today you're going to use Adobe's color guide built into illustrator as well as
many other functions to create this awesome and geometric design now let's
waste no more time and make use of that color guide right away so in Illustrator
press M for the rectangle tool and then make a square by holding down shift
we're going to choose the baseline color and this shouldn't be too dark or too
light so once you've chosen the color come into window and color guides with
your square selected hold down the alt option key click and drag to duplicate
to the square then go ahead and press command or control D to repeat this
process two more times Adobe has taken your color and shown the
tints the shades as well as some complementary colors as well so from
your base color choose one who that is darker and this is going to be the shade
and then choose a tint which will be a highlight and then also a third color
that is vastly different from the first color so now we have the colors let's
make a swatch group but make sure it's a global swatch group with all the color
selected heading to the swatches panel and then create a new a color group
right here and check the a global colors option why are we going to use global
colors you might ask well when i duplicate this hue and i change it as
standard in illustrator it's only going to adjust that object's color however
with the global colors activated if we change the color in the swatches panel
every object that uses that hue is actually going to be adjusted that might
come in handy later for your design
so for the geometric design we're going to want an isometric grids there are
some crucial steps that we need to take after the grid has been made so do
follow along carefully for the grid make a square that is slightly larger than
the artboard then come into the splits grid option you can experiment with how
many columns you want to use and for my design I found that 50 was a pretty good
number and then of course leave the other set to 1 ideally this grid should
be a dark color and then when you ready copy it with command or control C once
copied press command or ctrl F to paste the duplication or right over the top we
can come into the properties panel and simply rotate this copy by 60 degrees
this is why I love the properties panelists got so many uses and then
finally a copy and paste it once more and reflect that duplication in the
properties panel so we have the grid ready for the design and I personally
have the stroke way really really low and this is so I can see my design a lot
easier when I'm going to make it in the next steps we have used this method
before on this channel but today there is a specific way to do things so select
the grid and then let's use the alive bucket tool and click at once we now can
bring up the swatches that we made earlier using the Adobe color guide and
then start to paint another design onto your grids
we're going to work in a hexagonal manner and use the three main colors
each covering two sides of a six-sided hexagon you can hold down shift and then
click and drag to remain in a straight line and if you do make a mistake just
press command or control Z or if you're English like me command or control Z
once you have the first hexagon completes we're going to repeat the
process but to use the opposite colors so with this dark purple I'm gonna make
another shape directly across from the original this is going to represent the
shadows and the highlights which is why the Adobe color guide was so useful and
so quick in generating the right colors for my design so keep repeating this
process of filling in two sides of a hexagon that have the opposite reflected
hues until you're left with a hexagon in the middle of negative space so in the
middle section I'm gonna grab a hue at is again the opposite color and fill in
a section like so whilst holding down shift to make things a lot easier and
smoother now this needs to be done for all three sections of the inner shape
and this is going to give an illusion of a cuboid in the very center of the
design so why do we need that fourth contrasting color you might be asking
well if we carry on experimenting with shadows and highlights we can add the
complementary color at the very end of these outstretched shapes you really can
have fun with this technique and use your creativity to make some really
really neat designs and the design is all well and good but it's stuck on this
isometric grids how can we actually pull it off effectively so to access the
design first to select everything and then expand it in the drop down menu
finally come into the Pathfinder menu and use the emerg function if you want
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