making a vector ribbon in Adobe
Illustrator the easy way
what is that people it's time back again
with another tutorial today we will be
making a ribbon perfect for DIY
Christmas card or any celebration for
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tutorial to our vector ribbon we first
need to pull out six guides from the
rules of the side we do not have the
rule is just hit command irony should
appear we are using guides because we
want is designed to be symmetrical said
the guys something similar to mine here
and make sure you have even spacing
between them
take the pen tool and click on the
bottom left corner up to the middle of
your line like this instead of closing
the path here continue the line curving
up to the top right like so
add up to view and clear guys
the color of the line does not matter so
much right now but just make sure to
visit will hold down out until you see
this icon appear and click and drag to
duplicate do that one more time because
we need the entry line later using the
pen tool you will link the two lines
like this will create one solid ship
you cannot add color I'm going to choose
a light blue my design the values being
c2e2 f7 you can close the stroke and
select the pencil again
create a triangle shape from the corner
like this
with the triangle selected go to object
arranged and send to back
this time we're going to add a gradient
power field first color has CMYK values
of 80 15 20 and 45 this will be our
shading
the next color needs to be set to 1500
and two
and make sure to set a slider 25-percent
we want the shading incorrect side to
set the angle to ninety percent here now
take the pencil once again to make our
third part for effective ribbon you can
do a variation of the shape you want but
probably best to stick to the design i'm
doing here
complete the path and as we did before
setting the shape to the back
make sure you have to feel set to a
gradient
the first color the values are 17 10 20
and 25
the values for the second month should
be 1500 and to once again set the slider
to eighteen percent this time and make
sure the angle is correct for the
shading great we're not too far from
finishing now select everything and then
hold down alt and click and drag to
duplicate then go up to object transform
and rotate 180 degrees make sure
everything is aligned in straight
with the pencil will make the final part
of our vector ribbon make a path from
each of these points and then as before
send it to the back
the gradient this time needs to be
selected to a radial gradient and not
linear
the first values are eighteen fifties
here and 45
the last set of values type in 3000 + 10
while setting the slider to sixty-five
percent
we want the shading in the corners so
swap them around it is not already that
way
we can stop here but you can also add
some text to direct the line you made
earlier down and place over the vector
ribbon
select the type on a path tool and click
the line before typing in your text
with the white arrow we can adjust the
placing the type and also the path
itself the line will remain invisible so
don't worry about it showing up and
printing or screens
you can change the color and also hold
down alt and drag to you became
I'm trying to think of a name here
Amanda
congratulations Amanda I'm not sure why
but congratulations anyway
ok
and there you have it one vector ribbon
in Illustrator you can start the design
of communicating your layers as I've
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