today I'm going to show you guys how to make this lightning bolt logo design in
Adobe Illustrator using various different techniques so follow along
with today's lightning logo design tutorial by Satori graphics what does
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jump right in today's tutorial where we make a lightning logo design in Adobe
Illustrator to kick things off in today's lightning logo tutorial press L
on your keyboard access the ellipse tool hold down shift to make a perfect circle
and then go ahead and add a gradient fill with no stroke I'm in a kind of
upbeat vibrant mood today so I'm going to use strong pinks and
purples but you can use whatever you wish for your logo design and this is
actually going to make up the lightning bolt of our logo use the autopsying key
to duplicate a circle two more times
hold down shift is still at the top and the bottom circle and send them to the
back
you can now go ahead and edit the gradients on your circles I like to
change the direction of the gradient on the circles below the middle one so
there's a sense of shadow coming from the up above circle if that makes sense
oh yeah there is no real science to this it's your local design so experiment
with what you think looks best when ready press P to locate the pen tool and
enter a lightning bolt you can hold down shift and draw a straight horizontal and
vertical lines
you can press a on the keyboard to look at direct selection tool and you can
edit the path or the line and by itself
press shift and eggs together to switch between the stroke and the fill but we
only want to use a fill for this part
with the lightning bolt selected go to objects compound path and make you can
now place a lightning body with the circles and then right or ctrl click and
create a clipping mask you can also access the clipping mask at the top
under object so there is a funky vibrant lightning bolt for today's logo design
tutorial now we're going to make another circle for the base of the logo design
for the grade in this part the logo is a kind of peachy color that extends out to
an off-white
bring your lightning bolt over the top of the circles and then send the circles
to the back
you didn't to press command or control C to copy the circle and then press
command or control F to duplicate it in place so now you should have two circles
with the pen tool drawing a section that's going to represent a shadow on a
logo design with the shape complete hold down shift to select it as well as both
of the two circles and then send them all to the back you can now edit the
shape until it seems right for your logo design now select a shape and one of the
circles only and in the Pathfinder window use the intersect option now have
a cut out section that's going to represent shadow on your logo design
you're going to want to make a gradient so there's a darker shade coming out of
the Lightning by itself and at the other end of the gradient you should use a 0%
opacity
so at this stage of the design tutorial you're pretty much complete all you have
to do now is add some logo type and the following using today is a font that
made by myself called Satori Sans and you can download it via the link in the top
right of the screen so there is today's tutorial on how to design a lightening
logo into a pretty straighter let me know what you guys thought today's
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