today I'm gonna show you how to make a vector of vortex spiral using various
different techniques and systems with an Adobe Illustrator it's pretty intricate
so follow along also making today's video possible is a really really good
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until December 3rd so for a vortex design we need a pattern and so first
grab the pen tool or pressing P on your keyboard and then just make one part or
one section of a continuation of a pattern as you can see I'm doing here
I've got the smart grids activated by pressing command or control U and that
helps everything stay perfectly in line with these magenta lines as you can see
on my screen now as you can see my pencil path doesn't actually line up
properly at the bottom here and to adjust that what we need to do is to
open up the stroke window and then change the line to a projecting cap and
then things will be perfectly you know in line in terms of the actual color
stroke itself
so after you've made adjustments and you're perfectly okay with your line for
the pattern we're not gonna make a new brush so come up to this option here and
select the new brush and we're going to be using a person brush for today's
design by default things should probably be ok but just play around with the
settings if you want to and we're not gonna be using any curved or any corner
lines there's gonna be one continuous straight line so the next step for a
vortex pattern is to make one straight line with the pen tool by holding down
shift on your keyboard then press V to select the line itself then come into
your brushes menu and simply just click the brush that we've just made and there
you have it you have a continuation pattern and as you can see on my design
mine isn't completely joined because I'm kind of rushing this tutorial it's
burnished but just make sure before you make your brush that things are
connected properly but the next step is to outline the stroke of this this line
because it's now actually a vector shape at this point it's to the stroke so we
need to outline the stroke then hold down the alt or the option key as well
as shift and then click and drag down below just ever so slightly this is
going to make a duplication and then you press command or control D to repeat the
process to fill up the page with the pattern design so the last step in this
part of the tutorial is to open up the symbols window because we're going to
make a new symbol by actually grouping together all of these shapes so press
command or control G to group your shapes together and then just drag and
drop them into the symbols window and you've created a symbol which will make
up our vortex pattern which I'm going to show you how to do right now now there
are different ways to make a quarter of a circle but the way I'm going to show
you is pretty quick just press L for the ellipse tool hold down shift and make a
circle
then grab the pen tool and with the smart guides activated make sure your
pencil is completely perfectly in line with the center and then using shift
just head over to the center and then down and then make a shape that goes
around now once you've done that select both shapes and open up the Pathfinder
window and use the intersect option which will leave you with a quarter of a
circle some of you might be thinking where it is going on how does this
create a vortex well you soon are gonna see just how to
make that vortex so we need to come up to effects 3d and then revolve make sure
to hit the preview button and drag around your shape until you feel happy
with the kind of vortex design that you want to see for your own graphic design
project if you come into the map option we then can actually drop in our spiral
pattern and you need to make sure it fills up the hole of the canvas to fill
up the entire vortex sphere and for now we're actually going to use the
invisible geometry part of this this option here but later this is gonna be
turned back on for now we need to leave it like this invisible soul is the
vortex but we need to actually add some color to it and they make it look more
realistic so grab the pen tool and using a stroke carefully place position two
anchor points like I'm doing here there's no need to make curvatures
because I've got a really nifty technique to show you that will make a
perfectly generated circle around our design simply using the ellipse tool
won't fit to the shape of our design properly so once you have made the
points around the shape hold down the command or the control key you can
actually cover to the vector path in between those enter points and also you
can stretch other handles too you want to be as precise as possible when doing
this and this brings me on to the next tip
which is to actually head into the appearance panel and then select your
shape your design I'm gonna head back into that 3d revolve vector that we made
click the preview option again and then come back into the map art section and
then uncheck the invisible geometry option so by using the command or the
control function you can really make a perfectly aligned vector path around
your design and it does have to be as precise as possible because we're gonna
use a clip mask later which will finish off the design so once you have that
circle finished the press command or control act to flick it over to a fill
instead of a stroke and then select everything and then right or ctrl click
and create a clipping mask and then you have your vector vortex design which you
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