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1. Learn to Vectorize, Colorize and 'Patternize' your Hand Drawn Sketches: Hi, I'm Anne Bracker, and I'm a graphic designer
and illustrator. You might know me from my
YouTube channel where I teach short little
graphic design tutorials. Or maybe my Facebook
groups where we kind of go over any problems that you might be having in Illustrator, Photoshop, or InDesign
today in this class, I'm going to show
you how to take drawings from your sketchbook, vectorize them, and then
color them and make a surface pattern
design that you could even put on fabric or
something like that. All right, let's
jump into the class.
2. How to Find the Exercise files and Keyboard Shortcuts: Now first I wanted
to show you where the exercise files are. If you scroll down
underneath the video, you can see right here these four tabs here under
projects and resources, you'll be able to see the resources are exercise
files right here. Now they won't look like
this because this is actually one of my other videos. But you'll have
everything you need right here under the
Resources folder.
3. Drawing the insects Tips and Ideas: All right, now the
first step is to actually make your drawings. You'll want to use black ink on white paper because that's
really high contrast. And you'll want to have
areas that you leave white because we can add
color to those later. I'm going to draw a five
or six large insects and then a few smaller
ones, maybe some ants. Now I have my scan in
the exercise files so you can take a look at those if you need
something to look at. And you can also
find pictures of real insects to draw from. Of course, you don't
need to draw insects. Anything is okay. Whatever you decide to draw, I would just keep the level of detail about the same
as what I have here. If your drawings or to detail, there'll be hard to color. And if they're not
detailed enough, they might lack
visual interests. I like my designs
to have a lot of enclosed whitespaces and that way I can color
those later easily. I like to repeat the
styles and designs in each insect because it makes
them seem more cohesive. Like I said, it makes them
look like they go together. As I'm drawing. I don't try to make the
drawings to perfect. I want the two sides to
look the same usually, but they don't have
to be identical. In fact, I like the way they are imperfect because I think it adds character to
the illustration. If your hand is a little
shaky, that's just fine. Or if the two sides don't
match up, that's okay too. If you made a
really big mistake, it's totally okay because we can still fix that in Illustrator. And if you decide you really
just don't like one of the insects to scratch it out
and make a different one. I've got a lot of larger bugs
here and then some smaller, less detailed bugs here. And these two ants will actually only be one
color in the pattern. All right, so now we have to get these into digital format.
4. Get Your Drawings into Digital Format by Scanning: There are two ways to
get your drawings into digital format that I'm gonna
go over with you today. First is with a scanner, and I realized that not
everyone has a scanner. I'm also going to show you
how to do it with a phone. So first, the
scanner. All right. Now this scanner
is an HP desk jet 2554 and I'm just going to open it and place my
sketchbook in there. Maybe I'll try this way. It's best to hold it down, kind of put something heavy on it so that you
get a better scan. Okay, and I'm gonna hit
over here to Photoshop. And don't worry if you
don't have Photoshop, I'll show you another
way to do this, but Photoshop will automatically recognize your
scanner and you can just come up here to File
Import and images from device. This might look a
little bit different, but it'll probably be
right under Import. So it'll be one of
the options here. I'm going to choose
images from device, and here's my HP
desk at scanner. I've clicked on that
and my scanner will automatically do
an overview scan. Now I'm going to select all
with Command a or Control a. Most scanners will
give you the option to just pick a part of the
canvas that you want to use. So when I hit Command a or Control a that selects
the entire canvas, and I'm just going
to pull these in. So I only get the
piece that I want, which is right here. If you mess up and
make another box, you should be able to just hit delete and delete that one. And then click on
the other box again and pull in the size like this. Now I want this to
be black and white, 300 DPI, and I want
the format to be JPEG. And now I'll go ahead and scan. It automatically brings
it up in Photoshop. I'm gonna go ahead
and rotate this. So I'll go to image, image rotation 90 degrees
counterclockwise. Okay, So this is
looking really good. Now there's a possibility
that your scan has light leak and
what that does, it brings a lot of like kind of grays and blacks on the edges. If that happens to you, rescan and hold the
top of the scanner down so that no
other light gets in. Now I wanted to show you
one way to clean this up a little bit if it
doesn't come out this clean. And that's to hit Command
L or Control L on your PC. And that brings up levels. You can also get
here by going to image adjustments and
levels right here. Now the way I like to
use levels when I'm scanning a black and
white drawing is, I pull this one in a
little bit and you can see that Black getting
a little bit darker. So I'm going to just pull it in until it looks pretty
dark, that looks fine. Now if I pull this slider over, it actually increases
the amount of white. And this is good for
getting rid of gray areas. I don't really need to
do this as you can see, if I pull too far, it washes out my nice darks
and I don't want that. So I'm gonna leave
this right over here. And that looks fine. So I'll say, Okay, now I'm going to
save this as a JPEG. So I'll come up here
to File Save as. And I'm just going to
put this on my desktop. If you want a quick way
to get to that on Mac, all you have to do is
push Shift Command D. On a PC that's going
to probably be over here on the side
under your favorites. So I'm just going to drop
this on my desktop of course, you can also make a folder if you want to keep everything
nice and organized. Okay, So I'm just gonna
say save for JPEG options. I always put the quality
at 12, we'll say, okay, now if you don't have
Photoshop, that's still okay. You can still use a scanner. All you have to do is find the software that came
with your scanner. For my scanner is
called HPE easy scan. I'm not going to
show how that works, but basically it'll
just scan and save it. They're usually not too many adjustments that you can make, but that's still okay as long as you don't have a
lot of light leak, it should still look good
as a black and white image.
5. Using your Phone to get Drawings into Digital Format and Editing in Photoshop: In this time I'm
going to use a phone. When you do this, do you
want to have good lighting? So a bright setting for sure. Want to hold your
camera parallel to the table just as flat
as you can make it. I usually include all my
drawings in one picture. But you might notice that
when you take one picture, you get a little distortion with the drawings on the sides. So you can also zoom in on sections of the
drawings to avoid this. What you'll end up with
our pictures like these, the scans are going to be a
little better because they don't have the shadows
over here to deal with, but these will also
work just fine. So don't worry about it. Now if you'd have Photoshop, you can also bring these into Photoshop and
clean them up. And it's the same process
as cleaning up the scan. So I'm just going to quickly
show you what I mean. I'll go ahead and pull this
JPEG onto my Photoshop icon. Now I'm going to crop
it so it'll hit C on my keyboard and
that'll bring me to the crop tool right over here. Then I can just pull this down, get right on the edge and
pull this up like this. We can also bring the
size into if we need to, then all you need to do
is hit Enter or Return. Now we have a cropped image. The next step is to
open your levels. You can do that with
Command L or Control L. You can also go to
Image Adjustments and then it's under here. So it'll be the same process. We'll pull this slider
over a little bit to get our blacks to be
a little more black. Then I'm going to pull
this slider over here over to get our whites
even more white. And it would be nice
if we could get this texture out of
here completely. But sometimes you'll
still have a little bit like this right down
here. This will be fine. We'll say, okay, now if
you don't have Photoshop, it might be a little
more challenging to get these vectorized
in Illustrator, but it's still should be fine. This just makes it
a little easier. Now I'll go to File, Save As, and I'm going to put
this on my desktop too. So I'm going to call
this one scan phone. And I'll make sure the format is JPEG and I'll click Save, and I want 12 quality. So we'll say, okay.
