Just when you thought the last video of our Shape Builder was long, there's more. 1
There's a few special tricks we're going to do... 2
to complete some of the previous drawings we've done. 3
Like this guy we did earlier. 4
We're going to run a line from the middle, and split them up into Gradients. 5
Over here I'm going to show you how to expand some of these lines... 6
so that you can add the feet and stuff... 7
that we started earlier on in the tutorial series. 8
First thing you need to do though is go and open up the file called-- 9
'File', 'Open', and it's in your 'Exercise Files'. 10
It is called 'Shape Builder Extra'. 11
Go do that now, and I'll see you later in the video. 12
So some extra Shape Builder goodness. 13
I like it that much. 14
There's a couple of things we haven't covered, one is... 15
the first one is like a bit of a shortcut, so I've got three circles. 16
Just happen to be circles, we have lots of circles. 17
I'm going to select all three, jump to my 'Shape Builder Tool'. 18
So over here, in my Tool Bar... 19
I can join these up by clicking all through, that's fine. 20
Three circles is no big drama... 21
but if you hold the 'Shift' key, and click, and drag... 22
you get kind of a rectangle marquee tool. 23
Just kind of does that all in one big go... 24
so if you've got lots of objects, instead of trying to drag across them... 25
and scroll through them all, just hold 'Shift'... 26
drag across all three, and that kind of uses the Shape Builder... 27
where it kind of flattens them all into one solid object. 28
Next little thing that's going to happen is... 29
remember this from earlier exercise... 30
if I select all of this, and grab the Shape Builder Tool... 31
you'll be like, "Why can't I fill the center bit?"... 32
and you might be like, "Oh, because this is a gap." 33
It's not because of that gap. If I fill that gap... 34
it still won't work, so 'White Arrow'... 35
drag it right across. 36
A bit exaggerated there, but grab the 'Width Tool'... 37
it's still a big hole. 38
And you can kind of see why. 39
If I select it all... 40
you can see, blue lines here, indicating that's the path... 41
the kind of spine of the art there. 42
You can see, this is more in effect. 43
It's not a Fill around the outside. 44
There's actually a massive gap between this line and this line. 45
This here is just like a pretty effect. 46
So what you need to do is to fix that. 47
There's two things I want to do. 48
I'm going to copy and paste this, so I've got a version of it up here... 49
because I never want to-- I hate destroying stuff that I've made... 50
because I'll come back and be like, "I want to adjust it." 51
I can't, because I've smashed it into pieces. 52
So with it selected here, we're going to go to 'Object'... 53
and we're going to go to this one that says 'Expand Appearance'. 54
Just kind of expands it. 55
So it's no longer an effect, it's actually a shape running around the outside. 56
So now, I'll do my Fill. 57
The gap's pretty big over here, but let's grab our 'Shape Builder Tool'. 58
And it does it fine. 59
Another thing I want to show you before we move on. 60
If you double click the Shape Builder Tool... 61
you can have Gap Detection. 62
By default I think it's medium, you can crank it right up... 63
to large, or you can custom... 64
where you say, I want to fill and join all these holes. 65
So you might have an artwork that just needs like that. 66
You've done some hand drawing... 67
and you want to fill it up after a Live Trace, or something like that. 68
Everything else in here is-- 69
what I turn off, is this one here, Cursor Swatch Preview. 70
Just gets rids of the colors above my arrow. 71
We'll align it, that annoys me so much, but it does. 72
Let's look at two things. 73
I want to fill this with a white. 74
White, I'm going to fill this with a random green. 75
I'm going to fill it properly in a second. 76
And I want to kind of split that in half. 77
I want it to be a line running down the outside. 78
So Iâve got kind of two colors within here. 79
It's going to be this tool here basically. 80
I'm going to make another duplicate of him. 81
With my 'Black Arrow'... 82
holding down the 'Alt' key on a PC, or 'Option' key on a Mac, get a duplicate. 83
And what I want to do is, actually go to 'Stroke' here... 84
and go 'Profile', 'Uniform'. 85
I don't want any of that Width Tool goodness. 86
I want to turn the Weight down to something really tiny. 87
It doesn't really matter what size it is. 88
I'm going to drag it down now. 89
What I want to do is, I'm going to click off, grab this end part of it. 90
Can you see, where it says Anchor... 91
I'm going to try and jam it, then hope for the best. 92
Feel like I might have got that. 93
I'm going to select both of these. 94
'Black Arrow, drag along both. 95
What I'd like to do is, back to my 'Width Tool'. 96
You can see, it's kind of carved that into two little pieces. 97
You might have to go play around with Gap Detection to fix that... 98
but I'm just going to put him around in colors. 99
I'm going to do Gradients in a second. 100
That's kind of where I wanted to start. 101
I'm going to select it all, say 'Stroke', 'None'. 102
I kind of have to stop myself there, I'm going to go and add Gradients to this. 103
Gradients aren't particularly exciting, I'll do that at the end... 104
because there's more important stuff like this, over here. 105
What I'm going to do is... 106
whenever I'm expanding a line, I'd like to have a copy. 107
Just stick them up here, it goes in later on. 108
And what I'd like to do is add the feet. 109
We're going to kind of join the two bits and pieces. 110
So what I'll do is, I'll draw-- 111
