0 1 00:00:02,433 --> 00:00:04,909 Hi there, in this video we're going to look... 1 2 00:00:04,934 --> 00:00:07,129 to add more than one Stroke to a path. 2 3 00:00:07,347 --> 00:00:09,370 What that means is that there's just one path... 3 4 00:00:09,395 --> 00:00:12,059 and these extra Strokes applied to it. 4 5 00:00:12,332 --> 00:00:15,050 Makes it cool when we do lame old roads like this. 5 6 00:00:15,464 --> 00:00:18,457 You can see, it follows along, and it's just one path. 6 7 00:00:18,605 --> 00:00:22,456 You can turn it into a Style, so that you can apply it simply quickly. 7 8 00:00:22,481 --> 00:00:24,605 Cool, let's go learn how to build that now. 8 9 00:00:25,196 --> 00:00:28,649 First up, open strokes.ai from your Exercise Files. 9 10 00:00:28,674 --> 00:00:31,485 You don't obviously need that one, but if you want to follow along. 10 11 00:00:31,673 --> 00:00:34,501 I'm going to draw a shape, I'm going to draw a star. 11 12 00:00:34,977 --> 00:00:37,821 I'm going to give it 'no' Fill for the moment, just to give an effect. 12 13 00:00:37,846 --> 00:00:40,001 It's for awesomeness. 13 14 00:00:40,259 --> 00:00:41,790 I'm going to move down so you can see it. 14 15 00:00:42,133 --> 00:00:45,031 So first up I'm going to give it a Stroke Weight... 15 16 00:00:45,056 --> 00:00:47,118 of something kind of heavy, maybe 10pt. 16 17 00:00:47,314 --> 00:00:49,805 I'm going to give it a Fill color of anything. 17 18 00:00:49,830 --> 00:00:53,118 I'm going to use the colors I've got here in my Swatches Panel. 18 19 00:00:54,954 --> 00:00:58,259 Adding more Strokes is easy, you need to use the Appearance Panel. 19 20 00:00:58,837 --> 00:01:01,954 Now in this version you can hit the dotted lines, and it opens up... 20 21 00:01:02,345 --> 00:01:04,220 or you can go to 'Window', 'Appearance'. 21 22 00:01:04,384 --> 00:01:05,768 And all you need to do is click... 22 23 00:01:05,793 --> 00:01:08,071 kind of where your Stroke is, then click this new one. 23 24 00:01:08,407 --> 00:01:10,173 It duplicates selected item. 24 25 00:01:10,439 --> 00:01:11,564 And now I've got two lines. 25 26 00:01:11,589 --> 00:01:14,517 They're the same color and the same width, so it's not going to work. 26 27 00:01:14,634 --> 00:01:17,360 So all I need to do is pick a new color, and pick a new size. 27 28 00:01:17,385 --> 00:01:18,696 And I'm going to go up to '20'. 28 29 00:01:20,024 --> 00:01:22,509 Awesome, huh? That's how you can add more and more Strokes. 29 30 00:01:22,534 --> 00:01:23,719 You can add as many as you like. 30 31 00:01:24,353 --> 00:01:27,860 I'm going to add another one, and down here I'll show you a little trick. 31 32 00:01:28,196 --> 00:01:30,267 Say you want jump sizes, big... 32 33 00:01:30,774 --> 00:01:32,978 so instead of going up 1, 1, 1, 1... 33 34 00:01:33,110 --> 00:01:36,126 hold 'Shift' and click the 'up', it goes up to 10pts. 34 35 00:01:36,884 --> 00:01:38,220 You can go in really big chunks. 35 36 00:01:38,831 --> 00:01:40,226 Also you can play with Layer order... 36 37 00:01:40,251 --> 00:01:42,079 decide who's at the bottom, and who's on top. 37 38 00:01:42,384 --> 00:01:45,009 So if you get it around the wrong way, just click, hold, and drag them. 38 39 00:01:45,306 --> 00:01:48,735 Now let's apply it to a couple of things, so let's go to... 39 40 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:51,189 I'm going to grab my 'Ellipse Tool', draw an Ellipse. 40 41 00:01:51,704 --> 00:01:55,938 I can use my Eye Dropper Tool to select the center of this, and it will apply. 41 42 00:01:56,267 --> 00:01:58,571 Now one thing to note as well is that... 42 43 00:01:58,837 --> 00:02:01,563 if I grab my 'Black Arrow', and shrink this down... 43 44 00:02:01,588 --> 00:02:04,603 it depends on what your settings was last, but if I shrink this down... 44 45 00:02:04,782 --> 00:02:07,899 can you see, it's actually made the lines proportionately smaller. 