today I have an illustrated text effect that uses gradients to make an awesome
design in a matter of minutes so follow along step by step and learn this needs
and nifty illustrator text effect so as you can see I've generated two different
color squares and you're going to want to choose a hue color and then a darker
version of that color then press M for the rectangle tool and cover your
artboard with a dark of your two choices you can then press command or control
two on your keyboard which is going to lock a background layer down in place
now we obviously need some text for our text effect suppress T for the type tool
and then type out your text now I'm just showing you guys this effect with one
letter today but you can of course use as many as you want
now today's illustrator text effect can be achieved by using various different
methods and in fact some months ago I showcased a very similar effect using
the transparency window and the transparency effects but today we're
going to be exploring a different method instead of the transparency window so we
need to outline the text and I am awareness of destructive workflow but
today we're working with vector shapes and not actual editable text now press I
for the eyedropper tool and sample the lighter of your two colors
and then press M for the rectangle tool we're now going to make a gradient using
these two colors so go ahead and apply a gradient overlay the technique here is
fairly simple select your color by double clicking it in the color palettes
and then copy the hex color code at the very bottom by pressing command or
control C then double click the darker side of your gradient and make sure that
you're using RGB is the colour mode because we want to paste in the hex
color code with command or control V now do the same on the other side with your
gradient on your second color choice we're nearly ready to complete a text
effect in Illustrator so stay tuned
when you already copy your lettering with a command or control C an M piece
of Jupiter curve right over the top with command or control F in the layers
window we now need to hide the lower text layer like so there are several
different ways to perform the next step and you can simply draw in your sections
or you can cut them out from the duplicate like I'm gonna show you now so
press P for the pen tool and then draw an area that you want to cut out hold
down shift and then select the letter as well and use the intersect option in the
Pathfinder window now you can use the eyedropper tool to sample the gradient
above and adjust the gradient direction and the strength using the sliders also
you can press G for the gradient tool and just simply draw the direction and
the strength of your gradient the gradient tool is really awesome so I
suggest use that
now to bait the hidden layer in the layers window so you can see your text
effect in real time and as you can see I need to blend mine in a bit more because
it's not very good at the moment of course you can also use the pen tool and
make sure one side of your gradient is 0% opacity then simply just draw in your
shading over the top of the lettering and adjust your gradient as you see fit
and that is essentially today's text effect tutorial by Satori graphics like
I said you can use transparency effects and clipping masks and so forth but on
this channel I do like to explore all methods and techniques because they're
useful in certain situations after spending some time with this method you
can come up with an awesome and a neat text effect on your design in Adobe
Illustrator so try it for yourself and have some fun making sure to let me know
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