0 1 00:00:03,004 --> 00:00:05,082 Hello wonderful Illustrator people. 1 2 00:00:05,107 --> 00:00:08,441 In this tutorial we're going to learn how to make a Linocut like this. 2 3 00:00:08,466 --> 00:00:10,707 It's super simple, let's get started. 3 4 00:00:10,732 --> 00:00:14,683 To get started, we need to draw the two sides of our petal. 4 5 00:00:14,909 --> 00:00:17,855 Now I've just made a green background and locked it, nothing fancy. 5 6 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:20,074 You can use any drawing tool you like. 6 7 00:00:20,191 --> 00:00:23,043 I'm going to use the Pen Tool, with no Fill and no Stroke. 7 8 00:00:24,371 --> 00:00:27,332 It's kind of like this one, super simple. 8 9 00:00:27,582 --> 00:00:30,519 Just so it's nice and clear, real kind of nice. 9 10 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:34,215 White Arrow, just to make some slight adjustments. 10 11 00:00:34,683 --> 00:00:35,824 Pen Tool again. 11 12 00:00:36,012 --> 00:00:38,956 Now, it can't be one solid shape, it needs to be two separate ones. 12 13 00:00:38,981 --> 00:00:41,045 So I'm just going to kind of draw them separately here... 13 14 00:00:41,070 --> 00:00:44,340 and not spend too long trying to fix it up. 14 15 00:00:44,933 --> 00:00:49,652 Now, there's two things that make this-- well, two things that can mess you up. 15 16 00:00:49,762 --> 00:00:51,735 If you try and align these up now to make them perfect... 16 17 00:00:51,768 --> 00:00:52,730 you can make them perfect... 17 18 00:00:52,755 --> 00:00:54,871 like, you might be here, you really want to. 18 19 00:00:54,919 --> 00:00:56,722 When you start blending it does weird stuff. 19 20 00:00:56,747 --> 00:00:59,566 So what we're going to do is match them up... 20 21 00:01:00,402 --> 00:01:01,522 then pull them back apart. 21 22 00:01:02,012 --> 00:01:03,614 I've got my Smart Guides on, so it's snapping. 22 23 00:01:03,707 --> 00:01:04,730 It's not snapping away. 23 24 00:01:05,683 --> 00:01:06,605 Come on, petal. 24 25 00:01:07,707 --> 00:01:09,316 There you are, snap at this, buddy. 25 26 00:01:10,691 --> 00:01:13,683 Don't worry too much about the Stroke yet, we're going to go and fix that. 26 27 00:01:13,708 --> 00:01:16,144 But before you hit Blend, just move them apart. 27 28 00:01:16,418 --> 00:01:18,598 Now we've done blending quite a few times in this course. 28 29 00:01:18,623 --> 00:01:22,792 Let's just use the shortcut, 'Command-Option-B', or 'Control-Alt-B'. 29 30 00:01:23,902 --> 00:01:27,105 And now we can blend them both, now we can move them back together. 30 31 00:01:27,238 --> 00:01:30,706 To get them back together, double click the outside to get inside the Blend. 31 32 00:01:30,731 --> 00:01:33,933 Now I can grab one of these guys and just kind of align them back again. 32 33 00:01:37,228 --> 00:01:40,657 Let's go back out, smash that arrow until it comes back out. 33 34 00:01:40,876 --> 00:01:43,977 And with it selected, double click your 'Blending Tool'... 34 35 00:01:44,002 --> 00:01:45,314 and increase your steps. 35 36 00:01:45,618 --> 00:01:47,712 Now it will all depend on the size you've drawn yours. 36 37 00:01:51,751 --> 00:01:52,726 8. 37 38 00:01:54,228 --> 00:01:55,970 I practiced this, can't even remember which I picked. 38 39 00:01:56,189 --> 00:01:58,767 That will do for the moment, maybe let's come back to that... 39 40 00:01:58,792 --> 00:02:00,290 because what we want to do is-- 40 41 00:02:00,315 --> 00:02:02,775 You could leave it like straight lines like that, that's cool. 41 42 00:02:03,509 --> 00:02:07,110 We are going to go to Stroke, and play around with the Profile... 