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Learn to Draw Cartoon Backgrounds for Animation

teacher avatar Martin Belvisi

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction to the Class

      2:02

    • 2.

      Inkscape User Interface

      9:07

    • 3.

      Built in Shapes and Paths

      9:34

    • 4.

      Object Selection Tool

      9:17

    • 5.

      Node Selection Tool

      12:04

    • 6.

      More on Objects

      15:28

    • 7.

      More on Paths

      12:07

    • 8.

      Object Appeareance

      13:54

    • 9.

      Other Features

      15:15

    • 10.

      Inkscape Tips

      12:22

    • 11.

      Bush Part 1

      4:50

    • 12.

      Bush Part 2

      5:40

    • 13.

      Bush Part 3

      7:41

    • 14.

      Trees Part 1

      6:35

    • 15.

      Trees Part 2

      10:04

    • 16.

      Trees Part 3

      9:24

    • 17.

      Large Masses Part 1

      7:44

    • 18.

      Large Masses Part 2

      16:52

    • 19.

      Sky

      10:20

    • 20.

      Ground

      11:04

    • 21.

      Composition

      8:36

    • 22.

      Final Project Part 1

      14:31

    • 23.

      Final Project Part 2

      10:02

    • 24.

      Final Project Part 3

      7:24

    • 25.

      Final Project Part 4

      11:49

    • 26.

      Final Project Part 5

      19:16

    • 27.

      Real Time Project Part 1

      50:31

    • 28.

      Real Time Project Part 2

      40:09

    • 29.

      Real Time Project Part 3

      29:39

    • 30.

      Real Time Project Part 4

      47:18

    • 31.

      Real Time Project Part 5

      76:29

    • 32.

      Class Conclusion

      1:19

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About This Class

Learn everything you need to draw cartoon backgrounds for animation, like the ones you see in TV shows like Dexter's Lab, Farily Odd Parents and My Little Pony, all by using the mouse and the free program Inkscape instead of pencil and paper, or digital tablets.

No previous artistic experience needed!.

No previous vector software experience needed!.

