Sunday, June 05, 2016

Adobe Illustrator Tutorial | How to Manipulate Shapes Using Shape Builder and Pathfinder Tool

This video is the fourth video in my Adobe Illustrator (AI), tutorial series. In this video we will walk through:
Shape builder tool
Pathfinder tool
Merge and Unite shapes
Divide and Trim shapes
Intersect and Exclude shapes
Crop shapes
Examples of a few simple shapes to build using the shape builder tool and pathfinder
If you missed parts 1 - 3 on using the line segment tool and using shapes, then be sure to check those out in the playlist here.
Head on over to my YouTube channel and check it out!

Saturday, May 07, 2016

Adobe Illustrator (Ai) Tutorial - Using Shapes Part 2


This video is the third in my Adobe Illustrator (AI), tutorial series. In this video (Part 1 and Part 2) we will walk through:

- Creating Rectangles
- Creating Rounded Rectangles
- Creating Ellipsis (including pac man!)
- Creating Polygons (with differing number of sides i.e triangles)
- Creating Stars (with differing number of points)
- Changing the stroke and fill of shapes
- Overlapping shapes
- Working with resizing and anchor points
- Working with custom corners

Head on over to my YouTube channel and check it out!

Adobe Illustrator (Ai) Tutorial - Using Shapes Part 1



This video is the second in my Adobe Illustrator (AI), tutorial series. In this video (Part 1 and Part 2) we will walk through:

- Creating Rectangles
- Creating Rounded Rectangles
- Creating Ellipsis (including pac man!)
- Creating Polygons (with differing number of sides i.e triangles)
- Creating Stars (with differing number of points)
- Changing the stroke and fill of shapes
- Overlapping shapes
- Working with resizing and anchor points
- Working with custom corners

Head on over to my YouTube channel and check it out!

Adobe Illustrator CC Tutorial - Using the Line Segment Tool



This video is the first in my Adobe Illustrator (AI), tutorial series. In this video we will walk through:

Drawing horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines
The effect of using the alt key
What are anchor points?
Extending an existing line
Rotating lines
Using Shift+Click to get straight lines
Moving lines using guides

Head on over to my YouTube channel to check it out!