42 43 00:02:07,134 --> 00:02:08,836 and just pick this first option here. 43 44 00:02:09,069 --> 00:02:13,108 Then increase the weight of the Stroke until we get something we kind of like. 44 45 00:02:15,770 --> 00:02:18,347 Kind of like it in there, but I probably need some more steps. 45 46 00:02:18,372 --> 00:02:20,707 I'm going to just go into Steps real quick. 46 47 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:32,576 That's basically it, you got two sides... 47 48 00:02:32,601 --> 00:02:34,491 just lines kind of connecting up. 48 49 00:02:35,467 --> 00:02:38,342 Using Blending now, I'll show you that kind of effect where they, kind of-- 49 50 00:02:39,842 --> 00:02:42,337 It's more just kind of what other tools you can use... 50 51 00:02:42,362 --> 00:02:43,834 to make this kind of full petal. 51 52 00:02:43,859 --> 00:02:45,498 It was like more of a flower bud. 52 53 00:02:45,780 --> 00:02:47,795 And I'll show you some of the pros and cons. 53 54 00:02:47,905 --> 00:02:49,162 Now one other thing is... 54 55 00:02:49,187 --> 00:02:52,014 if I start duplicating this, and start kind of messing around with it... 55 56 00:02:52,039 --> 00:02:53,381 it does weird stuff with the Strokes. 56 57 00:02:53,406 --> 00:02:56,115 You could fix it afterwards, say you do decide to kind of bend it around... 57 58 00:02:56,140 --> 00:02:58,608 and these kind of end points don't work good. 58 59 00:02:58,724 --> 00:03:02,349 Go to 'Stroke', and just turn this on and off again. 59 60 00:03:02,374 --> 00:03:04,350 Just kind of reset it, which is one way. 60 61 00:03:04,375 --> 00:03:06,920 Another way you might do is just to outline it. 61 62 00:03:07,436 --> 00:03:08,571 So that's what I'm going to do... 62 63 00:03:08,596 --> 00:03:10,280 because the next step requires me to do some... 63 64 00:03:10,381 --> 00:03:12,014 some cutting a bit. 64 65 00:03:12,319 --> 00:03:15,185 To outline it, or to kind of expand it-- 65 66 00:03:15,819 --> 00:03:18,537 the way that you normally do is you go to 'Object', 'Expand', right? 66 67 00:03:18,562 --> 00:03:19,444 Don't do it that way. 67 68 00:03:19,469 --> 00:03:21,639 Go to 'Blend', and go to 'Expand'. 68 69 00:03:22,248 --> 00:03:23,584 Same sort of thing... 69 70 00:03:23,609 --> 00:03:25,686 but now it's all those lines. 70 71 00:03:26,402 --> 00:03:27,459 I'm going to-- 71 72 00:03:27,598 --> 00:03:29,152 I should have gone to Transform Flick. 72 73 00:03:30,608 --> 00:03:31,655 Reflect. 73 74 00:03:32,084 --> 00:03:34,506 I'm just kind of doing something else. 74 75 00:03:34,531 --> 00:03:37,147 What am I doing here? Just trying a new size. 75 76 00:03:37,475 --> 00:03:39,763 Now what I'd like to do is, I want-- 76 77 00:03:39,788 --> 00:03:42,607 I should have saved a version of this, I'm going to save a version. 77 78 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:46,021 Like this other version of this side. 78 79 00:03:46,636 --> 00:03:48,776 So this guy here, I want to get back to my shapes. 79 80 00:03:48,801 --> 00:03:50,933 I can go inside, copy it, and paste it out. 80 81 00:03:50,958 --> 00:03:52,401 I can just go 'Blend', say... 81 82 00:03:52,620 --> 00:03:54,956 'Release', release my lines. 82 83 00:03:55,222 --> 00:03:56,128 Thank you. 83 84 00:03:56,230 --> 00:03:58,987 We're just going to use one of these, actually I'll show you both. 84 85 00:03:59,886 --> 00:04:01,925 I'll make it green, so it makes it... 85 86 00:04:02,214 --> 00:04:03,728 makes it obvious what I'm doing for this guy. 86 87 00:04:03,753 --> 00:04:05,004 It's going to be like a cutting path. 87 88 00:04:05,198 --> 00:04:07,401 We'll make it a little bit bigger, bring it to the front... 