Hi, this is Anne for Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to show you how to make
a swish or a swoosh, and put some cool little effects on it and also attach text to it.
So let's get started.
I'll use mostly the Pencil tool for this.
You can also use the Brush Tool and it's really awesome if you have a Wacom tablet, because
you can do pressure-sensitive stuff, and it works really well.
But if you don't have a Wacom, you can always use the Pencil tool.
So let's hit that now.
That's the N Tool.
Alright, so first, let's try to mimic this shape.
And this is not going to be exactly the same as the one below, but we'll try to get it
as close as I can.
All right.
I'm going to hit E because I can tell that it's not quite following the shape, and I'll
click here on the side, and then I'm going to hold CMD, and that way I can drag it up
like that.
So it's pretty close now.
Now I'm going to use the Smooth Tool.
And to get to that, I use SHIFT S. That'll bring you right here to the Smooth Tool.
I had to set up my own keyboard shortcut for that.
That is under Edit>Keyboard Shortcuts.
And then you choose the Smooth Tool.
And then you click here and you can hit SHIFT S, and it will overwrite wherever SHIFT S
was being used before.
I hope that's okay with you.
If it's not, don't do it.
Anyway, let's smooth this out.
And to do that, I going to just go over that shape.
Just keep going over it until it's all smooth.
OK, that's pretty whoops...
I'm going to undo that.
If you ever have the Smooth Tool, do something you don't like, just feel free to go ahead
and undo SHIFT or I mean CMD Z.
OK, now let's get the Pencil Tool because I want it to curl in more kind of like this
one.
So that is in, so I'm going to use this to reshape this.
And if you start along the same path, it will reshape to wherever you want it to.
Alright, do the same up here, just to have a little bit higher.
There we go.
OK, so I think our path is ready.
I'm going to go ahead and increase this to about 35 (the Stroke).
And then we're going to come down here to Profile and choose this Width Profile 1.
OK, and that gets us pretty close.
We'll go ahead and say '105'.
See how close that gets us.
That will probably do just fine.
OK, so we can see here, it's not quite a circle.
So let's go back to the Smooth Tool.
And we'll just try to smooth that out a little bit.
So it's not so pointy there.
Up here it looks OK.
And let's zoom in with the Z Tool.
Right here.
I don't like the way this is looking, so with the A Tool, I'm going to click on just that
point.
And then curve that anchor, so it's not being so weird.
Now CMD- to zoom out.
And looks like this is sort of weird here again.
I'm going to just SHIFT smooth that out a little bit.
All right, so we're very close now.
Yeah, I'm liking that.
That is pretty close.
All right, so now, we should expand this.
That's CMD E. I mean, that is Object> Expand Appearance.
I get these two mixed up.
So I just hit both of them randomly, but this is my own keyboard shortcut.
So I just think you should go to Object>Expand Appearance.
Okay.
And that gives us a whole ton of points which doesn't really matter, that's fine.
Still, this shape here is bothering me a little bit.
So I want to smooth it out.
Smooth, smooth, smooth.
OK, maybe down here too.
All right.
Well, anyway, it doesn't have to be perfect for now.
You will want to make yours perfect, of course.
Um, now as far as the word is concerned...
I want to smooth this just to reduce the number of points because I'm going to use this part
as my text type path.
So SHIFT S to get to the Smooth Tool.
Just kind of go over that.
OK, we have way less points now, and that's great.
Now with my A Tool, I am going to draw a square, a rectangle, across these points and grab
those holding SHIFT, grab some of these too.
OK, so now you can see... you can see that all of these are white, and these up here
are black dots... white dots, black dots.
The black dots are filled in dots, (they're actually blue) are the ones we're going to
be copying.
So I'm going to copy that.
And then I'm going to Deselect All (SHIFT CMD A), and then paste in front.
And so now you can see if we move this up here, we only have those points that I highlighted
with the A Tool.
I'm going to move them back down.
We'll put them right about there.
And I don't really need...I'll put a stroke on.
I just hit SHIFT X to flip between fill and stroke on that.
OK, so now we have our type path.
Let's go ahead and grab the Type on a Path Tool.
And I'll just click on that line.
Oh, I don't know why that's happening.
Maybe I can't have a fill here or a stroke.
So let's clear that off.
Take it off here.
Just drag it to that.
Let's see if it'll work now.
OK, so now it works and let's type 'Fabulous'.
OK, super small, obviously.
OK, so the font for this is a Google Font, and it's called Pacifica Regular.
Okay, let's change this to about 75.
Alright, that's still way too small.
Let's go with 100, 250.
Alright.
We're getting there.
OK, so you can see how it will curve along that line.
Let's put it at 150.
OK, and now we can do SHIFT CMD and brack... and period to make it bigger, slowly.
OK.
Now I want this to start all the way back here, maybe.
So it'll line up a little better with this.
And now we'll just take the whole thing with the V Tool and line it up manually.
Okay, so we're getting really close at this point.
Let's change it to pink by using the I tool and clicking on the pink.
Now our text is pink.
And at this point, I'm going to take my P Tool
pen and just draw a little shape up here to kind of complete
the attachment.
Okay, and now for these little
flourishes down here.
Aaron Draplin made a video about how to make these, and it was so cool.
So I'm going to do it the same way he did.
He takes two circles like this.
Hold SHIFT, so it's an exact circle, and overlap and hold OPT.
And then select both, and then click 'Intersect', and that will give you that little piece of
a shape.
We'll want to rotate.
That's the R Tool, and you can hold SHIFT to get a 45 degree angle.
OK, so I'm going to Copy, Paste in Front, and then hit O, to get your Reflect Tool over
here and hold OPT and click.
And then it'll bring up this box.
You can say 'Vertical,' and now you have those shapes.
I'm going to move them apart a little bit.
Okay, let's pull these over here.
And I'll go ahead and 'Pathfinder Unite' them.
Now we can just SHIFT OPT and drag down.
And then you can do CMD D, D, D, D, D, D, D.
So each one on each CMD D will repeat it.
And we only really need about half of those maybe.
Okay.
So I'm going to Copy this, Paste in Front, that's CMD F, and then rotate.
Or you can use this E Tool, Free Transform.
Just get it to that.
Hold SHIFT to make it exactly at the angle and drag it down.
And then we'll put a little dot in the center like this.
We'll align everything and then resize holding SHIFT and OPT.
Okay, so now we've got our shape.
I'm going to go ahead and group that CMD G. Zoom in with the Z Tool, and then E for Free
Transform.
I'm going to just kind of look at it and judge and say 'Where do I want this?'
Oh, that looks about right.
OK, so they're pink, it's pink.
I'm going to give this white fill and a black outline.
To do that, all you have to do is hit D. Okay.
And then I don't want the black stroke, so I'm going to hit my question mark and it's
gone.
Alright.
So this is pretty much... might turn it a little bit more.
And if you really want to, you can go into Effect and Warp, arch it a little bit so that
it matches the flow of that.
But I think this is good enough for now.
There you go.
Let me know if you have any questions or comments.
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