hello and welcome back to Satori graphics I'm finally back and I'm here
again with another isometric graphic design tutorial within Adobe Illustrator
now if you want to check out some of my previous isometric design tutorials I've
got two more on my channel I'll link those down in the description box below
which you are seeing on screen now but today I'm actually got a new technique
for actually making isometric designs that I've never shown on this channel
before - stay tuned and let's learn a new technique for isometric design in
Adobe Illustrator so once you've got your document set up in Adobe
Illustrator you essentially want to have a color palette and one of the easiest
and one of the most efficient ways of doing this is coming up to the window
and then also the color guide options now you have many many many color
schemes to choose from and as long-term subscribers may know I really love
monochrome I love monochrome design so that's what I'm gonna go for but you
have to choose your baseline color so I have red at the moment and this is a
Torah graphic so we're gonna give her purple today so let's make some
isometric designs firstly you need to press M on your keyboard to access the
rectangle tool then hold down shift and click and drag to make a square now all
of the techniques that are going to be creating the isometric designs are gonna
be performed in the transform window so go ahead and open that up from the drop
down menu the first thing we need to edit is to change the height values to
80%
you then need to change the shear value to 30 and finally you need to rotate by
minus 30 degrees this is gonna give you the isometric design of whatever objects
you've just created I'm making the base from my design and we're gonna carry on
with the tutorial right now now I'm simply utilizing my color guide as you
can see at the top here the monochrome color scheme that I chose and I want a
light source coming from the top so I'm going to choose the lightest of the
purple hues that I have now I'm going to make my base 3d and to do this I'm going
to hold down the alt or the option key on the keyboard and then click and drag
whilst holding shift to make sure things stay perfectly in line for the bottom
rectangle press shift and X to flick it over to a stroke and we're just going to
use this as a guide to perfectly draw in a 3d kind of style for the rectangle you
could use other methods like the blend tool and there's other ways to do this
but this is just what I'm doing today in today's graphic design tutorial you then
take the pen tool and to simply draw in the relevant shapes they're gonna make
the rectangle 3d and once you've done that you just sample the colors from
your color palettes they represent a light source so from the left here this
is going to be a shadow so I'm going to choose a darker purple for this part of
the design so once you've made the base here you can group everything together
by a command or control G but we forgot about the template underneath and to get
rid of that you can find it in the layers window and then just removing it
from there
to scale down your isometric design proportionally hold down the alt/option
key and shift at the same time and then click and drag and you're gonna scale up
or down the design in proportion and of course you can come back to the color
scheme and you can recolor your artwork to any kind of scheme that you desire or
you want to use for your designs this is just a quick way to show you the new
method in the transform window on how to make an isometric design you really can
make really interesting you know different designs with this technique
but today's video is quite short because I'm sick as you can probably hear from
my voice and my life has been really really crazy and turbulent and traumatic
in the last week so I haven't had time to be making longer videos but in the
future if you want to see more longer content on my Sumeria design do let me
know guys and I will make those videos also I have launched a service where I
will actually critique your work professionally detailed and thoroughly
for a small service and currently it's on sale so head over to the link in the
description box below if you want to have a service from me where I take a
look at your project and offer some really relevant and professional
feedback but yeah of course guys until next time
do you make sure to have a great day stay safe keep well and design your
future today peace