so this poster was created in adobe illustrator and you can learn exactly how to make it for
yourself in under five minutes but do follow along carefully because you don't want to miss a trick
firstly we need to click onto a tool that i don't think i've ever used in the seven years that
satori graphics has been on youtube so ladies and gentlemen here is the twirl tool click this tool
so it's at the front of its group and then double click it to access the panel now these adjustments
will depend on your design and it will take some trial and error or experimentation to get things
right but we need to now grab the ellipse tool which is l on your keyboard and that's l for
lima hold down shift and click and drag to make a circle just like this the trick for this part of
the design to work well is to choose a base color for your design so for me it's that kind of teal
turquoise sort of color we then want to hold down the alt option key and click and drag to duplicate
the circle make sure to bring it so the central points of the circle overlap with the edges for
the second circle choose a similar color to the first one but a darker shade of that base color
then select them both and duplicate once more and press command or control
d for delta to end up with a long line of circles we then want to repeat the process
to duplicate that line multiple times below but you might be thinking where am i going with this
well we now need to bring that twirl tool into the mix however select everything beforehand you can
either hold down a click like this or even just click multiple different times it will take some
trial and error like i said before and this isn't an ideal turnout for me to be honest right here
but once you do have something that looks swirly you might have noticed some glaringly obvious gaps
on the design to rectify this just sample the lighter color on your design using the
eyedropper tool and then make a rectangle using that color and send it to the back of all objects
finally for this step select everything and expand the appearance so we need to make another
rectangle but this time it's going to act as a mask so place it over a section that you do like
the look of and select everything once more and create a clipping mask and don't you just love
how the edges are so nice and neat now or is that just me anyway we want to turn this into a symbol
so let's hop into the symbols panel drop this design in and give it a name the next part of this
tutorial might be a bit tricky mainly because the 3d side of adobe illustrator is still a bit janky
it's not quite finished in my opinion but i've got to work around and we can still work with it
for the effects that i want to apply it seems impossible to do that with entire groups of
text so i've actually had to split up my design into three sections as you can see here but first
let's go ahead and outline the text so i'm going to show you my process for the s and the o here
we need to head into the 3d materials panel which is found in the latest update of illustrator
we're going to use the inflate option and i do personally like to use the isometric top layout
for this kind of design give your design some depth and how much is entirely up to you of course
but for my design i want each of the three letter groups to be the same depth so i'm just going to
use a round number like 400 that's easy to type in right so in the materials menu locate the graphics
option and then just click your symbol once so as you can see it seems that it only covers a part
of the design you can adjust this with the circle here but it never seems to cover everything
so the work around is to bring another graphic layer onto your shape and then just arrange it
so it covers the entirety of your design yes it can be fiddly and it is a tad annoying but
let's just hope that adobe makes this easier in the next update but after
you've done that expand the design and repeat it for the other letters that you might have
so in my poster i started with a typography like so and then i went for a very bold contrasting
background in this case purple and to create some interest and intrigue with further contrasts i
have some partially hidden lettering behind the main design in white and then some neat typography
to finish the thing off i do quite like this a lot and it's not that difficult to make either
and if you want to try this for yourself do tag me on twitter or even post it in my discord group
which is free by the way and if you want to use the fonts that i've used today head over
to the link in description box below and until next time guys design your future today peace
you