learn how to make two different nifty circular designs in Adobe Illustrator
we're going to use various different techniques and tips and you wouldn't
believe how easy it actually is welcome back to Satori graphics the homograft
design content right here on youtube today there are two different circular
vector designs made easy and for the first one select a color and then make a
small sample using the rectangle tool off of the artboard to one side in the
color picker menu copy the hex color code at the bottom with command or ctrl
C we're going to use this soon but for now cover the entire artboard with the
same color using the rectangle tool m and b in the shortcut on your keyboard
and then simply lock it down in place with command or control to
now press L for the ellipse tool and then click and drag whilst holding down
shift to generate a perfect circle I choose a gradient fill in the bottom
left of your screen and then click on one side of the gradients like so make
sure to choose the RGB mode in the top right corner so we can then paste it in
the hex color code with command or control V now this is just so that this
part of the gradient matches and blends into the background perfectly the other
side of the gradient needs to be a kind of light gray color but of course you
can choose whatever colors that you want to use as you see later I experimented
of blues and purples now we're going to make use of illustrators automated
actions for the next step in this vector design so go ahead and open up the
actions panel here
and then click new action in the top right window illustrator is now
recording your every single move but just copy the circle with command or
ctrl C and then paste a duplicate with command or ctrl F you can see in the
actions panel my steps it be enlisted but then transform the new shape by
reducing its scale by 75% here finally rotate the circle by certain degrees
like so once you've done that hit stop in the actions panel
you've now saved that action from start to finish and what we need to do now is
to select the new circle and then click play illustrators going to repeat every
single step that we just made over and over again that's pretty neat of course
you can add or use any colors that you wish but here is the first circle of
vector design however we have the main event coming up so again take the
ellipse tool and this time click the artboard just once create a circle with
a set size and then remember that size repeat this process for making the new
circle a certain amount smaller so for me 40 points smaller then rotate the
circle by a certain amount of degrees
but then do this again for using the same amount size smaller in scale but
double the rotational values I've tried to ultimate this but illustrator doesn't
remember that decrease in the size of the circle every single time so we need
to do it manually but yeah keep doing this until you have a nice amount of
circles on your artboard and they probably are going to be scattered all
over the place which is fine all you need to do now is open up the align
window which you can find here or under window and a line at the very top make
sure you do not have the align to artboard setting checked and then align
the circles horizontally and vertically and they have it to circle of vectors
made in under five minutes I personally think they look really needs but let me
know your thoughts down in the conversation below it's fun to
experiment with shapes in Illustrator and using different functions to make
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