Illustrator Tips and Hacks: Creating a Symmetrical Digital Drawing Simply

1. Introduction Video 1 Music: Welcome to my illustrator class tips and hacks dragging a symmetrical vase simply. My name is Christina gels key. I'll be your instructor for this class. I'm an illustrator and graphic artists, both. I published several children's books and illustrated many others for sale online. Also, I have done apparel design. In this class, we will be learning about shortcuts that will help you draw more easily. Instead of using all the Pen tool, we'll be drawing shapes as well as using the rotate tool to create flower petals around a flower center. Also, we will be using the reflect tool to copy shapes, their midline to make a whole shape. You can do this with faces, basis, wings, and other Exact Match sided objects. Remember illustrators, fun to work with. Learning Illustrator takes time. So be patient with yourself. It is best to be familiar with Adobe Illustrator for this lesson. Advanced beginners and intermediate users are recommended for this class. I do go over some basic introduction. I'm using some tools and ways to color and you move objects in Illustrator. Here are some samples of my work. Getting familiar with Illustrator takes time. But in this tutorial, you will learn ways of navigating Illustrator and drawing on Illustrator and some basic ways to create this flower illustration and hopefully many others. Let's begin with our first lesson. 2. Lesson One Key Command Hacks+: The beginning, we're going to go over some different aspects of the Mac and the PC with some key commands and other hacks that we're going to go into using key commands. The two totals you're going to be using for our hacks and our tips in this lesson, in this tutorial called the reflect tool and the rotate tool. Let's zoom in. We're going to Command Plus this is one of our hacks. We're going to talk about the Mac and the PC. When I'm talking mostly in this tutorial, I'm gonna be sometimes referring to the Mac command keys, but there'll be another aspect of doing the flower tutorial for the flower petals that I'll go over how to do it on the PC with control key. When I talk on the Mac, I said command key. It's Control key on the PC, on your keyboard, it's on the left hand bottom side. On the Mac or the Option key to make the flower petals is the Alt key on the PC. So I do talk a lot about the option and command keys on the Mac, but just remember on the PC it's Control key and the Alt key. Other hacks are going to be using are the command and control. Either either Mac Command or Control. Pc. Plus is zoom out, minus is zoom in. C command stays copy. Command V, which is paste. Other key hacks, arrow keys, you're going to be using the arrow keys to move things around. And the brackets on your keyboard. In the right hand side in the middle. For a smaller stroke, the less than and the greater than the larger stroke. We're going to go over and use the Reflect tool and the rotate tool, and I'll show you where they are. They're reflected and rotate tool or on your toolbar, Let's zoom in Command Plus, let's do r hat. We can, maybe we can't see is no, we can't go back down. It's either the tool menu bar on the left-hand side, and it looks like a circular arrow going counterclockwise. And there's a flyout menu. You press the flyout menu and you can see the rotate and reflect tool. We can go down to the reflect tool, double-click on it. You can see the menu box pops up vertical alignment angle 90 degrees. We copy. That's the box white cancel. The rotate tool. We'll go back to the circular arrow, double-click on it. We can see we can put an angle of rotation in there. These are some hacks and command, and excuse me, command and control keys of the Mac and PC. So what I'm talking most of the time, I'll probably say Command and Option, but just know it's on the PC, it's the Control key and the Alt key. On to the next movie. 3. Lesson 2 Basic Coloring of Shapes+: Like I said at the beginning video, we're gonna talk about some ways to use Illustrator from the Tool Menu Bar, how to draw shapes, the pen tool. So what we're going to do right now is take a look at a shape. We're going to hit you, hit the black arrow tool so we can see the points on the shape. This is the direct selection tool. As you can see, it highlights the whole shape with these boxes around it and corners in which we can do different things with it. We can click shift and drag to reduce in a diagonal way, click shift and drag. We can pick any corner. We want to do that with. We wanted to just make it a different shape. We can just bring it in, fund the angle without with just clicking, pressing down, clicking and dragging with the mouse or with the track pad Command Z. We can also rotate these little horseshoe like arrows come up in the corner. I always do it up in the top corner. We can click, press down, click, go into circular motion around to rotate. Great. Let's Command Z. Command Z or Control Z. We have to talk about that on your Mac, it's Command Z to undo. On your PC, it's Control Z to undo. Let's do something. Well, move this over by clicking and dragging. You can just grab the center. I'll click and drag, grab the center, click and drag. I'm going to click down with your mouth and just slide it over. We're gonna hit Command Z. It brings us back to where we were before. We can click and drag down here. Command Z brings us one step back. It brings us one step back in time. Now we're going to take the drug selection tool and hit the circular, the sarcolemma or the sarco. And we can see the anchor points on here, the white boxes. We can rotate it by selecting the top corner and turning it into a circular fashion. We can re-size it by, I'm grabbing an anchor point and end point and hitting Shift and resizing it. Now we're going to talk about color. We're going to select it with the direct selection tool, which is the black arrow tool on your keyboard. We're going to go over to the left-hand side window where the colors fly out. Menu is picked and we have sliders and we have a rainbow of color. It just automatically turns into a color picker, the eyedropper tool, and we can make it any color we want by picking on the rainbow. So we're gonna make it blue. And that's your fill color the fill, let's zoom in. That's blue so we can zoom in and I keep thinking going to zoom in on the tool panel to panel on your left-hand side, there's a box and two boxes. One is outlined a one is like a total full color. When I cover this in blue, you can see the box on the left-hand side turns blue. Eye. Color it with a color pickle over, color picker over