today to kick off the first logo design tutorial 2018 I have a stylish logo design
for you guys in Adobe Illustrator what is up people welcome back to Satori
graphics the home of graphic design content right here on YouTube a few days
ago I posted an image and Instagram of a logo design and I asked you guys if you
wanted to see a tutorial of that style of logo the resounding response was that
yeah you want to see that kind of logo design in a tutorial so that's what
we're going to do today learn how to make this stylish logo design in Adobe
Illustrator so if you guys don't already follow me on Instagram go ahead and give
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youtube the first thing we're going to be doing for our stylish logo design is
to make a black background I like to use a more smokey kind of charcoal black
instead of jet black as it seems more professional my honest opinion once
you've made a rectangle for the background
lock it down in place
press T to locate the type tool and in type a letter the font I'm using for
today's illustrator logo design tutorial is on screen right now I'm using a K as
the initials for my stylish Lego and we want to change the color of one letter
so we can see the difference between the two we want to align them perfectly as
we're going to cut out a part of one of the letters and then join them together
for our Lego design shape ones even lined everything press P on your
keyboard to access the pen tool if you press ENTER the pen tool symbol will be
replaced with a cross I find this a lot easier to use when I'm making pen tool
paths we want to make a path that will cut out a part of one of the letters
that we're not going to use it it's all going to make sense soon when I show you
how it's done I want to cut out the left side of the
letter K so once you've made your path press V to access a selection tool and
hold down shift and select the letter and a shape
in the Pathfinder window use some - production like so bringing it the
letter to the front and then press a to locate the direct selection tool you can
then tidy up any messy parts of the logo symbol on your stylish logo design
select both shapes and then merge them together in the Pathfinder window this
will be the lettering of our logo design in today's illustrator tutorial with the
logo lettering selected add a gradient here I've gone for three color gradient
with dark grey of both sides and a very light grey in the middle the direction
is 90 degrees and it's a fairly straightforward simple gradient for this
Lego design as you can see that looks pretty neat but we can add one more
finishing touch to make a Lego design look really stylish but first use a
direct selection tool to tidy up any anomalies on your Lego design
we go to add shading that would really set off a design so take the pencil and
draw in an area that can act as shading giving the illusion one part of the logo
design is overlaying the other
use a direct selection tool to make sure the pen tool path is exactly in place on
top of your Laker design
copy the color code or the background will control or command C and then paste
into the gradient colors on both sides
you then lower the opacity of one side and change the direction of the gradient
this may take some time to get a direction and the blend of the gradient
perfect for your stylish local design but once you're happy with their you've
completed today's Illustrated tutorial
now all you need to do is add some logo type of your choice and your logo
designs finished
so there was a stylish local design tutorial in adobe illustrator hope you
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a great day wherever you are in the world and until next time design your
future today peace