in today's video I'm gonna teach you how to make this isometric stacked letter
design in a debut illustrator it's really quite simple actually and it's
very rewarding and it's a neat technique you can add to your arsenal of graphic
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website today so firstly we obviously need some text to supress a tee for the
type tool and then choose any letter that you want to be using for your
design now press a command or ctrl T to bring up the character window and for my
design I'm going to use Elrond for the actual letter and you want to use a
thick and a bold kind of font so I'm going to go for a black from the font
family we then need to come and outline the text by creating outlines here so we
now have a vector shape and instead of a text your font
next we want to rotate the letter by minus 45 degrees so do make sure to type
in negative 45 if you want to rotate your shape in the same way that I'm
going to next open up the transform window and we're going to adjust the
height settings to create the isometric style you want to change the height to
fifty seven point seven four percent and then just hit enter so we have the base
for the isometric lettering and now we need to bring it down and then hold down
the alt or the option key and click and drag to duplicate it upwards whilst you
still have the keys how down also hold down shift so you keep things completely
parallel and straight then release the keys and then press command or control D
three more times so you have five shapes generated like so we're now going to
utilize a tabular straight is built in color themes and if you don't have cc we
don't have this then you just gonna have to create a collage yourself but find
the color scheme that you want to use and then just apply the colors so you
need to select your shape and then select the color
and then come down to here to actually apply the color to the shapes
I love this color theme setting and it really does help to choose awesome and
neat color schemes I'm actually going to make the top F gray for now and I'm
going to continue to other colors to the rest of the design as you can see my
color scheme is quite pastured in nature and that's what I want to use from my
design but you can use anything you want you know you can go for vibrant colors
or even a monochrome so now select all of the shapes and just press a command
or control to which is going to lock them down then press P for the pen tool
and carefully draw in a shape here
and then draw in some more shapes here
the next we're going to make use of a light source to create a more 3d feel
for our design so press a V to select off of the pen tool path then I'm going
to imagine some light coming from the left hand side of the screen so I'm
gonna make this one here a bit lighter and we can do that by just dragging the
slider down in the color window so all of the same side on my letter I'm going
to create in the same kind of lighter color which does give the 3d effect to
the design menaces looking pretty neat as you can see and because the shapes
are locked you're going to need to press I for the eyedropper tool to sample the
next color for your design and when you're actually drawing in the tricky
parts here it might be a good idea to press command or control Y to enter into
outline mode so you keep things really really precise and neat for your design
and then press command or control Y to enter back out of outline mode so here
is my design and all the shapes are still locked down so hold down the alt
or the option key as well as command or control and then press 2 to unlock
everything and I'm actually going to change the gray shape to the same purple
that I've been using for the upper layers of the design and I think I'm
gonna go for the lighter shade because the light obviously is coming from the
top left we've actually come to the end of this tutorial but I did notice that
it's a different way to do things I noticed it after I finished the design
basically what you want to do is you want to make this first letter like we
did in this tutorial then you want to hold down the alt or the option key
click and drag downwards whilst holding shift and then with that selection still
highlighted send it to the very back of all layers then it's just a case of
selecting one side and then hold it down shift again to select the same kind of
colors then you just come to the color palettes and change the color of that
aside now for the remaining sides again you shift and click select all of them
then press I for the eyedropper tool and sample the first color and then just
change it to a darker shade you would then repeat the process
downward until you're finished with the isometric stag letter but yeah I really
like this design I think it's something you can incorporate into various
different designs I actually have a few other isometric tutorials which I'm
going to post at the end of this video and also down in the description box
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