88 89 00:04:08,081 --> 00:04:11,659 just so I can use that, I want to use that slice, the chunks of this. 89 90 00:04:12,495 --> 00:04:15,276 Move it to V field, I'm using my arrow keys on my keyboard. 90 91 00:04:15,456 --> 00:04:16,519 That's nice. 91 92 00:04:17,933 --> 00:04:20,252 I'm going to grab both of these guys now, and just move them out... 92 93 00:04:20,285 --> 00:04:24,807 because that's just hard to work in there. 93 94 00:04:25,394 --> 00:04:26,917 Now we need to delete all these. 94 95 00:04:27,370 --> 00:04:29,190 The best way is the Shape Builder Tool. 95 96 00:04:29,433 --> 00:04:32,112 I'll hold down the 'Option' key on a Mac, 'Alt' key on a PC.. 96 97 00:04:32,137 --> 00:04:33,433 and just kind of drag across them all. 97 98 00:04:33,955 --> 00:04:37,096 And then, this guy here, I'm going to delete. 98 99 00:04:37,642 --> 00:04:39,892 That's kind of it, we're going to do-- I'll do the top bit with you... 99 100 00:04:39,917 --> 00:04:42,729 but if you want to carry on, you can... 100 101 00:04:42,754 --> 00:04:45,290 because that's kind of what I do to get this. 101 102 00:04:45,315 --> 00:04:48,275 Now, that guy there probably needs the Stroke Weight taken down. 102 103 00:04:48,300 --> 00:04:50,174 So we can see a bit more of it. 103 104 00:04:52,752 --> 00:04:55,412 Now this other one at the top here, I could use that thing again... 104 105 00:04:55,437 --> 00:04:57,725 or I could just draw one; let's draw one. 105 106 00:04:58,257 --> 00:05:00,968 So skip ahead now if you're keen... 106 107 00:05:00,993 --> 00:05:03,132 otherwise let's do this together. 107 108 00:05:03,968 --> 00:05:05,335 I'm using my Drawing Tool. 108 109 00:05:05,499 --> 00:05:07,725 Now what I'm going to do is make sure they over lapse. 109 110 00:05:07,803 --> 00:05:10,772 So even though I've drawn those two little shapes... 110 111 00:05:11,921 --> 00:05:13,686 I'm going to kind of have it, so-- 111 112 00:05:14,896 --> 00:05:16,381 Goes under here, so I can slice it off. 112 113 00:05:16,577 --> 00:05:18,022 Now remember, keep them separate. 113 114 00:05:19,117 --> 00:05:20,359 Actually you've done your Blending. 114 115 00:05:21,108 --> 00:05:25,100 Remember, 'Command-Option-B', or 'Control-Alt-B'. 115 116 00:05:25,969 --> 00:05:27,920 Let's zoom back in. Let's go to 'Wireframe Mode'... 116 117 00:05:27,945 --> 00:05:32,553 which is 'Command Y', or 'Control Y' on a PC. 117 118 00:05:33,468 --> 00:05:35,546 They’re joined, double click to get inside them. 118 119 00:05:35,795 --> 00:05:38,412 Now I can grab one, actually I can grab the Anchor point up there. 119 120 00:05:38,437 --> 00:05:40,647 Just make sure they're tippy touching. 120 121 00:05:41,374 --> 00:05:42,733 Come back out. 121 122 00:05:43,225 --> 00:05:44,671 Right click in there a few times. 122 123 00:05:44,874 --> 00:05:46,436 'Command Y', or 'Control Y'. 123 124 00:05:46,671 --> 00:05:49,678 And with them selected, let's add that Stroke... 124 125 00:05:49,703 --> 00:05:51,678 and just change the Profile. 125 126 00:05:53,218 --> 00:05:56,365 Happy enough with the size at the moment, let's increase the Blending. 126 127 00:05:56,530 --> 00:05:57,882 Double click the 'Bending Tool'. 127 128 00:05:58,483 --> 00:06:01,397 Let's do the specific steps, and we're here. 128 129 00:06:02,514 --> 00:06:03,639 Click on that. 129 130 00:06:05,430 --> 00:06:06,382 Not enough. 130 131 00:06:08,475 --> 00:06:09,514 20. 