here. It turns yellow. The swatch turns yellow. Now we can reverse it by bringing the outline stroke the bottom these two panels by hitting X, so that's active. And now we're going to change that color by going to the color picker and just picking any color. Let's make it like hot pink. We can see it's hot pink now. We can actually reverse these colors out by hitting this little arrow tool on the top of the two squares it to swatches. And you can change the colors, you can flip them. It's like a flip switch. But we won't be doing much of that. Will just try to use the x key. That's another hack. Your X key acts to bring the stroke to the top to change the stroke. Extra ring the fill color to the top to change the fill color. So we have yellow. We're going to try to change the color again. We're going to make it blue. Go over, take our arrow tool, drag selection, bring it over to the color picker. It makes it us eyedropper tool. We're going to change it to blue, gonna hit X to bring up that outline. We're going to change it to a darker blue. We can see that going to change the circle. We're going to make this, we're going to hit X to bring up the you can see in the swatches, the color picker, not the color picker, the fill, the fill swatch to the left-hand side. We're going to make that purple. We're going to hit X again. We're going to make the outlines stroke yellow. You can see there's a, let's make it like a green so we can see it. We can't really see it. Make it a little bit bigger. To change the stroke. We go up to the stroke on the top menu bar and we'll just make it vague, we'll do this later. But you can see the green stroke and the purple fill. Now we can reverse it by hitting this little arrow key on the top right hand corner of the two little swatches on the tool menu. And it'll reverse the colors out. We won't do that. Much of that will bring it back to purple. And we'll change it one more time. We'll make this a yellow. Whoops, go back. X, hit the fill. Do yellow. And if you don't want to hit X, you can always select the circle with the direct selection tool to make it active. Tap on either the fill or the stroke. Now, the one on the top comes to the top will be the one that's active that you can color. So right now we have the Fill active and we'll make that an orange. We'll hit the stroke, will make that blue. That's how you change colors by going to the film Stroke panel on the tool menu. Make either hitting acts to bring up the fill or touching either the stroke or the fill to make it active and bring it to the front. And then you can color it with a color picker and the eye dropper tool will see you in the next movie. 4. Lesson 3 Drawing ShapesB: This next movie we are going to be going over how to draw shapes. We talked about how to manipulate shapes, how to rotate shapes. And now we're going to talk and how to fill shapes. Now we're gonna talk about how to draw shapes. We're going to go to this little menu item on the toolbar called the Rectangle tool or the square shape rectangle tool. We're going to click on that and we're going to draw a rectangle. We're going to draw actually a vertical rectangle waiting to click on the mouth or on the track pad hold down and drag down vertically, release. We have, I click the the other shapes. So we have this orange box with a blue diagonal. We're going to make the inside change the color and the fills up going to make it too dark blue. We go, we're going to resize this shape by hitting Shift, heading, the arrow tool, hitting the mouth or the trackpad and dragging it up to the top. We're going to reduce it, push it in. Now we're going to draw a circle. Clicking up at the top. Sorry, I have to select the ellipse tool from the flyout menu under the rectangle tool, I'm going to draw diagonally, draw the circle. We'll do a perfect circle release. Now we have a circle. To draw a flower petal. We're going to draw vertical ellipse. Go from the top to the bottom. Drag down, click and drag, hold down the mouse and release. Clicking and dragging, hold down the mouse, bringing it down and releasing. So we'll try that again. Click at the top, drag down vertically and release. This is drawing out shapes. To draw a perfect shape. You can hit the shift key and draw out a perfect circle. If you're going to do a square, perfect square rectangle, hit the Shift key. You can draw out a perfect square. Great. Now we know how to make shapes and we'll use that in our next tutorial. Great. We'll see you then. 5. Lesson 4 Drawing A Vase with the Reflect Tool+: In this movie we have our three art boards, all 8.5 by 11, no bleed. And we're going to start drawing our vase. We're going to draw half our vase and reflect it. We're going to manipulate some points. It's the more challenging part of the tutorial, but I thought I'd get it over first. The first thing we're gonna do is Command Plus and zoom in to our first art board. I'm going to take our pen tool which I showed you where that was. It's on the tool panel. We're going to click first here. We're tethered going to hit Shift. Hit a line, click, Make an M shape, make it come down a little bit. Click here. I'm going to bring this out like a beaker and click this here. Hit down so we can see click again, we shift, make a straight line. So we have like a little half base. We can already imagine it right now, but we can see it almost taking shape. What we're going to do to make it easy, instead of drawing all these crazy points, is we're going to take the pen tool, go to the fly-out and there's a plus on the pen that the Add Anchor Point tool. Going to go and highlight the outline with the white arrow tool. Hit the pen tool. We're gonna put two dots on the line. We're going to now get a white arrow tool, the indirect selection tool, and move it in and move this out a little bit. I'm going to manipulate the points. Maybe move this up a little bit. Just so we have a little bubble out in the front. We have half our vase. So what we're going to do before we reflect it, we're going to get the white arrow tool. We're going to change the end point. What we're going to do is go up to the convert anchor point and make it a curved point. So we have half our vase. You can see the vase taking shape will make it a little like that. We have have our vase. How I did that was there. It's just this little line drawing hair. It's a curved point and you can move it back and forth by clicking and holding down. And you can move the anchor points and be a little bit straighter. Here we're going to select it with the black arrow tool, move it around its center. Select it. We can see the outline boxes around