today we learn how to make text or numbers with multiple different strokes
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what is that people welcome back to Tottori graphics the home of graphic
design content or right here on YouTube you can use this technique in today's
video to make text and numbers but also other designs too and to demonstrate to
you guys today I'm going to work with the number 8 now for this number we need
to use the ellipse tool to make some circles so press end on your keyboard
and then generate a circle like so using the selection tool I'm going to deform
the circle just a tiny little bit and then duplicate it below by holding down
the alt option key
so now we should have to some of the form circles and the next step is just a
case of heading into the Pathfinder window with both of your circle selected
and then uniting them together as one vector shape we're now pretty much ready
to apply the multiple stroke effects to our design now to achieve this we need
to be working in the appearance panel and I actually have an entire tutorial
related to the appearance panel which I'm gonna link at the very end of
today's video so add a new stroke leave the top right fly down menu in the
appearance panel and then come down to the color palettes and the bottom left
of your screen here you can apply a gradient fill which is going to appear
on your shape over the entire design choose your gradient in the gradient
window I'm actually going to go for our kind of pinky red to a purple color for
my design
once your gradient is ready for the multiple stroke design either press G on
your keyboard for the gradient tool or you can locate in the toolbar by
clicking and dragging across your shape you're going to be ensure the gradient
is evenly spread across the design now with your shape selected head back into
the Europeans panel and add a new stroke it's important that you drag the stroke
below the fill layer and then change its color increase the stroke weights I'm
going to work in measurements of 20 so the next trick I'm going to use will be
40 and then 60 and so on
with the new stroke selected head up to the fly down menu and duplicator but
this time sampled the color of the stroke in the color palette to ensure
the gradient is going to be used you basically keep doing this by adding 20
points to each stroke and then alternating between white and a gradient
for the color of the stroke keep building your design up in this way
using multiple different strokes and I'm actually gonna show you two final
effects that you can apply to your design right now in today's tutorial so
in the appearance panel we can change the blend mode of each stroke to
something like overlay or soft light this will give us a different effect and
it might be something that you want to experiment with on your design also
there is a neat function for a drop shadow effect that you can actually work
with in the appearance panel on the final stroke in the appearance panel
duplicate it and also keep the color and the size the same then go into the
effect section and choose distort and transform and choose transform here you
can shift the placing of the layer so that it effectively resembles a shadow
and that's another technique that you might want to consider for your design
so they was using multiple strokes in Illustrator to create some really cool
and neat lettering or numbers remember if you want to keep boosting your
awareness and your skills as a graphic designer
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