6. Setting up your Illustrator Workspace: All right, Now I'm going
to show you how to set your workspace up
in Illustrator. And this is something
you might want to do if you want your
workspace to match mine, but it's really not
that necessary, especially if you're pretty
comfortable with Illustrator. If you don't think you
need it, just skip it. All right, let's go ahead
and open Illustrator. We'll come over
here to create new. Then I'm going to choose
Print, then letter. And we'll come over
here to create so that we can get the
same starting point. I'll come up here to
Window and then workspace, and then we'll choose
Essentials Classic. Then go ahead and come up
to Window Workspace again, and then Reset
Essentials Classic. Now your workspace should
look a lot like mine, except it might be
the dark settings. If you want to use the
light setting like me, you can come out to
Illustrator preferences. And then General, if you're
on a Windows system, this will probably be under
Edit, Edit Preferences. Now I'll come down here to the user interface and
here's your brightness. I know a lot of people like the dark setting and
that's totally fine. There's no difference. This is just my preference and now we'll come
down and press. Okay. Now we all have a similar look for our
Illustrator interface. I'm going to show you
how to customize this. You can get to the panels, you need a little easier. These tools over here
on your toolbar. I like to pull these out so
that they sit right here. It gives me a little extra
space at the bottom. So to do that, you just grab the top right up
here and then just pull this up here is
your control panel. Now if you're not seeing your control panel for some reason, you'll want to come up here
to Window control right here. And all of these panels over here are also
available in window. First of all, open
this little fly out. So I'm gonna click
these two little arrows to expand the panel's. First you'll see color
and color guide, and I like these right up
here in the upper right. I'm going to click in
this blank area over here to just pull
this out like this. Then I'll click on this hob
and set it right up there. You can see when you hover over different parts that you'll
get some blue areas. And that shows you
that it's going to snap in between those places. We went to come up
here to the very top, you'll see you get a
rectangle around everything. But if you move up
a little higher, you'll get just a line. Then when we see
that line will just release and that way it'll
snap up to the upper right. Okay, next, I also want my
swatches to be over here. I'm going to click in the
blank area, pull it out. Then I'll click
on this hop here, hover under color until I get the blue bar and
then just release. For this next set the stroke
gradient and transparency. I actually went transparency
to be separate. I'm going to click right
on the word and pull this one out and that'll separate it from
its little group. Then I'll get right on
the top and pull it right underneath
swatches like this. I want my art boards to be
right underneath transparency. I need to pull it out of this
group so I'll get right on the word itself and they're
just click and drag. Come up here to the
top and hover right underneath transparency,
underneath art boards. I like a line and Pathfinder. I'm going to come up
here to Window and I can choose any one of those. I'm going to choose
a line right here. It'll open this little group that has all three
of them in it. I want that whole group
underneath art board. So I'll come up here
to the very top. I'll click and then hover until I get the
line and release. Now, I don't use properties
are libraries very much. I'm going to get in this area of the group and just pull it out. And then I'll just click on
the X to get rid of these. If you want to bring
them back, you can, of course, just go to
Window and find them here. Properties is right here. Okay, so the right side of our panel is all set
up the way I want. Now, I'm going to work
on the left side. I like my character and
paragraph to be up here, so I'm going to go to Window. And then these are
a little hidden. You'll have to go to
type and then you can just choose character
or paragraph. And it'll open that set. I'll click up here
on the very top, and then I'll hover at
the top of this column. Stroke is already exactly where I want it so
that it's perfect. And then I'm going
to open my links. I'll go to Window and links. And these, I'll put it
right underneath my stroke. Next, I want to separate my appearance and
graphic styles. I'll go ahead and click on graphic styles and pull it out. And then I'm just
going to put it right above the appearance. Now I have layers and
Asset Export down here, and I don't want either one
of those to be in the column. I'll click here and
just drag it out, and then I'll click
the little X. Now I do use layers sometimes, but not that often. When I need those, I just hit F7 on
my keyboard and it brings them up and then I can
hit F7 to toggle them off. My Illustrator setup is
exactly how I want it. So now I need to
save my workspace. We'll go to Window workspace, and I'll choose a new workspace. I'll call my new workspace a. Now I already have
a workspace named a. I'm just going to
override it by hitting okay. Now as you're working, you might accidentally pull
some things out like this. You might be moving
things around. And when that happens, it's hard to remember
where they were. And that's why
workspaces are so great. To reset everything,
we can just come up to Window Workspace and then
choose our workspace. Then we can go back to workspace
and reset our workspace. And I'll put everything
exactly back where it was.
7. Extra Settings Toolbar and Zoom: Okay, I wanted to go over some
things that might confuse you if you're not
used to working with Illustrator in the
same way that I do. First is the advanced tools. And to get to these, you can come down
here to the bottom of your toolbar to these
three little dots. Click that and then
come up to this little fly out up here in
the upper right-hand corner. Then click that and
choose Advanced. If you have basic selected, you'll see a lot fewer
tools over here. So go ahead and choose Advanced. You can also find this
right over here under Window toolbars and then
advanced right here. There are two ways
to get to that, but we definitely want
all of our tools to show. The other thing is
the Zoom settings. When I hit Z on my keyboard, the way I like to zoom is to draw a box around whatever
I want to see better. Let's say it's this right here. That'll fill my screen that. But the normal way that
everyone else likes to Zoom is with the animated zoom. To get to that you
can hit Command K or control K on your keyboard, and that'll bring up
your preferences. Another way to get
to that as go to Illustrator preferences
on a Mac or edit. And it'll be, I think down
here somewhere on a PC. Once you're in preferences, you can come down
here to performance. And you can see
that animated zoom on my system has been unchecked. If you want your Illustrator
to act like mine, you can also uncheck yours. But if you'd like the animated
zoom, you can check it. So here's what the
difference is. If I'm on my zoom
tool and I want to see maybe the letter
C a little better. I click on the sea and zoom
in by dragging to the right, or I drag to the
left to zoom out.
