Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To,
and today I'm going to show you how to make a wavy line in Illustrator like this,
and then I'll show you how to make a bunch of wavy lines like this. All right, let's get started.
All right, I'm here in Adobe Illustrator, and I'm just going to 'Create new'. We'll come up here to
Print and choose Letter. And then we'll come down here to Create. Now the first thing we need to do
is draw a line. So I'll hit P on my keyboard to get to my Pen Tool, which is right over here.
I'll click once, then hold SHIFT and drag over here and click again to make a straight line.
Now I'll hit D on my keyboard, and that will give me a white fill and black outline. I'm
going to come over here to my Stroke palette. If you don't see your Stroke palette, you can come
up here to Window and then >Stroke, and it's right here. And all of these other palettes
are available under Window also. OK, so let's just increase the stroke a little bit. We'll get
back on our Selection Tool. And now we'll come up to Effect>Distort and Transform and >Zigzag.
And you can see we've already got a little bit of a zigzag going on. I'm going to change this
to Smooth, and now we've got a wavy line. So now I'm going to increase the Ridges per segment.
And we'll make the size a little bit...well, I actually like it kind of subtle. So this is good.
OK, so we'll say OK. Now I'm going to zoom in on this by hitting Z on my keyboard and
just drawing a box around it. To get extra ridges that follow the same kind of path,
I'm going to open my Appearance palette. So I'll come up here to Window>Appearance.
And you can see here we've got a fill. We actually don't need this fill, so I'm going to remove it.
But we should have... you should have a stroke and then zigzag right up here.
By the way, you can always click on this to change the zigzag that exists.
Make sure you're selected on it first, of course. OK, so we've got one stroke, and now I'm going
to make another stroke. So to do that, I'm going to get in this blank area over here,
and just drag this on top of that little plus box right here. OK, so we have one exactly on top of
the other. And now we'll just offset this path a little bit. So I'll go to Effect>Path>Offset Path.
And now we can change the amount that it's offset. I'm going to make that white space about the same
thickness as my black lines. So for me, that's 13 points. We'll say OK. And now we can do the same
thing again. I'll click on that stroke, and just drag this one down to make a copy. And this time,
I can just click the offset path here, because it already has this offset path. We'll just make
another one that's a little further out. Right now this is one path. So if we hit CMD Y or CTRL Y,
we just see the original line we started with. Let's hit CMD Y or CTRL Y to get back.
I'm going to make a copy of this because I want to kind of clean up the edges. So I'm going to
just click this and hold OPT or ALT to make a copy off to the side. That way, we'll still be able to
open our Appearance and edit the different sizes of strokes, or maybe the number of waves and that
kind of thing. But this one, I'm going to expand, which means it will not be editable anymore.
So let's come up here to Object>Expand Appearance. And now you can see when we zoom in each of these
has points and paths. If we hit CMD Y, you can actually see all those. Let's hit CMD Y or CTRL
Y again to get out. OK, now to get rid of these, I'm just going to hit A, which will bring me to my
Direct Selection Tool right up here. And I'll draw a box around them and just delete them.
Same thing over here. I'll just delete these by drawing a box around them
and deleting them. These are still strokes so we can change the weight of them,
make them smaller or bigger, or whatever we want to do. If we hit CMD Y, you can see the shapes
that they are. We'll hit CMD Y again to get out. And these are also all grouped. So anytime you
click and move them it's going to move all of them. So if you want to move them separately,
you can ungroup with SHIFT CMD G or SHIFT CTRL G on a PC. And now we can take just one piece and
move it away from the others. And that's it. It is that easy to create a wavy line and then lines
that follow that line. All right, if you like this video, I also have an account out on Tiktok,
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