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logo is pretty neat and it does look very creative but it's actually fairly
simple to make an Adobe Illustrator using the techniques that I'm gonna show
you today and we're firstly gonna take the curvature tool and make sure we have
just a stroke selected in the color palettes located in the bottom left of
the screen now you can press the caps lock key on your keyboard to have the X
icon in use or you can revert back to the standard of curvature icon it just
depends on your personal preference so all we do here is click and make points
and illustrator is going to map out a nice curved line for us really really
easily and we're going to make half of the first shape using this method now
don't worry if your line is not perfectly smooth because we can adjust
that in the next step in the logo design process on the tail end of the line here
try and make it so the very end of the line is horizontal flat and your scene
gonna see why later in the tutorial but for now increase the stroke weight and
then grab the smooth tool because we can iron out the line until we're happy with
the smoothness and the curvature
so finally for this part of the Lego process press a for the direct selection
tool and then click this anchor point here and then click and drag the handle
out while holding down shift this will ensure that the very end of the line is
horizontal flats now you can move this shape off to one side for now and then
press L for the ellipse tool hold down shift and click and drag to make a
circle so we're then going to use a direct selection tool one more time and
click and drag the top anchor point upwards while holding down shift to make
sure remain central now you're going to want to make a kind of leaf shape that
will fit into the design later so okay great we can now go ahead and finish
this section of the logo design you will need to have the rulers open so press
command or control R if you haven't done that already then actually right-click
the rulers and make sure they are set to pixels and then in the view drop down
menu click the snap to pixel option we're going to be using this setting
only briefly in this logo process so select the first shape and then hold
down the alt/option key and click and drag to make a duplication you're going
to need to reflect the duplication in the transform window and then carefully
bring it together with the original shape so they're touching at the anchor
points exactly
now this is why we needed to make the line horizontal in the end so to connect
in a neat manner at the very tip now you can select both shapes and then press
command or control G a to join them together now bring the first shape in
position like so and then use the align function to make sure the leaf shape is
centered properly now you can also use the eyedropper tool which is I on your
keyboard and this will sample the same stroke weight and the same color of the
line shape and speaking of that line shape we can now run off the ends in the
stroke window which I feel looks best for this design the next step is
optional but if you outline the stroke you're not going to be able to adjust
the stroke weight from here onwards and it's also going to change the final
outcome later as you will see but it's up to you if you want to outline this
shape or not so we use the snap to pixel function to perform the next step and
that is to drag two guides that touch the edges of our design perfectly and do
this the exact same on both sides then weave one guide a set amount of pixels
so for me that's going to be 10 pixels and then go ahead and move the other
side the exact same number of pixels and this is crucial and it needs to be
absolutely perfect so once you've done that hold down the alt/option key to
duplicate the leaf shape over to here now we do need to turn off the snap to
pixel option so we can align the leaf exactly a center the longest guides
once you have it in place a press a C for the scissors tool and then cut the
top and the bottom of the leaf like so and then you can use the selection tool
to click the sections we don't want and then hit delete to remove them and we're
very close to the end of this creative Lego design process so again use the
adoption key to duplicate this half leaf and you can use the magenta smart guides
to keep things in the line or you can just hold down shift as you move across
now once it's been duplicated mirror the shape with the reflect function and then
place it exactly up against the guide level with the other side so now the
final step of the process open up the brushes window and select your entire
design go ahead and create a new brush in the fly down menu and we're going to
be using a pattern brush for this design
the default options should be okay if you've actually aligned everything
perfectly so now you've just made a new brush we
can apply that brush to a circle with a stroke only so use the ellipse tool on
your keyboard being L and then simply click the brush boss you have the circle
activated now you can change the stroke weights and if you did outline the
stroke earlier the intersections here of the design might be uneven in thickness
like you can see so that's the method for creating is creative logo design
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