131 132 00:06:10,358 --> 00:06:13,210 If I zoom out, I actually can't, well that's there, zoom out. 132 133 00:06:14,093 --> 00:06:15,632 Yes, it’s getting there. 133 134 00:06:16,397 --> 00:06:18,905 Kind of like it. Maybe it's the Stroke Weight that's not quite working. 134 135 00:06:19,405 --> 00:06:20,796 This maybe Stroke Weight. 135 136 00:06:21,178 --> 00:06:22,358 Yes, that's fine. 136 137 00:06:22,905 --> 00:06:25,608 I increase it up again, oh, don't increase that up again. 137 138 00:06:26,319 --> 00:06:29,225 As long as it's-- this is enough. Down the bottom there to slice off. 138 139 00:06:30,007 --> 00:06:32,999 So now I'm going to grab the thing that I've duplicated. 139 140 00:06:33,412 --> 00:06:35,615 You can freak out too. Keep a copy of it. 140 141 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:39,843 Geez Dan, come on. 141 142 00:06:40,936 --> 00:06:41,992 'Release'. 142 143 00:06:45,258 --> 00:06:46,586 I'll make it a bit bigger. 143 144 00:06:49,170 --> 00:06:50,531 This side here as well. 144 145 00:06:54,696 --> 00:06:55,954 I'll 'ungroup' that. 145 146 00:06:56,092 --> 00:06:58,833 Now I just want you, my friend, to be a piece. 146 147 00:06:59,029 --> 00:07:00,256 Make it a little bigger. 147 148 00:07:00,771 --> 00:07:04,529 If you just use the same size it doesn't tend to follow the curve as you'd hope. 148 149 00:07:05,456 --> 00:07:06,949 That was probably just a little big. 149 150 00:07:07,730 --> 00:07:08,902 That's my plan. 150 151 00:07:10,058 --> 00:07:13,261 You know exactly what I'm going to do now, it's exactly what we did a second ago. 151 152 00:07:14,370 --> 00:07:17,006 This guy here needs to be expanded because I can't use... 152 153 00:07:19,081 --> 00:07:22,386 the Shape Builder Tool to delete it, because it's still that Blending mode. 153 154 00:07:22,652 --> 00:07:24,214 So, you grab this. 154 155 00:07:25,034 --> 00:07:27,011 'Object', 'Blend'. 155 156 00:07:28,308 --> 00:07:29,394 'Release'. 156 157 00:07:29,419 --> 00:07:30,691 Not what I wanted. 157 158 00:07:32,847 --> 00:07:33,745 It's 'Expand'. 158 159 00:07:34,332 --> 00:07:37,285 Let's select these ones, I'm using my Shape Builder Tool. 159 160 00:07:37,496 --> 00:07:40,824 Shortcut for that is 'Command M', 'Control M' on a PC. 160 161 00:07:40,849 --> 00:07:42,472 Just deleting the bits I don't need. 161 162 00:07:43,270 --> 00:07:44,271 Come here. 162 163 00:07:45,488 --> 00:07:48,324 'Black Arrow', and you guys are gone. 163 164 00:07:48,793 --> 00:07:50,074 Move it. 164 165 00:07:50,863 --> 00:07:52,113 The crowning glory. 165 166 00:07:53,972 --> 00:07:55,128 Ah, it's awesome. 166 167 00:07:55,817 --> 00:07:56,639 Cool man 167 168 00:07:57,069 --> 00:08:01,106 That is how to do kind of a Linocut effect in Adobe Illustrator. 168 169 00:08:01,473 --> 00:08:03,754 All right, let's get on to the next video. 169 170 00:08:03,790 --> 00:08:05,649 Hold on, one last thing. 170 171 00:08:05,819 --> 00:08:06,905 Drop Shadows. 171 172 00:08:06,930 --> 00:08:09,842 You may or may not like Drop Shadows, I'm going to select them all. 172 173 00:08:09,867 --> 00:08:13,389 I'm not sure why I've paused the video to come back and show you Drop Shadows... 173 174 00:08:13,733 --> 00:08:14,913 but here we go. 174 175 00:08:15,693 --> 00:08:17,990 I like the little ones, little baby ones. 175 176 00:08:18,959 --> 00:08:22,139 Kind of makes it more, maybe from a distance, a bit more lino cut 176 177 00:08:23,250 --> 00:08:25,292 Now we can skip on to the next video. 177 178 00:08:25,317 --> 00:08:26,773 All right, see you there.