it. We're gonna reflect it now. Go to the Rotate tool, the circular arrow hit the tool, there's a fly out. Hit the reflect tool. The rotate and reflect tool are together. We're going to double-click on the tool. You have vertical alignment and 90 degree angle. Don't hit Preview, gonna hit copying not okay, we're going to hit Copy. Tag the far right arrow key. Move it out slowly. It's going to be on the same plane. As you can see. You can make it like a thin one, a thicker one, a bigger one. We're going to see is our vase. That's nice. So we're going to hit the white arrow tool. You can see the anchor point up at the top. We're gonna join both halves. We're going to select it with an imaginary clicking and dragging and imaginary box with a white arrow tool. Hit the Command or Control key J. We're going to bring these anchor points down a little bit. Flatter. You can do that by just changing any anchor point. You can use the white arrow tool, click and drag up or down. You can manipulate the points. We're going to make an imaginary box. We're not selecting anything, it's just on the pasteboard. Make an imaginary box. We can see that endpoint selected, I'm gonna hit Command or Control J. And we're going to make our vase. That's great. We have a great vase. That's our first phase. The second phase we're going to do is going to be a lot simpler. It's not going to be with the reflect tool. We're going to use the rounded rectangle tool and just click and drag hold data and make a rectangle. If you just want to make a vase like this, this is fine. You can just make a rectangle. I have it in the blue color, it's the default. This color is fine because it's for glass, but you can change any color with the color picker. Bring your eyedropper tool, or if you're with the direct selection tool, the eye dropper tool automatically changes over the rainbow color picker. And you can change the color, but we're gonna keep it blue for now. So what we're going to do is just de-select for now, take a look at it. We'll select it again with a black arrow tool, the direct selection tool. And we're going to go to the Pen Tool Add Anchor Point tool. It's selected. We're going to just do something simple and put anchor points on each line. You have to put exactly on the line. It'll give a default message. Little crazy, we'll move this down a little bit. Going to bring this in, bye, clicking and dragging and holding down with a white arrow tool. Bring this in. So we have a little file that's the top of Avaz or vase. And then we're gonna go down to the bottom corner points. We're going to select it there. Little white can see that little white dots. God's zoom in there. A little white dots here. You can see around each corner point, there's either a rounded point or an angled points. So we're going to convert these, convert this top one, we're going to select it and touch it. I'm going to go to convert the top menu bar. There's a corner point or a rounded point, and we're going to make it around a point. We're going to take this little bar and bring it out. Going to make this a corner point, to take this little handlebar, you can move it any which way you want by clicking and holding on it and dragging, going to make this, pull this out. Let's adjust. We could adjust this up a little bit. This is a little bit too curved. Let's zoom out Command minus. Here we have a nice boss bringing in a little, Bring it in a little. Flaws, surveys, whichever you want to call it. And here we go. Here's our two vases for I simply by manipulating shapes. The second one, we're just adding anchor points. Manipulating anchor points. So you want to manipulate this anchor point. You just select it with a white arrow tool and you click on the endpoint and you pull in and you pull out, you can manipulate the shape and you can add any anchor points you want to to a shape by just selecting the outline. Hitting the Plus anchor point tool. Under the pen tool, we have two vases and I'll show you the third vase if you just want to do a really thin vase. Just to put your flowers in, if you don't know, you're a beginner and you just want a regular vase. You can do this. Have a thin vase and put a circle, circle, circle, a couple of shapes together. Have a cute little vase. Acute little boss is a circle with a rounded rectangle. Let me show you. We'll go into more detail. It just a little vase. You can do the more complex by adding anchor points are reflecting. Adding anchor points and reflecting. Reflecting is kind of easy. You can even take 1.5 of the vase and reflect it. This you have to add anchor points and pull them out. But hopefully that's understandable to you. And if you just want to do a simple vase, you can always just do the rounded rectangle. But I'm hoping that you'll understand the reflect tool and use it in many of your drawings. It's a simple and fun tool. This is one of your hacks. Great. In the next movie, we'll go forward and start talking about drawing flowers. Okay, Great. See you the next movie. 6. Lesson 5 Drawing Flowers with Rotate Tool++: In this movie we're gonna be going over how to make our flowers. Great. So the first thing we're going to do is draw a shape. I'm going to draw for an ellipse tool. Going to draw a circle, dragging diagonally, drawing a small circle. When a color that circle, Let's hit X. We get a light yellow. Make it a lighter yellow. That's better. Move this down a little bit. I'm going to draw another ellipse right vertically on the top. Move this up a little bit. Gonna make this a light purple, pinky purple. Now what we're going to do is we're going to select the pedal and use the Rotate tool. What we're going to do is select the rotate tool, this circular arrow. Click on it, you can see across here I'll zoom in a crosshair on here, and it's blue. And I'm going to bring the crosshair down to the center of the flower. That's what their petals going to rotate around the center of the flower. Here's the trick. We're going to hit the Option or Alt key. Click and hold down the mouse or your trackpad with Option or Alt key and move it in a semi-circular fashion to the side. Release. Let's do that again. Click the center, rotate it in a semi-circular fashion, release the mass first, then the Option or Alt key. Hit Command or Control D. To bring it around. We have to adjust slightly. Move it over a little bit. Let's zoom out clan minus. I have a big flower here. We're going to draw an imaginary box around it with the direct selection tool and resize. Shift. Drag it in, going to resize. We'll also going to bring out the middle a little bit by hitting Option Shift, click and drag, make it a