Haha oh no! 😅 Yea it's something I didn't know about for a long time, and whenever I demo it on a stream, it often surprises people watching! Definitely a lesser-known trick for sure!
Speaking of the twirl tool, holding down the tilde key ~ when drawing shapes gives you some crazy paths that would take ages with radial repeat or manually❤
Great tips as always, Dan! I always feel validated when I already know them, but even then you'll still find a way to showcase a nuance of said tip that I hadn't thought of. 👏👏👏
also you can make a heart super easily by taking a corner with the end points at the same level and a round end cap, increasing the stroke until its heart shaped, and then outlining the stroke! if you want it to be rounder i like using effects (fish eye, pucker and bloat, etc)
I feel proud that I know some of these tips already, but love that I learn something new too! I never really used the Transform panel before but, seeing how easy it is to create 3D text, I definitely will be, thanks!!
These are great! You can apply a single gradient across separate objects by selecting gradient and dragging across the selected objects as well. You may know this already but thought I’d share.
Fantastic video presentation and thank you so very much for making and uploading. I always struggled with Adobe Illustrators more advanced techniques, but am gradually making progress thanks to your wonderful video's. Thank you so very much:) 😊
Pretty much all given techniques were far from new to me. BUT I have to especially credit that you HAVE put together a good set of "keep these in mind" tips that WILL speed up your workflow. There are many less experienced users that I am sure will benefit a LO and most possibly those that "DO KNOW (and use)" these will most possibly remain silent... Thus, I thought a feedback and gratitude would be in order to appreciate your selection of share. It was NOT a waste of my time in any ways. And for this: Thank you!
Always looking forward to your tutorial,very helpful..as a bag designer and new to using illustrator,can you pls do something on how to put stitching line on the pattern..
0:30 draw inside, basically drawing on an alpha locked layer or clipping mask 1:05 basically just messing around with the effects tab, (pucker & bloat, zigzag) 2:02 how to draw a heart 3:00 variable fonts 3:30 illustrator has patterns. wow I am so whelmed 5:30 smooth out handwriting from the pen tool with object>path>smooth 6:20 warp/distort shapes with width subtool (twirl tool) 7:30 a more uniform way to make shadows than the first tip, the important takeaway is width profiles which is in the stroke panel 9:00 pathfinder crop 9:44 how to manipulate fonts 10:30 masking and gradients 12:10 point type vs area type 12:40 object > path > split into grid 13:30 literally just lasso select 14:00 for selecting similar objects: select > same > [attribute you wish to select] 14:50 object > compound path > make 15:30 duplicate fill color and go to town on transform effects bloody windbag
Lol same. But I've only been playing around with it for the past couple months. I just wish adobe would release illustrator and Photoshop In a cheaper bundle. $88 a month to have access to both is steep.
I actually Did know about the swarches library! Also, you can make a gradient go across several separate objects by using the Gradient Tool, from the right side. Just cleaning click, hold, and drag across all the objects. Done!
Dan, i would to ask where i can find font that free to use on my Project? i get many font but most of them is Paid. lol, i hope you can help me with this. btw, i always love your Video. when i got stuck your Video is life saver. Thanks, and keep the Good work. Cheers
The pattern fills are also scaleable, rotateable and skewable without affecting the shape they are in by unclicking the "Transform Objects" box (as seen at 15:57).
Are the different stages of variable fonts developed by typographers or are the fonts just altered „mecanically“ without paying attention to typographical rules?
I think the intent with variable fonts is to tick all the best-practice-boxes from a typography perspective, and also work in a way that doesn’t require every possible suite of characters to be created manually, as that would be a lot of combinations! 😅
I have a bit of a niche question about Illustrator that I cannot find the answer to for the life of me. Perhaps you might have the answer? Is there some way to have the default "basic brush" (the plain line for outlines) to have the colorization settings "tints and shades" like one can do with a pattern brush option? I like to use tints and shades to create outlines that are the same color as the shape, with just a slightly darker tone that I don't have to manually set (utilizing a 75% gray for the base pattern brush). The problem with this is that in order to get this effect with a pattern brush is it creates astronomical numbers of points and makes everything run super slow. If I could duplicate the default "basic brush" and just use "tints and shades" it would solve my issue entirely, but I don't know if its possible.
I tried the last one because it looks so Awesome but the problem is that no matter how much copies I made makes the first few copies the the back of the text still don't look smooth at all so I tried to double the transform and my laptop starts lagging. lol
If you make a collection of separate shapes a compound path, Illustrator will treat all of the individual shapes, as a single shape. That’s why in this example the gradient runs through all of the shapes as one 👍
A workaround for this is to use whole percentages (eg. 99%, 98%). The edges will look jagged and not great, but everything will run better performance-wise. Then once the design is done, change the values to something like 99.9% and increase the number of copies for more detail, and do this right at the end before exporting the final design 👍
I have worked with illustrator for 32 years … but I feel it is so unstable these days , running it on M1 chip mini these days , appearances are really horrible
5:45 Who draws like that with a mouse and calls it "VERY, VERY BADLY"! Please sir, please be more humble, we know you're a pro. Anything I draw with the pencil tool looks like a scribble.
The pattern fills are also scaleable, rotateable and skewable without affecting the shape they are in by unclicking the "Transform Objects" box (as seen at 15:57).
Love your videos and your style of teaching. Quick question: in order to keep the text editable can't we apply the gradient fill to a text through the Appearance Panel. This way the gradient will be spread across the entire word and the text will be editable. If we convert it to outlines we can't edit that anymore.
