So everything you need to know as a basic for text
in Adobe Illustrator. With this two, you can make awesome typography
part in Illustrator. What I want you to do
is try these tools out, see what you can make with it, see what you love
and what you hate. Tattoo is going to
be your best friend. Also the pento is a
tattoo very important, especially if you
make an artwork like a poster or folder. Or Instagram post, you name it. You need to know how to use it. Remember when using the text is shortcut D to make
it easier for you. If you use it,
remember the details. If you see a red little
plus sign by your text, it means you need to
make your artwork bigger because it's
cutting things off. Details. Remember that. If you work with different shapes and you're
going in with your tattoo, don't click on objects, you don't want to change. If you do, you Object will
transfer to a text object. Don't do that if
you don't want it. Try it out, and I'll see
you in my next lesson.
6. Building and Manipulating Shapes: In this class, I will teach you how to make shapes in
Adobe illustrator. You can make them, but you can also
manipulate them. Sounds interesting, I know, because only making shapes
sounds a little bit booing. So let's dive into that. For each two, I will
tell you what it is, where you can find it and
how you can use it in a little demonstration
just like my last classes. The first two I'm going to show you in this class is
the rectangle tool. I've used it already
in my last lessons. Now I'm going to show
you where you can find it, shortcut everything. The first thing you
can do is COVID. I illustrating and shortcut is. You can push it with keyboard, or you can find it in
a toolbar right here. You want to make square.
There's something you need to remember because
it's very important. You go to artboard,
you make square, but when you do, you need to press shift. That's how you make a square. If you don't do that,
the proportions aren't correct and it's
not a square anymore. If you want to make, for
example, a rectangle, you don't need to use
shift, make your rectangle. But if you want to make square, shift is very important to use. Okay. So you made the square, you make a rectangle. But you have a lot more. So if you go to the square in
You T bar and press on it, keep holding it, you see a
lot of different shapes. So let's start with
rounded rectangle tool. It's kind of like a square
but with round corners. So again, use the shifts. Then if you see, you
have a rectangle, but it's exactly the
same as you made before. Here it comes. Use the direct selection
tool, shortcut A. You see the little circles
inside your rectangle. Go over there. You see a little bow
under your arrow, push on it and collide with
your mouse pad, track pad. Now you see I make
my corners out. That's all you need to do.
Okay. Let's make a circle. Shortcut is L. Again, shift. If you don't use it, you don't have a circle. If you want an oval,
don't use shift. Just make your oval. Very easy. Then let's see
what do we have more? You have a polygon tool. I don't know if I'm
saying that correctly. I'm sorry. Let's see.
Using shift again? Now I have one, two,
three, four, five, six corners, but I want
eight. Here it comes. You make your shape,
keeping shifts pressed. But I want more corners, then you push your arrow up. Now I have seven and
now I have eight. If you want less, you go
down with your arrow. Now I have five. Now it's a square. Now
I have a triangle. Easy. If you want it more easy, you just click on your artboard, you get a pop up notification and you ask how many
sites do you want? Let's say I want eight, push eight, select Okay, and there you have it easier. But we have the start tool, same thing as we just did. I want say five press okay. Now I have a start
with five points, but a little small, so
let's make it bigger. Hold shift, and
there you have it. Those are the shapes, but let's try something cooler. So let's delete those, and let's use let's
make it easy, a circle. I want circle. I make one with orange and I make another one in the
color green. Let's green. Okay, so now I have two circles. But I want to make it something less boring because two circles, it's not really special. So what I'm going
to do is I'm going for my planning to shortcut W. So let's push it in. Now you can find it
right here next to the erop in your two bar, and I'm going to select
those W and click. So right now, it doesn't work, so I'm going to my
menu with objects. Then you have blend, then make. So I just did, and now I have ingredient. So it's a little bit more artistic than two
simple circles. I will talk more about blend
two in my upcoming lesson, don't worry, if you like
it, there's coming more. When you make Objects, shapes in A Illustrator,
learn the shortcuts. Again, it's less time consuming and your work is faster if you learn
the shortcuts. Don't forget the key using shift when you're making a
rectangle or circle. If you don't do that,
the proportions aren't right. Very important. Holding the old key
or the option key for a Mcuser we'll allow you to draw a shape from the center rather than the
corner very handy. If you know the exact size
you want for your shape, just click on your artboard, you pop up will appear, put in everything you need, and just press ok, it's quicker, easier, and you have everything
you want just in a click. Now it's your turn to make
something with these shapes. Try to apply the skills
you just learned from me and apply to
design from your own. Just follow your gut,
do what you want. If you don't like it,
come and C or console, and redo it again. Just go with the
flow. Now, let's play with changing colors and adding
colors in my next lesson.