little bigger. I'm going to bring the center out to the front object, arrange, bring to front. It's something at the top menu bar. Go do it again. Object, arrange, Bring to Front. We're going to make it as one object by grouping, take the direct selection tool, it's already active. Make an imaginary box by drawing diagonally around it and you can see it's all selected. All the shapes. Go to object up in the menu bar, group. It's all one shape we haven't selected. So we're going to make an outline. When I hit the outline stroke may get darker purple. There we go. We have our shape, our flower. Great. Well select it, bring it up. We're going to duplicate it now that it's all one shape, you can see it's all connected. So when we duplicate it, it's not gonna move around in the center, is not gonna come out. What we're going to do is hit Option or Alt on the keyboard. Click your mouse, hold down and drag diagonally or dragged to the side. Let's try that again. Option or Alt. Click and drag. I can't release too soon, so let's try that again. Option key first, click and drag release the mouth. First option. Leased the mouse first, you'd have flowers. Great. Here's how you made your flowers. Can make all kinds of different flowers. We'll show that in the next movie. We'll bring our base down here, and we'll rearrange our flowers in the top. We have two flowers we're going to put up on there. There we go. We have our flowers, It's shrink our base down a little bit, shift, bring it in. I'll show you how I did that again. Direct selection tool, select it, shift, push it in, bring it down a little bit. There we go. We have our vows or vase. We have our flowers. The next movie we'll be going on and making a variety of different flowers and how we can make them in different petal shapes. And we'll make some variation in our next movie. We'll see you then. Great. 7. Lesson 6 Creating More Flower Types+: We're back in this new movie after making two or five flowers, I'm going to show you how to make different types of flowers. We'll go through this a little bit more quickly. We're going to go to the Shape tool, the rectangle tool, get the ellipse tool flyout, going to just make another circular, circular shape. Going to make it a little orange. We'll try orange. Oh, I didn't hit the act, so we're going to just reverse it out. This is the fill and we're going to take off the stroke by hitting the minus box with a red line through it. We're going to make different flower petals. This time we're going to go to the Ellipse Tool. Ellipse tool and we're going to make a wider petal, like a big petal. Now we're going to hit X to bring the fill up and we're going to make it, how do we make it yellow? Make it yellow. Then we'll just hit, hit the direct selection tool and move it up a little bit. We'll move it over vertically over to the top so you can see it will go to the rotate tool. This the arrow with the reverse circular shape versus counterclockwise circle. We're going to just select the direct selection tool, select the flower petal, hit the rotate tool. You have the blue crosshairs in the middle of the petal. I'm going to tap it in the middle of the center of the flower. So rotates around the center of the flower. And we're going to hit coming again. We have the rotate, rotate and hit O option, sorry, option. Bringing around Tibet here. Command D. Have a different type of flower. We're going to de-select with the direct selection tool. Make a selection with the direct selection tool, imaginary box around it. So we highlight everything and select all the shapes. Go to the Outline, Stroke. And we'll make it orange. Just go to your color picker tool. Go to the color picker. The color picker automatically takes into an eyedropper tool. You can experiment with color. Make the outline orange. Maybe we can make it thicker, make the imaginary box around it with the direct selection tool. I'm going to go up here and make the lines thicker. By going to the stroke up in the top menu bar. It says 1. Right now we're going to make it two points. Maybe we'll make it three points. When you change, the stroke width becomes thicker depending if you go up or down. So you can go down to 0.25 or up to, let's see what is it, 200 points. You don't want to make it a 100 points, so maybe make it three points so you can see the flower petals outlined. We're just going to tap the pasteboard and we'll see the flower. We're going to make the center a little bit bigger. We're going to do because you can see there's whitespace around it. What we're going to do is proportions. Shift option, maybe that's a better one. Shift option constraints proportions and centers it that we have a fuller center of a flower are going to go to Object, arrange, Bring to Front. So it'll range and slip the middle of the flower petal by petal to the front. There we have the flower, so we'll try that again. Object, arrange, Bring to Front slips, objects from the back to the front or the front to the back. Object Arrange, Bring to Front. We have another type of flower. You're going to make another type of flower. We'll just make a circle again with the Ellipse Tool by dragging that diagonally. Make that a darker purple by. Let's do that again, will make it a darker purple. Take out the stroke, hit X, the fill comes up. We'll make it a darker purple. Make this a little bit bigger by we have everything selected so it can just drag diagonally, hit the Shift, drag down. This is how I resize things. And it's a little bit bigger. And then we're gonna make a different type of flower petal with the Ellipse Tool. Going to make it a pointed flower petal will make this color. Select it. It's in the fail, so I didn't have to hit X. If we'd go directly over to the color picker panel, the color panel, we can make it any color we want. So it will pick a light pink, make it a lighter pink. Lighter pink. We're going to change the shape on the bottom. Now how do we do this? We're going to hit the white arrow tool right next to the dark arrow, to the top of the toolbar, hit the white arrow tool, we're going to tap on the bottom dot, which is an anchor point for the circle, a circular point. You can see on the top menu bar, menu bar, excuse me, it says convert. You have a corner point or a curve. So we're going to make it a corner pointed, angled point. You can see it just changes it automatically without drawing anything to an angled point, corner point. We're gonna change this to occur point again and then back to a corner point. It's the easy way to make a flower petal. We'll move this up here. These tap the pasteboard to de-select or tap the direct selection