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1. Class Introduction: Hi, I'm Kerrie, and I
like to make fun art. And today, we're gonna create
these cute pumpkins and a simple pattern in Adobe
Illustrator. See you there.
2. How to create your first project: In this lesson, we're
going to create a new project in
Adobe Illustrator. On this screen, on the left, click on New File right there. This brings up the
new document window, which shows you different
presets that you can choose. We're going to come
over here to Web, click on Web go to web
Large 1920 by 1080 pixels. You can give it a
name if you'd like. I just leave it as it is. Width will be at 19:20 pixels and the
height, 1080 pixels. You want your color
mode to be set at RGB, and you want to change
the raster effects from screen 72 PPI to the higher
300 PPI. Then click Create.
3. Setting up the workspace: Adobe Illustrator has
different workspaces that you can use that change the
layouts of the toolbars, like the one you see
over here on the left, and on the right, how the
options look on the right. We're going to set ours up to Essentials Classic because
that is great for a beginner. So you'll come up to the tool bar here at the
top and go to Windows. And workspace and
you'll change it to Essentials Classic
by clicking on it. You can tell that
it changed because the toolbar changed and then also the options
on the right. And then also if
you come back up to Windows workspace and
Essentials Classic, you'll see that there is a checkmark where
Essentials Classic is. Also, if you've used
Essential Classic before and your toolbars are missing
or not in alignment, you can come down here to
reset Essentials Classic, and that will reset it back
to what it looks like now.
4. Making a pumpkin shape: Let's create a cute pumpkin
on the toolbar on the left. Come over to where your
rectangle tool is, and you can click a right click
and choose the lips tool. You can also press
L on your keyboard. And then we want to click
and drag on the artboard, just like that to
create our Oval. We want to create
two more of these, so we'll come over here
to the selection tool, and then we can come back
over here to our Oval and click and then press
Option or Alt if you have a PC on your keyboard and
click and drag, tip out there, and one more time,
click and drag and then creates all three of them with your selection
tool still selected, you want to select all three, click on your Artboard and
drag down to select all three. Then come over here to
the Pathfinder and press Unite to unite all three
of those together. You can also go up to Windows and Pathfinder to
unite it that way. Here, I think it's
a little too tall. So if you click on the point
in the middle and then just drag it down you get it
exactly where you want it, that will create your
first cute pumpkin shape.
5. Coloring the pumpkin: Let's give our pumpkin
a little color. Right now, you can see it has a white fill and a black stroke. We want to change the fill, so we'll double
click on the fill. Then we can use the slider to slide down to the orange colors. We can pick an orange color
that we like and click Okay. Now we want to remove
the black stroke so we come over here to where the
stroke is and click on it. And then right below
there where it says none, click on that, and that
makes the stroke go away. And we have our first
color for our pumpkin.
6. Creating a pumpkin stem: Make a super easy
stem for our pumpkin. First, let's zoom in so we can see everything
a little clear. On the toolbar on the left, you'll click on your Zoom tool, then come over to
your artboard and click about where
you want to zoom in. Now, what we do is we come over here to the
toolbar on the left, and we click on the
Rectangle Tool. And then we click and drag
to create the shape we want. Move it into place
by our pumpkin. And then we want to
select one of the points. So I'm going to come over here
to Direct Selection Tool. I'm going to click
on this blue point right here and then just click and drag it
where I want it. Next, we want to
click and drag over the entire pumpkin so you can see that
there are two shapes. We want to get rid of
this shape in between. So it's a little
cleaner. So what we do is we come over here to
the tool bar on the left. And we want to click on
this Shape Builder tool. Then we come over here to our
pumpkin and we select it, and then we move up until it selects both
of those options, just like that, and we have our pumpkin, and
we have our stem.
7. Creating another stem option: To give our pumpkin stem a little bit more
shape if you want, you can come over here
to your Curvature tool and you can click in the center here and
click and drag up, create little points here and here to help you to navigate, and then you can just create a cute shape by changing
all the options, and all the points like that. Then we want to come over here to the toolbar
on the left and go to your smooth tool to
smooth it out just a little. So it creates a good shape. Then click the
selection tool over here in the toolbar on the
left, so we can move it down. And then we can
select everything. Go over to toolbar on the left and click your
Shape Builder tool, click and drag, so it
creates this as one shape, and your stems one shape.
