Hi, I'm James Brown, and welcome to Pattern Designers.
In this tutorial, I'm going to run you through the second part of rotating and duplicating
in Illustrator.
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Here's some other elements you could use to rotate and duplicate.
I'm just going to leave these at the top, so you can see what they started from.
I'll rotate this one from that corner, maybe.
Maybe a bit more.
Six, copy and then command D. So, you can see what other shapes will do.
That's quite ... It's kinda got, like a kaleidoscope.
So we've got that, which is the square.
I'll just group that, and then maybe just try the circle and duplicate it from this
point, but maybe a little bit .... I don't know, about 10.
Preview how far it's going to travel.
I really like the circles.
They just kinda create that symmetry.
Then a triangle, I will just group that.
Triangle: rotate it from there.
Copy, command D, group.
Then, there's the line, just a baseline.
Just reduce that to five.
Preview how far it travels.
Copy, command D, and you've got your base circular.
Rotate and duplicate.
Line, then okay.
Let's mash this up a little bit, and we will just, on this square, add an extra point and
move it, so we've got a different shape, and then rotate, maybe from this center point.
No, from this.
Cancel.
So rotating the point there.
Rotate from the edge, and then turn, copy, duplicate.
Group.
There we've got our squares.
With this circle, let's try just moving that point, so it's a bit more of a kidney bean
shape, and then rotating from the edge about there, and copy, command D, which is quite
an interesting one.
I like that.
Center those, and then with this triangle, let's just try ... Go to stylize, round corners,
and make it a bit rounder, so it's a bit more circular.
I'm gonna expand the line, and then I'm gonna not do from the point of the line, but let's
do it from about there.
So, we get ... Let's see how far it's gonna travel, maybe about 12, copy, and then command
D, which is also good again.
Group.
Just align those, and what can we do with this line?
Let's do something different with this line.
We'll just copy and paste it, and I'm just going to reduce it.
I'm going to use the blend tool.
So I'm just gonna group those, in a group.
Sorry, select both of those, blend, make and then we're gonna click on our blend tool,
just smoothing at the moment.
Let's do specified steps, preview, and reduce the amount of steps to about six.
Let's see what it does.
Six steps is good.
Press okay.
I'm gonna just blend, expand and then I'm gonna ... and I've tried two of these, I'm
just gonna move these up, and move these up as well, so I can fit two in at the same time,
and then I've got these grouped, so I'm just gonna copy and paste that, and put a second
one down there, and just show you what it looks like from two different ways.
So, this is from the center point.
Command D, and then this is from an end point.
ALT, copy.
You can create some pretty good, interesting patterns from this.
It's really good.
Okay?
That's it.
I hope you've enjoyed this little tutorial.
So, now you know a little bit more about rotating and duplicating in Adobe Illustrator.
It's a great technique to create elements for patterns, or to generate mandalas really,
really quickly.
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