tool to deselect. And we'll get the rotate tool with the circular arrow. Let's go back. Hit the direct selection tool select, hit the rotate tool. Happens once every time I'm on here, I hit the rotate tool. But the crosshairs in this center going to hit Option, click and make a semicircle. We're going to release everything and hit Command D. Will make a nice flower. That's a nice flower. Getting even keep it. With the white in the center. We can make it bigger. Move this. You can't do that. Let's just make a selection around it and move it up. We're going to make a selection around this with the direct selection tool. Invisible box, going to hit Shift. Make it smaller. That's kind of cute. But let's make the middle of the flower bigger. So we're going to select it with the direct selection tool, the black arrow. We're going to hit Shift Option to make it centered and bring up the flower petal. That's pretty let's see why that's not working. We can also make it a little white circle in the middle. Let's try that. Yellow or something. Let's try yellow away. Let's see. That's nice. Little variation. A little yellow. Maybe we can make it white by going over and clicking the white swatch. Let's also pretty, we have two types of flowers will go round here and we'll make invisible box and diagonal direct selection with the direct selection tool. And we'll hit the outline stroke and we'll make it darker purple with the eyedropper tool. Over in the color panel. We can see that we shouldn't make this yellow match, will make it yellow. With the eyedropper tool. Make sure it's on Phil. I like it. Then there's other we can, yeah, we can see the flower petals. We have smaller flower petals. We can also make a larger flower petal, make it yet around, make another ellipse, ellipse tool. We can hit the white arrow. We're going to the waiting room working. Let's try the white arrow again. I have to hit the anchor point and we'll change it to a corner point. Now this is another type of flower petal. You can just resize it by dragging it in a little bit. We can rotate it around. You can go to the top corner. There's these little U-shape with arrows. We're just going to drag it in a semicircle. This is little different technique will resize it, make it big, and we'll put a circle on the center. Let's bring this up. Sorry, I'll put the circle on the central, bring it to the point. We'll make it pointed in the top. Bring it down, we'll just drag it, click and drag, click and drag. And make this light blue. That's pretty. We're going to hit the rotate tool. Select the flower petal, put the dot in the center of the middle of the flower, hit the Option key and rotate. We'll leave it up a little bit. Hit command D for each flower petal you can see it's pointed. You can either make a point at the top or point at the bottom. With the direct selection tool. Make sure you don't hit the other flower. We're going to do that. Let us do Outline, Stroke, Outline. This job will just select each flower public. You can outline stroke with a shift. Shift, click all the petals, and hit the stroke. Just do it a light blue with the eyedropper tool because it automatically changes. May go up to the top menu bar, it says stroke 1. We're going to make it three points. We can see the flower, can see we made a nice flower with pointed petals. You have three different types of flowers here. You can vary with your we can see it. 8. Lesson 6B Arranging the Flowers : What we're gonna do is we're gonna take the pink flower. That was more like what we did in the original drawing. I'm going to hit option on your back. Option click hold down your holding dad and you drag and you're creating another flower. So we'll bring that up. Let's see, let's group it, slips around it with the direct selection to object. Objects, excuse me, group will select with a drag selection tool around it and visit an invisible box object on the top menu bar group. It's all one object, so we'll remove it, it stays together. We will put this here. This is kind of put this here. Will flip things in and out. Plus maybe I can see it better. Command plus on your keyboard, will move this flower over. Move this flower over this flower here in this flower here. So we'll slip this to the back object on your menu bar. Arrange Send to Back, object of range, a new menu bar. Send to Back. Then you have your flowers. The flowers will bring, will vary. The flowers are bringing this one up here. Object arrange, bring to front, will slip this in the back. We have these flowers here. Command Minus out. We can see our flower arrangement. You can arrange your flowers any way you want to. By going to Object, arrange Bring to Front, bring back some flowers should be in the front, some flowers should be in the back, just like you're arranging. Regular flowers, will take more Object. Group. The yellow flower, and we'll make it small, will shift, drag the corner after you select it. Make it really small by pushing it inward. And we'll Object, arrange, Bring to Front. Let's see how this looks. Object and we'll Option, click and drag. Option. Click and drag. See me when she put option and move this up here. That looks cute. Going to select it all. How do we select it all good, go to the direct selection tool, the black arrow. Draw a diagonal visible box around it, hit the down arrow key over a little bit to center. And down the arrow keys, it will move it all together. Dragging it. We have it centered in our picture window. We have our flower arrangement. Next. We will go over making some leaves, will stick some leaves in there. And then I'll go over making that message card, which is a heart, which is another Reflect tool. Another idea with the reflect tool will see you in the next video. 