7. Adding and Changing Colors: The tools I will share with
you in this class allows you to change or play with
Colors in Adobe Illustrator. The tools I will show you, I will show where
you can find them, what the shortcuts are and how to use them with a
little demonstration. The first one I'll show you
is the eye dropper tool. The shortcut is I. So if you press it
on your keyboard, you find it or you can
find it right here at your wb like a little. Icon. I drop a tool. So what I'm going
to do is first, I delete this, then I'll
make a shape, two shapes. So I have a green square and let's say, I
have a blue one. So what I want to do is make
the green square, also blue. I select the green
square then shortcut. I Now I have the eye
dropper icon as mouse. The only thing you
need to do is go to the blue square and kick,
and there you have it. Now you have two blue squares. Easy. The next one
is the gradient to. The shortcut is G, press it. You can find it right here. So what you do is now you have a little plus sign
on as your mouse. I'll select one of the squares. Shortcut G and select and
click again on square. Now I have a black
and white gradient. It's a little dark,
don't like it. What I do is you see
here a little circle, you can change it
left and right, so you can change your gradient. But I want to change the colors. So on the left side,
you have two bar. Go to this one right here, it's a rectangle with
a gradient in it, black and white. Press. Now, you have your
toolbar for the gradient. I want to change my colors. Right here, you see
a little circle. Now it's white. Double click on it, then you have another
pop up toolbar. If you press right here, swatches your icons, you
can change your color. So let's go with pink. Now my gradient is pink with
black. I don't like that. Press. Okay. And we
select the black one, double tap, and you have
your swatches again, and let's say I want orange. Yeah. I like it. Okay, and click. Now I have pink and orange. I want to change a
little bit more of a gradient like more
orange than pink. So right here, you have your rectangle and you
have your two circles, and right here it's
little square. If I'm hovering with
my mouse pa you see that my mouse change
into a finger. So press and slide
where you want it. I'm going to lift. I like this, and there
you go. You're green. The last one for this
lesson is the mesh tool. Shortcut. If I select
shortcut right now, you'll see that I can
do anything with it. Why? Because I haven't
select my shape. That's the first thing I do. I select the blue square, and now I use the shortcut. You see if I'm
hovering over square, you see a little plus
sign next to my mouse. Just press anywhere you
want on your square. You see, you get a grid. I want more, let's say, let's do this easy. The first thing
you need to do to change something is to use direct selection
tool, shortcut A. Then I'll select one point, what I just made
with the max tool in my square, this one. You see, right now,
it's still blue. So what I'm going
to do is I'll go to my swatches right here and
I'll select another color. So yellow. Now you have it another color in
your blue square. So if you want another
point in another color, just select another point with the direct selection
tool and let's say purple. And there you go. That's how you can
make a gradient inside the shape
with the mesh tool. Remember, when you're
working with colors, work with your shortcuts,
you just learned. It makes you work faster. Easy. When you're working with the gradient or
with the mesh tool, know your color palette
before you start. It makes it so much
easier working with these tools when you know your color palette,
then if you don't. If you don't know which
colors you want to use, don't overthink, go online, go grab a book or something for inspiration,
look through it. And maybe then you think that's
the vibe I want for this. Now it's your turn to come up with the color palettes and use those colors for
gradients or a mesh. It doesn't matter how it looks or what shape you want to use. If you like it, go with the flow and show me
what you just learned. A tip for this practice is use them both and
then you'll decide, which tool do I like the most? The gradient tool
or the mesh tool. Good luck and I'll see
you in the next lesson.
