in today's low-poly Illustrated tutorial I've got some awesome and some useful
tips that you want to know we're making an ex low-poly design also stay tuned at
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first tip for a low poly design illustrator is to try and get a high
quality image to use as a template having a high quality image how to gain
more precise layouts of the triangles later in the low-poly tutorial but also
you're going to want to lock your move down in place and the shortcut for that
is command or control - on your keyboard I do have some really interesting and
some helpful tips for you in this low poly design tutorial so follow along and
you can use the image that I'm using linked in description box below
we're going to want to have a stroke only selected in the color palettes and
then choose a color that will be visible on your image so for my pirate design
here I'm going to use pink for the lines
now press P for the pen tool and drag your first triangle one of the problems
that you're going to experience is that when you go to draw the next triangle
the pen tool might actually cancel out the existing points and to get around
this hover your pencil over the anchor point and then hold down shift and then
click again
to quickly help you see what I'm talking about when I make a triangle here with
the pen tool a round circle icon appears as I close the path but then when I get
to drew up on it again there is a minus icon and then when I click it it cancels
the path so like I mentioned just now just hold down shift when you see the
minus icon and then click again this is how you can go around your image drawing
your triangles very quickly for your low poly design so using that tip to hold
down shift you can begin to make your low poly triangles for your design
however you might notice that you get jagged and uneven edges as you can see
on my design here there's no need to worry however because all you need to do
is to select all of the triangles and then open up the stroke window now
inside the stroke window use the round join option which is in the middle row
of options now your triangles are going to be more evenly joined together so
when you finally have your triangles created for your low poly design in
Illustrator go ahead and take the Live Paint Bucket tool which is right here
but make sure you have every single triangle selected before hand clicking
the low poly triangles will turn the selection into a Live Paint group now
this means that we can add color to our low poly design very easily and very
quickly access colors I'm gonna open up the swatches window and then drag out a
Pantone swatch library but you can choose or whatever swatch library that
you want to use for your low poly design and then it's just a matter of selecting
a color and using the Live Paint Bucket to drop that color onto a specific
triangle it's really that simple and the light buckets all makes it very easy and
deeds and we're nearly actually finished today but stay tuned for a couple more
tips in today's tutorial once you've added your color drag the design off of
the template background and you're gonna notice the strokes of the low poly
triangles are still there to actually remove this go up to objects and life
paint and then expand and then finally ungroup everything and select the
triangles before pressing backspace on your keyboard to delete them you can
then go in and add detail or missing aspects of your design but there's one
more option for you as a designer we're making a low poly design in Illustrator
ungroup this election once again and then you can go and add a gradient or
triangle adding a gradient to each individual triangle can make a specific
style - yellow poly design so it might be something that you want to consider
and also pressing G on your keyboard will allow you to use the gradient tool
this efficiently manipulates a direction of the gradient and the look of your
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