we're going to learn how to make three stunning vector graphics in adobe illustrator in double
quick time these designs will wow your friends and colleagues and they're not even that difficult to
make so let's get stuck in with vector design numero uno the first design requires that you
have typography in a similar kind of design as i do here but of course you can let your creative
flair go wild and do your own thing but once you have your design select it and hold down the alt
option key and click and drag to duplicate it like so two copies works just fine but you might
want to try three the vector design that we're going to make is that wrapped text layout but
since the latest adobe illustrator updates the workflow method is slightly different it begins
by opening up the symbols panel and then simply dragging and dropping your design into it like so
give your symbol a name but if you're feeling lazy just mash the keyboard we can now move this design
out of the way and then press m for the rectangle tool in my experience a thinner
rectangle works best ideally thinner than this one here to be honest we're going to revolve
our rectangle around a 360 degrees rotation so we end up with a cylinder shape like this
and like i said this is the method for the most recent updates of adobe illustrator you then
come into the materials section and before the update we would just use the map artwork function
but now we come up to the graphics tab and locate our symbol that we just made
now it's looking pretty pixelated and ugly but that will soon change later
with the symbol box selected and the invisible geometry checked you can now edit and scale the
rotation of the text around the cylinder shape i think two sections of my typography design would
work better than three but you can experiment with your design and what works best for you
it's also important to remember that you can control the quality outputs in the ray tracing
section the higher you put the quality the longer rendering times you will experience
i know it's pretty much catch 22 and it does suck but we can rotate and position the design like so
and then another setting you need to be aware of is the document raster effects settings
high 300 ppi will show your design in the best quality possible but again things will be slower
to render so it's best to work in 72 ppi and then switch it up to 300 for the final render output
and finally you can expand the appearance and this will prevent your computer from slowing
down when moving or scaling your design i'm not sure why i typed 20 20 on this design
but hey it is what it is and let's move on to vector design number two this one is actually
pretty straightforward press m for the rectangle tool and then make a long thin shape like so
use the alt option key to duplicate it perfectly below and then press command or control d for
delta to repeat the process multiple different times it's then a case of deleting every other
rectangle until you're left with something just like this grab the ellipse tool with l on your
keyboard and then hold down shift and generate a circle that covers your entire rectangular section
we then select everything and come into the envelope and distort
menu more specifically the make with top object option
and hey presto we have this cool looking globe object it's a very simple and very neat design
but it doesn't stop just there we can even do this with lines of text and you'll get the same outcome
this process can be used on a number of different shapes so do have some fun with it and see what
you can make that now brings us on to the third vector design in today's adobe illustrator
tutorial now i'm making a gradient background with the free form gradient tool and it's not
necessary at this point but i don't want to waste your time by showing you that process
but next you want to move away from the background and select a linear gradient the amount of nodes
you use is entirely up to you but i have a very simple three color gradients on my document
using the ellipse tool make yourself a selection of circles like this
we then want to copy them over and it will help the final end result
being more interesting if they are different sizes
select all of your circles in the first group and then turn them into a compound path
and in fact you should do this for all of the three groups individually so
next we need a pen tool path so press p for the pen tool and begin to make yourself a path it
doesn't have to be smooth at this point and also we can use the direct selection tool which is a
on your keyboard and that can manipulate anchor points individually
we can then of course come over to the smooth tool first select it then select your path and then use
the smooth tool on the path itself i normally have a custom keyboard shortcut for this tool
and it might be wise to change the smoothness intensity here by double clicking the smooth tool
in the toolbar right so next we need to select our circles and then blend them but importantly
we want to use the specified steps option and use one as a numerical value
then select your newly blended shapes and the pencil path as well and come into the replace
spine option found right here now your computer might do some laggy stuff here which is normal
illustrator is likely doing the equivalent of running a marathon while reciting the alphabet
backwards and this blended design works well with just one circle instead of all those circles that
we made it's up to you what you do and you can really make some interesting things with this
one so do experiment and do have some fun and if you want to learn more about illustrator or
graphic design just click a video on screen and until next time design your future today peace
you