Hi there and welcome to Aitken's.
We are going to create very many icons, I'm sure, you know, there is a science called iconography.
I don't know if it's a science, but it's called iconography, meaning the art of creating icons.
And I would like to start you up.
Maybe this is something that inspires you and you really want to do icons.
Some of them.
It's a real business doing icons.
How do you create icons?
First of all, you do not work on an art board.
I'm going to come to edit out board and it's a letter.
So you start creating icons here or when I can by letter.
It's not really practical.
What you want is to have a certain size for the output of certain dimensions.
The most common are 24 by 24 points, 48 by 48.
And you multiply until you get to five, 12 by five, 12 points.
Four hours is 30 by 30.
And I think you multiply something like this.
But I can work.
It's no problem as long as you have a certain symmetry or a certain size.
Now, of course, we're going to take our art board and reduce it to 96 by 96.
This is a size we are going to work with in our course to do that.
We just changed in 96 by 96.
So we have a very small airport, not really zoom, it's going to be very big.
I want to create eight icons for the course.
We can even create more make file for icons.
And as soon as you are inspired, you know, I can make it, you know, awesome.
And also, you can get inspired to issue a lot of tricks and tips, how to make icons with the least
detail possible.
Can I add another seven?
So I click on the plus here all the way.
And now I have eight albums you notice, but I don't want them like this is just linear.
You know, I would like to put them in two rows and four columns to do that.
You come to rearrange all and there are several ways to arrange them columns than row or grid by row.
And this is first columns and then rows.
I will go for the first one, which is good, and I want four columns and especially 20 will work.
OK, we always had this move.
Artwork was Albert.
So if you move the Albert around, the artwork inside the Albert will move.
That's pretty practical.
I'm going to click OK, and now you have eight cardboard symmetric on your file and select the first
one and press control or command a zero and we start to draw our first item.
I'm going to draw the home icon, which is actually a house.
Now, I need one single guide here and is the one in the center.
I'm going to open the rulers that's control are or are and then drag one of them, then go to view and
make sure in guides here I have them unlocked.
So I click on log guides, then come over and select my guide.
Not this is Bruce selected and just a line and I resent it.
So now I have the middle of the document.
That's all I need.
Then go back to view and guides and my guide.
I'm going to start with a rectangle in a nice, big, fat, lots of attracting, I think you should
do when you're designing is the fin and the stroke.
I'm not going to have a stroke of one.
I'm going to reduce it to zero point twenty five just to see exactly and precisely what I'm doing.
And I want the feel to be no filler at all.
I can change that little.
I have my rectangle, which represent the ceiling or the rooftop of the house or the room, but I'm
going to align it in the middle.
Then I'm going to draw the body of the house, which is a rectangle.
And also, Lynette.
Now, I needed to create this angle, shape or the shape or the inverted V shape, if you like, how
would I do that?
It's pretty easy to select whatever you want to select, to create and then go to the pental and just
add an anchor point here.
Notice you need the plus sign.
Another plus sign.
And I wish I can do this guy, but it's not happening.
You notice I cannot find the plus side.
I'm going to select select only this guy here.
Go to the pen to come very nicely.
I can see the place now.
If ever you don't see the press with the better, it means the object is not selected less control zero.
And go for the direct selection to select the three anchor points, a shift and take them on.
Didn't work very nicely deselect at this point only and take it down, make it as symmetric as possible.
I think the roof is too high so I'm going to take it a bit down.
Now, if you think it is too wide, you can just make it smaller and readjust everything.
That's OK, for our example.
I would like to create a chimney.
I'm going to put the chimney just over here, take it down.
Then that is Section two.
I'm going to start using the shortcut A and V to switch in between the selection tools, so I now select
only this point and shift and take it down.
It's Palin now, I would like to add the door, the door will come from here.
That's very fine, but I don't want this line here, the way to do it is to punch the door out.
I've said both of them, the body and the door.
And here you have the partial to minus front called the punching to.
So the door is part of the big ship that.
I want to add the window here is the window here.
Very nice.
I would like to punch the window in, I punch it out here.
Though you have punched them out, you can really strike them and still move them around the door,
you will move it, for example, by these direct election.
And selecting all the points and then click on one of the path and just move it around, remember to
press the shift.
Let's go out.
This is your first I can is it just a line and of course, you can change the stroke now to make it
a bit thicker, but I want to do something else with you.
I want to make it a Blackfield icon.
I'm going to say whatever it's supposed to be, black, I think this and then go to the field and make
them black.
Now we have a different icon, it's a whole new category for the black, I'm going to just do like this.
I like this one.
And here, if I find like, it's not very well positioned, I can position it.
I would like to add some brownness, not too much, just some brownness, click and take it down.
Now I'm reading the number here.
Don't go very far.
Actually, that's not what I want to do on a select only this anchor point and the one below and take
them down.
I will go for one point five, I can.
Something like this.
I'm going to check the borders, this one and this one, and just take them to the maximum.
I like that.
Let's take the House now with the White Arrow, suppress a select these three points here, a selected
lot, select this swampers, shift this one and this one's already set and take them down just a bit.
One point five will do best.
That's.
The window here selected is going to make trouble, this one, and have to select each corner.
And really very little.
Don't go like this, OK?
I'm just very little.
I will go zero point five.
I like it.
I'm going to leave it there.
It didn't work.
I'm going to just take it down zero point five, I said.
016 would also do for the door here, I'm going to select this two on top so this one and shift click
this one to make sure I just make it a bit roundish.
Jemini, I'm going to select the top ones, the top corners or the anchor points and just make it just
like this.
You have created your first I can I like to see them like this, this is the first I can was the guide.
Let's go to view and guys and hide them.
So it's good to learn the shortcuts.
It's not bad.
I would work on it even more.
I will make the rooftop a bit bigger or smaller, something like this, aesthetics and this one.
I can just make it maybe smaller.
Then with the selection to select everything, election to.
And make it a bit bigger.
But I'm still within the limit of 96 by 96 and of course, group it now a line in the middle and I have
my first.
I can I can already start publishing it.
Thank you, guys.
We learn how to set the art board.
We create our first icon, which is not magnificent, but it's a start.
And you learn a few tips in the next lecture.
We're going to do even more awesome icon.