8. Curvature tool pumpkin stem shape: Another option,
so you can create a cute rounded shape stem is
to use the Curvature tool. So on your toolbar on the left, right here, you'll
see the Curvature tool and you can click on it. And you'll see if I come
over here to my artboard. If I click, it creates a point, and then wherever I click, I go next, and then I click,
it creates another point. And then if I move my mouse down and then click, it follows. So you can do that to create
whatever shape you want. So I'm going to go
ahead and do that and create a little rounded stem. Just like that. And
then I'm going to come over here to
my smooth tool. I'm going to smooth that
out just like that. Then I'm going to
come over here to my selection tool
and click on that. So it Selexis, and I can bring
it down onto my pumpkin. Wherever I want my stem
to be there looks cute. And then I'm going
to go ahead and create these into two
different shapes. So if I click and drag
over both of them, you can see that this one's going into this and
I don't like that, so I'm going to come
over here to my toolbar. I'm going to go to my
Shape Builder tool. I'm going to click
on the pumpkin, and then I'm going
to move my mouse up until it reaches that piece. And then now I have
a pumpkin that's one shape and my stem
that's one shape.
9. Creating leaves: To create the leaf
design for a pumpkin, we're going to come over here
to the toolbar on the left, and we want to make sure that
the lips tool is selected. Then click and drag to create
the shape of our leaf. Then we'll come over here
to the toolbar on the left, and we're going to click on
the direct selection tool. Then we're going to
come over here to this blue point right
here and click on it. When I do that, you
can see up here, it creates these handle options, and we want to click
this first one, convert selected anchor point to corner. So we're
going to do that. We want to do it on the other
side, click right there, and then come back up here
on our toolbar and click this convert selected anchor
point to corner again. And that creates our leaf shape. And then we can
click on this shape, press Option or Alt
on our keyboard, click and drag, and that will create another
shape for us.
10. Pumkin line design: Let's add a little
design to our pumpkin. On the toolbar on the left, we're going to come over here
to our line segment tool. Then we're going
to click and drag. That creates one line with
no fill and no stroke. We want to add a stroke, so we'll come over to the
stroke and double click. Then we can come over
here to our color picker, bring it down to
the orange area, and then select a
color that we think matches really well with
our pumpkin and press okay. I'd like this line to
be curved a little, so I'm going to
come over here to the toolbar on the left, and I'm going to select
my curvature tool. Click once right in the
center of that line and then click and drag and that
creates the curve that I want. But if you zoom
in just a little, you can see that
that line doesn't have rounded ends, and
I would like it to. So you just want to make
sure that it's selected, and then you can come
over here to your stroke. And then if you don't
see these options, you can click these three lines here and it will
say show options. Just like that. Now you want
to choose your cap to be the round cap in your corner
to be the round join. And then if you look, you can see that now it's
got a rounded edge. So now we want to
make a copy of this. I'm going to zoom out just
a little to do that if you go to your toolbar on the left and you click
on your Zoom tool, and then you press on the option or Alt key
on your keyboard, and then click it
a couple times. It will allow you to zoom out. Now you can go over to
your selection tool, click on the line, then click Option or Alt
on your keyboard. Click and Drag, and that
creates another line. Then you can come
over here to option, transform and
reflect, just press Okay and it creates another
line for the other side.
11. Coloring the stem: I'd like my stem to
be the same color as the lines that I've created. So to do that, I'm going to make sure my selection
tool is selected. I'm going to select my stem, and then I'm going to come over here to the toolbar on the left, and I'm going to choose
the eyedropper tool. Then I'm going to come over and select the line and
click just like that, and it does exactly
what the line is doing. It's creating a
stroke with no fill, and I want to change that so
it's a fill and no stroke. So to do that, I come over
to the toolbar on the left, and you'll see this button that says swap fill and stroke, and I click that and you can see now I have a fill and
no stroke for my stem.
12. Coloring the leaves: Let's give our
leaves some color. Make sure your selection
tool selected and then click and drag to select
both of your leaves. Then come over here to your
fill and double click. You want to go over
to your color picker and go up to the greens, so you can select a
green color that you think might work
with your design. I think something like
that, and click Okay. Now you can select each one and move it into place wherever
you would like it. I think I'll move
mine there and here. And as you can see, the
leaves are below my line. So to fix that so
that they're on top, you click the leaf
that's like that, and then you right click and choose arrange, bring to front. And now my leaf is
on top of my line.
13. Adding another fun design for the pumpkin: Let's create another fun
design for our pumpkin. On the toolbar on the left, go ahead and click on
the Curvature tool. Then you can come over here
to where your leaf is and click and then move
down and click, and then just create a cute
little design just like that. And it's okay if it's not perfect because
what we're going to do next is we're going to come over here to the
toolbar on the left, and we're going to
choose our smooth tool, and then you can click and drag to smooth that out just like so. And as you can see, it had the square ends and
we want the round ends. So we're going to come
over here to our stroke. And we're going to
give it the round cap, and then the corner, we want
it to be the round join. For that, another
fun thing that you can do is to use the Width tool. If you come over
here to the toolbar on the left and you click
on this Width tool, then you can click any of these points and
then click and drag it and it will change
the width just like so. That creates you a
cute little design, and we want to
create another one. So we'll highlight this one. Press Option Alt
on our keyboard, click and drag to
create another one, and then we'll just change its direction by
hovering over and then clicking till we get the
direction just as we want. And I like that. And
there you have it.
