I have three steps in today's Illustrator 3d pattern logo design
tutorial and in the first step we designed the pattern itself and the
second step is how to efficiently make the 3d pattern and finally we add some
neat gradients in the third and final step
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in today's 3d pattern logo design tutorial is to make the pattern itself
this is quite simple so follow along and let's make a neat 3d logo design in
Illustrator press command or control R to open up the rulers and then control a
right click the canvas if you can't see the rulers you then need to drag a guide
on to the page that perfectly lines up with a measurement at the very top of
the rulers what the measurement is doesn't matter too much we're going to
hold down the alt option key and click and drag to duplicate the guide once you
carefully duplicate it over to the side using the measurements at the top then
press command or control D to repeat the process several times over you should
end up with a line of guides like so make sure that you have the stroke
selected in the color palette and then press M for the rectangle tool you can
create a perfect square by holding down shift and then we want to use the middle
of the square to align with the furthest right guide on your screen increase the
stroke weight as something that fits around a third of the gap between two of
your guides as we're now going to make the basis for the pattern of our logo
design it's important that for the next step
you have the scale stroke options turned off in the list rate of preferences
click the square and press command or control C to copy it and then press
command or control F to paste a duplicate exactly in place over the top
by holding down both shift and the alt/option key you can click and drag to
resize the square like so from here you then simply repeat the process of
copying in the new square and then pasting it in place with command or
control F this is going to be the foundation of a 3d pattern in today's
local design tutorial to finish step one we simply need to take the pen tool by
pressing P on your keyboard and then draw a section like so carefully making
a path along the pattern
access a selection tool and highlight the shape then press R for the rotate
tool carefully drag the blue target icon into the center of your pattern click
once and then hold down the alt/option key and click again in the new box that
appears type in 90 degrees and then hit copy press command or control D to
repeat the process two more times and voila you now have the pattern ready to
go into step 2 in today's illustrator 3d pattern logo design tutorial but first
you need to outline the stroke of the lines and then unite them in the
Pathfinder window making everything on one vector shape we want to open up the
perspective grid for the next step in today's logo design tutorial for the 3d
pattern design we want to make one side of the grid have one narrow perspective
you can do this by clicking and dragging the handles of the grid on the far left
like so
then when you're ready resize down your pattern and use the auto option key to
duplicate it over to one side because we're going to need two patterns to make
up the 3d aspect of the Logo design
notice the widget in the top right of my screen if you don't see this on your
screen you can double click the perspective grid tool in the toolbar and
it will open up when you do find it highlight the rights are inside of the
cube which will allow us to apply the pattern to the right-hand side of the
grid take the perspective grid selection tool and simply click and drag the
pattern and place it on your grid then highlight the blue left side of the
widget and do the same thing with a second pattern carefully place onto the
grid and press command or control Z if you make a mistake lastly in this step
just hide the grid like Sarah if you're enjoying today's logo design tutorial
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in the third and final step in today's 3d pattern logo design tutorial take the
rectangle tool and create a dark background for your design send the
rectangle to the very back of all objects and then lock it down in place
for the right-hand-side shape i added a gold gradient fill to the object
it's a two-tone gradient of yellow almost white in color stretching out to
a dark gold color experiment with the direction of the gradient by changed in
degrees value but I've set the dark tone coming from the bottom right the shape
then on the second half of the 3d pattern logo I use a silver gradient
this was achieved by sampling two grayscale colors from the gradient
window and again experiment with this and you might even want to lower the
opacity of this shape to make it less bright finally add some logo type to the
3d logo design and you'll set and down if you did find my content useful today
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