A real easy way to make the "white" circle the same thickness as the black circle: 1. Set your stroke of the black circle to be inside aligned 2. Type in your stroke thickness (say 20px) 3. Offset path by twice that. So 40px
For everyone who likes to be VERY precise when it comes to the exact distance between the four circles, it's actually very simple math. If you make a stroke that's 30pt, this means that the distance between the line in the "middle" of your stroke and the end of it, is half of the width of the stroke, which is in this case 15pt. So to have the exact same width of both white and black lines you would have to make the offset 60pt. You're welcome.
Hello Dansky, for the odd angles (e.g. 9:55) , I've discovered that dragging one side of the group at the centre toward the ring then adjusting the width afterwards can eliminate the hassle of manually keeping the group pointing toward the middle as close as possible :D
I have another way- -Set up your rings > Blend Tool > Specified Steps > Expand Stroke (Outline) -Then create an even grid that goes on top of your circle (same stroke width) and expand strokes into outlines. -Once everything has turned into an expanded stroke-select the entire piece and use the Live Paint Bucket. From there you'll be able to apply the spaces needed for the maze by selecting parts of it. The key is to let the Live Paint Bucket act as an eraser. -Once you're finished, just do a quick select of the maze color and copy it. This will allow you to paste the positive spaces without taking up the negative spaces. Hope this works for you as much as it did for me!
Might have been said, but you can pick the side "resize-anchor" to move your non-[vertical|horizontal|45°] line groups, by making them bigger on the outside and then smaller on the inside (like you do for the white strip once it's in place) Great tutorial otherwise, love your channel!
Perhaps instead of moving the random angle ones, you could after turning them to the desired angle grab the side and scale it out to the ring distance. Then shrink the other side, assuring that the block is pointing directly at the center.
you don't have to set colors to global, you can set a random color & when finished select the "Magic Wand Tool" and click on the color you made & it will select all the matching colors so you can change them all at once
Excellent tutorial, I really am enjoying your tutorials, nothing like having an expert show you how! Thank you!! Now you do realize that there is no way to enter your maze…. Right?! ;-) Have a Good One Dude! Scott
First of all. Thank you very much for a great tutorial but i'm struggling once it comes to joining the black parts, when I use magic wand tool having all the black selected and then going to path finder pressing unite - instead of parts getting joined it created a full color filled up circle? Any idea why it's doing it?
Only change I would have made would be when doing non standard rotations rather than dragging out the whole shape from the middle, I would have done my rotation, then drug out one end to the desired location and then once that was done drag the other end so it would be relatively positioned. Was also thinking that you could also use the shape builder tool while building it which would have the same effect as the end result after using the pathfinder tool to add and unite or remove them at the end.
Hey Dansky! First off thank you so much for these tutorials! They're super easy to follow and have taught me loads! I have a question about the global settings colour technique you use. Say I want to change the colour of the global swatch to a very specific colour- maybe in a reference image which I have open on AI - is there a way to pick that colour using the colour picker or something? Currently I check the RGB values for my reference colour and then enter the same RGB values for the global swatch as there is no colour picker in that panel - Its a bit tedious! If you know an easier way do let me know. Many thanks and keep up the great work :)
That's a good question! Sadly when editing a global swatch there isn't a colour picker, otherwise that would save a lot of time. The way you suggested is currently how I would get around changing a global swatch to a specific colour, by manually entering the R + G + B values.
Hey! So I'm trying to follow your instructions, but i'm having a problem with the rings after i expand them, the number of rings increase! It doesn't give me the same result as yours. I do leave both Fill and Stroke checked and I press OK
If you want your maze elements that are rotated at a random angle to point exactly at the center, you can do the following: 1. Select the three central pieces. 2. Hold SHIFT key and drag them out horizontally until they reach the two rings between which you want the maze corner to be. 3. With the pieces still selected, click on the Rotate tool. 4. Now with the Rotate tool and smart guides active, hold down the ALT key and my moving the cursor, find the central point of your maze. It should be right in the middle of the red and black pieces. Once you've found it and with the ALT key still pressed, click on it. This should open the Rotation dialog box. 5. Once in the dialog box, check the preview mark and play around with the degree values on the left until you reach the desired result. 6. Profit.
You may have created the yellow background while inside an isolated object in a group. Double click outside of the page, then create the background and send it to the back.
For some odd reason my left out most line is unattached to the rest of the maze. I've tried selecting both and then "grouping" them, which didn't work, so I selected both and "united" which also didn't work. I hope to get a response. This is my very first Illustrator project.
i know i'm 4 years late but i had some issue aligning the little rectangles (the red and black), it felt like the border was always on the edge of the other. does anyone know why i couldn't align them perfectly ? thanks a lot guys
+AG GeLo Hey there! Select the "Rectangle Tool", draw a 4 sided shape, select the fill colour, and resize to fit the artboard/canvas size. Then go to "Object" at the top, click "Arrange", and then select "Send to Back". Hope this helps :)
If the stroke is 30 and the offset 59, shouldnt the offset be 60... How is this super precise, this is just eye-balling the living #@$)( out of it. If only there was a way to add dimensions or relations. Would save hours.
