Hello everyone welcome back I am your host Elias Sarantopoulos.
Today I'm going to teach you how to use Vectornator's different modes in order to create multi selections,
duplicates, rotations and scaling paths.
Using tools as such we'll design a vector lotus flower, a symbol across cultures as
well as a design element for ceramic and pattern artwork.
All that in your iPad with Vectornator.
Inside Vectornator and with a new document open I have already created a couple of layers.
So the first one is the BG layer for the background color and the second one it says layer one
here which actually I'm going to tap on it and rename this to Inner Petals like so.
Now before I start drawing my petals here I would like to mention a couple of things.
First under the Settings Inspector and under the Snapping tab I'm going to have my Smart
Guides ON and under the Style, the Edit Inspector and the Style tab I'm going to make sure that
I don't have a Fill, just a stroke and the Stroke Width of 1 pt works for me very well.
OK, so let's go ahead and use one of these Shape tools, in this case I'm going to use
the Oval shape, I'm just going to tap and drag one like so.
OK, now looking at this rounded oval shape what I'm going to do is with the Node tool
I'm going to target the top anchor point, right now we have here a smooth point so I
want to turn this into a corner point and the way you're going to do this inside Vectornator
is just double tap on that, there we go.
Now we have a corner point and I will do the same thing on the bottom node here, the bottom
anchor point so double tap of that as well and there we go.
OK so I want to make a series of duplicates here so I'm going to tap on the Duplicate
Mode, there we go, marquee select this petal here and then create your first duplicate,
like so.
OK, still with a Duplicate mode ON, marquee select those two, rotate them and then tap
one finger on the canvas to constrain the movement, now we have a new set that I rotated
90 degrees.
OK, so still with a Duplicate mode ON, marquee select those, let's create another duplicate,
there we go and then marquee select those and rotate them one more time, there we go,
just make sure you to exit the Duplicate mode and these are the petals, the Inner Petals
that I wanted to create.
So because I need to target certain areas from these certain sections from these petals,
I need to separate them so marquee select everything and under the Paths tab here I'm
going to use one of the Boolean operations and this one will be the Divide operation
here, there we go.
And because I want to target specific areas from these petals I'm going to separate those
paths so I'm going to tap on the Separate function here, like so.
OK, so basically now we have all separate paths, OK.
Alright so with the Multi-Selection mode ON I'm going to target the paths that I want
to color, which are these ones and under the Style here, I am just going
to make sure that I have in color of my choice, there we go, OK, I like what I see a couple
of things before I close this part here I'm just going to marquee select everything and
under the Arrange tab, I am going to Group those and I'm going to make sure that I unlock
those two, so marquee you select everything and under the Arrange tab here I'm going to
align those Horizontally and Vertically so tap on the horizontal alignment and on the
vertical alignment, like so.
For this second step I'm going to create a couple of circles so again tap on this plus
icon (+) here, tap and hold and bring this under the Inner Petals and instead of layer
1 I'm going to rename this to Outer Circle, like so.
OK, so let's go ahead and create a circle, there we go, let's make sure that this sits
around the center and I'm going to change its Fill color to something darker and for
a Stroke also a light stroke color but also I'm going to bring up the Stroke Width so
tap on the numeric pad here so change the number to 10 pt if you wish there we go, and
I'm size this up just a tad so I'm going to tap on the Scale mode and scale this up like so.
OK, so I'm going to actually lock this one and I'm going to and target the Inner Petals.
Again the reason I'm doing this is because actually I want to target specific paths from
these Inner Petals and color them.
So marquee select those paths and under the Arrange tab I'm going to ungroup them.
OK, and again let me pinch to zoom in here, with the Multi-Selection mode ON just going
to target these, let me change this color to white in this case, there we go, I think
I have one more, like so, OK.
So I like what I see again marquee select everything and just Group them.
OK, I'm going to lock this layer too, alright, now I'm going to create one more layer, that
will be the second circle so tap on the plus (+) icon, tap and hold and bring this between
the Inner Petals and the Outer Circle.
So I'm going to rename this instead of layer 1 to Inner Circle, like.
OK, so again let's create another circle here, OK, I'm going to first make sure that sits
in the center, I am going to size this up with the Scale tool, like so, OK.
Alright, let's go ahead and change its color so for that instead of a solid Fill I'm going
to use a Gradient.
I'm going to use a Radial Gradient, OK, so for the first stop I'm going to move this
Stop let's see around this center here, change its color let's say this color and then I'm
going to add one more Stop so tap on that, that would be a white color and for this one,
the very first right I'm going to bring its Transparency all the way to zero and of course
no need for a Stroke, like so.
OK, I mean you can actually sit around here and play as much as you wish to your liking
of course.
OK, for this last step inside Vectornator we're going to create the Outer Petals so
again I'm going to tap on this plus (+) icon to create a new layer which I'm going to rename
to Outer Petals, like so, and then I'm going to tap and drag and bring this under the Outer Circle.
OK, now before I start drawing any petals here under the Settings Inspector I'm going
to first Snap to Grid and let's see about my Grid, I'm going to turn the Grid ON and
then as for Grid Spacing here I have everything in millimeters.
In case you want to change that, in case you want to change the Units of Measurements,
tap here and then just tap on Points for example and Grid has a space of 10 pt.
So I'm going to pinch in to Zoom here and using the good old Pen tool I'm going to tap
and drag and then tap and drag here to create a curve like so.
OK, let's go ahead and change the color, no Fill just a Stroke, OK and then I am going
to marquee select this, tap on the Duplicate mode, just make sure you tap on the Duplicate
mode again to exit that and under the Arrange tab just make sure you Flip this Horizontally.
So marquee select those with a Selection tool and under the Path tab here just make sure
that you Join those paths.
OK, so we got the first set, I am going to marquee select, tap on the Duplicate mode
and create another duplicate here,.
Alright OK, so let's see, I'm going to toggle off the visibility of the Outer Circle just
for a second, I am going to pinch to zoom in, bring this in, bring this in here and
here, OK.
Now I need this to actually to be one shape so I will need to continue actually drawing
some paths.
So with a Node tool marquee select this end node, tap on the Pen tool, tap on that and
node then just create another path here, I will do the same thing right here, tap on
the Pen tool, tap on that and just tap to create another path.
Now these look that they are together but they're not as one shape so marquee select
and under the Path tab again just make sure that you Join those paths, like so.
OK, so let's see, first I'm going to make sure that this sits around the center so for
that no need for Snap to Grid or to have the Grid ON, I just want to make sure that this
sits around the center.
Now I think that's correct and then let's change its color to, well let's have a gradient,
a Radial gradient and for that I'm going to use, I'm going to create a one more Stop here
at the center, I'm going to change its color and for these side Stops I am going to have
a color like so.
It's entirely up to you of course, just bring this up, maybe perhaps here...there we go,
let's see.
So I'm going to select that, tap on the Duplicate mode, rotate this, exit the Duplicate mode
and bring this down, like so.
I just have to position this like the other one...and you know what you can also do this
pixel by pixel, there we go.
Let me look at this one, that looks also the same.
So marquee select those two, tap on the Duplicate mode, create a new set, marquee select those
four, again create another set, marquee select those and create the last set, like so.
Thank you everyone for spending time with me, let me know if you have any questions
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Elias Sarantopoulos