9. Lesson 7 Arranging Leaves and Stems+: In this movie tutorial, we're going to go over how to arrange the leaves in our floral design. Some of the leaves will go in the foregrounds, some leaves will go in the background. When we talk about arranging elements in a illustration, we have a foreground and a background. When I zoom in, zoom in on this flowers, you can see some petals pop out to the front and the foreground, and some petals are in the background. We arrange them by using Object arrange, Bring to back or Object arrange, Bring to Front. In some more detailed illustrations, people use things called layers to range, foreground and background and middle ground. But we won't go into that in this tutorial just this time. What we're going to do right now is to copy our leaves and arrange them in the floral design. What we're going to do, we're going to copy them with the object are all key. What you're going to do is hit the Option or Alt key on the PC. Group, this object group, to make sure it's all one group. So click around it with imaginary direct selection, object, group. It's all went to object. We're gonna hit the Option. Click and drag Option key, press down, drag, click and release. Going to make three leaves. Great. We're going to Command Plus Command Minus out of there so we can see better our flowers. We're going to arrange them. So where I'm going to put them is one leaf right here and we're going to rotate with the already selected with the direct selection tool, there's a horseshoe air around it are going to move in a counterclockwise manner with these glut, drag and release. We're going to put this leaf up here. Actually I'm going to rotate this and we did this the wrong way. I'm gonna rotate it around. That's better. And rotate this one over here, the horseshoe up at the top, it's selected. Click and drag a semicircle. Great. Nothing's perfect, but we did it. What we're going to do is move to the leaves, to the background hitting, go to the menu bar up at the top. Object, arrange, send to back. You see it slips, will go this pop-up. It slips to the back instead of the front. Would do this. Hit select it with a drug selection, object, arrange, send to back. And it's in the back of the flower. It's a range and we'll keep this right here in the front. We'll bring this flower up. Object. So it's the leaf isn't covering the flower. We can do that and move our objects from the front to the back. Object, Arrange, Bring to Front, so the leaf slips behind the front flower. It's just a process of see what would look nice in the fraud to what looks nice in the back, not everything is gonna be upfront. It'll look a little on arranged if some things aren't in the front and some things aren't in the back. Will pop this flower up to the front. It looks a little awkward. Object arrange. Bring to front. Great. We learned how to use the pen tool. We're going to do our stems right now. I have a green color selected. We can also go over to the color picker on the rainbow color picker tool on the eye dropper tool comes out and pick a nice green. But I have the green selected. The leaf. You could always take your color picker and tap on the leaf to get the correct color. I have the green color. I'm going to go to the top menu bar and hit the stroke. I'm going to make that thicker because you don't want it to sit. I'm going to make it six points. We're gonna do this in advance so we don't have to do it at the end. We make a thicker stroke. We're going to take our pen tool and just draw a straight line by clicking two endpoints. Click, click. We have a stamp, we have a tether, and we hit the Escape key. We're going to do this again over here. Click, click Escape. We're going to do a little tricky thing here. We're going to do a curve by doing angle point. Going to make up click here, it M shape here. Then we're going to go to the top menu bar to convert this. Let's zoom in. We're going to convert this anchor point into a curve point to make it look less wonky. We're going to go to the white arrow tool that changes your anchor points and go up to the convert anchor point and make it a curve point. Great, great. We have that all done. We can change it a little bit by making, bringing it down a little bit and rotating, maybe extending it a little bit. Let's see. We change. We can adjust by bringing the anchor point down a little bit. If you click on any anchor point and click and drag and move it, you can adjust the anchor point. We're gonna make one more stem with the pen tool by clicking 1, having the tether clicking in another, escaping and making just a little point here. Escaping. Let's try that again. Command Z, Mickey, little point here. Z is try against a thin space. See a little stem. And you bring this out over here. We'll go, we have some stems. Great. So to reiterate what we can do with the Pen tool is make one click on 1 and bring it anywhere you want to illustrate line. You just have to have two endpoints, click and click. You have a toddler hit the Escape key, can make a curve point from an angle point if you want. Hitting that indirect selection tool, and like we did with the leaf, change the point to a curve. If you can pull it out, pull it out with the anchor points. Pull it in or adjust the curve by just moving it, touching the point. That's a little more complex. But if you're just making status most likely you can make a straight line. That should be fine. This is our ranging our flowers and in this tutorial, we put our leaves in the correct place. We talked about placement and a range of the flowers and the leaves, the foreground and the background. We did our vase with a Smith, was metrically with the reflex tool and we did a flowers with the rotate tool. Great. We'll finish up our tutorial with going over what's going to be done for your next class lesson. Great, We'll see you then. 10. Lesson 8 Drawing Leaves+: This next video we're gonna go over making leaves in a simple way by manipulating shapes. First thing we're going to do is go to the rectangle tool and pull out the Ellipse tool. We're going to do a simple shape by clicking and dragging down and then releasing the leaf in a green color. If you haven't had, if you don't have a green color selected, can go over to your color picker section, the rainbow and click a dark green or blue or green or whatever green you're looking for. A nice green. We're going to do is hit the white arrow tool, the indirect selection tool. Click the bottom anchor point. As you can see, the anchor points are four of them are highlighted. Click it. You can see the handles come up. It's a curved point. Going to go to the top menu bar, menu bar, excuse me, convert anchor point, hit the angled point, the first one, and you'll have a leaf. Great. I'm going to make another type of leaf. We're going to get the ellipse tool click and drag out a leaf. We're going to hit the white arrow tool. We're going to convert the bottom anchor point to an angle point by going up to the menu bar on converting, good and take the top as well going into the top menu var1, converting the anchor point to an angled point. That's our second leaf. The third leaf is a little bit more complex. I'm going to show you how to draw it for advanced users. We're going to take the pen tool up on our toolbar, going to click an endpoint. We have a tether here. We're going to draw straight down, click and plot a curve. We're going to make an angle point by clicking the end of the curve. This is another hack or trick. Click the anchor