8. Vectorizing your Artwork with Image Trace: The next step is to get our digital drawings
into Adobe Illustrator. To do that, I'm going
to go to file place, and then I'm going to go to my desktop where
I saved my scans. Now I have a few different
ones out here on a Mac. I can preview these by just
hitting the space bar. So I have this one, I've got this one. This one, and this one which I scan and cleaned
up in Photoshop. I'm going to go ahead and choose the scan phone one
because it has some shadows in it and I
wanted to show you how to deal with those in
Adobe Illustrator. So I'm going to choose
that one and place. And then I'm just
going to click once. This will place our
file at its full size. So it is really big and that's a good thing that'll help
Illustrator vectorize it. So once I release,
my mouse is still selected and you can tell
that by the blue boundary. Let's come up here to Image
Trace that is under window. So just go to Window
control right here. That's your control panel. And I'm just going to
hit Image Trace once. It's going to give us a warning about it being a
really large image. And do We went to continue? And we do so I'll say, Okay. And now Illustrator
is working to figure out what parts
are black and white. And they actually did
a really good job of getting rid of those shadows. Now I'm going to come up here to this little button on
the same control panel. It's called the
image trace panel. I'm going to click that. And this gives us
image trace options. The one we want to look
at now is the threshold. If I move this
over to the right, it'll redo itself and it
grabs more of the black. So our little ants
down here are sick. Now, if I move it all the
way over here to the left, it gives us more white. So some parts of the design
kind of get a little thin. I liked what it did. It was right around a 130
and this looks really nice. I think this is a
good threshold. I'm going to click this little
carat next to Advanced. And then I'm going to
choose Ignore White. This gets whereas the
white background. Now if you've had a lot of
shadows and you're seeing some shadowing down here
and it's making it black. That's okay as long as this not touching any
of your designs, I'll show you how to get
rid of that in a minute. I'm going to close my
Image Trace dialog box. You'll notice it's
still selected. We'll choose Expand. These. Turned out really nice. I don't have a lot of
extra stuff to clean up, but I want to show you what can happen if you don't
have Photoshop, maybe you can't
increase the contrast. So I'm going to
insert another one. We'll go to File Place, and then I think
I'll use this one. I'm going to place that. I'm just going to click once. I went to zoom out with Command
minus or Control minus, we can see the whole thing. And then I'm just going to hit that Image Trace button again. And we'll get the same
warning and say, okay, now you can see if
I zoom in here, I'll hit Z on my keyboard, which will bring me
to my zoom tool. And I'm just going to draw
a box around this part. You can see some black parts up here, and we don't want that. Of course, I'm going to get
my tracing result back. I wanted to choose Ignore White. I'll get out of image trace. I'm going to zoom out with Command minus or Control minus, and I'll go ahead and choose
Expand right up here. Now you can see that that has
become part of the image. I'm going to rotate this first. I'm going to hit
R on my keyboard. That'll bring us to
the rows hate tool, which is right over here. And then I'm just going
to click and drag. I'll hold Shift to get
it to snap into place. Okay, so we have our
smaller bugs and then we have our larger bugs with
the problem up here. At this point, let's go
ahead and save our file. So come up here to File Save As I'm going to put
this on my desktop, I'll call it insect pattern. In our format will be
Adobe Illustrator. I'm going to click Save and
then we'll just say, okay, now you might notice
as the class goes on that my file is not actually
named insect pattern. And that's because
as I was recording, I actually forgot to save it. But of course it's best if you
save often while you work.
9. Using Illustrator Tools to Clean Up Your Artwork: Now I'm going to show you
how to clean these up. I'm gonna come over here to
my group selection tool, which is underneath the
direct selection tool. And I'm just going
to draw a box around the piece that I don't want
and then just delete it. If you click with
your selection tool, you'll notice that all of the pieces are grouped together. We need to isolate each bug so that it can be
moved around separately. So to do that, I'm
gonna get back on my Group Selection
Tool right here. And I'm going to draw a
box around that first one. Now if your pieces are
too close together and you accidentally
select some other piece, you can also use your cue tool, hit Q on your keyboard
to get there. And this is the Lasso tool
that's right up here. And you can just draw
around the one you want to isolate and that
will just select it. That way. You don't have to worry about selecting something
you don't want. Now to get this bug on its own. I'm gonna cut paste in front group and then hide it
to get it out of the way. To do that, I'm
gonna hit Command X, that's Control X on a PC. And that's cutting. We just cut it. It's
not there anymore. But now we're going
to pace it in front and put it exactly
back where it was. To do that, I'm gonna
hit Command F or Control F. Then we'll group it with
Command G or Control G. And then we'll hide it with
Command or Control three. Now this is just to get it
out of the way so it makes it easier to select the other bugs will bring it back
here in a minute. I'm going to zoom in by
hitting Z on my keyboard, which brings me to this
tool right over here. And I'm going to draw a box
around our next three bugs. Then I'll get back on my
group selection tool. I'm going to just draw a
box around the next one. I'll Command X or Control X, which cuts command F or
Control F to paste in front. Command G or Control G to group, and then Command three or
Control three to hide. And I'll do this process
with the rest of the bugs. I'm moving to each one
with the hand tool. And to do that, you can just hit Spacebar and then click
and drag your screen, which moves it around. Now with these down here, obviously they're just
duplicates of the ones above. So I'm going to just
select all of those with my group selection and
then just delete them. Now there should
be nothing left. I'm going to unhide everything. And to do that It's
Option Command three or Alt Control
three on a PC. You can also come up here
to object and show all. I'm going to zoom in
on this first one. So I'll hit Z to get to my zoom tool and draw
a box around it. And I think this
looks pretty good. I don't like this little
nub that happened here. So I'm going to fix
this by getting my group selection and just selecting the very edge of this. Now if you click in here, it's not going to work. But if you select the very
edge of the thing you want, you should only be
selecting this piece. If you click out here, you're
going to get everything. Click off by clicking and empty area and click
right on that edge. Now I'm going to
hit in to get to my pencil tool That's
right over here. The way the pencil tool works, if you're drawing along
the edge of a line, you can redraw that line
as long as you end up going along the edge of it
again in the same direction. I'm going to start up
here and I'm going to draw along it and redraw it, ending on the same path and
going the same direction. That redraws our
line right there. Now, you can see that
my drawing isn't perfect and I actually
like it that way. I think it adds character to it. I'm not going to fix everything, I'm just going to fix things
that looked like a mistake. So I'm going to zoom in here. This little polka dot
doesn't look quite right. So I'm going to use my a tool which is the Direct Selection
Tool right up here. I mean, they get
right on that point. When I do that, you'll see this little white dot
with a blue dye inside. And you can tell also that I've selected only that point because these other points out here are white and this one is blue. But anyway that 1 is selected. And now I can click
on this dot and drag it to round that point. And I'm gonna do the same
thing right over here. I'm gonna click right on the
point that I want to round. I'm gonna click that
little white dot with the blue inside. And maybe this 12. There we go along of times when you image trace something, illustrator likes to put points in weird places in my opinion. So I'll go through and
just kind of fix those. Let's see, I'm moving
around in my hand tool, the space bar.
