In this lesson you'll learn how to stylize shapes and also how to continue
to use the Appearance panel in Illustrator.
So if you've drawn a shape out, let's just say a square like so. We've got some color to it and we've got
a thicker Stroke and let's just add a different color for the Fill.
And you want to add a little bit personality to it or stylize it. One way to do that is
if you go to Effect and then right here we've got all these Illustrator effects.
If you go to Stylize and then there's Drop Shadow. We all know what that is.
It just adds a drop shadow behind it right. That's really easy to overdo and make something look
not as professional so we want the drop shadow to be more subtle.
You can also add an Inner Glow, an Outer Glow. Scribble is pretty interesting. It adds
kind of this scribble look and there are a couple of options to change the angle of it.
The Path Overlap whether it's on the inside or the outside. Variation of the
scribbles. The Stroke, the Width, the Curviness, Variation and then also the Spacing.
Is a space in between. You can make it more simple or fewer or you can make more on
the left and also Variation. So it can have a little bit more variety and once you
have something that you like, click OK. And if I use the white Direct Selection
tool here and click, you'll notice it's still vector art
It's not rasterized. If I zoom in, it won't pixellate. See it's still vector.
Now, for the next example, go ahead and hold onto the Rectangle tool and go to
Star tool. Click and drag out. Hold SHIFT if you want it to be level.
And for this example, I'm going to make the Stroke a little bit skinnier. Let's just say
8 points. If you choose the Direct Selection tool, you can click and drag on
the inside here and make it have rounded corners. I'm going to hit Undo.
Another way to add rounded corners. Let's you had a specific number for the rounded
corner you want to add. You can just go to Effect, and then Stylize and then Round corners.
And we have Radius. So this 0.75 inches. You can do Preview and you can adjust that.
Whatever size Rounded Corner that we want,
then click OK. Now this is where the Appearance panel comes in. So I have that
effect on already. Now if I go back to Effect, Stylize and then Round corners
again, it comes up with his error. It says, hey, you already have this instance of this effect.
do you want to add another effect or do you want to adjust the original one?
Let's say I want to adjust the original one. Well then, I would need to go to Window then
Appearance and then click the Rounded Corners. I can adjust it, hit Preview and
it will adjust it. So a couple of examples of stylizing shapes in Illustrator.
I will see you in the next lesson.