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1. Introduction to the Class: thank you so much for taking your time to check this car scent. I worked really hard on it, and I think you learn a lot if you take your time with it. This is a beginner. Scores aim to teach you everything you need to make the type of captain backgrounds. That's really popular amongst more than TV shows like Dexter's Love Fairly of Parents or My Little Pony, all by use in the free back to registrations after Inc CYP instead of traditional pen and paper or digital tablets. And that's the reason why it's perfect. Originals will be drying you see in the mouth and then with the mouse is different than drying. Traditionally, getting good at Victor illustration often involves the lovely in a set of symbols and master in the software, which means that you can get gold by following a step by, step with the lessons and end up with impressive results. And, of course, a blues Is that because we're using free software and were used in the mouse until for a tablet, there is no need toe spend money in expensive hardware or software. As far as the syllables goes, we'll start by taking a family in depth. Look at the problem here. You'll learn everything you need to drop the match, anything using X type. Then we'll take a hands on approach loving, held to draw the most important objects. Step by step in real time, Um, the methods and techniques by building assets just like the ones in the shows. And finally, once you have a film, feet on the ground will be drying these outdoors scene that you're seeing right now. My goal with this course is that you learned the necessary tools so you can give your first step into the world off. Back around the sign using vector tools. Well, I hope you enjoy the rest of the course and that make some backgrounds. 2. Inkscape User Interface: Okay, So in this first lesson, I wanted to become familiar with the user interface. So what we re doing is going through a quick overview for the elements that makes up the u I. So let's start. The first thing you should know is that the exit beauty is made out off a different elements. Let me tell you right away, if you go to a top men here and go to view and then so high, you'll see a least off all these elements that you can do enough. You can even see this check mark right next to the name that does you that it's enabled and you can turn off all of them. And then the only thing you see is that the menu and the campus, the campus is the only element that you cannot do enough another type of elements that you're gonna have to be familiar with at the local dialogues. The local dialogues are basically small windows that have options to different areas of the program. You can open a lot off them and keep them floating or docked them to the right side. And if you pay attention right below the menu to hide the elements that is deception toe hide ellos and what this does is to hide all open dialogues at once. So with these two many years, you have a lot of control over what is displayed on the program. Okay, so now let's take a quick look at each of these elements. I want that by the end off this lesson, at least you have some knowledge off what each of these elements, though first of the commas, well, and this were simply has sharp cuts to basic actions like open fire copy paste so mean route that's going the stuff. This is a good candidate to remove if you're going for a more minimalistic you, I because it really doesn't do anything important. The snap, but has all the snapping options later round will be taking a deep look at this while and everything related to snap in. But for now, an important thing you should know is that you can enable and disable or snapping by total in the first Wilton entering, because by default this happiness on and it may start bothering you. When you first start playing with objects and the objects start moving around, stepping toe everything. The palate shows multiple pallets off all types and by clicking in this mother squares you can pick colors really quickly. The rulers and scrambles are two elements that I placed together because I believe that they have more or less useless for registration. The ruler shows the coordinates of the windows and the schoolbus let you band of you. Now I'm sure that the rules may come in handy when you're great in something in the graphic design area. For the most part, you don't need them for Bennison when you're driving as far as the scrubbers, you should be using the shell. Katsunari eight circles are far more effective and easy to use. Both the ruler and the scroll bars are two elements that item off when I work in personal projects. Their status bar shows information about the document like selected Golar scoring player must coordinate and soon it s a shows to you share cuts and keeps when you're using tools. So it's always a good idea to keep an eye in there When you are working, the next two elements are extremely important and we will see them all throughout the scores. The toolbox has saw the truth to be using to do anything, and the control bar has three options off the selected. So they kind of worked together, and you should probably keep them both enable at all times solely, except doesn't really offer much as well as your customization goes. All the elements are basically stuck where they are, but you can switch the position for a couple of paths if you go to the view menu, your CDs. Three. Options default custom and wide. They changed the placement off the comments and this number. The default option gives the commencement on top and this number on the right. But legally the custom keeps them both on top and the white both on the right. I know it's not much, but it can help you feel better. Some off the u I, especially if you're working on a global solution. Skin. The rest of the options off the program are included in the dark about dialers. As I said before, they're not off them, each with its own set off options lead around. We go in depth into the most important ones, but for now, want to show you the basics of how they work. So I'm gonna open a random one by default. The first time you open a dialogue, it will be doctor, the right off the mind windows. If you click in the Diallo titled, you can drag it off, you can leave it floating there. Then, if you want to conduct it right back, keep in mind that you can only deduct Diallo's to the right side. You cannot duck them anywhere else. You can stack them into columns practically or into two or more rows, but only do the right side. If you don't need that I love anymore. You can closers with the X in the title, or you can click in the Arab Putin and identify the doc. Now if you want to show it again, just like in the Econ. Also, if there's no more Vatican space when you stack multiple Dallas, there'll be automatically tapped. So if you think a dialogue has disappeared, make sure it's not. Finally, is the campus. The campus is the big white area where you draw everything, actually noticed these black rectangle in the middle. This is the page for that. Now you don't need to draw inside. You can draw anywhere in the white area. The pitch was in east there as a guide, in case you want to create PdF, so our cards or any document that requires a clearly defined brother, you can use this crowbar toe, throw the document and the sum total to some in and out. However, the best way to move around in the document is to use the share cuts to ban the view. Hold the middle mass, Walton or whole space well to assume her control and use them as well. A nicely the feature is that you assume to the position of the point, you can also use the plus and minus case too soon. But only do the center not to the position off the point. Other useful shark It's are the one p too soon to the 100% and the two key to some to the 200%. And that's about it for user interface to your next listen 3. Built in Shapes and Paths: in this lesson. I want to show you the basics behind all vector illustration, and that is creating shapes and baths except has four built in shapes that are ready to be used to build your drawings. You have the rectangle, the ellipse, the star and the spiral to create the shape, select the tool and just drag on the canvas. You can save the shape with any of the shape tools. The two with the icon off a square lets you create rectangles. Just try the sights and form off the rectangle you want. The little white squares on the corners of the rectangle allows you to change the width and length. The little white circle on the corner lets you around the corners. I noticed that when you dragged the circle to either side, another white circle states in the government. By moving the circle, you can round the corners unevenly on the tour controls, while the rest on banners with numbers. This 100 the options we just saw bad with numbers. I really use deceptions. However, they could be useful in case you need to create a rectangle with a specific pics of wit and length. The two with the icon of the circa is Thea Lips store, the Ellipse to works just like the Squirtle. The white squares recites along the to access of the lips and white circle can do a couple of things, depending on the options that if on the two controls you have selected the option close, the Ellipse will act as if you were cutting from the center. If the option open is elected, the Ellipse will behave just like if it were another bath. The other useful option in the bar is the less Aiken that will close the lips. The other tools are the polygon tool, which allows you to create stars or the Spira toe to create all forms off Spiros. These tools are useful mostly in specific situations. Whenever you need a star or a spider, in reality, you'll be used in the rectangle and the leaves still 99% of the time. So here's a quick over your falls. The star has two important options in the to control swell, one that creates polygons and another that creates stars. Depending on which one you have selected, the rest of the options would be different with the polygon options elected. You have the quantity of corners as well as roundness and one less value that changes the position off the commerce in the polygon. A random the star has the same options as the polygon, but that's a nomadic input for their inner ratio, which you can modify with the white squares. The spider is pretty simple. It has the Don's on day, innovative options, which both are handled by the wet squares as well. Bruce A diversions value The next three tools lets you create bath directly. Instead, off lived in shapes. That is a difference but are made off knows, which are points that dictate the position of the cover later on, with the fully into everything related to pass since bats on essential part off. Except. But for now, I just want to show you how the tools to create pass work with depends. If you could create a path by directly drowning on the canvas, it's mostly used with a tablet toe sketch. More mentally, some artists like to draw with this tool with the mouse and then everything car into position. There is an option in the controls that allows you to change the smoothness that apply to the stroke once it's thrown. This is the most important option if you are trying with the mouse, and I recommended to leave it at about 50. Similar to the pencil tool is the calligraphic tool. This tool works just like the pencil, only that it allows you to change its form and other important values. The most important option is the president. Drop them in that controls. They don't too much pretty sets, but you can easily play with the options and see if you get the shape you want. Finally, the tool that probably is the most important role in any vector illustration problem their mental. This tool allows you to create custom shapes by creating the notes off the bath rather than the call. And this results in you having much more control than with the other tools. So you said, simply click on the campus. This will create a nose. You can add more section to the path by adding more notes. When your lungs create in the bath, you can just click the beginning of the bath where the little White Square is toe close It Additionally, if you don't want to close the path, you can just press enter in the keyboard or right mouse button. You usually leave a path open to use it as a line rather than a shape. If the bath is open and selective, you can continue evident by clicking on one of the ends and adding more sections. You can drag the mouse when you're placing No to create a curve section depended on where you try. The card will be different, and you can do this without the ones you want. But sometimes you may want to create a point or government in a car to the leasehold shift while you're dragging the no and this will give you access to the handle. We'll see more about handles in a little lesson, then move that handles so well you want Oh, and release the mouse button. This will create a break in the flow off the path. This way, you can not only create corners but also straight sections. After that small no. Now I realize that it may take a while before you get a feeling for the correct hand position for the curry want, so I only see a way to read comments and straight sections after small nose is to simply this select momentarily the car. You see him right now, Switon, and then continue by a pending the rest of the girl from the end. One final thing about shapes and baths in in Sape. All shapes have two important properties. Phil and Soak. You can show or hide the feel or stroke or both, but it's always there. You cannot remove either. Keep an eye in the palette. As I said in the lesson, this element shows you multiple pellets. If you have a shape selected Baisden or path, you can set the free color by clicking in any color. You can as a whole shift and click to set the color of the stroke, which is black by the foot. If you click in the very first item, the White Square with the next you can set the colors to none. Which will hide is on the field or the stroke. This is a quick way. You can change colors, however, later on, I'll show you a more robust way to handle the feel and struck off the shapes 4. Object Selection Tool: Let's take a look at the single most important tool to handle objects, the object selection tool. This tool will allow you to make all sorts off operations on objects ranging from simple transformations to adjust in important properties. The object selection tool is one of the most important those in the program, so you need to know it. I hunt with the object selection toe selector. It's possible to select an object by clicking or by dragging a of entangled around it. Notice that the rectangle most encompassed in their object, otherwise it won't selected. If you want to select multiple object, just hold, shift and click on another one, or simply write direct anger that fits them all. You can move an object by clicking on top and dragon. If you have multiple object selected, then you can move them all by clicking on one and dragon. Okay, if you did a couple of nice shirkers to know the constrain an object in the X or Y access, hold control on driving vertically or horizontally. It's possible answer to move the object with the arrow keys in the keyboard. This will move another church just a bit. This is great to make some minor adjustments. However, if you need by holding shift, the object will move in a greater quantity. It's very common that you may want to select an object that's off scared are almost completely way another. You can select an object directly willow a selected one by holding the key and clicking where it should be. All even better, move the mouse to the top off the stack Objects. Call that and used the mouse with to highlight the object. I'm sure you notice the black arrows that appears with adult rectangle that indicates the selected objects. By using any of the arrows, you can scale the object in any of the detection of the selected ammo. The scaling is thumb from the opposite side. You can tell by the little grass if you click again on an already selected object. You took their rotate and ski controls. No mother from whichever you grab all rotating and skewing is pivotal from the center point again what the little white crosses. But this time you can click on it and change its position, and this will change. The people point for both, but they didn't and skewing only objects. We've have the little cross of the center, but if you change his position, they will remember it on object. Manipulations work with multiple object selected as well, and they behave exactly the same. You can even change the position of the people. That's if it were a single object. Right now, it's a good moment to show you a couple of the most important shell cuts related 200 objects. We already saw that by holding controlled, you can constrain the movement to a nexus, but you can also make the scaling of an object uniform. This is useful for maintaining the proportions when scaling with the black arrows. If, on the other hand you're rotating or skewing hunting, control will snap the transformation to a fixed angle. This is most useful with the rotation, since it will snap toe common angles like 45 degrees or 90 or so. Then is the shift key. When scaling, this will automatically change the scaling point to the center rather than the opposite side of the selected arrow, and if you're using it to rotate our skew, then it will move. The people point to the opposite side rather than the center. So the shift key kind in birds, the people point position from center to comma. And, of course, you can use both control and ships together. This will do the two actions at same time. On important detail is that all the shortcuts work when you create them 15 shapes so you can easily drag perfect circles with the lips tool if you hold controller or draw a rectangle from the center. If you will shift or create square from center, you should hold both at the same time. In the two controls, the red a few important options you need to know the first group has a few unimportance election option that we can skip. More important is the rotate and flip commons. The rotate will allow you to rotate an object 90 degree clockwise or counterclockwise on the flip William birth the object in the horizontally or vertically. Answer. The H and B shortcuts are nice and easy to remember. Next is the object or the Putin's in. Except all objects have a stake in other, which dictates which object is on top. Every new object is created automatically on top of the stack since the administration's I created by stacking one object and off another, you have to be able to move objects happened down, so