Here's another one. That one looks like
it needs to be fixed. Maybe that you'll notice that you don't get a white
dot on some of them. You can see these two handles that are connected to
that anchor point, and that means it's
a smooth point. This only works if you're
working with corner points. If you select a smooth point, you won't be able to have that rounded corner
white dot here. In this case, I'm going to
switch back to my end tool, the pencil tool, and just redraw that line like I
showed you a moment ago. There we go. Everything on this
one looks fine. I'll move on to the second one. Now I have this same
problem happening here, but this one looks like it
has three corner points. So I'm going to hit
a on my keyboard. I'll select this one, hold down Shift and select
the other two points. And they all have a white dot. But since I have all
three of them selected, I can click on any white dot and pull all three
in at the same time. That looks pretty good. And now I see a point here. This doesn't seem like
it should have a point. Person. I'm gonna select this shape with the group selection tool. And I can see there's
a point here. I'm going to hit P to get
on my pen tool and then hit the minus symbol to get on my Delete
Anchor Point tool. So that's p and then minus. And I can just click
that and get rid of it. Now if it still seems weird, you can also adjust
these handles. So I'm gonna hit
a on my keyboard. I'll get right on
that handle that showed up and I'm
going to pull that. So it just looks a
little more natural. Here's another anchor point that I think I want to delete. So I'm going to hit P minus
and click on that one. Maybe that one too. Yeah, that looks better. Also, don't want
this one down here. This part right here, it looks a little weird. So I'll go ahead
and fix that first. I need to select
this piece so I'm going to get back on my
Group Selection Tool. Click right on the edge of that, and then switch over
to my pencil tool by hitting N on my keyboard. And I'll just draw along this edge and finish
on the same path, going the same direction
to redraw the line. Even though this
one isn't too bad, I think I'll redraw it to. Now sometimes when I do this, it doesn't quite work. If I start out going
one way on the path and then I go backwards
or something like that, you're going to get
something like this. So if that happens, just undo by hitting Command Z or Control
Z and try again. Something like that. Down here you can see this
doesn't look quite right. So I'm going to select that
with my group selection tool. Just click right on the edge. And then I'm gonna
get my smooth tool that's underneath
my pencil tool. I can hit Shift S to get
there and it's right here. Then I can just go
over this line several times with my mouse and
just smooth it out. The smooth tool works
by just going over the line several
times like that. I think this one is done. Now with this one, the legs
are looking pretty strange, so I'm going to
try to fix those. I'm going to get on my a tool
or direct selection tool. Click right in here
and bringing this in, then I'll click this point and see if I can grab
that handle and move it so it's a
little more natural working with the
handles in Illustrator, they can be pretty challenging, but it's just a
matter of practice. If you try one way and
it's not looking good, just pull it down another
way or bringing it closer to the anchor point
to get different results. Don't forget, you can
always hit Command Z or Control Z to undo the
last thing you did. Alright, now I'm going to use the same tools that I
just showed you to clean up the rest of these
and I'll speed up the video so it
won't take so long. When you use image trace
to vectorize your designs, you will probably need to
do some cleanup like this. There will probably be
little mistakes you need to fix and parts that
don't look quite right. Alright, so now that
all our bugs are pretty cleaned up
there looking nice, Let's go ahead and
select all of them and then re-size them to
fit on our art board. I'm going to use
my selection tool. I'll just draw a box
around all of them. And you should have
this bounding box that comes up with these little
handles on the sides. If you're not seeing
this go to View and then show bounding box
which will be right here. If you don't have it on, then you should see that
bounding box show up. I'm going to hold shift. Shift will resize
everything proportionately so you're not squeezing
or stretching anything, Then I'm going to grab a
corner and just bring it in so that everything
fits on my art board. Then I'm gonna hit
Command Z or Control 0. That'll put your art board right in the middle of your workspace. And these are a little small
now I'm going to hold Shift, grab a corner and just make
them a little bit bigger. Maybe we'll move
these two down here. Okay, Let's go ahead and save our file with Command
S or Control S.
