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our mountain poster design we need a background I'm going to press M for the
rectangle tool and then create a shape that covers the entire artboards
pressing Shift + X will flick the stroke over to a colorful fill and I'm going to
add a gradient and this is going to be a free-form gradient which is actually
only doable in illustrator CC however a standard gradient would also work just
fine now I often use the lines function with the freeform gradients but for this
design here I think I'm going to use the points option and just use two or three
color nodes this shape is going to be the sky background and I'm going for a
kind of late afternoon kind of sunset vibe so the bottom of the
rectangle is going to be brighter than the top of the design you can obviously
you know do what you want and maybe a nighttime sky will look pretty cool so
for that you'd use dark purples as an example we now need to create a bold
flat shape for the mountain itself so press a P for the pen tool and then
draw a shape similar to mine here that's a good idea
to make small changes in direction on your vector path to create a realistic
Mountain outline I have a guide running down the exact center of my artboard so
I can finish the peak of the mountain centered on my design
I'm then going to add a color fill to this shape and we're going to make use
of these swatches window today because it is going to become important later in
the design process but add your color to the swatches library simply choose the
color in the left color palettes and then drag and drop it into the swatches
panel so for my Mountain I've elected for a dark muddy purple kind of color
and this is going to represent the lack of lights being cast onto the mountain
itself next we were going to add the highlights to really set off the design
but first select everything and then hit command or control 2 on your keyboard
and this will lock down the shapes of your design using the pen tool make
shapes like this on your mountain and then add a gradient fill the trick here
is to have one side of the gradient white and the other side the exact same
color as the mountain and that's achieved by heading into the swatches
the change the opacity of this side down to zero
also adjust a slider until you see your gradient fitting for your design and
also you can press a G for the gradient tool which will give you more room to be
precise and to adjust your gradient now I did spend quite a while adjusting the
shapes of these highlights and unjust in the gradients to so D be patient and do
take your time with this part of the design process we're now going to make a
moon and you can obviously make a Sun or a full moon but I want to make a
crescent moon for my design so I'm gonna press L on my keyboards for the ellipse
tool and then hold down shift and click and drag like so now to duplicate the
circle hold down the alt option key and then click and drag again which you see
me do billions of times in my tutorials but for the new circle make it a tiny
bit larger and then place it position it like so
then select both circles and in the Pathfinder window use the minus front
option you can then add the color fill and place it on your design
now I actually lowered the opacity a little bit so the moon kind of blends
into the design in a subtle subtle way
finally add typography and whatever else she feels going to work for your design
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