- [Voiceover] In this movie, we're going to use the
eyebrows to cut into the eyes.
Which is a great use for the Divide Pathfinder Operation.
And we're also going to create
these variable width gradient strokes.
Alright, so I'll go ahead and switch over
to the document at hand.
And I'll select each one of the eyebrow paths
with the black-arrow tool, and then I'll press
Control C, or Command C on a Mac, to copy them
because in just a moment, we're going to lose them.
Alright, now I'll click off the paths
and then I'll select this guy along with the right eye.
And I'll go up to the Window Menu, and choose Pathfinder
to bring up the Pathfinder Panel.
And then I'll click on the first icon in the second row
to apply the Divide Pathfinder Operation,
at which point we end up with this effect here.
Now select this eyebrow, the left one
as well as the left eye, and repeat that operation
by once again clicking on that icon.
Or by pressing the keyboard shortcut of Control 4
here on the PC, or Command 4 on the Mac,
at which point I'll go ahead and hide the Pathfinder Panel,
then I'll shift-click on the right eye
in order to select it.
We've got two groups.
So, go up to the Object Menu and choose the Ungroup Command,
or press Control Shift G, or Command Shift G on a Mac,
then shift-click on each one of the eyes to deselect them.
And press the backspace key, or the delete key on a Mac,
in order to get rid of those little bits up above.
Alright, now I'm going to select both the eyes once again
by clicking on one and shift-clicking on the other.
And then I'm going to scoot this stroke down a little bit
by clicking on the Transform Effect associated
with the stroke here inside the Appearance Panel,
which will bring up the Transform Dialogue Box.
And then turn on the Preview check-box, if you like,
and click inside the Vertical Value and press the
up-arrow key to increase the value to 2 points.
That's all we need.
And then click OK in order to accept that change.
Alright now, let's pace back in those eyebrows by pressing
Control F, or Command F on a Mac.
And I'm going to take the Line Wave Value up to 4 points.
And I'll click on the word Stroke and
change the Caps to Round Caps, to round off the endpoints.
And then, let's go ahead and assign a gradient
to these strokes, by first making sure
that the stroke is active here inside the gradient panel.
And then, let's apply something simple like White, Black
just so we don't have too many color stops
that we're going to have to delete later.
And then, go ahead and grab the color Brown, 1
and drag it and drop it onto the color ramp.
And for some reason, it comes in transparent,
so I'll change its opacity value to 100%,
and I'll take the location value up to 33%,
and I'll get rid of that white color stop.
And then, I'll grab Brown, 3
and drag it and drop it onto the ramp.
And I'll change it's location value to 70%,
and then I'll get rid of this black color stop.
And I'll alt-drag, or option-drag, that first color stop
all the way over to the left-hand side of the gradient
in order to produce this effect here.
And we want the strokes to run along the length
of their path outlines.
So, go ahead and click on the second icon
next to the word Stroke right there.
Now, the impact of that modification might not be
immediately obvious because these strokes are
still fairly thin.
And so what I'm going to do is select the Width Tool,
which you can get by pressing Shift W; it's located
directly below the Scale Tool, as you may recall.
And I'm going to double-click at this location right here
in order to bring up the Width Point Edit Dialogue Box.
And I'm going to change the Total Width Value to 12,
and click OK.
And I want that width to continue to about here.
So, I'll go ahead and double-click on this point in the path
and change the Total Width Value to 12 points
once again.
And click OK.
And now you can see how the gradient is dark
at the beginning, it turns bright right there on the arc,
and it becomes dark once again.
And that's a function of the arrangement
of these color stops set to apply gradient along stroke.
Alright, we want to make some changes to this guy as well.
So, I'll double-click at about this location
to bring up the dialogue box
and I'll change the Total Width Value to 12 points
once again.
And then, I'll double-click right about there
at the end of the eye, and change this Total Width Value
to 12 points, and press the Enter key,
or the Return key on a Mac.
Alright, now we have a little bit of a problem so I'm going
to press the V key to switch back to my black-arrow tool.
I'll click off the path outlines and you can see
that while the bright point is on the arc over here
on the right-hand side, it's down at the bottom
of the eyebrow on the left-hand side.
And to remedy that, to put it up here on the arc,
you want to click on the line to select it.
And then go over here to the Gradient Panel
and click on the Reverse Gradient icon
in order to produce this effect right here.
Alright, now the final step is to create some shade
under these eyebrows.
And so I'll go ahead and shift-click on the right eyebrow.
And then I'll up to the Effect Menu, choose Stylize,
and choose Drop Shadow.
I'm happy with a Mode of Multiply
and an Opacity Value of 100%.
I've got an X-Offset of 0, a Y-Offset of 6,
and a Blur of 4, all of which is great.
But I'm going to click on the color swatch here,
then I'll click on the Color Swatches button,
and scroll down the list to Brown, 5.
And I'll select it, then click OK.
And if you want to see what that looks like,
turn on the Preview check-box.
And assuming that you're happy with what you see,
go ahead and click OK.
And then I'll click off the paths to deselect them.
Alright, that takes care of our
variable width gradient strokes,
something that wasn't even an option a few years ago.
What we still have left, the angry eyes
with their white highlights, which is why I'll show you how
to create them in the next movie.