10. Finding and Customizing Color Schemes: Now we're ready to add color. Now there are a few
different places that I like to go to find color schemes. And one is right here
in Adobe Illustrator. We can come over
here to Swatches and then click on this fly out, go to Open Swatch Library. And these are a lot of
different color schemes that can give you inspiration
or you can use them as is, I'm willing to come
down here to nature and do foliage and
see what we get. We have a lot of
different options here. So maybe these are
like fall leaves here. And then you get into the
greens of nature here. Now if you want to
use one of these, all you have to do is just click on the little
folder beside it. Let's try this one. And it'll add it to our
swatches right over here. I'll pull that out so you
can see it a little better. Now, I honestly don't use the ones that come
preloaded in Illustrator because we had the
Internet and we can find a whole lot of awesome
color swatches out there. But I wanted you
to know about them because they are an option. So I'm going to head
over to Google Chrome. And I had two favorite places I like to go for color schemes. One is Adobe color. So I'm going to come down
here to color.adobe.com, and it brings me here
to a color wheel. Now this is a pretty cool place because you can come up with your own color schemes
by just dragging these around what it's
giving us right now, these five colors are
analogous colors. But if we wanted to switch to something like monochromatic, we get only
monochromatic colors. So you can just play
around with these and come up with your own
color scheme completely. But you can also go over here to explore and see color schemes that other people have made. Now by default, these
are all going to include yellow For
whatever reason, I think they're featuring
yellow on the site right now. But we can search for
other color schemes by just typing maybe like orange, blue, and green and see
what it comes up with. So now we have a lot of different options with orange,
blue, and green in them. I like to start out with one of these color schemes
and then modify it. Now let's say I like
this color scheme here. I can just download this as a JPEG or I can add it
to my library here. I'm gonna click on it, and this will give us
even more options. Now we can download as an ASE file which
illustrator recognizes. So I'm gonna click
on that one and it'll download into
my Downloads folder. It should be in your downloads
folder to unless you've changed where things should download when you download
from the Internet. Now a lot of times
you're not going to have access to an ASE file. You'll need to take a
screenshot on a Mac that's Shift Control Command
and the number four. Then I can just draw
around the colors themselves that will make
a copy of the colors. Then I can go back
to Illustrator and just paste with Command V or Control V. If you're on a Windows machine for
Windows ten and newer, press shift the Windows key and then all the options for screen grabs come up on the
top of the screen. One of them is select a region. You can just draw around it. Once you're done, it'll copy
it to the clipboard and then you can just paste it
like we did with the Mac. Now you'll notice that this
screenshot that we actually have some hex numbers down here. If we wanted to, we could double-click our color and just type in that
hex code right here. I'll type in 77 V3 CC and then hit Tab and that'll
bring up that color, I'll say, okay, and
then I could add a new swatch right over here in my swatches panel like that. But a lot of times you won't
have access to these colors. So if you don't, you can easily just image trace these and add them
as a color group. And I'll show you how
to do that. We'll come up here to Image
Trace at the top. And I'm just going to
choose six colors. It'll take a moment. Now, come up here to expand, and this will make
everything vector. If we come over here
to our swatches, I'm just going to click on
the word and pull this out. Then I'll click this
little folder at the bottom which says
new color group. I'm gonna choose
Selected Artwork, Convert Process to Global and includes swatches for tense. And I'll say, okay, here are all the colors that it grabbed out of this screenshot. Now we can modify these and use them to color our insects. That's how you can use a screenshot and get the
colors into your swatches. Now I'm going to
show you how to use the ASE file that we
downloaded earlier. Alright, now I'm going to
load that Swatch Library. I'll come over here to swatches, and I'll click on these
little three lines up here. I'll choose Open
Swatch Library and then other library down
here at the bottom. Then I'll navigate
to my downloads. On a Mac, that's
Option Command L. On a PC, your
downloads of probably be over here in your
favorites on the left. Then I'll click on
that color scheme we downloaded and open it. Then you can see all
those colors come right here as a library, I'm going to click on
the word swatches and drag it out so I can
see it a little better. Now even though we brought
this library and we need to get these colors
into our swatches. So I can just click this and
drag it in as a color group. And then I'll just close this. Reset my workspace by going
to Window Workspace Reset a. The second website I like for searching for color
palettes is Pinterest. So I'm going to go there now. Now if you don't have an
account for Pinterest, you'll need to sign up for one. But once we're in here, we can search for color
palettes in much the same way. I'm going to search
for red, green, and yellow color palette. We get a lot of similar options. I'm really liking these
muted ones over here. This is a good example where you would need to screenshot. So I'll click on that and then just make a
screenshot of it. And then go through
that same process. All right, so I'm
back in Illustrator now and I'm ready to work with the ASE color swatches over
here in my swatch palette. Now, I like these colors, but I want to make
changes to them. First off, we need a really dark color
to replace our black. So to do that, I'm
gonna get on this blue. I'm just going to
double-click it. I'm going to increase
the amount of black. I'll just move
these other sliders until I get a darker blue. That still shows as blue. Maybe more like a navy. This looks good. So I'll say, Okay,
that's updated it in the swatches
and the color group. My green is a little bright, so I'm gonna double-click that. And I'm just going to
mute this down a little bit and adjust the colors
to whatever I want. I'm gonna get a little
more yellow into my green because it looks pretty close to that blue color. So I'll adjust that. By the way, I'm
working in CMYK here, but you can also work in RGB or one of these
other color spaces, we'll say, okay, I'm
liking the orange. I think I'd rather
have a yellow in here, so I'm gonna
double-click on the red, pull this slider all the way to the yellow is a little bright. Maybe I can lighten it up some. I want it a little bit muted. There we go. We'll say, okay, now we have our five
color color scheme and we're ready to
color our drawings.
11. Using the Live Paint Bucket Tool to Colorize the Vector Designs: First off, I want all of the black to be this darker blue. I'm going to select all with
Command a or Control a. And now you'll see that you
have a fill and no stroke. If you do have a stroke, just click on this and then click none because we don't
want a stroke on these. Alright, so I'll just
click on the blue. Now we have a nice blue as our darker color
in our drawings. Now we want to get to our
live paint bucket tool, and that is underneath
this tool right here. You can also hit K to jump
to it right under here. So k is either live paint, you'll see the three colors. Now, you'll notice that these
three colors are this one, this one, and this one. If we hit our right
and left arrows. So we can just scroll through these five colors
as we're working. Now actually the way this works, we have to have
something selected. I need to get back on my V tool, which is my selection tool, and then click the first
insect that I want to color. I'm going to hit Z
to zoom in here. And then I'll hit K to get
back on my paintbrush tool. And I want to start
out with yellow. The one that's selected
is the one in the middle. So I want to hit my left arrow, so that will be in the middle. And then I'm just
going to click here. Sometimes it won't
fill the whole area, so you can just click into
the other areas to fill that. Let's continue coloring
him with the blue. I'm going to use my right arrow to get to my lighter blue color. Then I'm just going
to select each of these pieces and fill
them with the blue color. All right, next
step, I think I'm going to make the body red. So I'm just going to click
and he says these pieces. You'll notice I accidentally
clicked the outline. So I'm going to undo with
Command Z or Control Z. I had to hit it twice
to go back to actions. So just be careful of that. But now that I look at this, it's a little bit boring
with all that red in there. So I'm gonna make a new swatch. I'm clicked on the orange one. I want to make a lighter orange. I'm going to create
new right down here. I'm going to move this one
over just a little bit, so it's a lighter orange. Looks good. We'll say OK. You can see we've added a
light orange swatch here. This is a global swatch. It's not something we
really have to worry about, but global swatches just means that if you update this
swatch in the future, it'll update all of that
color in your whole document, which can be a
really good thing. I'm on my paint bucket tool. I'm just going to
alternate the colors on his body down here,
maybe right here. That looks nice. I'll hit V to get back on my selection tool and
select the second bug, then I'll hit K to
get on my live paint. By the way, if you're not
seeing the colors you want, you're probably on
one of these up here. So just click on
one of the ones in the Recolor group and it
should update to have those. I'm gonna go ahead and get
on that light blue again. I think I went this part
of the body to be green. I'll do that. These parts orange and red. All right, the next one
I'll hit V to select him to get back on my
live paint bucket tool. And I think I want to do
green alternating this. I'll do darker red for
the alternate stripes. I'll choose light orange here. And then I think I want this little flower looking
part to be yellow. That looks nice.