point to make it a curve point and make it end angled point. We're going to go up to the top and click and drag, pull it to the top of the leaf. We're doing just three verse. That's how you make another type of a leaf are going to click. Make a straight line, drag out, hit the end anchor point, make a straight line and go to the top anchor points and pull out the opposite way. Easy way to make a leaf. But for the most part, we're going to just use this top-level leaf. You can change basically the shape of these leaves by dragging them out or dragging them in or making them round or making them tall. Command C out of there, we have our leaf. We're going to make a white line down the center of it. We're gonna take our pen tool. Click, shift. Click. We have a white line marks. We don't have a white lines escaped that will make it white by going over to our color picker on the right-hand side. And we'll select our pasteboard. Re-select it again. It's 1, we're going to make it two points. Select our pasteboard again to clear your cursor. Always select your pace board are always select your July direct, excuse me, direct selection tool. You can read, pick up another tool, or draw something else without being connected to the last thing that you did. In the next movie, we're going to go on and ranging our leaves and making our stems. Great. So we'll see you the next movie. 11. Lesson 9 Heart Card Draw+: In this movie, we're going to make our little note card and the shape of the heart. This is a little complex. So if you don't want to do the heart, you can just make an oval or a circle and put the name in there. I can color it any color you want. But I thought I'd show you another hack with the reflect tool. We can make half a heart and reflect it and make a whole heart. What we're gonna do is take our pen tool. We're going to just draw, click it. Drag, shift with a straight line, click and hold. I'm going to drag down and make a curve. We're going to just, we're already tethered, so we're going to bring it under the same endpoint as the first and that's half our heart. Let's try that again. Going to draw, click. We have our tether shift. Straight line, hold it, drag downward, drag downwards. Little small brain under endpoint, and we have half a heart. Now we're going to escape. We're gonna go to the reflect tool. Reflect, double-click, vertical alignment, 90 degree angle, don't hit Okay, hit Copy. Let's try that again. Double-click. Vertical alignment angle 90. Hit Copy we have if you don't do it the right the first time, go back and do it again because it's copying a line. You have both sides and reverse, you're going to hit the right arrow key, going to drag it out slowly. And so it's on the same plane. Will make it a heart, let's say for the bringing it a little closer together, Let's see if the direct selection tool and the pasteboard to de-select. Little heart a little different. Can we do this? Let's try to do this. Bring it down a little bit. You can always adjust your drawing the spring, the bottom down by the white arrow to selecting both endpoints and just pulling, clicking and pulling and dragging down. We have it a little bit and bring it up a little bit. Have a little bit of a point and we have it selected with a white arrow tool. And we're going to make a mark here around it. We're selecting both anchor points. We're going to hit Command J to make it a full shape. Command chair at the top to make it a full shape. So now hit the black arrow tool. It's all selected in the shape. We can move it around and it's one. We can color it in any color. One shape. So we'll Command Z out of there. Take the stroke gap. We're going to shift and resize with Shift. Make it smaller. Stick your right there, stick it right here. In the next movie we'll go over putting a name. We'll see you then. 12. Lesson 10 Name in Heart Text Tool: In this movie, we're going to go over pretty on a name to the heart. We're going to do this by using the type tool. That type tool is that T tool. And then you bar and we're just going to click and drag out a box. Delete that just puts mock text in there. And we have our cursor will zoom in. We have our cursor. You can see it blinking. I'm gonna go to Character up at the top of the menu bar. Hit a larger point, point sizes. The larger they are, the bigger the font, I'm sure you know this in Word. The smaller they are, the smaller the fonts. So we're gonna make this like an 18. And we're going to change from Myriad Pro to this script font. We're going to write. That doesn't look great. I'll write this as my cousin and she lost a friend and a family member recently. So we're gonna make this flower dedicated to her. I'm gonna make this, maybe we'll make it 20, make it 486060 on. We're going to double to change anything with the text tool. We just put the arrow, the text tool right in the middle and triple-click 123. Then you're going to change it over in the color picker to white. Hit, it's going to be white. You can't see it in the pasteboard. Hit the direct selection tool to select the box. We're going to bring it a little complicated. You're going to hit the center or click the endpoint and drag it over. Here. We can see it says lease on it. My beloved cousin going through a hard time right now, resize the box. There's the little hard to Lisa. My heart goes out towards tragic time. We'll get through it. There's a little hard, Let's try to make a little stick to go with it. Let's get the rounded rectangle tool from this circle fly out menu. We'll put a little rounded rectangle with pink. Just hit the eyedropper tool. Why isn't that working? Working? Here we go, eyedropper tool and we'll make it a little Swami. We can move this up. Let me make this smaller. See a little hard in there. We'll just leave it like that and we'll move this up by clicking and dragging. I'll see what it looks like. That's nice. We have our little flower arrangement with our name and our title, our heart. Using the reflect tool, are hacked to make symmetrical shapes. We have all our flowers arranged in colors with our leaves slipping in and out using the Arrange tool, we have our vase that we did in a symmetrical way with the reflect tool, and we have two different types of vases. And then next week we'll go over how to make your project, your own project. And what we're going to do for your project is going to be basically the same thing, rain to your flowers in a vase, but you can make it any way you want to. I'd love to see your projects, so we'll see you in the next movie. 