14. Preparing design to make a pattern: To make it easier, when
we do create our pattern, I want to go ahead and change the strokes that I have to fill. So I'm going to go ahead and click here and click
this other line here. As you can see, it's a
stroke with no fill, and I'm going to come up
here to Object, Expand. I'm going to take
off the checkmark for fill because
it's just a stroke, and we're going to click Okay. And you can see that
that changed it so that now it's got no stroke,
and it's got to fill. For these here, we want
to do something similar, but we'll click both of those. And then we'll go
appeared object, and we'll do expand appearance. And that does the same thing. It changes it from
a stroke to a fill. Now I can highlight
everything and then press Command G on my
keyboard to group everything, or you can go to
object and group.
15. Creating a second pumpkin: Now that we have one
pumpkin, let's make another. Make sure that you have your
selection tool selected, and then click and drag
over your first pumpkin. Press Option or Alt
on your keyboard, click and drag, and that
creates a second pumpkin. Now I want to change this
pumpkin up just a little bit. So first, I'm going to
highlight this pumpkin. I'm going to come over
here to object and ungroup because I'd like
to get rid of this stem. We're going to delete that stem. I'm going to come over here
to our rectangle tool. I'm going to create a rectangle. I'm going to click and drag just like so,
and bring this down. I will right click, arrange back. That way,
it's in the back. I'm going to remove these
two little designs, and we can change the
direction of our leaf. If we want. And as you can see, this leaf is behind our line
here. We don't like that. We right click arrange front. We can also make the leaves a
little bigger if we'd like. So you can click the first leaf, then click the second leaf, and then click and drag
to make the leaves a little bigger, just like so. Now, to change the color, we can click on
this pumpkin here, come over here to our fill, find another color of orange that we think
might look cute. See. I like that one and click Okay, and then we can change
the color of our leaves. And of our lines if we'd
like, highlight both of them. Go over here to our fill, select a new color
and click Okay. We can also change the color of our stem if we'd
like by clicking it, then pressing on
our eyedropper tool and clicking on our line, so it creates the same color. Just like that. Then we can go ahead and
highlight everything. And then command G. That way
we have our second pumpkin and both our individual shapes that you can move
around just like soap.
16. Creating a pattern: Let's create a new
pattern for our pumpkins. Go over here to your
selection tool to select both your pumpkins
and come over here to object, pattern make. It'll give you a message
letting you know that your pattern has been added to the swatches
panel. Press Okay. Then you can see over here, you have your new pattern
options, your pattern options. And you can see the
copies here just shows you a copy of what your pattern is
going to look like. I usually change it to seven by five so I can see more copies. Next, you can come over here to the tool bar on the left and
press on your Zoom tool. As you can see, it's got a
little plus in the center. But if you press Option, it or Alt on your keyboard. It changes it to a minus sign, and then you can click
and then click again. That way you can see your
pattern really well. You want to go ahead and go to your selection tool
so you can select one of your pumpkins and click and drag it into place
where you want it. Then you can change
the tile types. There's different tile types, and I usually stick with brick
by row or brick by column. But let's go ahead
and try brick by row. And then you can see that this stem is really
close to this pumpkin. So what we can do is come over here to the
width and the height. And if you want to maintain the width and
the height proportions. You have this button here
that allows you to do that. If you do not want to do
that, you just click it. But we do want to do that, so we'll keep it, and we'll
click into our width. And then on your keyboard, you press your up arrow and it will change the
width and the height at the same time until you
get it where you want it, and then I'm going to adjust my pumpkin just a little bit more now that
I've done that. So it's more evenly spaced. And once I get it to where
I like it, I press done. Then you can click your
two pumpkins again and move them off
of your artboard. We'll come over here to
your rectangle tool, and we'll double click. And we want to create
a new rectangle that's the same width
as your artboard, which if you remember
is 1920 by 1080. Click Okay. Then we want to
align this to our artboard. Up here, you can see your
line tools or you can go to Window and Align and you want to set align horizontal
line center and your vertical line
center that will align that rectangle
onto your artboard. Now you can see that you have
a white fill and no stroke. If you come over here
to your swatches and find your pattern
and click once, it will add that pattern
into your rectangle.
17. CLASS PROJECT: Class project, make
a cute pumpkin and turn it into a pattern. And don't forget to check out the resources
section where I have a project guide and
some color sheets.
Kerrie Hensley, Surface Pattern Design
