In this activity we're just going to create a couple shapes here that the hues
kind of go together and also just use a couple of the tools and just practice using them
and see what we can come up with. So go ahead and go to File, New, OK. For this example, if you
want to follow along, click and drag with the Ellipse tool,
hold SHIFT if you want a perfect circle, and then I'm going to set None for the Stroke
and then for the color, let's try something different, then ALT on the PC or OPTION on the MAC.
Click and drag over here and I'll choose some kind of complimentary color and then
click and drag around both of these. I want to go to Object, Blend, Make and then Object, Blend
and Options and Specified Steps. We'll do, like 8.
And then remember, we got to go to Object, Blend, Expand. So now, they're still grouped
though so you can go to Object,
if you have them all selected, Object, Ungroup. Alright, so now we can move them around so I'm
going to move somtething like this. I'm going to do it a little bit differently,
Something like that, and I'll put this one here.
So with all these selected, you can click and drag around all of them.
like that, and then just experiment with the Width tool, the Warp tool,
the Twirl tool, the Pucker tool. So if I go to Warp tool, and if I just, let me go down to Twirl tool first.
So this is a very large brush size I have, so as I click and drag, see how it
kind of distorts it a little bit, brings that one over too. So if you double click on that
you can change the size. So for the next one, let's just experiment with the Pucker tool. I'm going to
double click on it and set this back to 100 points.
You can kind of see what you can come up with.
Just being creative and just experimenting with different tools.
The Scallop tool is pretty interesting. It pulls it in like that and then the
Crystallize tool bloats it out. It's kind of, like Bloat and Pucker but it just stylizes it
and kind of wrinkles the edge and then the Wrinkle tool just wrinkles it either way. Try Twirl tool this
size and bringing it in like so and then this one, I'll pull out like that. So this is meant to give you
an idea of what these all look like and you can also use, for example, the Eraser tool, so if you
just want to erase the edge off here a little bit, maybe change the edge here, and it does a pretty good
job of adding points and paths and not too many in here so something like that and you can
apply a gradient to some of these, like if you just click one of these, click the Gradient
and then if you double click on this, set this is to RGB or CMYK or HSB.
Any of those will work for color but
so set that to that side, you need to have it selected of course and then double-click there,
and then let's just say I wanted this to have that same exact gradient, I can
use the Eyedropper tool, remember. You can hold ALT or OPTION, apply that to a couple of them,
copy and paste it. Edit, Copy, Edit Paste or
CTRL or Command C, and then CTRL or Command V and then with the Rotate tool, I just click
and drag, hold SHIFT, a perfect mirror image so it almost looks like eyes on a cartoon
character or something.
These I'm just selecting and then ALT or OPTION clicking and dragging and you can
rotate each new set that we've copied, kind of a flower pattern almost.
So you can use a Pen tool, click and drag that up there.
So kind of like a palm tree look or even a kind of a stylized flower
So this is just meant to, just practice a little bit with these,
add some unique creations and designs using things like
the Width tools and all the other related tools as well as the Blend tool, Free Transform
and the Rotate tool and so on. In the next section we'll be going over a lot of
different workflows and functions in Illustrator and then doing another
activity as well. Thanks.