Hello wonderful Illustrator people. 1
In this tutorial we're going to learn how to make a Linocut like this. 2
It's super simple, let's get started. 3
To get started, we need to draw the two sides of our petal. 4
Now I've just made a green background and locked it, nothing fancy. 5
You can use any drawing tool you like. 6
I'm going to use the Pen Tool, with no Fill and no Stroke. 7
It's kind of like this one, super simple. 8
Just so it's nice and clear, real kind of nice. 9
White Arrow, just to make some slight adjustments. 10
Pen Tool again. 11
Now, it can't be one solid shape, it needs to be two separate ones. 12
So I'm just going to kind of draw them separately here... 13
and not spend too long trying to fix it up. 14
Now, there's two things that make this-- well, two things that can mess you up. 15
If you try and align these up now to make them perfect... 16
you can make them perfect... 17
like, you might be here, you really want to. 18
When you start blending it does weird stuff. 19
So what we're going to do is match them up... 20
then pull them back apart. 21
I've got my Smart Guides on, so it's snapping. 22
It's not snapping away. 23
Come on, petal. 24
There you are, snap at this, buddy. 25
Don't worry too much about the Stroke yet, we're going to go and fix that. 26
But before you hit Blend, just move them apart. 27
Now we've done blending quite a few times in this course. 28
Let's just use the shortcut, 'Command-Option-B', or 'Control-Alt-B'. 29
And now we can blend them both, now we can move them back together. 30
To get them back together, double click the outside to get inside the Blend. 31
Now I can grab one of these guys and just kind of align them back again. 32
Let's go back out, smash that arrow until it comes back out. 33
And with it selected, double click your 'Blending Tool'... 34
and increase your steps. 35
Now it will all depend on the size you've drawn yours. 36
8. 37
I practiced this, can't even remember which I picked. 38
That will do for the moment, maybe let's come back to that... 39
because what we want to do is-- 40
You could leave it like straight lines like that, that's cool. 41
We are going to go to Stroke, and play around with the Profile... 42
and just pick this first option here. 43
Then increase the weight of the Stroke until we get something we kind of like. 44
Kind of like it in there, but I probably need some more steps. 45
I'm going to just go into Steps real quick. 46
That's basically it, you got two sides... 47
just lines kind of connecting up. 48
Using Blending now, I'll show you that kind of effect where they, kind of-- 49
It's more just kind of what other tools you can use... 50
to make this kind of full petal. 51
It was like more of a flower bud. 52
And I'll show you some of the pros and cons. 53
Now one other thing is... 54
if I start duplicating this, and start kind of messing around with it... 55
it does weird stuff with the Strokes. 56
You could fix it afterwards, say you do decide to kind of bend it around... 57
and these kind of end points don't work good. 58
Go to 'Stroke', and just turn this on and off again. 59
Just kind of reset it, which is one way. 60
Another way you might do is just to outline it. 61
So that's what I'm going to do... 62
because the next step requires me to do some... 63
some cutting a bit. 64
To outline it, or to kind of expand it-- 65
the way that you normally do is you go to 'Object', 'Expand', right? 66
Don't do it that way. 67
Go to 'Blend', and go to 'Expand'. 68
Same sort of thing... 69
but now it's all those lines. 70
I'm going to-- 71
I should have gone to Transform Flick. 72
Reflect. 73
I'm just kind of doing something else. 74
What am I doing here? Just trying a new size. 75
Now what I'd like to do is, I want-- 76
I should have saved a version of this, I'm going to save a version. 77
Like this other version of this side. 78
So this guy here, I want to get back to my shapes. 79
I can go inside, copy it, and paste it out. 80
I can just go 'Blend', say... 81
'Release', release my lines. 82
Thank you. 83
We're just going to use one of these, actually I'll show you both. 84
