today you're going to learn how to turn your hometown or your home city into
some neat stitch to our work what is that people welcome back to Satori
graphics the Hema graphic design content or right here on YouTube today you will
learn a variety of skills and techniques so follow along and create some neat
digital artwork using your hometown or your city as the inspiration you firstly
are going to need an image of your hometown or your city and upload it to
Adobe Illustrator the first step for the digital artwork is to use the image
trace function with the image selected
you're going to want to make sure that you place the noise slider down to the
bottom but also just experiment different settings in the image trace
window however you must make sure to use the ignore white option and also we're
going to use black and white as the colors clicking preview and changing
your settings as you go is the best method to use in my opinion so once
you're happy and go ahead and expand the image trace function in the top drop
down menu which would actually vectorize the image
now to make sure everything is going to be clean on your artwork simply click
and drag the main aspect of your design ultimately just leaving one shape and
then bits off to the side you can then click and delete all of these bits and
unwanted areas of your design so in today's tutorial the color scheme you
use is entirely up to you but I'm going to go for a kind of sunset
vibe and so I want to make this section here kind of ready urban color adding a
subtle gradient is always a good idea but you can go with whatever you want
and whatever your creativity dictates the easiest way to change the direction
of a grade in Illustrator is to use the gradient tool this saves time we're not
having to type the degrees of the gradient direction in the gradient
window because of the shape of the design today it's a good idea to have
some excess at the very bottom this will make sense soon and you understand but
to add the excess and take the pen tool with P on your keyboard and then draw
out a shape like so down below you can press shift an X a toggle between a
stroke and a fill once you've added the shape select both the two shapes by
holding down shift and then unite them in the Pathfinder window this would join
together both of the shapes as the same vector shape and it should also spread
your gradient across the entire shape evenly so this is the bottom to design
ready and completes and now we're going to move on to adding the Sun as no Sun
set is perfect without a Sun of course pressing L on your keyboard will bring
out the ellipse tool and then generate the Sun again I suggest a gradient as
opposed to a solid color and later in the tutorial we're truly going to make
use of some cool gradients but for now choose an ideal gradient for the Sun
we need to send it to the very back of all objects behind the skyline an
imposition and resize it perfectly on your artwork we're now going to add the
background which from my design is going to be a kind of watercolor sunset style
sky press M for the rectangle tool and then drew in a box like I'm doing right
here like we did before with the Sun send it to the very back of your design
and then add a gradient to it also because mine is a sunset design I'm
going to gave her a soft and pinky kind of sky once the gradient has been
realized and set for the background we need to copy this layer with command or
ctrl C and then go ahead and duplicate it with command or ctrl F so yeah now we
have two different layers of the same object however on the top layer we need
a solid color as opposed to a gradient because the next effect technique
doesn't work with a gradient press you for the mesh tool and then go ahead and
click the solid color rectangle layer you will notice a mesh lines appear on
your design this allows you to go in and apply a mesh gradient over the shape by
selecting colors from the color palette you keep alternating between pressing
you for the mesh tool and then going into the color palette the idea here is
to build up this layer using this method and then change the blend mode of the
layer in the transparency window
I'm going to use overlay which I feel blends the effect in nicely so we're
almost finished but before we make the final step I would add a shape and send
it to the very back to fit in the reflection on the water below you don't
really want any gaps in your design
finally make a rectangle shape with the rectangle tool that is slightly taller
than your design as a whole if you're using a literary 2cc like I'm using
press 8 the direct selection tool and then click and drag the live corners to
round off your shape however if you don't have si si you can use the round
corners function from the top drop-down menu
finally flick the shape over to a stroke place it over your design and then
select everything on your canvas
this is where you've right or control-click and then use the clipping
mask option this will cut out your design into a neat shape perfect for
their digital elbow today however we're not done yet guys to really set off your
design it's a good idea to add a background so try and choose a color
that works well with your design in harmony and for mine I'm going for this
kind of beige peachy color here send the background to the very back of
your design and then if you want you can even experiment with the blend mood of
your design as a whole maybe duplicating it and making an interesting composition
it's completely up to you so get creative and make something cool
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