they are in the correct order. So changing the objects that car that is extremely important and you'll be using these operations all the time, even for the simplest illustrations. With these buttons, you can send the selected object to the bottom, fill it up or with a single object up or down. The next group of options are there so you can control the position and scaling with no medical accuracy unless you're creating some kind off document where you know the exact position. But you want things to be in, you can safely escape this section. These final four buttons are shirkers to enable and disable a few important options regarding object informations. You can accept this options in the transform preferences, but he took it quickly enable and the Savion option. In a second. They basically handle the behavior off a few properties off the objects when making informations, for example, whether the stock scales with the object or not. On If the gray didn't move, assume of the object, I recommend you to leave these four buttons enabled 5. Node Selection Tool: the escape workflow consists in manipulating objects with two toes. With the object selection tool, you handle the object itself, and with no selection tool, you handed the actual shape off the object with an understanding off both tools, you'll have the essential knowledge required to draw pretty much anything you want. But first, let me explain you real quick what our fathers exactly. Buffs are the way in sleep handle custom shapes. The paths, whether open or close, is made up of faecal on the ship. Takeoff takes is defined by the nose, suggesting on the garden, but more specifically by the position off the two handles. Each note has because each handle affect the curvature to one of the size off the no, the car, better off our section, is defined by two hundreds belonging to two different nose. You re able to edit and manipulate around the path carb. You need to be able to read it handles, and to do that used a no selection tool. If you remember from the building and math lessons, the rest it off tools that allows you to create path rather than building shapes. Most notable, the pen tool, which allows you to directly place knows well. You are meant to use the no selection tool with those tools to create, and to find your own custom shapes, you can select a path by clicking on it. Once it selected, you're gonna start modifying the notes to select a nose. Simply click on one. It works the same than with objects you can receive to select multiple knows or run a rectangle around them. Onda Selected knows will be colors blue. If it's not a straight line now it will show the handles. Now you can move the nose by clicking and dragon. The car will add up to the position of the nose clicking in the handles. End point. You can move Handle church in the car. The same shortcuts that work with objects were here, with the nose and with handles. Contracted, snapped angers arrow keys to move the nose, etcetera. A faster and more intuitive way to change a curve is to simply grab it by clicking and holding on unearthly section. You can only move the section you would have no the notes, depending on the place from where you will have, the pool will be different. This is because you're basically moving both hands at the same time. So if you get up from the corner right next to one of the knows, that moment will be way faster because we're affecting the movement off. One handle a lot more than the other, if you could have from the centre than the woman will be way more balanced between the two handles. This method off edge in accord is way faster but a little bit less accurate, so it's very common to make love shot adjustments like this and then using the handles to Fine Tune 12 knows you can select your nose and click on this wooden. This will leather point in between the two selected notes. If you want to the let they know, simply select it and click on this woman. You can also hit the delete key. Yes, they will at them to maintain the curvature once you delete the no. But everything about the no selection tool is that you can do both really fast and accurately by simply selecting a cough. And they were clicking on any location toe. They know this is way easier on more accurate every note has four possible types which affect the car in different ways. You can see them in the control as well. That worry if these look a little too much to handle right now, in reality, you'll be switching back and forth between the 1st 2 Almost exclusively. The first taken is the corner type notes off this type Have a daemon taken any path that's reach Just this type of note will stop at the north and not governing with the curvature. This is why if you want to create a Cornell in a smooth girl, you're gonna have to transform. I know. Tow this type Now if you remember from the built in and path listen. With the mental, you can create a straight sections as well. A scarves. This is three sections. Have a cornet that No, you can see the train liken, But if you selling the note you see that they won't show handle. I see it as the handlers resting on top of the no. This way the hands don't affect the covering anyway. And as a result they resist resection. The second must use No. Is that smooth? No. This type has a square taken. You can turn each handle independent of each other, but they looked in their rotation. So if you're a date, would handle the other data as well. This way, the courage will always we more or less smooth through the no, you'll be using this type of no for everything. That's not a corner. The third type is the symmetrical type. Other than moments, would you want to create a semantical curvature with the note in the apex? I don't see too much useful it, and finally, is the out this world type. This note will try to make the curvature that pass Reynolds super smooth. But the problem is that if you try to make some adjustments, the North will transform into a small type. So this has limited use for this type as well. These four buttons are related toe manipulation, the 1st 1 and I rescued to join two and nose into one. The great thing about this is that you can join the nose belonging to two different objects , merging the two objects into one. The next button allows you to select tunnels and then believe this section away. The paths will be separated islands, but they had a still a single object. The third bottom is just the 1st 1 to join dwindles, but the difference is that now it leaves them at the position they are and created state line, turning them again. You conjoined to animals off different doctors if you want the less well done, a similar to a 2nd 1 But the difference is that into the separate in this section, it delete it. One big difference is that now you can adduce an end. No, and the notes had to be continuous. And that makes sense if you went to the section from another. No, just tell it. In the end, no one does. You can make a corpse section straight by selecting. The two knows that affect the curve Anglican on this wooden or the work, click in the corner type while selected. No. This will transform the tour in common sections into a straight line. If you want to do the opposite to transform a straight section of a car, you click on the button right next to it. Additionally, you can select a sale I know and click on the smooth type. This will smooth both in common sections. Finally, there are a couple of options related to this playoff. Useful options, formal manipulation. The last six. Putin's enable and disable important features. Just like the last section in the controls off the object selection tool. By far the most important one is this one. This enables the handles, which is wouldn't let off. It's impossible to grab the handles to manipulate the bath. You gonna leave out the car? The second most important option to have on is this one. If you select on that one, No, you'll see the same selection icons that you see when you sell it off just with the Objects action tool, including the black carols. In fact, this election behaves exactly the same. You can scale in any of the arrow deductions if you click a second time of it. I know their rotation. As urine options appear. You can even just the same share cuts like control or shift. With this option. In neighborhoods, you can perform some actions you couldn't do without them, like moving to nose equally closer to each other, using the scale levels or rotating group of knows, maintaining the distance between them so it's really recommended that you told this button on. However, keep in mind that if the black arrows hindered you in any way, you're gonna with you, say with them temporarily with a single click. The other options are for when you're using clip or masks and for when you're using path effects, we'll take a look at them later. 6. More on Objects: there's more to objects than the object selection tool in this lesson would take a look at the rest of the features related to objects, including shortcuts, options and they lows. You can duplicate one or more objects by selecting them on going to edit Doctor Gate or the way Morrissey and Useful Control D. This will create a duplicate object that's created exactly on top of the original and has to exact same properties. This is a much easier and faster method than copying and then based in an object to get another copy. Speaking of coping and based in this time the shortcuts a play Contra C to copy an object and contribute to baste it. But that's the thing you should know. Using control be will face the object to the position of the point. If you want to place the position where you copied the object, making it the same, then duplicating. Use the shortcut control at B. This might seem like a redundant government, but later on I'll show you that there are moments where you might want to use copy paste rather than duplication. But for now, it's way easier to justice. Control the to get a copy often object. It's possibly the group multiple objects together, so they behave us. One. Just select the object you want in the group and then go to object, you know, or they're really easy to remember. Shortcut Control. G Grouping. It's mostly used to handle objects more easily. Group objects will maintain the relative distance and stuck order when you handle them, so the most common use for groups is to join with the blockages together that represent a single object in real life. If you said the feel or stroke color, it's very applied to a lot objects in the group. If you want to edit on object in a group, you can enter it, by the way, clicking in the group you know you enter the group when I will spring appears in the stats . Well, here you can work as if you never created the group. You can modify or delete object. You can create objects inside or even other groups. When you're done at it in the group, simply double click on any place outside off the group. All changes you've done, including created objects or groups, will be kept if you need to this mentally group. Goto object I'm Group One Nice thing is that both the group and longer options appear with the right mouse button clipping allows you to limit the visibility off a shape to the silhouette off another. After the clip is done, you can edit the clip shape inside with no selection tool. And no matter what the changes, one show outside of the city with the idea of the object to create a clip used to objects. First day of Did you want a limited visibility or target object on the object you want to use to live in the other or clipping path? The clipping path has to be above the other in the stock order. Then you select them both and go toe object, Sleep said. All my favorite method, Right? Click said sleep. Once it's done, those two objects will become a single clipped object, which you can move skay, rotate on, do pretty much everything you can do with other objects. But now you can enter the shape inside with no selection tool on the shape one show outside of the clipping path. If on the non selection tools you have this button took it on. You can edit the target object itself the one clip Goto object clip release or right click release clip all ships. Yeah, that will keep the changes. A common use for clipping an illustration is to draw shadows and highlights directly on top of a shape and keep the flexibility toe with them at all times. The sensory, similar feature toe clipping call Maskin Maskin cast the same functionality than clipping with the difference that has a few transparency. Features. Sleep in the same place, so I prefer to use it. Our masking. And then I think I look at a few dialogues related toe handling objects. The latest trailer allows you to clear layers just like any other graphic program. They work the same way objects in a layer above we love with Look on top off the obviously real oh, open the layer style. Oh, go to layer layers to create a layer click on the plus button. Thank you with the name. Every new layer you create will replace on top off the layers stack every new objects you create. We belong to a selected layer, and if there's no layer, then they belong to known. If you want to move an object to a layer, you can go to layer, and here you have a few options. You can move the objects to a particular layer or to a layer above or below. However, my favorite way to move objects between layers is to sell it the off just They want the womb, cut them using control X selected layer. I want to place them on, and then instead of paste and right away I use based in place. The share cut is control not be this way. I'm based in the object in the exact same place where it waas when I got it, rather than the position of the mouth to the little a year used to minus Wilton. Keep in mind that if you let a layer or loved it that belong to that layer will be the leader as well. So if you want to keep those subjects, you'll have to manually move them to another layer before you delete anything. You can also move the layer up or down with this wooden's and of course, this will affect the visibility of the objects belonging to the layer. Keep in mind that inside stack soldiers on a parallel your basis on object in a layer above can never be sent below a novel in the layer below. No mother stuck or that off the objects in the layer. You can make the layer invisible with the eyes right next to the name or lock it with a little luck making the layer. And basically we'll make the object in the layer invisible on selectable look in the layer . We make the object just on selectable. It's possible to change the opacity off a layer. This will affect our lobsters belonging to the lay at once. Just release led them to the position you want. You can also input the number from Syria to 100 by clicking in the number. And finally, you can apply a blend more toe a layer blend. Months changed the way the color often object in direct with the color of another object I won't go into later. Right now. Just keep in mind that the mold will be applied to all objects off the layer to change the blend. Mole clicking the blend mode. Drop down and serve the one you want. If you don't know what blend Mazar, I would recommend you to stay away from them. In pixel, various graphic software lay inside, often used to separate the working area into arbitrary segments. So the legislation is separated into manageable components in. Except this separation is built into the problem, since every object has its own independent data, so that must come on use for layers. And except when you're saving, is as an organization toe set by internal large quantities off objects into my groups that make sense and are easier to handle The options. Taylor gives you a least off objects that exist currently in the document. You can open it by going toe object objects. The objects are order hair, curly bases on its layer and group, except gives a lot just a default name. If you the way click, you can change it next to the name a looker and and I just like in the latest Taylor you can do. The center will do on a layer better on a single object. Just remember that if you look on Macon object invisible, the other way to select it is through the object, a love So it's what to give the important objects a name. You can change the opacity off the object, just like with the layers but magic and also checked the bloodless. The object stale also has a blend mode drop down and again, it's the same as the latest, with the difference that now it's applied to a single object. As you may have noticed the object, Taylor has pretty much all the functionality of the latest dialogue built in. Sadly, it's a bit uncomfortable. Toe handle layers due to the way behaves so. If you realization has other layers, it may still be worth stoking the latest a live there somewhere. Another extremely important dialogue you be using all the time is the ally in and this through With Layla, you can open it by going to object a line in this cereal, the Elena distribute daily. It's separated into four sections, though for illustration, you'll be using the 1st 2 almost exclusively with the Alliance section. You can align objects right you toe another one. The most important option here is the relative to Dropbox. The selective objects will be aligned depending on the selected option here, and they don't quite a few usually check them one by one and see which one works best for each case. However, I can assure you that in the case of illustration, for 99% of the time that the for adoption left selected will be more than enough them below . The same checkbooks by the four objects are aligned individually. But if you have this option checked, then we're to preselected. Oh, just will be treated as a group, maintaining the relative distance with them as they are reliant. All the options here are very easy to use. The objects would be a line depending on the button. You click. If you don't know what put on the press, you can leave the mouse on top off a button to see the tip. The ones who used to know the time of this, too, to align the centers vertically and horizontally and only occasionally abuse in the others . This through your section is separated from the Alliance section. Here, you can simply choose all the object you want to distribute equity instantly and click on any of the Waltons you'll be using this to most of the time. This will distribute basis under centers As far as the other sections, they aren't that helpful for registration. Please, you will be using the align and distribute day low with objects most of the time but recent option that appears when you select notes. This section will give you access to a similar to set to the Alliance section with the difference that it's way more simplify since your only ally important since off objects. 