today's tutorial how to make origami style letters digitally
you can take the same method to create all kinds of digital origami even
origami star logos
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to start this design process of making digital origami is a good idea to do
some research on google have a look at how actual paper origami designs look
and how they're made
this will give you a good idea of the kind of style that you want to keep in
mind when creating your designs
I'm going to bring some guides down by dragging my cursor from the rule edge
you cannot see any rules then go to view
Reuters and share rulers or you can hit command-i and they should appear because
we gamin uses paper strips i want to make it equal size area to work with
within these guides i'm going to make a lowercase a which is pretty much square
so I want to make a square root of space
select the pen tool and then instead of clicking the color option click the
gradient one right here
you then want to choose our color gradient which would be the color for
our work to open the gradient window go to window gradient you want to choose a
dark and light tone of the same color as you want to represent shadow and light
in the design i want to go with blue my origami design you can double click this
icon to open up the color settings once you have your gradient color ready you
can use the pen tool to start making the design referring back to the research on
google for origami it is best to create eat steak with all the time
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to change the gradient for each segment select the black arrow and highlight the
shape in the greeting window you can change the direction of the gradient as
well as the grading yourself
if you cannot see color choices like on my scream click the drop-down arrow in
the top corner here and select the RGB or CMYK carry on with each had been
making sure that they align perfectly you do not want any space between each
segment notice how my gradient as the shadow pushed to one side
this gives the impression of folded paper on your design
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this third segment of my design is on top so it has more light and shadow that
make sense
to save his time i will go ahead and adjust my gradients of my shapes so see
you soon
right and you can see a change the shape of my a I've made the shadow less dog so
it's less harsh and blend in more across the gradient now i'm going to move onto
my capital uppercase a i'm going to make this one more abstract and I want to
make a triangle shape so I'm going to bring down some guides that will help me
with that
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to save time you can highlight half of the shape of the symmetrical hold-down
out until you see this icon appear and click-and-drag with the new shape
selected going to object transform and reflect and just changing my gradient to
get a 3d paper effects
I want to add a little fold along the bottom here just to make it look more
stylish and 3d
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you can go back with the white arrow cursor and click and drag any point in
your shape to change it like this okay
once you have your origami shapes you may want to make them extra bit more
called we can do that we need to add a shadow or reflection and that's very
easy to do
select all of the segments of one of your shapes like this and then even
press command G to group them for go up to object group then again by holding
down alt and dragging you can duplicate the shape with the new shape highlighted
reflected as we did before but this time horizontally then line it up so it's
perfectly below the original shape in the gradient window you want to make the
color farthest away to have zero capacity and the top color kind of great
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make sure the side of the 0 p city is also white in color drag the slider down
so that the shadowy reflection blends in pretty well I like to lower the opacity
of the entire shape here so that it's not so hard and doesn't stand back too
much do this for all of your shapes and you end up with something similar to
these i hope this tutorial has been helpful for you guys and it has hit the
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