45 46 00:02:08,017 --> 00:02:09,314 That's maybe what you want... 46 47 00:02:09,860 --> 00:02:11,571 but know that, with it selected - 47 48 00:02:11,696 --> 00:02:13,235 actually click off in the background - 48 49 00:02:13,571 --> 00:02:16,376 nothing selected, there's this one here that says Scale Stroke & Effects. 49 50 00:02:16,401 --> 00:02:18,790 If I turn that 'off', you get a different effect. 50 51 00:02:19,383 --> 00:02:23,227 So hold 'Shift', scale it down, you see it retains the same matching size. 51 52 00:02:23,252 --> 00:02:26,165 Now it's kind of what I want to do. I want a couple of shapes... 52 53 00:02:26,328 --> 00:02:30,164 that I could resize, that match this. 53 54 00:02:30,884 --> 00:02:33,470 Let's have nothing selected, turn that on and off. 54 55 00:02:33,665 --> 00:02:36,477 Now we've just done some, I guess, interesting Strokes. 55 56 00:02:37,038 --> 00:02:38,806 I teach lots of different people Illustrator. 56 57 00:02:38,908 --> 00:02:43,771 Sometimes it's Designers, Illustrators, Fashion Designers, Urban Planners... 57 58 00:02:44,679 --> 00:02:46,165 everyone has use for lllustrator. 58 59 00:02:46,415 --> 00:02:48,611 Now let's say that, the urban planners, right? 59 60 00:02:48,636 --> 00:02:52,809 They do lots of things, like roads, and detailed drawings on maps, and stuff. 60 61 00:02:52,834 --> 00:02:54,748 So let's grab our 'Pencil Tool'... 61 62 00:02:54,773 --> 00:02:56,708 you might find yours underneath the Shaper Tool. 62 63 00:02:56,733 --> 00:02:58,451 Let's kind of draw out a shape. 63 64 00:02:59,153 --> 00:03:01,716 I'll show you kind of a cool thing, with it selected... 64 65 00:03:02,559 --> 00:03:05,263 you can get quite complex, so I'm going to go... 65 66 00:03:05,288 --> 00:03:08,787 I'm going to start with maybe dark gray, maybe light gray. 66 67 00:03:08,812 --> 00:03:09,699 Light gray. 67 68 00:03:09,724 --> 00:03:11,538 And size wise, I'm going to... 68 69 00:03:13,552 --> 00:03:14,927 make it 40pts. 69 70 00:03:16,184 --> 00:03:17,023 Next thing I want to do is... 70 71 00:03:17,048 --> 00:03:19,709 I'm going to click the same thing again, I'm just going to show you... 71 72 00:03:19,911 --> 00:03:22,568 how you can build some reasonably complex. 72 73 00:03:24,232 --> 00:03:25,622 10pts? Maybe a little bit more. 73 74 00:03:25,953 --> 00:03:27,505 That's going to be the edge of my road. 74 75 00:03:27,747 --> 00:03:30,810 I'm actually going to have another one, it's going to be yellow... 75 76 00:03:32,044 --> 00:03:34,091 and it's going to be 2pts. 76 77 00:03:34,271 --> 00:03:35,607 We'll drag it to the top here... 77 78 00:03:35,865 --> 00:03:39,320 and click on 'Stroke', and get all the Stroke options here... 78 79 00:03:39,345 --> 00:03:40,787 and you can have a dashed. 79 80 00:03:41,145 --> 00:03:45,191 If it's dotted, weirdly, you need that 0. 80 81 00:03:46,326 --> 00:03:49,779 Dashed will leave that 0, and that gap, 2. 81 82 00:03:50,348 --> 00:03:51,997 You can get dotted and dashed. 82 83 00:03:52,755 --> 00:03:55,404 You also might need to switch to 'Cap' to round it. 83 84 00:03:55,429 --> 00:03:58,513 Then, actually the Cap probably needs to be bigger, 20. 84 85 00:03:59,271 --> 00:04:01,288 If you didn't know how to make dotted lines, you do now... 85 86 00:04:01,313 --> 00:04:02,492 weirdly it's really hard. 86 87 00:04:02,872 --> 00:04:05,622 Dashed is easy, but dotted, you got to put 0... 87 88 00:04:05,755 --> 00:04:09,185 and then the Gap spacing, and make sure you're not on Butt Cap... 88 89 00:04:09,247 --> 00:04:10,434 you're on Round Cap. 89 90 00:04:10,459 --> 00:04:12,302 But let's say you make it even more detailed... 90 91 00:04:12,327 --> 00:04:15,599 when you want to use it over and over again for other projects. 