8. Advanced Selection Tools: In this video, I will go through
the tools that allow you to manipulate and add shapes
in Adobe Illustrator. But these tools you
can change the color, select your shapes or couple. Make them bigger or smaller
or make a whole new shape. Just like the previous lessons, I will show you where you
can find these tools, what the shortcuts
are and how to use them with a
little demonstration. Okay. The first one
is artboard two, shifts a shortcut, right? Here, you can find it right
here in your tool bar. If you want to add
another artboard, right now, I have
one and I want two. Just click on the
little plus sign here above your artboard. And right now, I have two. If I want to delete an artboard, select the artboard right
here as number two, and just press on
the trashcan icon. And now I just have one. That's your artboard
two. Very important. The next one is the magic wand. But before I can show
you what it can do, I need to make a
couple of shapes. So let's make a circle. And square, make them
in different colors, green and purple and
duplicate the circle. The magic wand is shortcut Y, and you can find it right here. I select the green circle. Press it and C, it select both of
the green circles. That's what the magic wand does. I select the same shape
with the same color. The next one is the shape
tool that's shortcut N. You can find it right here. With this one, you can draw free handedly and create shapes. Let's say, I'll make a triangle, that's the triangle and I'll draw a circle
right on top of it. You see, I have one
shape just make two. That's about the
shape or two does. Then the next one let's delete that is the shape
builder tool, shortcut. You can find it right here. Before I can use that, I need to change something
with the shapes I just make. I'll put the circles right here and go back to
Shape Builder tool, Shift M, select your
shapes, Shift M. What it does, it can
create new shapes. It can combine them
or delete them. Let's say I want to
combine those two, have the plus sign, select
now they're combined. If I want to delete something, shift option and go through it, and now it's deleted. That's the shape builder tool. The next one is the
free transform tool, shortcut E. You
see it right here, select my shape, shortcut E, and now I can free transform my shape.
You see right here. I make it bigger, I
can make it smaller, I can make it thinner,
thicker, you name it. But also, right
here, and you pop up two bar if you just got, you can choose perspective
also. Let's select that. Now I can play with the
perspective of my shape. Play around with it, see what
you like, what you want, what kind of style you want
to make with your shape, but that's the free
transform tool. The next one is the perspective
tool that is Shift B, then you'll get a couple
of lines on your artboard. When you don't use this a lot, you think, what is this? I got you. You use this
tool when you want to draw something in TV
or more in perspective. This is your grid. These
are your help lines. So if you don't use it, you can click the height grid, and now it's gone. That's your perspective tool. The last one for this
lesson is the skill tool, shortcut S, select your tool, chop a S and you can
make it smaller, thinner, thicker you
can skill your art. About this lesson. Don't worry if you just start with one
artboard and you think, well, designing, oh, shoot, I need another, you
can just add one. You don't need to start
again, just add one. Know the difference between the shape tool and the
shaped building two. These two sounds a
lot like the same, but they do thifen things. So for you right now is play
around with these tools. Let's see what you like,
what you don't like. It's like basic
illustration tools. You need to understand
the previous ones, go with the flow, see what works for you
and what doesn't. In the next lesson,
I will show you how to make columns and lines.
9. Columns and Lines: Yes. Adobe Illustrator is technically illustration
software program. So if I tell you you can make a column inside Adobe
illustrator, you think, why? It's not an illustration. I don't get it. Well, if you want to make a
layout design in Illustrator and you don't want to use another
software like in design, then you have to
option in illustrated to add columns or lines. In this lesson, I will show
you how to make those. I will show you where you can
find them in your word bar. Where tools are located. The shortcuts in how to use them is a small little demonstration. The first one we're
going to use is the column graph
tool, shortcut J. Right here, you see
them in your two bar and the first thing
you do is just click on your
artboard, right here. You ask how big you
want your graph B. I'll say 200 by 200. Now he as a few numbers,
your information. I'll just do some
random right here. Let's say ten, 20, 30, 40, 12, eight, eight, six, Okay. So I've put everything in and just click here on
the Apply button. And now I have my graph. Easy. The next one is
your line segment two. You can find it right
here or shortcuts. Want to make a line first
thing I'll do is press shift. That's why shift
is very important. When you make lines, you
can make them straight. If you don't, you don't
get a straight line. Shift press and drag. Right now I have a black line. It's a little too fat. I want to make it smaller. Right here, you see your stroke right now, it's 12 points. I want to make it thinner, press the down arrow
and let's say six. I like it. So that's
your line segment. So I made my line thinner with the stroke right
here in two bar, but it can be a
little bit easier. Well, easier if I want the top thicker and
the bottom thin. There you have to
do the width two. So let's shift W right here. You can find it here in to
bar and select the top. I do it in a select and
I just drag it out. You see the top is a lot bigger. So I have triangle right now. So let's say I'm on the
middle, a little thinner. Place middle and go
insa there you go. So that's the Tom you make
something thinner or fatter. Ski takeaway right now
is for this lesson. Don't only use the
stroke settings to make your stroke
thinner or thicker. Play with a T. You can
do so much like this, with a too, play around with it. It's fun. Don't make a
line with a pen tool. Why you get an open stroke? That means if you want to make an illustration out of lines, it's more complicated to
do that with the pen tool. Always use the
line segment tool.