7. More on Paths: in the previous lesson, We check the most important tools and Diallo's related toe objects. Now it's time for the bus. Let's start by taking a look at the path menu. This mania has a lot of important comments for path you can raise on Lee, the unnecessary knows in a path just to take a bath and go toe path. Simplify This comment will remove all the unnecessary knows while trying to maintain the over the shape. Keep in mind that the more you perform this common, the more likely it is toe start damaging the cigarette. Sometimes that's exactly what you want. In the case, you should use a shortcut. Control L toe. Repeat the common faster. You can join two different path into a single object if you goto path combined the path are still separated, but now they're a single object. This government is a little useless since you can have the same result if you perform a union reparation as you see in a minute, on the other hand, you can break apart an object with separated path into two or more objects. If you goto path, break about now or bath islands are their own objects. This government is useful in conjunction with the tools we saw in the consolation told that let you break up our path as you want. One very common action to do is to outset are inside a shape a year ago. Due path inset or path Outset on this will perform the action in increments. A better alternative is to use the third option dynamic offset. This will create a handle which will let you adjust a off the interactive Lee. Officers are often used to create a shape that surrounds another while maintaining the relationship to the edges, Something that would happen if you scale a non square shape after you're done using dynamic offset. If you go to the no selection tool and select the shape, you'll notice that the handle is still there. If you want to be able to see and I did the nose, you need to transform the object back into a bath by going toe path. Object the bath. If you try to ready the path off a building object like the rectangle of the ellipse with no selection tool, you surely noticed that it won't let you that you will just give you the building with the fires. It's a bit like what we saw a second ago with dynamic offset. It just won't show you the note. This is because there are no nose in a building object. It's another bath. It's a special type of project. The Reivers do any the nose off, a building shape or a shape that has modifiers. Actives, it will seem. What about that later? Um, it it runs from the shape into a bath. You can go toe path, object the buff. Now the shape is the bath. As a consequence, you won't have those nice building operations, like smooth Indians off a rectangle or attention the amount of points In a start. However, now all the notes are a little. It is impossible to transform on Lee the stroke into a bath. Let's go toe path struck the bath again. All the benefits that come with stroke addition are gone. You cannot change the stroke size or the type or use the nose at all. But now it's a footpath. This operation is often used to better any the stroke. Do the eggs action. If you want Boolean operations on essential parts off illustrations you be doing. First of all, you should know that all that Boolean operations do is to simplify some of the work. You can do everything without them, even if in some cases it will take a lot of time and it will be highly impractical. Early in operations, take two or more shapes. That's input, and I'll put a single shape. It's an assault. This is important to know, cause in some operations, especially in case of the intersection. You may want to keep the original shape as well as a new one. The total off six different types of operations. However, for your station, you Onley realistically need three of them. All the others aren't really that useful or not worth the extra energy in 11 them. So every skipping those and I recommend you do the same. The union is used to join. Want to separate the shapes into a single path, just like the shapes you want to join and goto Path Union or the releases? Remember shortcut control blues. Most of the time, you want to have the versatility off, keeping the objects separate, maybe in a group, so if you need later on, you can change and we arrest them. However, if you want to be able to manipulate the silhouette, often object. Then you can't think we have objects overlapping. You have to have a path to combat and move around. The difference operation is used to guard or the leading section off a shape you said you need to shapes the shape on top will be the one that we got a section out of the ship below . Then select bowl shapes and goto path difference or control minus in frustration. The intersection operation is mostly use it to limit the shape to the silhouette off another, often to the shadows or highlights. You could go on really slowly and trace the back of a shape carefully to avoid. Live in this and rep are. You could use this operation to draw freely and then remove an idea where the shapes don't intersect to use its a little shapes and go towpath intersection. All the used the shortcut control asterisk, the path effects are modifications that change the behavior or looks off a path. Some of them can be really useful. Open the Pacific Bellow Goto Path Pacific's the other path effort to a shape. Simply click on the police icon in the Pacific. Diallo. This will bring up a list with all path FX every row. Now you're just setting the one you want on the effort will be applied to the shape. So the leader Pacific from the shape Just click in the mind. Cycm. Any modification you deal with, the effect will be lost. Almost all bath African neighbours, one or more control handers or girls on the shape to manipulate the parameters. You can see an access these controls with no selection toe. If the object is selected, then the effort options would be shown in the Pacific. Diallo with an effort activity, you can still modify the of it on the nose. However, depending on the effort, this may bring body and unpredictable behavior. They did a lot off bath effects. I couldn't possibly go through all of them. But the truth is that you don't need more than a few for most illustrations. So I'm gonna give you a quick tour off a few effects that I think I'm beautiful without going into the options. Otherwise, things will take a lot of time But if it's something you learned better when you're experimented by yourself, the middle effect it's one of my favorites. It were, is everything in real time to one of the size off a straight line. You can move us you like so you can get any type off mirror you may want. You can use this effort with any path, but it's more useful when you want to draw symmetrical shapes with mental prospective envelope is another one off the most useful. By modifying the four corners off the envelope box, you can simulate any perspective. This is very useful for drawing the shape in photographic and then play in this effect. To put it in perspective, the Ben allows you to bend and the object that long a controlled path. You can create multiple control points and added the car just like if it's where I know what path and the options will follow the car of the best it can. With paper stroke, you can easily get a nice staple effect without the need to transform the stroked Owen object and mannerly, taping it off course, you can still use it as if it will in normal stroke Bruce. The paper controls. Once you're done, you can apply the effort to the path by going toe path. Effect the bath. The object will be transformed to the shape that it had with the Pacific Dawn on, the effort will be eliminated. While this is, say, the structure workflow, it can help you out of the bath better since when you added the bathroom. In effect, their behavior is very unpredictable. Finally, some tools have built in bath effect options. The pain and principles have a few options in the controls that let you apply the effect as you draw, and you can edit the effectively the wrong With the consolation Tooley, you can select between a few effects, like the beast blind and the spider path to use and automotive to default. Baseer Girl The sense of the shape drop down. Also independent, pensive tools. This work by changing the way the stroke looks and behaves. You cool, for example, select the option to have a triangular stroke 8. Object Appeareance: in this lesson, we're gonna take a look at the features. The problem has toe candle, the way an object looks one of the most important. Diallo seven entire problem is the feeling stroke. In a previous lesson, I show you how to quickly said the feeling Stroke order often object using the palate. But this dialogue contained the full set of options to open it. Goto object Feeling stroke. The feeling stroke Diallo has three times the first and second tab. The field and throat have the sex and options. Depending on the selected tough. The options would be applied to either the feel or stroke, the less stuff and the other properties of the stroke. But most important, they with Let's Begin with the feel and so paint off. Since both have the exact same options, I'll show you the options with the field of selective. The first thing you see at these eight boxes on top. These chance that type of paint you'll give to the object. Even though there are eight different Bhutan's practically you'll only be used in the 1st 2 The other ones are user for other features. More important for graphic design or they give rhythm that information, so forget about the other six and concentrates the 1st 2 The X means no pain whatsoever in a previous lesson, I told you that in, Except you cannot remove either feel or stroke. You can only hide it well. The X will hide either feel or stroke, depending on the WR. This will turn dust XX and thing that the white X in the palate, then, is the flat color button. This does the same thing that picking 1/4 in the palate. It gives either the feel or stroke ace on its color. But the difference is that now you get the full set off options to pick the color you want First as soon as you click on the option found near water disappear. These are actually times each with a different color selection mouth. They'll give you the same colors, but depending on your needs, it could be easier picking one or another for illustration. You'll be using either the wheel or the ages and mull. You can forget about the other ones. No mother was called Ramo's. You pick them really illiteracy RGB, a label on the dropper, The dropper is the classic tool duality sample colors, and the Algerian label has the excellence of on numbers off the selective color. Here, you can copy that number and start exact color. You have selector or plays the color in excess imitation. The stroke style tub has all the options related to the stroke. Of course, the most important here is the with. This is the option you'll be handling all the time. Right next to the with number. There's a drop them with a different value off mm millimeters. This is a unit since, except is a graphic this time, so were first displayed by the fault, a unit that is useful for plant. But you can change that unit to something more useful. For illustration. I have recommended the Meikle adjustment used in the PX or pictures unit. Notice that when you change to a new unit with value gets cumbersome. Bless you, sir. For illustration of the dash is an American assumptions. The dashes of different types of Stashes to a stroke on America's and symbols toe different parts of the stroke. This is mostly used to create things like arrows for diagrams and maps. A little more useful at the joint and gap options. The joint changes away that stroke loose in a corner. If you have a six stroke, it may worth to play around with the type of joint. So the struggled validation to itself. The gap is just like the join option, but only for the animals and the other changes, the other of the stroke feel and Merkel's. For illustration, you can live without worrying about deceptions, independent of the jobs that have to. Slater's the 1st 1 as a blur effect to the entire object, both for field and stroke on the 2nd 1 says the A positive in their object. One important thing to keep in mind is that this is like the is complete disability from the Alfa value in the feelings. Through paint off, you can create radiance about using the Grady in tool in the toolbox, depending on which option is set in the total control smile, you create either a linear or radio ingredient. When you drive right next to the linear and radial options at the stroke and feel options here, you can choose to what is it gonna be applied toe to set the colors just click on the stops in handle and then set a color. You can move the handle at any moment after you created it by using either the Grady in tool or the no selection tool. With the really into selected, you can double click in any section of the handle, and this will create in your stop radio tuning, say, behave just like radiance. In any other problem, the color will be linearly changed from the color of one stop to another in that controls. While there are a couple of useful options, this will turn with the best ingredients, so you don't have to manually rotate. Handle this. Drop them will change what happens after the turn stops by. The faulty and stop color goes on, but you can make it. Repeat the bottom or repeat the pattern back to back. If you open the feelings of dialogue and choose the third or fourth bottom, you see a list ofall the greatest. You've creative. By selecting one, you can apply it through the object. You can also do obligate and modify an existing radiant. All of the options you see here are found in the Grady into controls you can if you prefer , handled the greatest application from here. But I found it's way easy and not worry about this panel and control everything from the controls. Bar off the Great Intell except has a fully implemented measure, Grady and Functionality. While not as advanced as the mission, radiant in a program like illustrator, it can do chilled fairly decently. So it's what's to take a look. A missed radiant is similar to a normal ingredient, with the difference that you can place and manipulate stops in all directions. To set a Mediterranean to an object, select the millstone and directly on the object. Just like with the radiance, you can just type in the Contras. Well, the first option. We create a matte tricks Off stops the second officer, Berkeley. They conical mess. This is similar to the radio radiant Onley that you can have more than one throw off stops to set a color is similar to a normal ingredient. Simply select a stop and said the color with the Mr Selected, you can drag to select multiple stops on, said the color to all of them together. This can only be down with the grading tool. Since then, we're working with measures you can set the road on columns. Sadly, you cannot add or remove rows or columns. Dynamically. The changes are only applied when you create in your mail. However, it's possible toe interactive Leon rows and columns just obliquely in a brake system, grow or column with the measure of selector. And anyone will be great. The So It's always best to create a mesh with a few rows and columns and then have more rights, neither just like with the radiant you can move a stop. But the difference is that now you can move, do whatever you want. Another new thing is these little circus around. I know that transformed triangles when you select the stop this control the spread off a gunner off a stop. If you start moving them, you see that the row and column line is also moving to indicate the way the stop affect the color with deceptions. You have complete control over the color of an object, and you can really have an shading that would be really have to do without it. As far as other options, just like we know my girls, that is an option to make a segment state or call. If you missed too much the shape of the myth, you can feed it insane. Object With this Putin. A really nice option is the ability to enable and disable the stop indicators. This way is easier to see the stuff you have, just like with the Radiance supporter in the feeling strong dialogue To select this type of feel again, you don't need to use it for anything as that baby to switch with you in accepting missions . Food. That's our visual effects program inside except itself that are somehow similar looking to pixel effects. But I was still inside the SPG standard. You can open the fridge. The editor by going toe filters filter. Here. You can create the effort by applying and removing pre existent effects and changing the parameters. Creating effect is its own subject, and you're really gonna have to touch this. Taylor, however insane, comes with hundreds off building effects for you to use pretty my security that you won't ever need to create your own to access the field. That's goto filters and the juice the one you like because filters I'm not big salvation they can really goes to slow them, especially if you're some right in. I'm gonna be honest. I don't like this and filters. I prefer working in a picture softer like Gimpel Rita and important members to the problem . I feel that this way it's way more effective, and you get exactly what you want. Speaking off important an image you can important image or any type of vector file to the document by going toe file in part, all my favorite metal by dragging from the US to the gun breath. Once import the image a small daily will appear. You can skip this. Just click in. The great images are objects on. They can be manipulated with the selection tool. You can apply blur and a passivity from the field and serve Diallo but not colors. You cannot supply filters from the filter menu and, most importantly, plan most from the object or the Diallo pixel basis extensions, mostly from the rest of menu work as well 9. Other Features: We have studied the essential tools and options related to illustration the broom has. But now it's time to talk about other features that might still be important, but they're a bit more situation on or snap in. Functionality can be enabled or disabled by clicking in the first icon in the Snapper. There are three sections in this bar, all proceeded by a boat in which enables, or the Sabres and Diane section. Once you snap something, the position a little message appears in place, letting you know it's snapping. The first section enables you to snap to bounding box itself and the object. A bounding box is a rectangle that feeds the whole object. No, mother, this cigarette. So, for example, if you