What should I draw first? 112
Let's grab the Curvature Tool. 113
I click off in the background, so it doesn't select it. 114
You'll notice every now and again... 115
that my cursor changes from the crosshairs to the pen. 116
That's just your Caps Lock key. 117
Just happens sometimes. 118
You can kind of see, my keyboard tells on the screen what it's doing. 119
So what I'm going to do is zoom in here... 120
and I'm going to double click. 121
Double click. 122
Holding 'Shift', so it's a perfect line. Double click. 123
Double click. 124
That curve in there. 125
I'm going to double click here for another corner. 126
So that's one side. 127
What I might do is turn this Stroke Weight... 128
down to something hairline, which is 0.25. 129
So that's one side. 130
Again I want to start on this side. 131
What I might do is just kind of overlap it here 132
And get it close. 133
Double click it, so it's a corner, not a curve. 134
Click once for a corner. 135
Clicking once to kind of tidy it all up at the end. 136
So I've got my kind of rough guides. 137
I'm going to just tidy this up using the White Arrow. 138
Get it kind of how I want it to. 139
I'd love to spend a lot more time fixing these up. 140
I'm going to do that while you're watching; sorry about that. 141
So we've got this, now we want to kind of join these two up, right? 142
So I'm going to-- I'm going to leave some of the badness in there. 143
What I need to do is expand this one, we kind of looked at it before. 144
So we're going to 'Object', 'Expand Appearance'. 145
Now it is no longer-- 146
I can't use the Width Tool to fix this now, so I've got a copy at the top there... 147
but now, I can grab these two, grab my Shift Tool... 148
sorry, 'Shift M' for my Shape Builder Tool. 149
I'm going to join these two, and delete that bit. 150
Probably join these two. 151
And have a look how bad it is. 152
That's not too bad. 153
I'm going to grab my 'A' for White Arrow. 154
This guy here needs some corner love. 155
Same with this guy. 156
Corner Love, I love those guys. 157
When you first see these targets, you're like, "Oh, what to do?" 158
You can do corners, that's okay. It's kind of cool... 159
but it's when you get to this, and you start joining these... 160
that we've run into trouble before. 161
That's a terrible Serif, Dan. 162
I'm going to leave it. 163
I followed my drawing without thinking, "Wow, that's bad." 164
It's kind of run down here. 165
But you get the idea, right? 166
Learning principle. 167
We had to outline this, and we kind of drew this separately. 168
So there's a lot in this document where-- 169
that, I will draw with the Width Tool... 170
but this bit down the bottom here, and the Serif... 171
I will draw separately. 172
That's where I should end it, and you can carry on. 173
I'm going to show you what I probably do with these Serifs... 174
rather than what I've done currently... 175
and I'm going to go add Gradients to it. 176
I'll show you what I do with these Serifs. 177
You probably can do it. 178
I'm just going to draw this straight up. 179
I'm going to say... 180
that's going to be my Serif, and I'm going to copy, paste this. 181
I'll align these both up. 182
Go to center, center. 183
No, click center once. 184
I'm going to use the Shape Builder Tool to join them. 185
I use my sneaky shortcut... 186
'Shift', drag a box across them. 187
And I'm going to grab my 'A' tool. 188
I'm going to click on this guy. 189
You can grab more than one. 190
I'm holding 'Shift' to grab both of those two inside ones, and drag them up. 191
This guy here... 192
I want to skew across. 193
Up here, my Transform window-- 194
you might not see it, it's under 'Window', go down to 'Transform'. 195
I'm going to use 'Skew', I'm going to use this to get started. 196
Nice little trick for-- they call it Shear... 197
is, because I've got kind of really per-defined ones, you're like-- 198
you're not going to probably find it in there. 199
So if you just click in here, and use the up and down arrow... 200
I find that's a really easy way. 201
I'm just kind of tapping my up arrow, and it's going up a degree at a time. 202
A little slow, but I'm going to get this kind of working. 203
That's going to be my Serif for rest of the job. 204
What I'll do is, I'll just use it for lots of things. 205
Am I happy with the weight of it? 206
Probably a little thick, but you get the idea, right? 207
So, I'm going to make a duplicate of it, and use it a good few times. 208
It's actually way too thick. 209
I'm going to use it here, I'll use it again. 210
Where else? I can use it here. 211
In this case, I want to split it up, and open. 212
So I'm going to move it out, grab my 'A' tool, and select that guy. 213
Hold 'Shift', grab all of these fellows. 214
I've got everything on the right hand side, I'll use arrow keys to tap them across. 215
This is how to build that. That's going to be, say, my main Serif... 216
and this is going to be my thin one. 217
I deleted that one, come back. 218
I'm going to use these two guys to start building out that rubbish one. 219
I'm going to remove. 220
You can see, I can... 221
do it for-- 222
there's lots of times I can use that. 223
All these kind of use a version of it. 224
I can use that as my starting, I probably have to lob that bit off. 225
I can use him, and I can kind of-- 226
I guess, use it for lots of things to get started... 227
to kind of smooth things up. 228
I'm rambling now. 229
Gradients, I'm going to do that, you don't need to be around for that. 230
I'll get the editor to speed it up actually. 231
I'll see you in the next video. 232
That's it, don't judge me. 233
Those are the colors I've picked. 234
See you in the next video.