i'm going to show you how to make all of these shapes with the star tool in illustrator
welcome back Tom here again hope you're doing well. today i have an adobe
illustrator tutorial with the star tool. after you make a new document move your
cursor over to the shape button here and hold down the click until you see a new
set of shapes open up
click the star tool option to make a five-point star. hold down shift and then
click-and-drag just like this
if you hold down shift and alt at the same time and then click and drag you
with a five-point star there's more uniform in size. we can however make the
size of the points to however small or large we want by double-clicking on the
artboard canvas. we can also change how many points we want to go for so seven
for this example. I want to make the points very shallow; and you have
something like this
on this next I'm going to up for 24 point star and this time make the points a
little deeper. these values are all in pixels by the way. i'm going to use to 250
and 150. as you can see the points are a lot more pointy on this one
double click once more to open the window
it seems my mac hates me, ok good. this time 48 points and you have
something that looks a little like this
just have fun playing around with the numbers and see what you can come up
on this next star shape i will show you how to curve the points so you can make a
badge type shape. make any style but i'm going to use 10 points for mine
make sure you have the shape highlighted and go up to the effects and then
stylized up here and then click round corners
you can tick the box to create your changes and then add them here
my points are a little too deep to change the shape to how I want to so I'm going
to make a start with points more shallow so again effects stylize and round corners
as you can see you end up with something like this, it reminds me of the shape of wax
seals and envelopes if you seen them before
to make the shape just have an outline
toggle the settings here just changing the color to the text and two black so
it's visible you can change the thickness here at the top to whatever
value you wish
and change the fill color here thanks for watching guys hope is this has been
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