were dating rectangle, the about them box of the object is gonna still be a rectangle. The tigers in this section Let's you enable snapping two corners, actions, mid points and even the center point off on object bounding box. I find myself really needed to snap to bounding boxes, so I never neighborhood this type off. Snapping the second section is a little more useful. The section that you snapped toe paths and nose off are the doubles Here I found that I only need this one. This one that you snapped through knows from a gun. All the other ones let you in some way or another. Snap to Al Viteri, Point in the bath, which is more distracting and less useful than you think. The third section that you snap toe other points like centers, handles and takes angers. This one lets section this one has no main double and enables to snap into the base grease or guides. Since this occurs about illustration, we escaped both patients and guys, which are helper lines. You can die off on the left upper corner in the campus or from the rules, but the grease require a little more explanation. You can enable a rectangular on excellent metric leads for the entire document. For this, you need to open the document property style of go to file document properties and then go to the great stuff you create. Agree with the creation dropped down here. Just select the type Hang click new After the great degrees a tub with options appear here , you can configure the grid. The 1st 3 check boxes are universal for the two types of bullets you can enable or the same with, and I agreed with the first checkbooks. You can make it invisible, but keep this snapping a neighbor with the second checkbooks when you some out some of the green. Maybe wreck created so much. The soon with the 30 books enabled you Onley snap to the grid that are actually visible otherwise, degrees maybe too close together and they may be the purpose off enable snapping in the first place for the rectangular. Really, the origin value moves agreed up or down the space and is just for the space in between. These if you want to make the bigger just make this basin in X, and why bigger? The nice thing about having different values for X and why is that you can create non square grids. You can have a different looking line every certain number of normal lines. This is so you can see better. You change the color off the minor or major type of real with color selector by the fourth . Both type have the same color, and Alfa the Alfa is indicated with the first half of the bottle. You can also change the quantity of lions between a major agreed with this drop down. If you have a very densely that's maybe better than lines, you can just dots with this Putin. The ex automatically has a couple of different options. First, you change the size of the green with the space and value. The angle changes the inclination. Probably the most useful type off. Greed is gonna be the different one. The one with both angles said that 30 This will create a classic semantic live. Finally, if you go to the snapped up right next to the police stop, you see a group off options rated to snap in. The first, regroups changed a distant, needed Do snap. If the option is said to always snap on, the selective object will always snap to something a mother Liston's. You don't want to touch anything here. The different options are just fine. The spray to let your spray the selected object. This is later. Quickly create a vandal and organic looking distribution off objects that otherwise would be impossible or at least very tedious to place manually in the two controls. While the latter formals they just away this play worth with the first ball selected use played copies off the selected objects based on the value set in the rest of the bar. If you have more than one object selected, then they'll be sprayed randomly with the others. This system all that you'll be used in the most with the second most elected years break close off the selected subjects. Ass is to be expected if you modify one of the objects you modify off the clones, the third and for small R unless uses with the thermal, you manage a lovely into a single bath as you place them. This could be used for to create interesting shape continents and with the last month of the left, copies off on Lee the selected objects. So if you place a lot of different office when you're praying now you can delete only there are two type we want. As far as the modify assumptions, you have a lot of control specialist, since you can bound any off the options toe tablet pressure for extra versatility off course to countries the size of this play and the amount of play subjects you can run the my salutation scale and scattered. Then you have more to find options like if you want to apply over solely or transparent sections useful. If you have the Camba said, transparent acid is by default. Well, if you want the objects to overlap or not, as well as changing the colors as you place objects. Without this values and options combined, you have a huge amount off control. The best thing you could do is to experiment and see which configuration of values work for each. In the legal case, the trick tool allows you to the two things you can apply transformations toe alas, quantity of objects at once by baiting with the Corso or modify bath by sculpting with the concern. Keep in mind that this told we only affect selected objects, so make sure you select or the objects you want to effect before you send stool in the turn controls. You can set the width off the course L on the force with which the changes will be applied . The fourth company map to the oppression input. If you're using a tablet in the most section, you have access to 13 different moles that we can use the modern less feet into three categories. They have the object manipulation molds, the 1st 6 the past manipulation mall from the seventh to the 10th and the object of bidden small. The rest. The ultra manipulation malls are most useful to use in conjunction with this plater that we just saw a while ago. This most let you perform all type of transformation very easily on last quantities of shapes. You can modify the position, scale and rotation. This is mostly useful to randomize the values and create a more chaotic a range of subjects . Each mold has an eternity modifier that gets active with the shifty to know what it does. Simply leave the mouse on top of the mold on that, the people that you know what they do, the past manipulation walls is where things get interesting. Depending on the options, you can push or pull different parts off a path or shrink and expand. That's that's normal. Too rough in a bath. With this most you can easily create organic shapes. It's my note. Before we continue, this tool will not work on a safe section, even if the handle selective this must surely is able so you may have to add a small girl mature toe, a section you want to effect before you can. Just the stool. The third group off moles, changes the color and blow off the objects in different ways. You can paint the selective color, give the objects a random corner or just blue of the objects. The sense of the color of blower is based on the strength value, just like in the case of the object manipulation molds the most from this section and usually used to paint the last quantity of objects. The book. It is an interesting tool. You can create a shape that will feel any enclosed area really quick by just clicking. But there is a big problem. The creative shape is not created using Boolean operations, but rather it's generated. You seem pixel information, so the position of the view when you click the field is important. If you assume right in the field, we maintain decently the edges. If you assume really far, that feel will leave. A lot of space is in the sections so they feel will never be better. Fact, there's always gonna be some space in the borders no mothers have close to assume. When you said because of these, the two loses a lot off Useless. To help solve this problem, there are a few options in the Contras you can play around with disrupt, um, by the fault he tried to feel based on the color information. But you can change it, so instead try to feel based on the difference between hue, saturation, alfa or in the bigger colors. If you bring the right options here, it can improve the quality of the field. This that so they grow shrink input. You can make the object feet. It's around in a little better. You can play with deceptions, however, I prefer to livers in as it is and use dynamic officer to make the shape fit better. The book at that have issue says, if you can. What about speed than accuracy? But for everything else, you should take your time and create the first generally by duplicating shaves and perform Boolean operations. I want to talk briefly about extensions. Extensions are blue jeans that are built into the program just like the building filters. You got extensions to create different types of path toward we pixel images to export the world we will basis. There are a lot of them. And, just like with the fielders out of the bath FX extensions as something you're better off playing with by yourself. What's really interesting is that you can assign shirkers to a lot off them. All you have to do is go to the shirker preferences. And, of course, if you want, you can write your own extensions. There, guys, you can find a line if we reprogram it and feel up to the desk. Three honest extensions and a bit like filters. You might find yourself using one here and there, but for the most part you can skip them and you want mismatch this for the rest of the tools and options I thought were useful for registration, depending on your workflow and the way you like to illustrate, they told that one artist thing is essential, maybe completely useless to you. I am good if you toe test and play around with the other tools and see if you can find in some juice. I didn't. So now that we've gone through the entire program and all the features, I think an important for your station. I want to give you some important tips that I think may save you a lot of headaches in the long run. 10. Inkscape Tips: great. We're done with the program. I believe that the knowledge you have now you can go and it is really pretty much anything you want. But before you do that, I have a few tips that I've compiled together through the years. So frustrating, willing cyp. Some of them are small features that can save you a lot of time. All those are just keeps for working with the problem here way. These tapes are really basic, but to me they are very important to know. I want to start with some very important stuff. I relieved that in most notorious, for the most part, everyone forgets about one of the most important parts of working and accept. Switching between the two selection tools and switching between these two tools is one of the most common actions you re doing. Quinn drying At the end of a day's work, you'll end up wasting a ton of time moving the mouse to the tool box to switch to the right tool. It's a little liquid. You're landed. It's really problem, and everyone tells you that you should get used to the keyboard shortcuts to the Manipulator Tools assembly. It's possible otherwise to be forever slaves to moving the mouse all the way to the U I Every two seconds, the default circuits are a little bit awkward to my taste. The other books is said to the function keys if one of two or three. So I prefer to sit my own custom share cards. You can every the default shortcuts. If you go to edit preferences. Here you go toe interface. He was shark. It's the tools and in the context list, but you can search in the search box. I recommend you to set the selection tools to something like a M s or U N W something that is not a separated from the rest of the fort non toolbox cable circuits. And since you're there, you might as well said the shark ought to the next most useful tools used in the mental a lot. So I recommend you to say that comfortable circuit for it, and they're important, it told you. Research into constantly the drop. It'll the dropper allows you to sample a color and sell it to the feel, or if you will shift the stroke of the selected object in most other problems. That Ripper tool isn't signed by default to a key like control or at but in in Sape, the drop. It is a tool, so you need to use a shirker to access it. And just a very comfortable game, something that one forced you to go all the way up in the keyboard. Everything you want to sample color. If you don't say the shortcut, then you're either gonna have to go toe to toe box every time or up in the feeling sort dialog and use that Robert Icon there both. But it's slow and awkward. This deep can save you hours off Justin Properties in Diallo's, it is possible to go pee, and based on Lee, the style often object. This means that you can pass on the field and strugglers as well. A stroke with another properties do any other object and the of the weather. Today in the shape this way, you can very quickly change the color to the style you're working on, but use it is very simple. Simply copy the object you want to start from and then sell it. The object. You want to base this Thailand on Goto edit based style or even better, is the shortcut. Contraction be? This is something you're using all the time when you're Satan, so I recommend you to memorize the shark cut. Sometimes you want to add some sort off texture or noise to the object our senior Drew. There are many ways you cannot noise to an object, but here's what I recommend. Just find some interesting Reggie texture on nine preferentially from a royalty free picture site and important to the document, you need this texture. Toby in black and white, surface and color make it black and white by going to extensions. Presto, just be and then said the situation toe minus 100. There are other ways to be saturated image in except but they may not work well with what we do next. Now we just place the texture on top of the object or image. You want to have the texture, too, and then open the objects. They'll go to object objects. If you have selected the texture, you should be selected in the Diallo. If you remember, you can set the blend nose off individual objects. I recommend you to try first, multiply for light textures or skin for dark ones. If those don't do it, then you should die each of the other blend most and see if you get the results. You want off course. You have to lower the capacity as you train your FX. Always go for somebody. And finally, of course, you have to clip it. The figure dubbed it. Remember that you can use a group as a clip. I want to talk about a couple off nice display options that may help you to work more comfortably. Open the document Diallo by going to file document as illustrators. We don't care for most of the options here in these first up, but if you go down to the section that say's border, you can change a couple of border. This play options, the most important is the one that lets you disable the fish border. I know some artists find a useless black square in the middle, annoying and distracting, so now you can just remove it if you like. The second important option here is the section of all that say's background. You can change the color of the background by clicking on the label so much is like to work in a nice gray background rather than a completely white one. But here you can change to any college you want. If you pay attention, you see that the Alfa is completely turned down, yet the color of the background changes to the selective color. The else option here is for when you export an image in the area that is not covered by an object. That is, when the background shows through, we'll export with the transparent said to the value in the elephants later here. For the most part, we want to have transparency when you export, so I recommend you do live it all the way down like it's by default. And if you need your image to have a color background, just a rectangle beloved with the color of the background you want. Speaking of exporting, you can export any idea of the document to a PNG image Y P and G. Well, there be in the format is a lossless known Potente image compression format. This means that whatever you export, one loose quality when compressing the image, you look a shell, plus the victor off course. The PNG format allows transparency. So the option in the document about the transparency of the background comes into play. When exporting talksport an image go to file export PNG. This will open a day love on top. Therefore, Bouton's you can sell it the type off area that will be automatically selected to export. In reality, this Putin's want matter. What matters are the numeric imports will know they defined the actual area that's going to be exported. Alec amended to always have the Putin selection together on If you have on the numeric inputs with, adjust to the area of the selected objects, so you can just select the object or objects you want to export, and the area will be set automatically. Toe match the bounding box off the selection. Down below. There is the image size section where you can set the size of the export of file. One important thing to remember here is that because we're working with Victor's, the Dimension said in the document world mother at all. At the moment of exporting, for example, I can create a rectangle off 100 by 200 pixels, and if I want to export that object, they with and hide input won't necessarily change to the size of the object. In fact, I can go on and change the value toe, whatever with and hate I want. The values will automatically adapt to the right ratio so I can easily export that 100 by 200 pics. Every tangle do a 10,000 by 20,000 pixel image, and it won't lose and equality. I like to think about it as if you never truly export some object in the argument. You export an area off the document so you can export that idea to whatever resolution we want. Since you're working with Victor's, that's every somewhere. The inputs on top are separated from the width and height input below off course because you cannot stretch an image when exporting the with and height inputs are looks down toe. Whatever the ratio of the selector idea is number. Leo is the finally um, section. You can simply sit the file name and the location to export the PNG. Finally, once you're done, just click on export and the BNG file will be created on your hard drive. The final deep has to do with the color mall with with you select colors. If you remember in the feeling served a low, you get the truth from five different models to select color in the lesson back then I tell