Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to show you how to make
a scratched text effect. It's basically text that's filled with lines in Adobe Illustrator.
All right, let's get started. All right, so I've opened Adobe Illustrator, and now I'm
just going to come up here and Create New. I'll click on Print up here at the top, and
then choose Letter. And we'll Create. Okay, so let's start by just creating our text.
I'll hit T on my keyboard to get to the Text tool, and I'll just click once. And that'll
give me some 'lorem ipsum' to start typing with, so I'll just start typing the word 'cool.'
And then I'll get back on my Selection tool, and I'll get on a corner and hold SHIFT and
drag and make it a lot bigger. Okay, now I'm going to change my font. We want a really
thick, bold font for this. And it's good to have each of the sections the same width and
height, if that makes sense. So we want this height to equal this width, the lower edge
is a little bit skinnier right now. So I'm going to choose the font Montserrat. We'll
go with Montserrat Extra Bold. And you can tell that this part of the L is a little bit
thinner than this part of the L. So I'm going to cheat this and make it a little bit taller.
You can try to find a font that is actually really uniform. I know it's not a great idea
to stretch type, but this is just a tutorial. Now I'm going to outline the text and that's
SHIFT CMD O on a Mac, SHIFT CTRL O on a PC. We have our outlined text now. And I'm going
to hit SHIFT X. What SHIFT X does is it switches between a fill and stroke, and you can see
me doing it right over here. So that'll just give me the stroke, and I'm going to increase
that by one point. So we have a two point stroke. Now next, we want to release the Compound
Path. Generally speaking, letters and numbers from a font are always going to be a compound
path. And we don't want compound paths for this tutorial. So I'm going to come up here
to Object > Compound Path and Release. And it doesn't really change the look of it, but
if you switch back to a fill only by hitting SHIFT X, you can see we've lost our cutout
on the O's, which is...right now it's what we want. So I'll hit SHIFT X again. And now
I'm going to delete all of the end points of my letters. So again, on my A tool, that's
the Direct Selection tool right up here, you can get to it by hitting A on your keyboard,
I'm just going to draw a little box around that part of the C and delete it. It's the
same over here, a little box, & delete. I'm making sure not to get the points, but just
the space in between. Okay, and now what we're going to do is make a blend from this path
to this path. So let's go to Object > Blend, and then Blend Options. And you'll want this
to be not Smooth Color, but Specified Steps. I like to go with 4 or 5, it all depends on
how many lines you want between these. So 4 is good. And then we'll come up here to
Object > Blend, and Make. Okay, and now we have four pieces in between our two that we
started with. So I'm going to go ahead and do that with these others. We do have to do
this letter by letter, and the reason for that is because blends can only really have
two pieces. So we can select this piece and this piece and then make a blend from that.
But there's an easy keyboard shortcut, it is OPTION CMD B - that's CTRL ALT B on a PC.
So we'll just do that with all of these. Okay, and that is looking pretty great. So
it's pretty easy until you get into a trickier letter. So if you come across something like
a B or a Y, you're going to have to get a little creative about how you want these lines
to go. So let's just try it. I'll hit T on my keyboard, and then type B Y, and I will
make this a lot bigger. We'll create outlines, let's SHIFT CMD O or SHIFT CTRL O on a PC.
And then I'm going to release my Compound Path. That's SHIFT OPTION CMD 8, or SHIFT
CTRL ALT 8 on a PC. And then I'll delete the pieces that we need to delete. I've got my
A tool, which is my Direct Selection, and I'll just delete those. I've got fills on
here now, so I'm going to hit SHIFT X to get just a stroke like these up here and increase
it to 2. Okay, so when I try to do OPTION CMD B on this Y, it gets pretty crazy. It's
trying to figure out what to do down here, where the two parts of the Y come together.
So I'm going to undo that and to fix this, I'm going to hit Z to zoom in, I'm going to
just make one piece here and one piece here. So I'll take these two pieces with my A tool
- that's my Direct Selection - just draw a rectangle around those two points and these
two points. And I'm going to CMD X. So I just cut those. CTRL X on a PC. And then paste
in front, which is CMD F, or CTRL F on a PC. Hit P on my keyboard to get my Pen tool, and
now I'm just going to click this one and extend it down here. I'm going to hold SHIFT and
right arrow away so I can see what I'm doing a little better. And then I'll click this
right down here. Okay, so we've got our two pieces to make our regular blend with. So
let's make a blend there. And now I'll select these with my A tool and just SHIFT and we'll
left arrow back over. Now for this part, we can try to make a blend from these but it
doesn't work quite right, because this isn't extended all the way down here. So if I do
it now and hit OPTION CMD B, or CTRL ALT B on a PC, it's still being a little weird and
messing up. Let me get rid of this point and see what happens. So I'm going to hit P minus
(-), and just delete that point down there. Okay, so this is what happen. It's not going
to work very well, I'm going to ungroup these with SHIFT CMD G, or SHIFT CTRL G on a PC.
And now I just have this blend. If I hit CMD Y or CTRL Y, you don't see these little lines
in here, because it's not expanded. Let's hit CMD Y or CTRL Y again to get back. So
we need to expand these lines. So let's hit CMD E, that's CTRL E on a PC, and we will
expand everything. But the stroke... we want to keep the strokes. Okay, now when I hit
CMD Y, you can see everything there. Let's use our A tool to select the tops of these
and copy them. We'll paste in front. That gets all of those lines up here, but not the
ones down here. And now I'll hit O on my keyboard, and just OPTION or ALT click right in the
middle. And we want a vertical reflect. O will get you to the Reflect tool, I should
have said that - sorry. Okay, so that'll put us right where we want to be. I'll arrow these
over a little bit. And then I'm going to hide them with CMD 3 or CTRL 3 on a PC. I'll delete
these two, and then I'll unhide which is OPTION CMD 3, or CTRL ALT 3 on a PC. Okay, so this
actually looks pretty cool, but it's not the same effect really as these. So what we can
do is just take this line here, I'll use my A tool to copy it, and then paste in front.
So I have two right on top of each other. Now, I'll hold SHIFT and get my Group Selection
tool, hold SHIFT and select these. And now we can get on our Shapebuilder tool. So to
do that, we'll hit SHIFT M. And then I'll hold ALT or OPTION and just drag across all
these pieces down here. And this is what I'm looking for. It matches these but it is modified
somewhat. Now the B, you're going to run into the same kind of thing there. The best way,
I think, to do it is to do it the way you would draw it. So we want this piece here
to be one set of lines. And then we could have this piece be another set, and this piece
to be one more set. So it can get a little tricky. I'll just do it quickly, but I probably
am not going to explain what I'm doing because it would take quite a long time so... so I'll
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