I'll hit V to select him and then K to get back
on my paint bucket tool. Make these little dots blue. Then his head can also be blue. I'm going to zoom out now. And the more I look
at my drawings, the less I like this one, I think I'm just going to
get rid of him completely. So I've selected him with my selection tool and I'm just going to hit Delete
to get rid of them. I'll move this one over. I might make it a
little bit smaller. As I looked at everything, I think I think I need
more blue and yellow. So I'm gonna select him hit
K. I'm going to go with light blue here and yellow. Let me zoom in a little bit. Then I think the
darker orange in here. Alright, so everything is colored and ready to
go for the pattern. Okay, Let's go ahead and save our file with Command
S or Control S.
12. Troubleshooting a Live Paint Problem: Now I wanted to
show you what can happen if one of
your drawings has an opening where the color can kind of get out when
you're trying to color it. So I'm going to copy him and I'm just
going to quickly get this back to what it was before before we
started coloring. Okay, so something that is a pretty common thing
that can happen is having a piece like this where when
you try to color it, live paint might give
you some weird results. So if I give them my Live
Paint and I click on my blue, Let's say I want to
make this part blue. I click here. It doesn't know
what to do because it's not a closed shape. To make it a closed shape, you'll need to select nothing. So just click out here, then get on your pen tool and finish that
shape out like this. Then with your group
selection tool, click in the area we
want to combine with that hold shift and
select that piece too. Then come down here to Pathfinder and choose
the first shape mode, which is the unite. You'll see that it's combined
it with that other piece. Now, if that doesn't
work for you, you might need to expand again. If you've used your
live paint tool. To do that, you can
just go to object expand and then try it again. So I wanted to just kind
of get ahead of that. I know that's a problem
I used to have a lot, so I wanted to show you
how to troubleshoot that.
13. Making and Modifying Your Pattern (for Illustrator CC and Newer): All right, now we
have our insects. I'll color the way
that we want them. Now it's time to
make our pattern. Now I'm gonna show you two ways. One, if you have the most
recent version of Illustrator, all the way back to, I think the original
version of Illustrator CC. And then I'll show you
a different way to do it if you have
CS6 or earlier. First, I'll show you the ways to do it in the current
version of Illustrator. All we have to do
is select all as a begs like this with
our selection tool, I'm gonna make these
just a little bit smaller so we have some
more space to work. And then I'm gonna
come up here to object pattern and make. When we do this, a new pattern automatically gets added
to our swatches panel. And here it is, right here. We'll say, okay, and now we
have some pattern options. We can choose to tile them
by grid or brick by brick, or Brick by Row,
Brick by Column. We can do Hex by Column
with the hex one. You might have them overlapping. So I'm going to choose
brick by row right here. And with this still open, I'm going to zoom in by
hitting Z on my keyboard. First, I'm gonna make my
small insects even smaller. I think something
maybe like this. And then making the ants a little smaller than
that smallest bag, they're going to
be pretty small. I went to him about
the same size. I'm going to start
rotating my bugs. This will give my pattern a more organic and
whimsical look. I'll select my first one with
the direct selection tool. I want to get just a
little past the edge and rotate this
bug a little bit. I'm going to move
them around so I fill out the pattern a little better. The idea is to get
the spacing between each insect to be
about the same. Of course it doesn't
have to be perfect. I think I need
another ant up here. I'm holding Option or Alt
to make a copy of that. Whatever changes you make, you need to keep them
within this box. It's okay if it comes outside
the box a little bit, you can see it'll
overlap up here too. I'm going to make a
copy of this one too. Maybe now we can move
this down a little bit. This one over. When I zoom out, I can see the whole
pattern at once. I see that maybe I need
to move this bug down a little bit over. This looks pretty good. Then I'm gonna come
up here to the top and just choose Done. This is updated our new pattern, which is in our swatches. Now I'm going to move
off the art board. I'll make a big rectangle
by hitting M to get to the rectangle tool
right over here and then just clicking and dragging. I'm going to get into my
appearance right over here. I'm gonna click that fill and then I'm going to choose
that new pattern. This looks pretty nice. Now I think I'd like to put an off-white background in here. So to do that, I'm going
to duplicate this fill by clicking it and dragging it onto the plus button down here. And then on the lower Phil, I think I'll start out
with that yellow color. And then I'm going
to add a new swatch. I'm just going to make this
one really light cream color. I'm really liking the
way this has turned out. I'm gonna go ahead and save my file with Command
S or Control S.
14. Modifying Your Design and Pattern so it Shows Well on a Dark Background: Now let's say we wanted to make a pattern that goes
on a dark background. Maybe we want our background
to be the darker blue. If we put these insects
onto a dark background, the ants will totally disappear and the feet and outlines of
the others will disappear. So we need to
modify our insects. So I'm gonna select
these and then I'll hold Option or Alt and click
and drag to make a copy, I'm going to hit M to
get on my rectangle tool and just drag a background
so I can see what I'm doing. And I'll make this one dark. I just chose the
purple in my swatches. I'll send this to back with Shift Command and left bracket. That shift Control
Left Bracket on PC. Or you can come up
here to object, arrange and send to back. Now I'm going to lock
this purple background by hitting Command or Control to that's
right up here under Object Lock right here. Then I'm going to
select all of these, and I'm going to copy with
command C or control C, paste behind with
Command V or Control B. So right now we have two
copies of these insects. One right on top
of the other one. But the one we have
selected is the one underneath the one
that's behind. I'm going to hit
X on my keyboard, say bring the stroke
to the front. You can also just click here. I'm going to choose
our new swatch, that kind of cream color
for my outline color. Then I'll get to
my Stroke panel. And I'm going to increase
this just a little bit and I'm going to double-click it so I
hit all the options. You can just keep
double-clicking the word and eventually
you'll get to this screen. I went around the
cap and the corner. Next I'm going to select each one of these and group them. And I'm hitting Command G
or Control G to do that. What I'm doing now is grouping the two copies that are
on top of each other. Now I can unlock my
background and throw it away. So to do that, I'm going
to hit Option Command to or Alt Control to, to unlock. You can also come up here
to object unlock all. And then I'm just
going to delete that. Now we can go through
the same process. Instead of having the
cream color back here, we'll have the darker blue. I'm just going to go
ahead and come up here to object pattern make. I'm gonna change this
to brick by row. Then we can start modifying. Now if you notice you have some parts that you don't
need in the square, you can reduce the width right here in your
pattern options. Let's make this 280. Then we can go
ahead and continue. Then once we get the pattern
to a place we like it, we can go with them. Now I can just come over here
to the one I just created. I'll bring up my
appearance panel. I'll click on this fill and I'm going to choose
my new pattern. And I'll click on the other, fill the lower one. I'll exchange that with blue. So here's our result
with this one. Now I can see that parts of this are a little
too close together. So these are things I
would want to modify. I just wanted to show
you how you can add a light colored outline to put your pattern on a
dark background.