you that you should concentrate in the early two moles, the wheel and the ages and mold the will doesn't need explanation. It's just the will of colors when you can see the relationship of colors and then said the situation in Bali wants to pick the hue. However, I think that you should get comfortable with the age of Cemal, since is the most important toe begin color for illustration Enough is this classical theatrical representation of cooler that uses three valuables hue, saturation and value. The here is the actual color. Picks can be blue green with a yellow etcetera. The situation is how much quantitative lay the color has. Saturated colors are very vibrant, while de saturated colors are far more pain mentally. If you crack down the situation off a here you read. Full rate value is how light or dark a particular color is. No lightness they color becomes like this helps us enormously to represent light and shadow the age of cell hue, saturation and lightness, which is the same that value maps. This classic representation by Houston Discovered selection mold. You can compare better the hue, saturation or value off color. For example, to imply a surface in shadow, you can sample the color of the surface light and then lower and slightly the lightness slither. It's very common in registration toe. Make this type of comparison when selecting colors, so I recommend you to get used to working with the ages and mold. 11. Bush Part 1: in this. Listen, I want to use a very simple object to show you the basic techniques you'll be using. Other cars will be drawing a bush. And the great thing about Bush is is that the shape used to represent them is pretty universal across different styles. It doesn't really change that match from show to show, and it's also very easy to love. So let's begin now. We could take the pen tool and start drawing the concern. That is nothing wrong with that. But I want to show you a way that's even easier. So pick the lips stool and draw a lot off irregular ellipse. That's one on top of another. We are building up the secret of the bush using the object selection tool. You can try a squashing, stretching and rotating the ellipses. I tried to make this illiterate look more like another bush. Don't pay attention to the bottom yet. Will they get of that in a second? Okay, so now I want to use a union Boolean operation to join all the ellipses together into a single path. This is important to be ableto every the silhouette freely, so select everything and go towpath union. And now they had a single path. Ask. You can see most wishes have a flat bottom. So you little girl off the bottom part and that you can just say different separation Victor Tangled tool. And if you want, you can change the color so you can see better what you're doing. It's important to carefully at just where you want to cut. Now go to bath difference. Now, if you want to make this silhouette feel more lively and organic, you can just a no selection Toto pull and push the bomb. Still, they feel less mechanical. Remember that depending on where you grab the bull will be different. So always going after in different parts off a cough and she temple into a problem. This notable here prevents me from editing the entire bump as under thumbed. You don't one knows in a cup section, no speed, stick of down. So it's always important to take a minute to the leader. The unnecessary nails in the middle of fickle section. Okay, now the mind will shape is finished. Now you can give it a few finishing touches with the object selection tool to a squash and stretch the whole bush, and that's askew. It is very common in cartoons. For Bush is to be a skewed to one side. Now here's a little technique to make. The shape of the bush is more interesting. You pick a note and lower the bottle handle down. Now you're just double click on the section of the bump toe other, you know, and then you raise it up on. The result is that it creates a bit more. Variation this by using the techniques. Trudeau Islam. You can't replicate pretty much any bush you'll see in a country show, but only the shape so that it's listen, I'll show you how toe have light and shadow. 12. Bush Part 2: The great thing about working in a normal, realistic style is that the rendering and detail is way simpler and you don't have to learn it on a new concepts. So you can tackle a very complex subject, like rendering the mother of Minutes. And that's what we're gonna other. Now let's surrender this bush. Let's have some highlights and shadows. One of the most common elimination said Absolute. See, all the time in captain shows is the back lead Bush. So this duplicate the Bush entries the color so you can see whether this is gonna be the shallow move, the shallow a little bit down and either to the right or the left, depending on the elimination of your scene. I think that time is just in the position of the show. You can just tell restoration Toto, make some minor adjustments, but dont I will do it or it won't look right. And now clip the excess. Duplicate the original bush shape with controlled the and now that the couple shape isn't up, you said to clip the shallow, select them both right click and said sleep. Remember that the clip is a shape on its own so you have to be careful off that moving it out of the main bush. The great thing about leaps is that you can see the clip shape with the notation tool and the shape one show outside of the clip, and that's what I'm doing right now. I'm aging the shallow inside the bush to make it nicer. A couple of steps to have just a shadow threat. Avoid parallel curves between the shallow and the bush control, except by girls. Usually look man made. Make sure to align the concerns so the illumination makes sense. And now it's century with some color, and this required to follow a small process. Open the feelings through dialogue and give the shells and color. I recently agents and mold, so I can said the situation and value us separate. I want him in situation invaluable in for the show. Shows are often less saturated and highlight, so give that in mind when picking colors. This is important. I want to give the highlight the same color as the shadow, but later because that's how light affected colorful surface. So sending the highlight, which is the back bush and using the opportune some of the color for the shadow. So now they have this in color. But what you can do now is using the values later. You can raise the value just a bit more and this will admit to give the impression that the sun is hitting the bush. You can also make the highlight. I lied a bit more saturated by moving the slaves at any little right, But be really subtle with this, otherwise it won't. Right. Okay, so I'm gonna repeat the same process. But this time I'm gonna make a front I elimination set up. So this is very similar to the previous example with the difference that instead of duplicating the bush shape, you'd rather shape with mental when drawing the shape. Make sure to have these made that bumps in the intersection between light and shadow. Otherwise, the shadow will look well. These bombs will also have death to the bush as well as make it more interesting. I'm making some minor adjustments here, pulling and pushing the bumps to make them look more organic. Just like with the out of silhouette, I would recommend you to make the bombs as regular as possible. - in that several it for rendering Bushes. Cartoon shows really go for something more complex than these for average Bushes, however, in the next lesson will take a look at how to other little more detail. 13. Bush Part 3: no stand to have some details, nothing to find. See just a few shapes to make the former interesting. The most common thing some states do is to have branches. So with mental, draw a very long try. Anger, make it angler and then dressed smaller triangles going for the large one their rapid. This a couple more times. Unless you can see after you said the color, it makes the bush feel a little more full. Everything that is very common is to have some sort of flower or fruit. It doesn't need to be deterred at all. In fact, it almost always is some sort off limiting shade that roughly rece embers anything. So let's make a flower first, draw a circle, then transform it to a path by going toe path. Object a bath and pull the water now duplicated. And if you need, make it more sick with the objects action tool. Since this is an organic shape, you don't need to be very careful with these operations. I hope it's with Contra Gee, not just a mother of duplicating them and placing them on top of the bush. I'm just in the object station, Toto skill for state and scale them. - And I'm out of change in slightly the color so they won't look too similar. I'm trying to feel the space by placing them une really against the bush so they look more veteran. But dont over saturate the bush with those of flowers. So it would be distracting just a few to make the blank space more interesting. And they have done off course. You can choose that type of fly weather and didn't want. But the fundamentals are here. That's up to you to create your own variations. You don't train the flowers with all the other wishes to see how they look in other shows. Shells are very simple to make just to placate the silhouette said the color to black or the gray and lower the opacity with the A positive lower. It was react nicely with whatever the wishes place on right down. It doesn't look that girl on a white combat sto, but we look nice on a full realization. - Shallow stone had to be complex. In fact, Captain shells really do what we just did here. In most styles, Hell's there simplified to some shape that roughly December's the casting object. So simplistic circles, often nonunion. Okay, so that's it for the basic bush on throughout. The rest of the girls will be using the same techniques over and over again. So hopefully you got that person with no problem in. Next. Listen, we're gonna crank up the difficulty by making some trees. 14. Trees Part 1: These are some of the most important elements in an El person. And while individual trees are no different than any other object in the sense that you need to know how to draw to be able to draw them the red A few standard cartoon three symbols that are quite shares between different styles, mostly for the trees in the background Let's begin with a few simple pines draw a very long triangle with the mental. This is gonna be the drunk now with the mental. Create this form, this is gonna be the branches. Now place it on top off the drunk and duplicated a few times. Skilling and down is to go up with everybody. Copy. You should modify it a little, either scaling with the object selection tool or modifying a few knows with no selection tool. Place them in these step pattern and try to avoid any accidental symmetry. - And that's it. No, let's make a quick radiation. Make it I angled that feels the idea of the pine and in the feelings through Diallo, PKK scholar on lower the capacity and we have done always be on the look for quick things. You can add or remove to assemble to make a variation his manner. Mediations are important because you usually want to create many objects off the same type in a scene, and you don't want your background to feel like you're just copied and pasted objects around, even if you did now, as simple as they might seem that I love cartoons that use this type of three so should get used to making them. 15. Trees Part 2: Let's finish up with the pine trees with the most advanced one. Create the drunk by using a long triangle. Now create another smothered Rangel. This is gonna be the lives. Place it on top off the drunk and give it the color. Now duplicated at least four times to create this pine shape, make sure to change the scales off each one. They once on top should be longer and smiled on the ones on the bottom. Bigger and wider. You can add a no in the middle to make the cornice. I'm even. - You can ask the court over the triangles. So the shape for use more organic, - don't forget to group them and now have little branches to the trunk. This will let some interest to the inside of the tree. - And now it sent Well, some highlights he didn't just create in a path that I'm gonna clip later on. But I could have gone the same way the with the bushes and duplicated my shape. Indian is accept something. In this case, I used a path since I could have a little more control. Remember, the groups can work as clips, and that's a recent where we can clip the highlight now the same as before. Don't forget the clip. Select them both and bypass Wooten said. Clip. If you forgot how to pick the highlight color, just sample the color from the shadow and move the insiders it all right, and I'm repeating the same process with the trunk. Just remember to group the trunk with branches before clipping the highlight, and that's it. - And now I want to draw the type of tree that you see in the far background. I want to show you how you can easily create a variation toe. Feel a space with a loaded adultery. Duplicate the pine. If you want, you can delete them necessary objects. Now, with all the objects of the pine, Selective just said the color. I know it doesn't look too realistic to have the drunk off the same color as the leaves, but the subject is meant to be far away. You can even other subtle highlight if the cheese meant to be in middle distance. But that's up to you on whatever your sea may need. 16. Trees Part 3: finally, let's build age and a victory. First, the drunk is way more thicker and slightly anger. Make a few ballistic branches to the side and then have the smaller ones now to make the leaves. This is the exact same process, and the bushes and I mean the exact same rather lips is joined them removed the bath nose and the bomb. Sorry, looks more natural. The only difference is that now you have to try to make a nice looking over a silhouette. Even the highlight about these takes that same. Lubricate the shape on my clip it and it's only looks nicer and other right colors using the ages and move as far as the drunk. Highlight its exact same as the pine tree highlight. Just keep in mind that addiction off the light in case you need to cut out the section. Do they branch just so I could handle the highlight shape easier. I just turned them together, use in a union operation And, yes, you knows work, which shapes that that mother would. Lapin. I duplicated a drunk group and clipped the highlight and has done, however, being mindful that these types of trees can have a lot of radiations, so it will be a lady had to check some reference if you want to make something more unique . 17. Large Masses Part 1: in this lesson, we're gonna learn how to make large masses like mountains, heels and then swells pretty much any lush area in the far background. But first I want to talk very quickly about a really life phenomenal called atmospheric perspective. And where does is to make objects in the far distance have less contrast, be less saturated and blend more in the background. This phenomenon obviously have an important effect on large masses. This means that the colors and the sign is gonna have to change accordingly. First, you don't want too much detail. Since objects are in the distance and are affected by low contrast, this means that they controls need to be simplified. And second, this one is a bit obvious. Do you want the colors to be light and the separator? Keep in mind that because of the detail and the colors, the objects will be drawn. We look better in a proper composition, so don't worry. They look a bit wonky and their own here in this Listen, I'm going to start with something very simple. A simplify snowy mountain. I'm just gonna draw a cup Angula days now we blue color. I let some highlight. Clip it and change colors. I suppose you know the drill right now. And he was a nice thing you can do. You can drop a few triangles to feel the space in the mountain. This would feel like they are trees being looked from very far. Just remember to pick a low contrast color that makes sense in this case that use a glacier white. - Now imagine copies off these trees to the silhouette to make it look more interesting. And I'm repeating the same thing with the silhouette of the show. And that's it. You definitely the one too much detail in something that is meant to be so far away. Next, I'll draw a hell again abusing girls after my shape. But this time I just in the mental to draw these spiking silhouette toe the inside of the mountain. These are the trees I must have, making sure that the spikes are just a little bit different and uneven, so they won't look too mechanical. I want the spikes toe leave the mountains, Alouette. So the orbital object looks more interesting as far as the colors just made the trees a little darker than the mountain in every a composition, you probably want to double check the value and saturation off the colors to pick. But here just want to some colors that were clear and then just like before at the small trees to help to feel the idea. Just don't overdo it. A few three should be more than enough. 