- [Voiceover] Alright, in this movie,
we're gonna build this big ambitious background effect,
and we're ultimately gonna create it
as a combination of four graphic styles.
And so I'm gonna start things off by grabbing the zig zag
and roughen effects that are assigned to our line,
and I'm gonna drop down to the little page icon
at the bottom of the panel and I'll click on it
in order to get rid of them.
And that's because we're gonna build a new base
colorful style here.
And so I'll go ahead and click on the Stroke,
I'm gonna take it's Line Weight up to 3 points,
I'm gonna click on the word Stroke
and change it's corner to Round Join,
and that way when it gets roughed up
there will be some rounding going on.
And I'll click on it's color swatch
and set it to this light shade of orange,
the one that begins R=251.
Alright now I'll create a new stroke
by clicking on the Add New Stroke icon
in the bottom left corner of the Appearance panel,
and I'll go ahead and click on this new stroke
and I'll change it's line weight to 6 point,
and I'll change the color to black.
Alright once again drop down to that icon,
or you can press a keyboard shortcut
of CTRL ALT /
or Command Option / on a Mac.
Now click on the bottom Stroke,
and take it's line weight up to 10 points,
and click on the color swatch icon,
and change it to this light shade of pink,
which begins R=237.
Alright now again we want to create a new Stroke
so either click on the icon
or press CTRL + ALT + /
or Command + Option + / on a Mac.
We'll change this line weight to 18 points,
this is all trial and error stuff by the way.
I'll click on it's color swatch
and change it to black.
And then I'll press CTRL + ALT + /
or Command + Option + / again,
change the color this time around to this medium violet,
which begins R=102,
and I'll change the line weight to just 20 points,
and I'll go ahead and select both of these strokes
right here, the 10 point and the 18 point strokes,
and I'll create copies of them by clicking
on the little page icon
in the bottom right corner of the panel.
And I'll select these two guys,
click on one, Shift-click on the other,
drag them below the purple swatch,
and then just change the line weight of the black swatch
to 40 points thick so we're filling in any gaps,
and change the line weight of the pink swatch to 24 points.
In order to produce this effect there.
And you may not see that pink Stroke very much, but,
we're gonna bring it out when we assign
Zig Zag and Roughen in the future.
Alright let's go ahead and save this Style
by ALT or Option clicking on the little page icon
at the bottom of the Graphic Styles panel,
and I'll call this guy Colorful Build,
let's say, and click OK.
Now notice these kind of white veins
that are running through the pattern.
Let's go ahead and create them as an independent style.
And so I'll go ahead and grab that top stroke
and I'll set it to just 1 point thick,
and then I'll change it's color to black,
and now I'm gonna select the Stroke below it,
and Shift click on the bottom Stroke,
and click on the little Trash icon to get rid of them,
so we have just this one little stroke and nothing more.
Now what I'd like to be able to do is click on this Stroke,
and then press the ALT key or the Option key on a Mac,
and click on the Twist Only style,
in order to add it to the Stroke, but,
because it was set up as being applied
to the path in the first place,
that's where it lands.
And so what I'm gonna do is grab that twist effect
and drag it and drop it onto the stroke,
in order to twist the stroke and not the entire path,
and this way it's not gonna look any different.
But then what I want you to do is select the stroke
and click on the little page icon
in order to create a copy of it,
and then with whichever one twirled open,
click on the word Twist right there,
and change it's angle to -100 degrees
and turn on the Preview checkbox,
and you'll see everything twist in the opposite direction.
At which point, click OK to accept that effect.
Now what we need to do is get rid of the transform effect,
because if we combine this guy
with the one that's transformed,
then we're going to transform the transformations,
which we don't wanna do,
so go ahead and select the Transform effect,
and click on the Trash can icon,
in the bottom right corner of the Appearance panel
to get rid of it, and now we want these guys to be white.
So change each one of the
strokes to the color white like so.
And that's gonna make everything disappear,
but that doesn't really matter.
We have the effect we're looking for.
So now go ahead and ALT or Option click
on the little page icon, create a new Style,
and let's call this guy Double Twist let's say,
and then click OK.
Alright now let's combine everything together
to a wonderful effect,
and so first I'm going to expand the Graphics Styles
panel a little bit,
and I'll start by clicking on Colorful Build,
that will be the first Style that we apply.
The second Style is going to be Zig Zag only,
and so what I want you to do is press the ALT key
or the Option key on a Mac,
and click on ZigZag Only,
in order to add it to the effect.
Alright now go ahead and move over to Roughen Only,
and press the ALT key or the Option key on a Mac
and click on it in order to add it to the effect
which will produce this wonderous assemblage right here,
and just to make sure that we're safe,
I'm gonna save this as a Style
by ALT or Option clicking on a page icon,
and I'll call this one crazy lines, let's say,
and then click OK.
And now I just want you to notice something.
Currently each line is being roughed up differently
than it's neighbor,
but we're roughing up each group
of Strokes to the same extent.
If you want all the Strokes to go all over the place,
grab the Roughen,
and then drag it down to the bottom of the list like so.
And what that's gonna do is Roughen up
each and every Stroke independently
in order to produce this crazy effect right here.
And I'm gonna save this out
by ALT or Option clicking on the little page icon,
and calling this one, let's say, Random Blast.
And then I'll click OK.
And then finally, I'm gonna go ahead
and move Roughen back where it was,
because I actually wanna roughen all the strokes
to the same extent,
but don't move it above Zigzag,
don't put it there, don't drop it there,
drop it below Zigzag, right there,
at that location, that's gonna end up producing
the effect you see on screen,
and then finally I want you to press the ALT key
or the Option key on a Mac
and click on the Double Twist effect
in order to add it to the collection.
Now those two strokes are gonna come in at the bottom,
so go ahead and click one and Shift-click on the other,
and drag them to the top of the Stroke stack
in order to produce this final effect here.
And at this point I decided things were a little
too busy for my tastes,
so I clicked on the word Transform,
in order to bring up the Transform Effect panel,
and I changed the angle to 4 degrees,
which means this time we only need 45 lines in all,
which means 45 minus 1,
44 copies, at which point,
I'll just go ahead and click OK to accept that change,
and achieve this final effect here,
and I love it so much obviously
that I'm gonna save it out by ALT or Option clicking
on that little page icon and I'm gonna call this
Final Multiline Effect,
and then I'll click OK.
And finally I'll press CTRL + SHIFT + A
or Command + Shift + A on a Mac,
in order to deselect my artwork.
And that's how you proudly thump your chest
and proclaim yourself master of the Graphic Style.
By ultimately combining four of them,
here inside Illustrator.