91 92 00:04:15,624 --> 00:04:17,404 I'm not sure why we got dotted lines, but anyway. 92 93 00:04:17,607 --> 00:04:20,411 With it selected, you can use your 'Graphic Styles' library. 93 94 00:04:20,622 --> 00:04:23,989 It's under 'Window', down here, 'Graphic Styles'. 94 95 00:04:24,451 --> 00:04:26,786 And with it selected, just drag it into there. 95 96 00:04:27,367 --> 00:04:28,847 The cool thing about that now... 96 97 00:04:28,872 --> 00:04:31,607 is I can draw any lines instead of using my Eye Dropper Tool. 97 98 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:33,911 'Pencil', let's go. 98 99 00:04:36,076 --> 00:04:37,185 Selected. 99 100 00:04:37,210 --> 00:04:38,130 Cool, huh? 100 101 00:04:38,169 --> 00:04:41,076 Same with these guys, you can use that one, drag it in. 101 102 00:04:42,076 --> 00:04:44,669 Now the interesting thing... 102 103 00:04:44,694 --> 00:04:48,364 the thing that happens is, if I make a new document, those don't come along. 103 104 00:04:49,818 --> 00:04:51,451 You can see, it's kind of cleared off. 104 105 00:04:51,476 --> 00:04:54,185 So what you can do is, say you do spend some time... 105 106 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:57,138 say you're a Fashion Designer, you make some cool kind of, like... 106 107 00:04:57,365 --> 00:05:01,599 maybe some zipped patterns, or some sort of seams... 107 108 00:05:01,820 --> 00:05:03,476 you make some complex things... 108 109 00:05:03,501 --> 00:05:04,677 you want to save them out... 109 110 00:05:04,702 --> 00:05:07,610 share them with yourself, or other people in your team... 110 111 00:05:07,773 --> 00:05:09,641 what you can do is, you can tidy this one up. 111 112 00:05:12,226 --> 00:05:14,375 I'm going to select all of these, and just bin them. 112 113 00:05:15,523 --> 00:05:17,016 Let's say I've made just this one here. 113 114 00:05:17,041 --> 00:05:19,500 I think you need to delete the default in there. 114 115 00:05:19,805 --> 00:05:22,305 So what we can do now is go to 'Option' here... 115 116 00:05:22,330 --> 00:05:25,062 and say, I would like my friend to be saved. 116 117 00:05:25,664 --> 00:05:26,859 Give it a name. 117 118 00:05:28,023 --> 00:05:29,388 That's stored it somewhere... 118 119 00:05:29,413 --> 00:05:32,235 and might be cool, all your roads, and all your stitching. 119 120 00:05:32,953 --> 00:05:36,091 And if you want to load it, say you go to 'New Document'... 120 121 00:05:36,116 --> 00:05:37,266 and say, you, 'Open'. 121 122 00:05:37,437 --> 00:05:39,508 And down the bottom here it says, 'Other Library'... 122 123 00:05:39,540 --> 00:05:42,109 and go find that thing you just saved, and it will load in there. 123 124 00:05:42,505 --> 00:05:44,591 There are some interesting ones in here. 124 125 00:05:44,818 --> 00:05:46,833 Have a look, these are the defaults from Illustrator. 125 126 00:05:46,872 --> 00:05:49,770 I am not a fan of them all, Neon's kind of cool. 126 127 00:05:49,935 --> 00:05:52,232 Some kind of cool Neon one. 127 128 00:05:53,451 --> 00:05:54,701 It's my favorite of the bunch. 128 129 00:05:56,396 --> 00:05:58,794 Come on 80s, let's get all Neon. 129 130 00:06:00,365 --> 00:06:01,537 Let's zoom in. 130 131 00:06:01,896 --> 00:06:03,185 It's kind of Neon, right? 131 132 00:06:05,629 --> 00:06:06,870 So Graphic Style Library... 132 133 00:06:06,895 --> 00:06:10,231 also know that there are other people who have made Graphic Style Libraries. 133 134 00:06:10,256 --> 00:06:11,989 So I bet you, if you have a look... 134 135 00:06:12,014 --> 00:06:16,021 Google 'Graphic Styles for Stitching'. 135 136 00:06:16,216 --> 00:06:18,021 You will find some sort of stuff out there. 136 137 00:06:18,216 --> 00:06:20,263 Let's download it, and go to that open library. 137 138 00:06:21,039 --> 00:06:23,977 I hope that was interesting, let's get on to the next video.