today I'm going to show you how to make dope watercolor text in Illustrator
using just one tool find out how to do that next in today tutorial
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weekly graphic design content the first thing that you need to do to make
watercolor tanks in Illustrator is to choose your colors press M for the
rectangle tool and then make some squares using various different colors
when you actually have those squares created select them all and then they
line them in the align window like so this will be our color palette for the
watercolor text much like how you mix paint together when actually painting on
paper there are two keyboard shortcuts that we're going to be toggling between
today throughout the tutorial one of them is you on your keyboard which is
the mesh tool and then the other one is I for the eyedropper tool everything is
going to make sense next you can see the two tools being
toggled here in the toolbar menu we're going to make the base for our
watercolor text and to do that we want to make an elliptical kind of shape with
the ellipse tool
press save the direct selection tool and adjust the anchor points to transform
the shape into a more thicker ellipse today's watercolor effect is more
superior than any other kind of gradient that you can make with a gradient tool
and this is because the gradient spreads across the design in all directions and
now I'm going to show you how to make it with just one tool that Warren told is
actually the mesh tool by the way and like I said before you need to press you
and your keyboard to access it once you've accessed the tool click once in
the middle of your shape you will then notice from contours appear so now go
ahead and add a few more contour lines but remember for this effect less is
always more after watching this video you have a better understanding of where
to place your contour lines with the mesh tool you can also press F the
direct selection tool and adjust your contour lines like so now pay close
attention to what I'm about to do we're going to tell code between you and I on
the keyboard suppress you for the mesh tool and then click a spot on your
design then press I for the eyedropper tool and select a color from your
palette above you'll notice that your color is dropped onto the design like a
watercolor drop onto paper then you press you again to repeat the process
over and over this is an awesome technique because you can add gradients
all over your design in unique different ways
so as you can see here my color base is taking shape and you can continue to
edit the anchor points and handles with the direct selection tool it's important
to take your time and to make an interesting and neat base for the
watercolor text which we're going to add next so when you're finally ready press
T for the type tool and it says command T on screen but that's just a mistake
however you can press command or control t to actually bring up the type window
and here you can select your font and character style I'm going for Health
etiquette add a and also I'm going to use a very low kerning value so the text
is closer together and the watercolor effect can be spread more across the
text itself place your text a with the watercolor design and then adjust its
size and position until you see fit
then head into the Pathfinder window and turn the text into a compound shape this
will allow us to make the final step which is to apply a clipping mask by
right to a control click in the selection and there you have it some
wonderful watercolour text using the mesh tool in Illustrator let me know
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