10. Text Effects: For the last one, we'll be doing distort
perspective text effect. DistoredPerspective
too is family of the Free Transform tool. So I'm going to show
you how to do it. What we're going to do first
is we're making a text. Again, delete my wavy text, copy my text right here and
change the word to weird. Let's just keep it like that. Then make it spin wagin
and a little bit bigger. Then we're using the
free transform to shortcut E. Right now, I have my text selected. I have the free
transform tool selected, and in my pop up
window right here, you see I've selected
free transform, but I want to
perspective desort here. Select that and make it a
little more desert. I like it. So I'm copying that one, go back to free transform to perspective two
and change it up. Like there you have your perspective the
sort, text effect. We're going to do
something different. We're going to do text
and shapes together. The first thing I'm
going to do is delete this copy my text again, change my word to art, expand it and make it bigger. Then what I'm going to do
first thing I'm going to do, spit it aside, left mouse
click range, and sent to back. I've done that. Now I'm
going to make my shapes. Shortcut N for my pencil
tool and drawing my shapes. I'll always use these, but you can use a rectangle
circle, doesn't matter. If it's a shape, you can use it. I've made my shapes,
select them all, give them a color, put it
black. Shape, every text. Next part is, I'm
duplicating my text. Then I select text and my shape. Then I'm going to object
right here in your window, go to Inflop the
sort and make it top object. And there you have it. Your shape combined
with your text. Do it again, copy my text,
selecting another shape, go to objects, and fill up the sort and make it top object. Shortcut for this one
is option command C. Let's do it quicker.
Duplicate selecting my shape, Command Option C, and
there you have it. Do it again. Film all my shapes. There is your third text effect. Those awesome text effects
you see online is not magic. You only need to know
how to make it and with what command you need to
know in Adobe Illustrator. You're going to make these effects like the
sorting your text. Remember, shortcut T for
text, makes it easier, go with your mouse
on your screen to see where
everything is located. It's easier when you
do that before you start designing. It
makes it easier. You don't need to search.
Just look through it, write it down if you need to. Let's go through every
window you have. Then try different
styles. Nothing is wrong. If you like it, you like it. If you don't like it, come
and see and start again. Now it's your turn to
try all these effects. Let's Discover
which one you like, which one you don't,
and which one you want to use and you post the design
at the end of this class. Try different styles, colorful, black and white, easy
or a little bit more. What you like, is not wrong, go with your gut. Dip for me, try them all before you choose which
one you like the most. It will surprise you. Trust me. For the next lesson, we're going to do something very abstract with shapes. To
11. Distorting Shapes: Start firing up Adobe
Illustrator designers because I'm going to show you unique ways to distort some
shapes in Illustrator. Using the effects that live
under Adobe's Illustrator, distort entrance room tool, I'm going to show you exactly
where you can find them, what you can do with
it and what kind of effects you get,
then you apply them. First thing I'm going to
show you is the exact tool. Let's start in Illustrator. First, I'm going
to make a shape. Let's say square. So short of M, shift and make it. Then I'm going to effect distort and transform and sec iAg. Then you get a pop up window, and let's play around
with the settings. So size, how big do I want a ixac how many ites do I want? Do we do smooth or corner? I like smooth more. Let's change the
size a little bit. When you like it, just press. Then you have your six effect. Let's do it with a
circle, same steps. Effects start and transform, ixac make it a
little bit bigger, smooth now I have a om. That's what you can do
with the siga effect. Okay, let's put these aside. The next effect is
the Pucker and Bloat. Again, let's make a circle. Go to effect, distort
and transform, and Pucker and Bloat. Select, then we have a pop up window and just
change the settings. If I do bloat, then
I'll get this. If I do poker, then
I'll get a little star. Let's make a star. Okay. But what I can also make is a little flour,
go back, distort, pucker and bloat, blow make
it a little bit thicker. Now I have a little flour. That's the puck
and blood effect. The next one is a spiral tool. You can find it right here
under the line segment two. Select it and click
on your artboard, then you get a pop up too. That's my radius, decay
segments and style. Let's say 780. I want it that way and press. It's a little small, I see. Let's give it some color. Yeah, it's a little small,
I'm doing it again. Spiral to say 1,500%
radius, that's 85. Remember when you're
desorting shapes, tap affects so many
tools that you can use. So go check it out, try different things and
let's see what you like. Keep remembering the shorts
that you've learned. I keep repeating it, but
it makes your work easier. If you don't like
something you've made, just come and see and try again. Now it's your turn to get
comfortable with these effects. Try them all, see what you
like, what you don't like, and use one of these in your poster design of the
project of this class. Let's practice and
I'll see you in my next lesson how
to make the pattern. See you then.
