today beginner and advanced techniques which you can use when using the
livelong function which is really awesome in Adobe Illustrator what is
that people welcome back to Satori graphics then graph design content right
here on YouTube so today we're going to start with the beginner techniques when
using the live drawing method in Adobe Illustrator we first need to make an
artboard and I'm actually going to use a square one the measurements being 1200
pixels squared stay tuned throughout today's video for
the entire tutorial to soak up all of the techniques and the skills for use in
the live drawing method press M for the rectangle tool and then click once on
your outboards we want to make a square slightly bigger than the canvas itself
so I'm going to add 50 pixels onto my already 1200 pixel size artboards we
just want the square to be a stroke with no fill to align it perfectly change the
align settings to fit the artboard and then align the square horizontally and
vertically now press command R on a Mac or ctrl R
on a PC to open up your rulers and then bring down a guide exactly halfway down
so in my case here 600 pixels along the outboards once you have two guides like
you can see on the screen now press P for the pen tool and then draw a line
like so and this is going to act as a guide
increase the stroke weight and then we can change the stroke style to suggest a
direction that is pointing which will become more clearer later click on one
side of the stroke to change the direction using the pencil now we need
the layers window open so we can perform the live drawing function using
illustrator click this icon here which will select every single layer on your
document and then come up to the effects distort and transform and transform
option if we choose to reflect our shape on the x-axis and choose one copy we can
preview the final outcome now hide the guide layer that we just made and now
you're gonna find that whatever you drew on one section will be mirrored over
onto the opposite side now this is pretty neat but there's a lot more to
come in today's video to quickly finish the beginner section of the live drawing
function instead of just using one coffee we can choose to make three
copies and also choose 90 degrees on both the Y and the x-axis by selecting
the preview button we can now see how the reflection will turn out when using
the live during method again hide the layer and begin your drawing process you
can use the brush tool you can use the pen tool and even the shape tools
everything will be copied and reflected around like so
so for the advance technique let's first grab the pencil and draw a vertical line
by holding down shift again using the align tool and keeping the alignment
related to the artboard align it vertically and horizontally this is
quite an advanced technique but follow along and you should be able to perform
it for yourself we're going to transform this line here
but in the transform window make two copies and set the degrees to 300
degrees
checking the preview box we can now see the eye board is split into six
different sections in the layers window create a new layer and then lock it down
and hide the original layer by clicking the icons
select the new layer and access the pen tool by pressing P and through another
vertical line like before I line it perfectly on your artboards now copy
this line command or ctrl C and then paste a duplicate already with the top
width command or ctrl F we're now going to rotate that duplicate by 90 degrees
Syrena have two perfectly centered lines on our board make the original layer
visible again in the layers window and then press B for the brush tool the mark
I'm going to make now is just a guide like we did in the beginner section so
it doesn't matter if it looks good or bad make sure to highlight this layer in
the layers window and then go back to the transform window under the effect
section we are now reflect this over by one copy onto the x-axis and then here
okay
with the same layer selected go back into the transform window and click
apply new effect this time we're going to generate two copies and we gonna use
120 degrees and you should end up with something like this but again remember
this is just a guide
now finally press P for the pen tool and draw an area that covers 120 degrees
ie two sections of the artboards and you must be really precise of your path
making sure it's on the lines properly
make sure the layer that we just created is at the very top of all layers in this
group
in the play a clipping mask like so now anything you draw in the top right
section where the clipping mask exists will be reflected around the entire
design but the clipping mask actually keeps everything neat and tidy and stay
tuned as I'm going to show you one final addition in today's tutorial with the
same format as before I'm using a clipping mask open the brushes menu here
and then create a new brush I'm gonna use a calligraphy brush and I'm gonna
make the stroke quite large now when I go ahead and make my design you will see
how neat this looks the clipping mask function of the live drawing technique
really helps to make some cool designs
if you make a mistake just press command or control Z and if you didn't fully
understand the advanced technique in today's video just go back and watch it
again step-by-step recreating it for yourself as you go it's not too
difficult once you go over a few times
so yeah I had lots of fun making designs with this technique and a lot of them I
used the calligraphy brushes there is one final point that you need to take
into account however once you have a design you notice that the only part
that is selected is the clipping mask section
so corrupt object and expand and you design will now be vectorized around the
entire 360 degrees of your artboard so there was my tutorial for beginner and
advanced techniques using the life to learn function if you enjoyed it and
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