18. Large Masses Part 2: Okay, let's try something a bit more complex in this lesson will draw a big forest mass and a full blown mountain. I will start with a big forest. This is an object that is meant to be somewhat closer than the other masses. First I draw the outline of the shape. This may have some composition on purpose, so I believe that it's important to outline the shape first. Now I'll have some solar trees that you saw in the Forest Mountain, with the difference that now I'm roughly following the overall shape. One thing to be careful here is the scale of the trees. You don't want trees that feel too big or too small for their location, - with a little more interest to the inner shape on, make a second row. This time the cigarette. It's not that's important, so I just duplicated as far as the color again. You don't want too much contrast between objects, so pick a similar color, but maybe slightly lower value used the else, either in the agents involved scary so it looks closer and move it around a little again. In every Al composition, you may want to be more careful with the colors to pick. - And now for the next day, I didn't. I let some triangles to some of the sort trees to imply the silhouette off a full blown tree. But I don't want to overdo it. This row of trees are meant to be a big forest outlined and some trees. You see only the top of the silhouette and some other you see a bit more in every religious trey shin. You want to be more careful off the scale and size of the trees. If this mass object, it's meant to be closer than you make the three speaker. If it's further away, you make them smaller. And, of course, you still can have triangles to fill up the space. And now and Ice Mountain first, I'm gonna make this Yuet and I'm making three similar looking shapes, making sure they all of a lap for extra that. But you may want to make a different group in. Just think in the over a cigarette on the purpose in the composition. Now let the shadows I'll try to imply some rocky terrain below. By making these 65 shape. Of course, I'm gonna cup to clip the more later on. And now for the color I want the shell toe affect the color of the objects below. Like this. No Aladdin imminent does that. I want to give the shadow a black or dark gray color, and then I lower the opacity quite a bit to send the color off the shadow really quickly. I'm using the shortcut control shift. Be toe base, the style toe, the shallow shapes. No send to make the snow. And this is a very similar process than with the shadow I make. There's no rocky looking and give you the greyish white and then Rick Lipid. Make sure there's no is below the shadows in the stock order, so they transparency affected. And that's it for the big masses. Remember that you still need to be aware of the form and colors toe feed your composition so it's a little different than the other symbols that you could just copy and paste in different contexts with minimal editing, 19. Sky: in this. Listen, I want to talk about skies, how to make any type of sky or clouds and how to make them look nice. The very first thing you should learn related to read in the skies is how to create this Kaige radiance. You want to use Canadians when you need a sky that's transition into another time for the day. Select a radiant tool in the toolbox and drag on the rectangle. You can use both type of radiance here, depending on what you want. I haven't committed to go as subtle as you can, just in subtle colors and moving. The color transition to the bottom may be obscured by some trees or buildings, if possible, but sometimes you want a simple blue sky. In that case, you can do a couple of things to make the area more interesting. With the mental, draw these 16 shapes with straight lines. Of course, make sure that the lions feel flowy and natural someplace knows parallel to each other. Make them flow. You might need to move a beat the notes so the lines have not to parallel. Then you can smooth the shape by selecting some off the nose and clicking on the smooth down type. Finally said the shapes to a white color and lower the elephants so they are more suddenly integrated to the sky. But you can give them any other color or leave them at full capacity. You can also leave the shapes as straight lines. It's very important that you know that these on and close this is just some noise that you can apply to the sky area so it won't look as empty. Now for a steady night, you can easily play stones off copies off a shape by using this prayer after a couple of small circles to aside, these are gonna be the stars off course. You can use any other shape, maybe even the start with an object, but I prefer to keep it subtle, so I use a couple of ellipses. I used to circles for more variation. I made one ellipse of it bigger and the other smaller. Since the tour takes in consideration the size of the additional shape when us playing in little concerns that a couple of cities you want to set amount, rotation and scale are probably the most important options In my case, I want a lower amount of radiation. The rotation escape, but especially in the amount I'm making sure the mold is said to copies in the two Contras , so it displays copies rather than clothes or a single object. Okay, here's a nice technique. Remember that sprayer copies are based on the properties of the original shape, and that includes the size. So what we'll be doing here is to a spray a few copies with the amounts later said to our really small value. Then I scaled the original objects down. I increasingly the amount of slate there, and I just pray this way. I get this layer off sizes effect that looks a bit more natural. A lot of the options you need to set the pen on the effect you want. In my case, I preferred to have a small quantity of starts in two layers. As far as cooler goes, this is an option to controls off this prayer toe to handle that, but it's a little too complicated and obscure for my taste, so I prefer to use another tool 200 the color the trick. Doing so. Pick the tweak tool and here you have a few ways to set the colors. I prefer to use the 11th option the pain till scholar mole. This small will color the objects toe the current reactive color, and, as always, the strengths depend on the force. Later, I pick a light, bluish color toe. Combine with the great white again. Depending on what you want, your settings would be different, but I prefer to use only two colors, - and if you want, you can also use the less mold toe. Blur the stance that depends on what you want. If you blur them, be extremely cetera, probably the most important element off a sky on the clouds. And, of course, there are 1000 ways you can draw gloves, but let me show you the most common type you see in a stale escorting backgrounds. The most straightforward way to draw clouds is to draw them, just like you did with the bush racing lips together and then joining them with the union only that they stand. You want chopped the bottom off. You can even add the shadows like you deal with the bushes, but this time be sort of with the color difference between shadow and light. You can make a variation of this type of cloud in which you do jump the bottom off, but this time you place an ellipse to give the cloud a bit more depth, as if you were looking from below. Just make their lives have a lower value than the body of the cloud. Other things you can do here is to take the two extremes and make some pigs to do these simply other knows where you want the victory. They have to supporting nose to the side, so the shape one break when you pull, then make the three notes corners so they don't damage this in wet when you have just a peek. He's one of my favorite ways to make gloves. You can just could have the principle. Make sure that the smooth neither is said toe about 50 and then just draw these long flowy clothes. Because this most lie that he said to a large value, and the clothes don't require a precise outline. You can get away with using the mouse to draw. Of course, once the shape is drawn, you can move on the lead some nose or even used to simplify comment in the path mania. Be careful when using the simplified comment. It tends to destroy the con term. So you said once or twice to a smooth some nose, though there was way to get the best shape is to go in and the lead troubles and nose and change them toe coordinator or smooth type knows that you need. 20. Ground: So what do you do with the ground? What if your composition requires a large section off glass? You can just have a big area of the composition off just one color, like you hold with sky. A purely single color green grass will look wrong and empty. So in this listen, we're going to see what to do when you need to draw a ground section. One of the most common things shows to is to add some sort off texture. Having a nice, crunchy texture will often add unnecessary noise, so a single or Grady and color the ground want to call attention to itself. There are many ways you cannot picture noise to an object, but he that's what I recommend. Just find some interesting grungy texture online preferentially from a royalty free picture site and then imported to the document. Ideally, you want this texture to be in black and white, so when you apply the blend mole, the color of the texture, one affect the end color as much. This is one important for texture with a lot of color, but let me show you a way to transform it. Do black and white anyway So do you mess, Then go to extensions rested. I just be a just and then set the situation toe minus 100. There are other ways toe the saturate, an image in ink sleep, but they may not work well with what we'll do next. Place a texture on top of the object. You want to have the texture, too. Don't worry about images stretching or the resolution. We lower the A passivity, so it'll look good anyway. Now you'll most likely want toe. Flip it so it feeds the ground idea Nicely. Open the object style of If you have selected the Dexter, it should be selected in the Diallo. Take a look at the blender for the texture I have recommended to try. First, multiply for generally light textures or a screen for dark ones. Overlay is school as well, and if those don't do it, you should try the other. Blend most, one by one, and see if you get the results you want. Depending on the texture, most likely you'll want to lower the opacity. A lot always go for 70. This exact same technique can be used to have pictures not only two grand sections, but also to any other object or even entire images. One less thing, Nicholas. So creating nice texture using the filter menu. But like I said in that lesson, I prefer to stay away from filters. If you really need I custom texture, I recommend you to try to create it in a program like gimp or for a shop. Another similar idea is to have some sort off abstract known shape, similar to what we did with the sky. Depending on the ground type, you may want to sample the colder and said the north shapes to a darker or lighter value. Or simply said the color white or black and play with the capacity. Just make sure that the difference between colors is very subtle, so the shapes feel like noise and not some object on the ground. And just like with the sky, you can have smooth or sharp shapes. If you decide to add smooth shapes, you could also use the trick tools with any of the bath mouth to scope the shape better now , depending on the scene or the ground you're working on, you can spread small objects. For example, in an autumn scene, you could have lives or in a desert sindical of small stones. So I'm gonna read a live shape just to show you how to spread it correctly Leave or whatever object you is praying has to be simple. No sense in making it complex since you're going to see it from far away. Then pick this prayer told and spray If you watch the sky Listen, you're brilliant know how do you say you could just two or more different types off objects toe get more variation like in the lesson. And of course, you can use my layer and sizes technique. The objects in the distance should be scale and squash too much the perspective, even if you have to go one day one. Also, don't forget to skew and rotate The spread ready is going to do the job perfectly in one go . You're probably gonna have to go and edit some stuff. Men really as far as the cooler. I'm one of the same day with the stars and paid the leaves with victory. Remember that we had in some nice stated on the ground You don't want too much colder contest, but if you overdo it. You can always a late them all and lower the capacity from the freedom started a low No. One in the opacity is a common technique to lower the contrast between two colors. Just make sure that if the object is composed from multiple shapes, its group nearly sec about some objects that goes well with the grand section off a decision. There are many ways to build branches, and I want to show you a highly stylized but very popular way to do it. You can have this branches to bushes or trees. Almost likely you can place them on the ground to make an idea more busy. First, select the mental and it controls. You see a couple of options. The one you care is the shape drop down 50 concert in different types of effects. And what's nice is that some of them allow you to edit some of the properties as if they were building objects or path effects. Now, sort of the one that say's triangle in you see that you have a next I control next to the nose. With this country handed, you can specify how much off a tangle in you want. Okay, so now for the branches, just read these simple girls. The girls became exactly like before and now to make them look nice or you have to do is go to the handle and make this room nice and thick. Now here's a quick way to make nice looking drugs trade this angler looking silhouette of a rock. He's a nice technique you can smooth just a little. A few off the sharp Connell's Just hold shift and write the one of the sides of the note and you drag out a no handle were produced for the other side. To get the other hander, you send this technique. You can smooth corners, just a leader without damaging the silhouette too much. To make it even more smoothly, you can place two points and inside of the corner. Then the little Koran knows, and then it's for the gardener with handles. Now duplicate the shape. This is gonna be a plane in the rock and move it accordingly to the light position. Now, of course, you clip it. Give the shallow a darker value cooler and now with the coastal created box with sides in between, the corners. This is gonna be another plane of the rock, so keep it handy with the color the business process as much as you need. Remember that the motor surface point to a light source. The higher value is gonna be so the plane opposite to the letters is gonna be the darkest on. The other ones are gonna be somewhere in between. And now for my next idea, you can have some way. We shaves to the raucous texture off course. Clip them inside on. Remember that you can make them either black or white and then lower the capacity. And this is for making drugs. Finally, let's talk about a nice little detail that you want to use as frequently as possible. If you please a shape on the ground, it doesn't know it's feel like it's lay in there. Off course. You can use a shadow, no matter how simple toe have ground the object. But there's this nice little later that really helps to ground an object and create a more interesting connection between the object and the ground. Just create a small patch of grass in front of the object. It doesn't matter. The shape of the size of the bunch, though it should be a reasonable size for a bunch of rest. Make sure that the patch has the same color as the grass. And if the match is in a shallow area, make the patch of the color of the shell idea. Also, keep in mind from when it comes. The key is in the lapping of shapes. We're gonna try to overlap other objects, like small bushes or branches, or if you're working on something that's not government grass, like the bachelors and something appropriate like stones. You can also overlap these patches to an area off different color like, for example, a section off a darker later grass I only went to a shadow are illuminated area. If the color the area is quite large doesn't matter if it's by elimination or because of the ground. Having this patches will make this silhouette more interesting. 21. Composition: composition is a very complex subject. You can take a long time to wrap your head around the country's rules and guidelines. However, as a beginner, you're probably not interested in building incredibly complex compositions filled with meaningful ideas and details. You just want to make something that looks good as an animation back around, and that is one bring attention to itself due to buy the construction for animation backgrounds. This list composition of requirements than, for example, for a pure infestation. And that's because you usually want the illustration to support the characters. That doesn't mean that you cannot together forget about composition, but it doesn't mean that you have a little more leeway for Vera, so instead of overwhelm you with information that you probably want fully assimilate right now, I'm gonna give you a list of five important guidelines that if you follow them, at least you'll be able to create a correct position. Number one field the space don't let slash areas, and you're drawing with nothing on it, in the case of example, because the image is to have some basic background that the character can work through. But it feels awkward and empty this would work if the stallion working on is extremely simple. But if you want to create a nice looking background, you need to feel the empty space sold you need to fix. This is to add elements to the illustration area toe. Occupy the space. A composition doesn't need to be jam packed with objects. With just a few more, the decision feels a bit more fool and alive. In this case, I added a few decorative items, things that won't change the over the meaning of the composition. You had to see if an area and registration feels like it lacks something on the case. Just field with some unimportant elements, like objects, shadows on the details. Just make sure the elements you have followed the rest of the principles. Number two. Yeah, okay. Often multiple objects will make a life singular shape. In this example, any of the area with the bushes can be considered a single out of shape. Any group off objects I share a similar value colder or form you bring with group them in tow single shapes. So when you see this composition, your brain is also seeing this. Whether you get the way the brain sees compositions well, with this knowledge against our building. Rough sketches off your ideas without the need to actually waste time drying because to India's is so fast you can come up with tons of ideas as well as refine and three old ones . Extremely easily rough sketches with little detail. They can be produced a quick and easy Our God, some nails. If a composition worked with lucky and love the shapes, it is surely work. We have done a nice details. Objects. I really want to create at least four or five thumbnails with different compositions off a subject Mother. Before you start to build the final outwork numbers of placement, it's very important that every object will be correctly placer. They let a few guys lets you follow 1st 3 subjects off a lap in nearly it gives depth to the composition, but it feels more natural. In this example, you can see how every single Bush is overlapping another. But if I change that, if I didn t have a Liberian divisions and mountains, you see that the composition of its more artificial and stiff beware of tangents on object intentions with another or worst with the edges, the image God's attention to itself and it looks unpleasant. In this case, I deliberately created a lot of tangents to show you how awkward they feel. This route objects naturally across an idea, and be careful affects the entire patterns or coincidences in the placement off objects. For example, you don't want a three coming up exactly behind the character standing in to give the impression