- [Voiceover] Alright, the only problem with the
gradient fill inside the eye so far
is that it should be a radial gradient
instead of a linear one, as we can see when
I press Control + Y or Command + Y on the Mac
to expose the tracing template.
Which is secretly a good thing,
because we have even more control over
radial gradients when working with the gradient tool.
Alright, so I'll just go ahead and press
Control + Y or Command + Y on a Mac
to switch back to the preview mode.
And I'll press Control + 0 or Command + 0
on the Mac to zoom out.
Now, we're gonna start things off by modifying the
radial gradient that's assigned to the face,
and so I'll go ahead and press the Control key
or the Command key on a Mac to temporarily
access my last used arrow tool,
which happens to be the black arrow,
and then I'll click inside that background shape,
and then I'll release the Control key
or the Command key on a Mac to switch
control back to the gradient tool.
Alright, now notice we still have that
same annotator, and so I can move the gradient
by dragging this large circle,
or I can scale the gradient by
dragging the square at the end.
I don't really want to either of those things
though so I'll press Control + Z
or Command + Z on the Mac a couple of
times in order to undo those changes.
And then I'll move my cursor slightly beyond
the square handle and I'll drag it up like so
in order to change the angle of the gradient.
Now, so far it's not really making
any difference, but it will in just a moment.
And so I'm gonna drag this guy up to the top,
and if I want to constrain the angle to exactly vertical,
then I would press and hold the Shift key.
Now notice when you create a radial gradient,
you're painting the image with concentric rings of color,
starting at the center and progressing all the way
out to the perimeter of the shape.
And currently it's happening in even circles.
But lets say you want to redistribute the colors.
In that case you have this additional circular handle,
and if you drag on it, notice that you're going
to extend the gradient downward,
and you're gonna do so unevenly.
So notice that the colors are transitioning slowly
up here at the top of the shape and much more
quickly down here at the bottom.
And that's because we're relocating the first ring of color,
and then it's going out like this and getting
bigger and bigger as it goes upward.
And I can increase the effect even more if I drag
this down further, so we have just a little bit of orange
down here at the bottom and lot's of
orange up at the top of the shape.
Alright, but I don't want to go quite that crazy
with the effect, so I'll go ahead and drag this
guy back up to about this location right there.
And I also want to keep things straight,
so I'll move my cursor back up above the square,
and I'll press the Shift key as I scoot it over
so that the gradient is once again exactly vertical.
Alright, now let's go ahead and switch back to the eye.
I'll go ahead and Control or Command + click on it
in order to select it, and then I'll zoom in on the shape.
And I'll switch the type from linear to radial, like so.
And notice the big problem that we have right now.
We've got a circular gradient inside of a very elliptical
shape, and that's not really gonna work for us.
So the first thing I'm gonna do is rotate this guy
upward like so, and I'm pressing the Shift key as I do so,
to constrain the angle of the gradient to exactly vertical.
And now, I'll go ahead and drag this top square almost
all the way to the top of the eye.
And now notice these handles right here.
This guy down here at the bottom,
at least it's currently at the bottom,
allows me to scale the gradient proportionally.
That's not what I want to do, however,
so I'll go ahead and press Control + Z or
Command + Z on the Mac to undo that change.
Instead, I wanna drag this handle.
And notice when I hover over it that I see an arrowhead
with a little ellipse next to it,
which shows me that when I drag this handle,
I can change the aspect ratio of this shape.
And I'm gonna take it to about here,
at which point you can see a new aspect ratio
listed here inside the gradient panel.
And that way, if you happen to know a better value,
you can go ahead and dial it in.
For example, I might take this value up to 38% instead,
just to increase the width ever so slightly.
And then the final thing I wanna do is drag this
bottom circle right there down to about this location,
so that the colors are transitioning more rapidly
at the bottom of the shape than up here at the top.
And that'll give us this big shadow at the top of the eye.
And now, just to make sure things are nice and straight,
I'll drag just above the square widget while pressing
the Shift key to constrain the angle
of the gradient to exactly vertical.
And those are the special ways that you can use
the gradient tool along with the gradient annotator
when working on radial gradients here inside Illustrator.