13. Lesson11 Color and Sample ProjectB: I just wanted to given this side to our tutorial and our final project, we're going to go over picking a color palette and how we go about doing that for our final projects. I put out several boxes, I copied them. I have six boxes, three for each flower you're going to pick petal color and the center color that we see here from three of the flowers. I have a dark pink, a yellow, a light pink yellow, and darker yellow and the black. Also, we're going to pick leaf colors, a darker and a lighter, and I'll teach you how to sample that. Glad to go to our direct selection tool and click on a darker color in the picture. We go to our color picker, the eye dropper tool. I'm going to sample it directly from the picture. We have a darker green That's nice. Clear our cursor by clicking the pace board will sample a lighter color, lighter green, and make the lighter color. To sample a flower will hit the square perimeter. And we'll say a ball. Let's see which we samples, sample purple, what's not working in? Purple will sample a light yellow. To try that again. White or yellow, maybe lighter yellow. That looks nice. How do we get the pitcher onto the pace born? What we're gonna do, Let's go to File. I'll show you file place. We'll go to I'll go to my recents, go to your downloads file because we can't go to our recent got our Downloads file. I'll just pick a random picture to show you. Well, try this one, you click on it, select it, hit Place. Hit Place. Going to drag out a rectangle. Basically we have our flower picture here. We can put it to the side or put it anywhere. And we sampled dot colors. We're going to put the colors in the flower petals. What I did here, what we can do if you want to a quick hack is create your flower petal and black and white, white film, black stroke. You can copy each of these flowers and just recolor them different colors. Going to make an imaginary selection around it. We're going to get the color picker sample swatch that we colored. Here. It's a purple. I'm going to deselect on the pasteboard. Sample. The center may get a yellow deselect on the pasteboard. Select it to make an outline so we can see the petals. So hit Shift and hit White. De-select. You can see the paddle. What we're doing is selecting the whole flower color, a de-selecting, hitting the center color a selecting hitting this stroke. If you don't want to hit the stroke, you don't have to hit the stroke. You just call it the petals in the center. We're going to go over coloring the leaf. We're going to hit the eyedropper tool, hit the color. We have a color of the leaf and I made the leaf double pointed. We can tag the pen tool, select the green color, make it line up, stroke, hit the pen tool and make a straight line shift, click, click, Escape. Make just a thin line to show the middle of the petal. This is quick thing we'll go through is a little bit about color called your flower arrangement, called repetition and contrast. Basic graphic design techniques, Repetition means repeat something throughout the design. Here we repeat the yellow colors. And contrast means dark on light and light on dark UVA, brighter, lighter, center and a darker petal, lighter petal, darker petal, lighter center, darker center, lighter petal. You can see, I'll zoom in. We can see the contrast. Brighter or darker or lighter, darker, darker or lighter. If you had a light yellow here, It's going to look all washed out or even a light green. It looks okay. But it's a little washed out. Even if you have a light green, it would look a little washed out. You should, you should have contrast. Will show a little bit about contrast. As you can see if you put darks on darks, It's can't see it. There's can't reveal the color just too dark. It merges together the same as if you put light on light. Maybe we'll make this the center a light green. It's all washed out. Can't see it. A lot of younger people who were ben designers have put light on light has been trendy. But the idea of contrast just kind of goes away. It doesn't look good. So we have our flowers. We have contrast and repetition. As you can see from my other flower decided I had a lot of yellow and pink. That's a repetition and contrast, etc. The flowers are brighter. And the petals of the flower, even though the petals of the flower, we're pastel the centers were darker and brighter. We'll zoom out and you can see here gall back and you can see the wonderful picture that we got. And I tell you where I got the pictures. You can go to Pixabay PBIX a DAY.com for free photos. A free photos.com. You can download them to your downloads file, and then you can just go File, Place, search for them in your downloads file. Loads the cursor and you can drag out a rectangle, you could sample the colors. Will go on in to our final phase of discussing our plans for our final project. And so we'll see you in the next movie. 14. Conclusion and Final Project Example+: In conclusion, I just wanted to show you how the sample product looks like. All assembled. We have our three flowers, we have them in our sample colors. We have contrast, light and dark, and dark and light we have repetitive colors. We made our flower petal by making vertical, oval and rotating it around a circular center using the option key. We also made our lives by making an oval with the tool and changing the points to the angled point. We also have made our stems by connecting two anchor points with the pen tool and escaping. We can put our heart here if we wanted to reflect it. But I just put a simple circle for an easy project card here with a name. We have our Reflect tool while reflected half a vase and the shape of it am and reflected it and joined it with a command J tool. With your project, it is great to look for examples in nature. We have the flower pitcher where we sampled all of our colors and then made our flower in black and white and colored it in. We basically can do the sample project. If you want to do something, you can look at it and I'll try to leave it up on Skillshare. Or you can do something more magical. You can use magical colors like I did in the tutorial. You can vary your flowers. You can vary your colors. You can make the reflect tool, the shape of a heart. You can make your own project in case you want something simple and you need guidelines. You can follow the product examples and use this as an example. I'd like to thank you for taking this course. I plan to do other tutorials. My next tutorial is going to be how to draw a character from shapes. I'm excited about that tutorial that will be in the future. Thank you so much for taking this class. I hope you enjoyed it. Signing off graphic artist and illustrator Christina Jay Belsky.