15. Making and Modifying Your Pattern (for Illustrator CS6 and older): Now I'm going to show you another way to
make a pattern and this is if you don't have a
newer version of Illustrator, you also have a little
bit more control here, in my opinion. So to do this, I'm going to hit M on my keyboard to get over
to my rectangle tool. And then I'm going
to hold shift to click and drag a
perfect rectangle, and I'll hit D on
my keyboard to give it a white fill and
a black outline. Maybe I'll make it a little
bit smaller actually. Now I'm going to hit V to
select the first insect. And you'll notice this Live
Paint group bounding box. So I want to get rid of those. First of all, I'm
going to select everything and I'll
go to object expand. We'll do object Fill and Stroke. That gets rid of the
live paint group. I'm going to click
on the first one and just drag it down here. Let it go off the edge of
the rectangle a little. Now, you've probably noticed that your rectangle is
in front of everything. So I'm gonna click on
that and go to object, arrange and send to back. We're gonna zoom in
here a little bit. I wanted to get just a
little past the edge and rotate this
bug a little bit. The way this pattern
is going to work, we're going to have each
insects go off the edge. It over here on this side of
the square, will do that. They don't have to, but we really want to
focus on this edge. I'm going to make my aunts
a little bit smaller. Then we're going to
position some insects along the bottom. We'll do that. I'm holding Alt or
Option to make a copy. And I think it's nice
if you need to make a duplicate of one of the shapes to change
the colors in it. To do that, I'm going
to zoom in on him and I'll hit K to get my
Live Paint tool back. It will make these
green and light blue. I will make this part yellow. And this part is
the lighter orange. And I'll want to expand this. So I'll go to Object, Expand. Then I'll select everything. I'll hold Shift to
deselect the background. I'm going to copy and paste
in front with these insects. So Command C or Control C, and then Command F or Control F. And I'll group these
command G or Control G. Now I need to find out
the size of my rectangle. So I'm gonna select it. I'll come up here to transform. And you can see the width
and height right here, which should be the same. I'm going to click
in here and just hit Command a or Control
a to select all. And then I'll copy it with
Command C or Control C. Now I'll click on
the top version of the insects, which
are all grouped. And I'm going to hit V
to get my selection tool and then hit Enter or
Return to move these. Now in the horizontal area, I'm going to put that same number we got
from the transform. So I just pasted that
in it with Command V or Control V. And then
vertically I want 0. I'll click in the distance even though this doesn't matter, but it helps us to preview this, make sure preview is checked. And we'll say, Okay, now you can see
that these insects here have been copied in
exactly the same place. So this part right here
hits exactly here, and that's important
for the pattern. Now I'm going to
ungroup these with Shift Command G or Shift Control G. And I'll select
these ones that don't cross and
get rid of those. Now I'll do a
similar process with these four that cross
across the bottom. I'll select all of those. These select the background. And I'm gonna copy, paste in front with
Command F or Control F. And then group was
Command G or Control G. I'll select the box, come up here to the
transform and get this number back. Copy that. Then I'll select the bugs, hit V, then Enter or Return. This time we're going
to position them exactly the size of
the box up here. So I'm gonna hit 0
for the horizontal, and then I'm going to paste in the number that we
copied from up here, but I need to put a negative. Because if we put a positive, it moves it down here, but we need to move
it up in a negative, makes it go up. We'll say, okay. Now we can see that we've got some problems with overlap here. So I'm going to
select this piece. And this piece, you need
to make sure to get both. Move those down a little bit. Then we can grab
the next two bugs, move those over a
little bit too, will need to fill in the rest of the blank area in the
box with more insects. So I'll go ahead and do that. I noticed I didn't get
this bug to copy up here, so I'll need to do that. I'll copy paste in front, get my height back, and then I'll hit V
and Enter or Return. To put him at a negative 254. There we go. I'll need to ungroup these appear
to move some of those Shift Command G
or Shift Control G. Anytime you move one piece,
if it's overlapping, you need to find the
same piece and move it to this piece is overlapping, so I need another
version over here. I'll go ahead and
do that real quick. All right, now this is
looking pretty nice. Maybe I'll need to move
this one over a little bit. I'm just trying to
get the spacing between them somewhat equal. It definitely doesn't
have to be perfect, but it looks nicer
in my opinion if you can get the spacing
somewhat similar. Now these two, since
we move these over, they've fallen off the edge
so we don't need those. Finally to make the pattern. I'm going to make sure the
rectangle is in the back. I'll go to object, arrange, send to back. And I also want
to make sure this has no fill and no stroke. I'll get my fill in front
and get rid of that. And get my stroke in front
and get rid of that. Now I'm going to select everything and drag it
right into my swatches. Here is the new swatch. Now, now let's test it. I'm going to hit
M on my keyboard, so I get to my
rectangle tool and I'm going to draw
a big rectangle. I'll click on my
fill over here and then I'm going to choose
the swatch we just made. That is looking really nice. Now, I'll get in my
appearance panel, you'll see a fill right here. That's the pattern swatch. And then I'm going
to add a new fill. I'm going to click
on the lower one, and now we'll add
a solid behind it. So I'm just going to
choose this yellow here. I'll zoom in. Yellow is pretty bright, so I'm gonna make a new swatch. And I'll just make
it look more like a cream color by
having a little bit more yellow than the
cyan, magenta or black. This is looking good,
I'll say, Okay. And now you can see we have a cream background
for our pattern. Now if you want to
edit this pattern, it's easy to do. You can just drag
this pattern right out of your swatches
onto your Canvas. This will give you the
pattern that you started out with before you drag it
into your swatches panel. Now it's all grouped, so we'll have to ungroup
shift Command G or Control G. But then we can move things over or down and
that kind of thing. And then once you're done,
select everything again, hold Option or Alt on a PC and replace the
pattern that you just made right over here by dragging it
onto that same swatch.