that you did that on purpose. In this example, the placement of the mountains and bushes makes it feel like it's saying toe communicate something. When placing objects in a natural and chaotic way, it's very come for this type of accidents to happen. The may be in the aspirin owls like in this example, so always keep an eye in the placement off the objects. Oneness sing about placement if you divide the space into three equal parts vertically and horizontally in the section, you have these four places that the I finds pleasant to look at. You can use the intersection point toe, place important objects you want the others to look at. Objects in the position will often be notice quickly, and they'll be considered off a haggard importance. You can answer the signed your composition so important. Love Month aligned to any of the four lines to do the composition. A more dynamic field. In this case, I aligned with the lower bottom to the lower line for a normal background where the characters are the focus. You probably won't want to place important attention grabbing objects there. But if there's an establish in short or something similar, whether it's a clear focus point, then you may want to build your composition around it. Number four value. If you remember the ages animal in the feelings of Diallo, the slider stand for lightness. That's the value of the color. And that's a very important property, especially for compositions. As I said before, if multiple objects have a similar value range, they're probably gonna be stuck together. But what small or just with similar values and to blend together? Even if Nicolas different in this example, you can see how old the bushes blend together. There's no no get a clear difference between the rows. Even the heels man a little, the entire compositions pretty flat, and it's really have to make up what's going on off course. You should pay attention to the value of relationship between individual objects, make the object different enough so they can be seen. But that's is very important to be aware off the valley of the last shapes. So your composition has depth and do not feel flat like what you're seeing right now. A minute ago, we talk about some nails and using blocks rather than in the middle. Objects to the scientist composition faster and easier. Well, this is a good moment. Toe introduce You toe the concert off black and white, some nails looking by summers. I just like, Don't my thumbnails on Lee that you worked with black and white shapes this way, the same values along with the composition. First, when will be in black and white Sumner's. Make sure you have a lap light value shaves with darker value shapes toe. Maximize the visibility. If the composition work in black and white is working color for as long as you stay within the value range off your black and white thumbnail. Of course, number five unity unity basically means that you should never makes a much different styles . Well, there waas it will know we're like an object is based on top of the image rather than belonging to it. If you treat are very graphic and styles don't add very realistic bush. If there is a line that I know object with them dying. If I know that is in texture, make sure all objects have the same type of texture. This is so a place toe, more general fundamentals like perspective colder and the same composition. It's all about rules to make your drives look nice. Of course, I encourage you to go and learn more of a composition This ended two lamp, but I think that if you memorize or points in this listen, we'll be right. 22. Final Project Part 1: Okay, so I started by creating the black and white, some nail. We take so much in the composition. Listen, first, I'll said the proportions off the image, and I'm using the options in the controls of the rectangle tool. Those said that pixel dimensions. In this case, I'm using the video of a solution 12 80 by 7 20 I'm also making sure that mentions are set with the PX in the last trip down. This is the unit by before the unit is said toe. Mm. Really? Vitter's I didn't notice you inside. I lost you to export a PNG files to any resolution you want. Since you're working with vectors, the dimensions of the object doesn't matter that much. What this mother is the with and hide ratio. So you're saying that rectangle to set the under solution. It's a good way to get the exaggeration you want to work with. I'm looking in the last shapes with a little compositional trick. I am separating the composition into three layers. The background which would be the lightest in value, the middle ground, which would be in the middle on the four gram, which would be the darkest This is a nice trick to have in mind when the signing your compositions, because it automatically gives the image a sense off depth. It's very important that you understand that this is a very quick markup. A single easily block will represent multiple objects. In the end, all you have to do when greater the final invention is to make sure our large is from the block day in a similar value. Arrange to the block. I understand pretty quickly this dominate because I already had it finished. In a real life scenario, it's a good idea to create at least four or five variations on an idea before picking it. Some toe Move on. Okay, so nice time for the color. Some name. I decided to save up some time, an important view off the pre existent objects we made in the previous unit. That's another everything off working using vectors. It's really easy to real sass it. So I'm creating a fairly detailed color thumbnail weaker than a traditional registration. Who would ever do. I'm creating a group of three layers for the background, the milligram and the foreground. When I need is that all the objects in the background, like the sky rectangle and the big mountains that occupy a lot of space. Don't look so I can work without fear off accidentally moving something as far as the placement of the objects. I'm following the rules of composition, trying to feel the whole image, placing objects, overlapping each other and trying to not create any tensions between objects. All the while, I'm following the large blocks in the black and white family. Now is the time to play around with proportions and placement. All that mother now is set in the right colors. And of course I'm paying special attention that the colors maintain the same great value than the ones in the black and white. Someday, once the some nail is done for the final image. Ideally, you want to redraw everything. Start from Syria. Off course. We're using a couple of assets here, and there is normal, but you want to make sure that everything in feet and that will require that you create most assets from the ground up. So what is it? They're finally, someday next time for the next step. The final illustration 23. Final Project Part 2: let's begin the financial situation now that tend to make general adjustments. It's gone, and this is where you save time consistently a mother off, following the color thumbnail and withdraw what's needed to be improved. I copied this guy and ground from the cooler. Someday the shapes have the same soul. That's only to redraw them. Not to mention that the proportions that it really said in the sky shape what it cannot be the same are the background objects, even if it is the same symbol it has to be adapted to. The current scene in the summit of the Hill is way smaller and the trees don't have the current size, so I need to redraw it with the current three sizes. - Now I'm making their for this shape. This is exact same process you saw me do in the large masses lesson. But this time I'm being a little more careful with the shapes. The subject has an important role in the composition, just coping over the close. In some illustrations, you may need complicated clouds, but in here close and that important. So I didn't bother them in red around them. Enough for the fall down for the four grand. I need a little more detail. So gonna withdrawal everything I want a particular for Sylhet that won't be distracting or occupy too much space. This is just Mento. Give deafness toe the scene. I can always move or what they dio just in the foreground. If they had something important, I'm being very careful of the color off these foreign objects. I wanted to be as close to the value in the thumbnail last possible. So that means making them a bit darker. - As far as this plans, I got no idea what they were flats early. I just saw that another bush will be way too repetitive. So I come up with some plant like shape, toe place in this side. The X editing makes it look nice in the foreground. - I may come up later. Amri touch with these foreign objects once the rest of illustration is done, the same with the background sometimes is easier to make some fine tuning when the campus is full 24. Final Project Part 3: let's continue with the largest city in the middle ground. The very first thing I want to do is to build a few objects that I'm gonna use all over the illustration. That's another great thing about Victoria Station. A single object. Your drug can be reused the nettle of places. If you're creative because it's really easy toe play around with it, it looks like a completely different thing. And prove for these is that will be used in a few assets we drew in. Previous lessons toe populate in dire illustration. I limit is the colder and I took them a bit. I preparations have gone and withdraw everything in the middle ground because it's an important part of the composition. But to save time and show you the power of responsibility in vector illustration, I decided not to the rock ambush just through our answer, gonna replace all along administration with a few changes here and there. I want to follow the principles off composition here with this trees on, trying to avoid an attention and overlapping damos Muchas again and trained to place them in a natural Celtic way while trying to build this mass shape that I drew in the black and white, some name. Pay attention to the fact that I'm duplicating the bush and whenever again I'm placing them in front of trees. This makes the trees look better, and it grounds them to the floor. Off course. It will look naturally. Every single tree had a bush at the bottom. We're trying to spread them across the area so I can make the entire section look as natural as possible. I'm taking advantage that when Europe something, you can give them a single color to the entire group and given the trees in the farm milligram a single color to simulate the lack of detail. If I far away object, that's another way to give. That's to administration, and the technicals will keep in mind. I continue playing around with the core value on saturation off the whole composition of shape. By changing the colors of four threes in the area. This is very time consuming and repetitive. - Okay , so a minute ago, I say that place in a bush in front of a tree will make the three look nice and ground. So wondering here is taking the ball shape, making it smaller and placing it in front off almost every close object. This way, it looks like a bunch of glasses in front. This not only grounds the object, but also breaks the flat line at the intersection with the damn plane and win this with the logics. Even with the stones, the color off the grass defines the color of the batch. It's the patches in a shallow area I give with the color of the shallow. And again that's another everything about drawing with vectors. You can taken object that have a clearly defined function and play with it and change it and give it a completely different purpose. In this case, the same bush a place in front of the stone became a patch of glass. By only scaling. It stretches the little and change in the color. 25. Final Project Part 4: no stand toe. Build a tree in front, I said in the trees. Listen that there are only a limited set of symbols that can be used to build truth. But if you need a more detailed, unique one, you'll need to go on and draw one. Like at original artist, you assume reference and observation. Well, not quite a kid. I'm basically using my knowledge of the most common tree symbols to kind of create a neighboring symbol slash realistic tree. The drunk is built more or less like are realistic tree, but it cannot Boyd in us much detail. It's again, of course. It still needs to be in the style of the rest of the illustration, so it's never gonna be a highly realistic three. I only need a little bit more leader, since it's a big object and it's close. So the only difference within this three and a stock symbol one is that the silhouette of the trunk is a little more like a real tree. As far as illumination go, I decided I wanted something. I lived in more detail than the other trees, so I started, like with the other trees. But then I continually in shades in between grand them in these chaotic pattern toe. Simulate the roughness off the planes in the trunk with four different shades. It's more than enough again. Do the one toe too much detail so that it looks like it's in a different style. And after setting the different colors, I lower the opacity, a read from all shades. So the different values playing together a little more. That's another nice trick you can do. You know where the A positive the shapes of the colors blend a little better. And then, if you need the ship to be opaque, sample from the shape itself on. Give it the same upset of color to make their fully ash of the three is the excess them. Technique them with the bushes. I even had the same highlights using the same technique. - This time, I decided to have a secondary layer just to weather a bit more detail. This second object. It's darken and has no highlight. I continue duplicate entries in the background to make the background more interesting. Making their far away trees to a single color toe simulate atmospheric perspective that's always thes requires a lot of tweaking. - Now add in some shadow shadows work a bit like the bushes off the grass in front, off objects. It helps them toe feel more grounder. I could go on and duplicate this silhouette. Embed it just like a kid in the Bush lesson. But it's important toe, not over detail. This a sense when it's not. Neither shadows are usually one of the first thing to get simplified in this is tiles. So in this case, I'm using on leaps skill to the side of the general direction of the germination. This is hardly realistic. We'll do a better job for the composition than a more realistic, shallow, - and now most of the composition is done. So I'm making some final adjustment to a few shapes, including colors, shapes and locations on a scale of some objects. 26. Final Project Part 5: Okay, let's finish the perfect. I wanted to stick to the color thermal as close as I could. So they said, Well, a bush behind And I had that wasting a lot of time in this small detail. - If you remember from the ground, listen, it's always good to create some kind off noise in a lush, empty area. I figured that the best type of noise for this style will be some random round shape. But of course, you can use any other type off noise shape. This is gonna be a batch off darker grass. I'm using the trick tool said to the push parts of objects, small toe pull and push parts off the shape. I could have done this simply use in the no selection tool and pushing and pulling notes. But this way is a little bit faster. I must all in small patches. Why next to the big one toe make it look even more like a metrical relation off the death. - Okay , so now, creating some type off leaf that I spread all over the grass floor. So I get another source off noise in the area. I didn't wanted to add too much noise to the ground, since either it has the grass relation. So I just place it and form ankle manually the leaves instead of using this play or strictly make sure the skill matter the perspective. So the ones that are farther away are more schools and the smiling of the ones closer. I continue to have the impact. It's off the grass to have more variation to the idea and not just a mother off going in a retouching. Every sentences look better, fetching colors more in slightly some objects and in a few small things. This isn't really dark health, however. It's really repetitive and time consuming. Okay, so I wanted to check the general values and see if they're the same as in the black and white. Some nail for this. I sell it ever since and go toe extensions cooler Briskin This extension transform the colors toe black and white at just in the lightness for the color change. That's important, so you can clearly see the value relationship with during colors much more easily. I am comparing the large blocks and see if the valley between this blocks is right. If you have troubles in the blocks, just a squint in a little. And then you compare with the thumbnail. For the most part, it's sticking to the thumbnail enough, but I need to retouch a few things. So that's what I do change in the color of the trees. So the block has the right value. And finally a couple of details in the bush and the full down. Okay, so he didn't have a couple of characters I made. The skeletons has run in the style off more than cartoons, and it didn't they fit with the style of the background. I'm only blessing them, I say the molestation. Since this is a background that is meant to have characters and he is it, they finally completed background. 27. Real Time Project Part 1: 28. Real Time Project Part 2: 29. Real Time Project Part 3: 30. Real Time Project Part 4: 31. Real Time Project Part 5: 32. Class Conclusion: congratulations on finishing the course. I hope that you enjoy that. And did you learn a lot of new things when I sent him a one? So what exactly should be your next step? Well, with the nurse you have now, hopefully your start to look at TV and Internet company shows in a more critical light. Now that you know the techniques you need toe emulate what you see on the screen. You can always president stop Putin and copy what you see that that's the best way to learn . So I recommend you to do just that is what you learn here and copy as much as you can. A father at this backgrounds. It shouldn't take too much time to find blocks and sites dedicated to admire and captain backgrounds. In fact, Libya feelings do some of the best resources I found. Of course, I certainly appreciate and the feedback you can give me. I'm always looking for ideas to improve the cars so you can message me by email or by the car space. I stayed one so every question as fasters again. Well, I hope to see you again when the next update is really thank you so much for your time and have fun making backgrounds