in today's graphic design tutorial you're going to learn some skills and
some techniques in Adobe Illustrator that's going to allow you to master 3d
minimal poster design also I'm going to throw in some typography tips too so
let's get right into the video so for my minimal poster design I'm going for a
gray background so you want to come into the color palettes and choose your color
and then press M for the rectangle tool and cover the entire canvas with a
rectangle just to make things easier for your workflow press command or control
two to lock down with this rectangle so it doesn't move around throughout your
workflow now for the main kind of focal point for the post there we're going to
make a 3d shape using circles and a very specific tool so press L for the ellipse
tool hold down shift or you can hold down shift and the alt/option key and
then click and drag to make a circle now I find really bright and really bold
colors work well for this kind of poster and I'm working in RGB so the colors are
more vibrant on screen so the first circle I'm gonna go for this kind of
cyan color and then once I've made that circle I'm gonna hold down the alt or
the option key click and drag and duplicate it upwards to make things more
interesting I'm gonna go for different sizes for my circles and in total I'm
gonna make 4 circles and to make it reca ficient li you can use two three or even
four colors for your circles
now there are many different ways to make 3d posters or 3d designs in the
illustrator but today we're using the blend tool which is over here in the
tool bar you have to select your objects your circles first and then just click
one by one and you will see the blend creation happened right before your very
eyes now what you can do from here is you can use the direct selection tool
located in the toolbar to click and drag and manipulate the anchor points to
rearrange and change your 3d shape and if you remember I've got some typography
tips coming up later that are really gonna set off your poster design also
located here is the curvature tool which will allow you to actually instead
having straight lines on your 3d design you're gonna end up with curved lines as
well so that might be something you want to look into when making your design
also with the blend tool selected you can hold down the alt or the option key
and you will bring up the blend options which is also something you might want
to take into consideration depending on your design so I've gone ahead and added
some typography here and I'm gonna explain my thought process through the
poster design and how I think it makes it work visually speaking so firstly
down in the right corner here you can see I've got the main text I like to
make this slightly darker the background and to do that you just use the
eyedropper tool to sample the background color and then slightly increase the
huge so it's a bit darker and notice that I've used contrast on color size I
also font thickness to create a nice visual content in the bottom right
corner and again at the very top left I also use some more contrast with my main
heading being really thick bold and large and then the lower text being more
thin and smaller the other alternative that you could go for is to have the
main focal points covered with the texture bhaag Rafi now this is
completely up to you but it is one way of doing things
you can then rearrange the focal point of the 3d objects and you can rearrange
typography and just have some fun with it you know just experiment with the
skills and the techniques are provided with you today and it's very quick but
very sweet and short tutorial I want to know from you guys
which are the two poster designers do you think work best the first one uses
balance from top left to the bottom right whereas the second poster design
has basically the main focal point in the center but yeah let me know down
below what you think of today's video as well as which poster you feel is best if
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