I'll make it green, so it makes it... 85
makes it obvious what I'm doing for this guy. 86
It's going to be like a cutting path. 87
We'll make it a little bit bigger, bring it to the front... 88
just so I can use that, I want to use that slice, the chunks of this. 89
Move it to V field, I'm using my arrow keys on my keyboard. 90
That's nice. 91
I'm going to grab both of these guys now, and just move them out... 92
because that's just hard to work in there. 93
Now we need to delete all these. 94
The best way is the Shape Builder Tool. 95
I'll hold down the 'Option' key on a Mac, 'Alt' key on a PC.. 96
and just kind of drag across them all. 97
And then, this guy here, I'm going to delete. 98
That's kind of it, we're going to do-- I'll do the top bit with you... 99
but if you want to carry on, you can... 100
because that's kind of what I do to get this. 101
Now, that guy there probably needs the Stroke Weight taken down. 102
So we can see a bit more of it. 103
Now this other one at the top here, I could use that thing again... 104
or I could just draw one; let's draw one. 105
So skip ahead now if you're keen... 106
otherwise let's do this together. 107
I'm using my Drawing Tool. 108
Now what I'm going to do is make sure they over lapse. 109
So even though I've drawn those two little shapes... 110
I'm going to kind of have it, so-- 111
Goes under here, so I can slice it off. 112
Now remember, keep them separate. 113
Actually you've done your Blending. 114
Remember, 'Command-Option-B', or 'Control-Alt-B'. 115
Let's zoom back in. Let's go to 'Wireframe Mode'... 116
which is 'Command Y', or 'Control Y' on a PC. 117
Theyâre joined, double click to get inside them. 118
Now I can grab one, actually I can grab the Anchor point up there. 119
Just make sure they're tippy touching. 120
Come back out. 121
Right click in there a few times. 122
'Command Y', or 'Control Y'. 123
And with them selected, let's add that Stroke... 124
and just change the Profile. 125
Happy enough with the size at the moment, let's increase the Blending. 126
Double click the 'Bending Tool'. 127
Let's do the specific steps, and we're here. 128
Click on that. 129
Not enough. 130
20. 131
If I zoom out, I actually can't, well that's there, zoom out. 132
Yes, itâs getting there. 133
Kind of like it. Maybe it's the Stroke Weight that's not quite working. 134
This maybe Stroke Weight. 135
Yes, that's fine. 136
I increase it up again, oh, don't increase that up again. 137
As long as it's-- this is enough. Down the bottom there to slice off. 138
So now I'm going to grab the thing that I've duplicated. 139
You can freak out too. Keep a copy of it. 140
Geez Dan, come on. 141
'Release'. 142
I'll make it a bit bigger. 143
This side here as well. 144
I'll 'ungroup' that. 145
Now I just want you, my friend, to be a piece. 146
Make it a little bigger. 147
If you just use the same size it doesn't tend to follow the curve as you'd hope. 148
That was probably just a little big. 149
That's my plan. 150
You know exactly what I'm going to do now, it's exactly what we did a second ago. 151
This guy here needs to be expanded because I can't use... 152
the Shape Builder Tool to delete it, because it's still that Blending mode. 153
So, you grab this. 154
'Object', 'Blend'. 155
'Release'. 156
Not what I wanted. 157
It's 'Expand'. 158
Let's select these ones, I'm using my Shape Builder Tool. 159
Shortcut for that is 'Command M', 'Control M' on a PC. 160
Just deleting the bits I don't need. 161
Come here. 162
'Black Arrow', and you guys are gone. 163
Move it. 164
The crowning glory. 165
Ah, it's awesome. 166
Cool man 167
That is how to do kind of a Linocut effect in Adobe Illustrator. 168
All right, let's get on to the next video. 169
Hold on, one last thing. 170
Drop Shadows. 171
You may or may not like Drop Shadows, I'm going to select them all. 172
I'm not sure why I've paused the video to come back and show you Drop Shadows... 173
but here we go. 174
I like the little ones, little baby ones. 175
Kind of makes it more, maybe from a distance, a bit more lino cut 176
Now we can skip on to the next video. 177
All right, see you there.