12. Creating Patterns: The first thing I'm going
to do is make a shape. So going back to Adobe Illustrator
and choosing a square. Let's make it a really
easy simple pattern. Let me see. I want to change, let's do my green. A me square and duplicate that one and
give it another color. Which one do I like?
Let's say orange. I have two squares right now. What I'm going to do is select
these both, go to objects, pattern and make now you're in your pattern
making window. You have a lot. If you use
it for the first time, it's scary, don't worry, I
will walk you through it. Here's name of your new pattern, so I'm going to call it squares. Then you have a tell type. Right now it's grid.
You see, it's boring. You have one line
green, one line orange. Basic. Let's see, brick by row. Now I have a checkered
pattern. I like that. So my width and height
stays the same. This stays the same,
next part is say done. Now you're back
at your artboard. Select your shape, so my
squares, put it on the side. And I'm going to make
a big rectangle. Shortcut M and select outboard. Now I have my orange outboard. Right here in my swatch spin, you see my newly pattern. I select and there's my pattern. If I want to make some changes because let's say I don't like the color combination so big, then I select my swatch here
and drag it on my artboard. Right here and now
I have my pattern. I want to change the
orange color to purple. So let's select and drag
it back in your swatches. Select the big rectangle, select swatch and there you go. You have another pattern. So I have my pattern, but it's too big.
I don't like it. I want to skill it. The
first thing I'm going to do is select my
pattern right here. The easiest thing you can
do is with a skill tool. Shortcut this, click
on your pattern, hold your keyboard pressed
and do shift Hold Shift and swoosh sign and drag it
in and there you have it. Now your pattern is smaller. We've made a simple easy
pattern in Adobe Illustrator. What I'm going to do now is a little bit more challenging. I'll delete this and I'll
make another pattern. Let's say I want a flower and make one shape with the
shape builder tool. Have my flower. That's one. Then I'll
take another one, duplicate, make a
little bit smaller. And I'll add just a circle. I have three elements right now. Select, go to
objects, better make. Okay. What I want is a little
bit different brick by row, and I see that a lot of
white space right now. So a lot of white space. I select my circle
and copy that. Make it smaller, a different
color, let's say pink, and duplicate my orange flower, make it smaller and
edit right there. And make it another color. Let's say yellow, yellow. Then I press dumb
because I like it. Put the heat aside, there
a big rectangle again, shortcut M, and select my
newly pattern in my swatches. It's big. I don't like it. So we're going to skew it with shortcut S, select shift Shoop. Shortcuts and go inside. Now it's smaller. So this is a pattern with four elements and I've changed
it inside the pattern. So this is a pattern with
more elements than two, and you've learned how to change it well in
the pattern window. Remember when you're
creating patterns is when you want to
scale something, use the shortcut S,
swoop and shift. Always hold the shift key in. If you don't, your
pattern is ruined. If you want to
edit your pattern, always use the pattern
options and the less lessons, learn all the shortcuts like
rectangle is M, et cetera. Now it's your turn.
I want you to make a pattern that exists
out of four elements. What I've done is you
can make a flower, you can use a circle,
a rectangle, a cloud. If it's four,
everything is okay. Use different colors. Try different styles. If you don't like
it, come and see and start again. Just
go with the flow. In the next lesson, I
will show you how I add all these in my own posy design.
13. Poster Design: M. You're done. Remember, follow your gut while
designing this poster. Nothing is wrong. If you like it, it's
okay, it's good. It's important that
you love what you're designing because if you
don't like it, it won't work. I'm going to start
with my own design. I will show you step
by step what I'm going to do remember
this is your design. Don't copy what I do. I want to see what you make, how you think, what you like. Go all out, try things and
remember if you don't like it, come and see and try
again. Let's get started. There you have it.
That's my poster design. M.
14. Conclusion: You've made it. So right now, you're an Adobe
Illustrator master. You've learned a
lot of things like the basics of Illustrator,
how to make shapes, how to do text effects, how to distort shapes, how to make abstract shapes, you name it, but you've done it. You've learned it,
and now I want you to share all your designs
if you want with me. You can upload them up your Skillshare project
gallery so I can take a look at them and give you tips or feedback
if you want. If you want to ask any more questions or
do more inspiration, you can find me on
every social media at the name at Mira Fabian. I hope to see more of you
and your art in the future, and I hope you keep me
updated if you want, and I wish you all the luck. And maybe I'll see
you in my next class. You never know. So good luck with your design
journey and have fun.
Mirella Fabienne, Graphic Designer & Content Creator
