today I'm gonna show you how to make a modern icon design in adobe illustrator
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will be w destroy graphics on there so how to make a modern icon design you do
not have to make a paper plane symbol of course you can use my methods to create
many different icons first we need to take the polygon tool I will click the
artboard and type in six Heights resize it for holding down the alt/option key
and shift at the same time and then clicking like so we now need to make the
corners of the icon rounded heading up to effects and then round corners you
can check preview to see how the final outcome is going to be and adjust the
measurements this will form the basis of our modern icon design in today's
illustrator tutorial to give a better effect on our icon design today we don't
have a grade in here I want to use shades of blue for my icon design and I
want to make the transition between the two tones very slight having the lighter
in the top left of the icon
I take the poly tool again but this time type in three sides to generate a
triangle using the REC selection tool you can then move the points around from
the basis of our paper plane
when happy a LaPenta make a shape like mine here this will cut into the
triangle using the pathfinder window like so
lastly again using the pen tool we need to add a triangle to the back of the
paper plane join everything together in the Pathfinder window
to quickly change the color of the paper plane you can use to prepare tool and
select the white on the canvas outward
lastly we're going to add a shadow behind the plane it's really going to
set off the effect on a modern icon design today so hold down the alt option
key and then click and drag to duplicate the hexagon select of the hexagons
dragging your cursor over them and then align them vertically and horizontally
if you can't find the align window you can open it here
once you align the two shapes take the pen tool and draw in a shape like I'm
doing here this is going to climb to the top hexagon make sure the pencil path
comes all the way off the shape and then back on to air
then select the new shape and the top hexagon and use this option here in the
Pathfinder window I'm going to bring the paper plane to the front of our modern
icon design and then I'm going to show you how to add a gradient shadow
you want one side to be dark blue and the opposite side to have 0% opacity to
blends in nicely play around the gradient style under direction of your
gradient to perfect your icon design
and they have it guys how to make a modern icon design in the illustrator
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