16. Troubleshooting and fixing a problem in the pattern: It looks like this Aunt
got chopped in half, so let's find out where
that is and we can fix it. If I hit Command Y or Control Y, I can see there's an ant here that didn't get copied up here. So I can go through
that same process. I'm going to hit Command Y
or Control Y to get back. I'll just go ahead and do that. Copy, paste in front, get the width or
height since they're the same, and copy that. And then hit V and Enter or Return to move that
a negative number, we'll say, Okay, and then I'm gonna get rid of this
little guy right here. Now when I select and
drag it on top of the old swatch holding
Option or Alt. It'll replace it. And now we don't have
that problem anymore. I'm going to delete
this top one because it doesn't have that
little fixed aunt.
17. Adding a dark background version CS6 and older: Now let's say we want to add a dark background instead of a light cream colored
one like this one. I'm going to use dark blue. But when I do that, the legs are insects and the
little ants will be hidden. You won't be able
to see them at all. So I went to add a white
outline to my insects. To do that, I'm going
to select everything. All these, select
the box behind, and I'm going to copy with
command C or control C, paste behind with
Command B or control B. And then I'm just going to group these command G or Control G. Now I'm going to add a
dark color back here, maybe this blue color. So I'll hit M on my keyboard
to get to my rectangle tool. And I'm just going
to draw a rectangle and then send it to the back. Okay, now we have two versions that are right
on top of each other. We have this version. I'm gonna hide that one with
Command E or Control three. Then we have this
version which is behind. This is the one we want
to add a stroke to. I'm going to click on the
stroke right over here. We'll choose the new
cream color we made. And I'll click on my stroke. If you're not seeing
all these options, you can double-click
the word stroke of u times and it should kinda
toggle through the options. I'm going to
increase the weight. That looks pretty good. Maybe something like that. And then I'm going to come
up here to Object, Show All. And now we can see the
one that was on top. So this is what our new
pattern will look like. I'm going to click on this
big rectangle and delete it. And then I'll select
everything here and drag it in as a new swatch. Now we can apply it to
this rectangle over here. Let's just make a new rectangle. I'm going to copy this one by holding Shift and Option or Alt. I'll click on this. I'll go to my appearance. We can see our Phil
will want to change this to the new pattern we made. And then we want to change our background to
the dark blue color. Now when we zoom in, we can see we have a completely different look for our pattern.
18. Scaling Your Pattern: Alright, now I want to show
you how to scale a pattern. Now let us say you
want these insects to be a little smaller. I'm going to select
all with Command a or Control a and just delete. Then I'll hit Command 0 or Control Zero to center
it in the space. I'm gonna get my
rectangle tool and I'm going to select the
swatch that we made. And I'll just draw a
rectangle as big as I want. Now let's say I want these to be about half the size
that they are. I can hit S to get
to my scale tool, which is right over here, and then hit Enter or Return. And we'll make sure that
transform patterns is checked. We'll say, okay, now
we'll get back on my selection tool and I'll get on the corner and
just drag those in, holding Shift to
scale proportionally. So now you can see that the
insects have reduced in size. Now if I want to make my
rectangle bigger again, I can hit S to get
to my Scale Tool, hit Enter or Return and
uncheck transform patterns. We can resize the rectangle now without resizing
the pattern. If you want to resize
the pattern itself, you'll want to get
in there and scale and choose Transform Patterns. That's the trick. Or if you don't, then
you uncheck that.
19. Setting Up a File via Printing Specs and Exporting: Now let us talk a little
bit about exporting. If you're willing to actually get your design
printed on fabric, you'll want to get in touch
with a printing company. You can set up your file
the way that they need. So let's just say the
company requests a twelv by 12 inch JPEG with a DPI of 150. To set that up, we
can start a new file. So we'll go to File New. And then here we can change
this to inches and we'll make it 12 by 12 CMYK
and will create, I'm going to grab our
rectangle from the other file, copy it, and paste it in. When you do that, you'll notice this swatch comes
in right down here. Now I'm going to position
this in the upper-right, extended all the way to
the size of the art board. Now if your pattern
is, are you sizing, you'll want to make
sure that under scale, if you double-click that
or hit Enter or Return, this transform patterns
is unchecked and say, okay, make sure you also
don't have a stroke. So I'm going to click on my
Stroke and get rid of that. Now I can go to File, Export, Export As we'll choose
JPEG down here. I'm going to choose
Use Artboards. I'll call this insects. And then I'll export. I'll leave the color
model as CMYK. And then for the resolution will want to put in a 150 PPI. Then we'll say, okay, now when we go and look
at the file we exported, here it is right here. We have a twelv by 12
inch JPEG at 150 PPI, then we can just send
this file to our printer.
20. Create files for use on the web: Let's say you just wanted to
use your pattern digitally. Maybe a cover image on
your Facebook page. Right now the Facebook
cover photo size is 851 by 315 pixels. We'll come back here
to Illustrator. We can go to File New. This time I'm going to use
pixels and we'll change this to 851 by 315. Will create. Now will need to grab our rectangle with
the pattern in it, copy it, and paste it
into this document. And it doesn't have to be
exactly the same size. In fact, I just
let it hang off a little bit to make sure
there's no white edge. Of course, if we wanted
a cream background, we can add a new fill. Click on the lower one, choose a yellow color and
maybe we'll just change this to the cream color we are using earlier
or something similar. There we go. Since this is
going to be for screen, we'll go to File Export,
Export for Screens. Here's the export to location. I don't need a bleed, so I'm going to uncheck that. I can click on the folder icon to choose a different location. I'll put it right
here on my desktop and we'll export art board. When we do this, we'll get
a little folder that says one x and inside it will be
our new Facebook cover photo. So then we can just upload
that onto Facebook. Whenever you're
exporting, you'll need to decide
whether it's going to be for print or screens and
then export accordingly.
21. Create Your Project: All right, Now
there's one more step and that is to
create your project. For the project, I'd
like you to take a few of your own designs,
your hand drawings, and then vectorize
them, colorize them, and then make an awesome
surface pattern design and upload it right
here on Skillshare. I hope you've enjoyed
this class as much as I have and I can't wait
to see what you create.
22. 22 What's Next: Now if you're ready to level
up your illustrator game, I do have a few beginner and
intermediate level classes, so please take a look at
those if you get a chance. All right, I'll see you in
the next class. Thank you.