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- [Voiceover] All right,
now let's try our hands

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at a real world project in the
form of this Sheriff's badge,

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which may look a little bit complicated,

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but it's actually quite doable,

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and it's made exclusively of this star,

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along with a bunch of
circles and a big ellipse.

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All right, so the first
thing we want to do

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is bring up our center guide template,

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by going up to the File menu

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and choosing the New
from Template command,

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or you can press Control+Shift+N,

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or Command+Shift+N on the Mac,

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and then locate your template file

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and click the New button in
order to make a new document.

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All right, now I want to lay
down a couple more guides here,

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so I'm gonna click on
the Guides layer here

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instead of the Layers panel,
and I'll press Control+R,

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or Command+R on the Mac in
order to bring up the rulers,

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and then, I'll drag out a
horizontal guide, like so,

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and now, I'm going to press Control+R,

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or Command+R on the Mac,
to get rid of the rulers,

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and I'll go up to the View
menu, choose Guides, and then,

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choose the Lock Guides
command to unlock the guide,

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and I'll go ahead and marquis it like so,

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and then, you want to bring
up the Transform panel,

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or if you can already see the
Y-value in the control panel,

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don't worry about it.

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In either event, just go ahead
and change the Y-value here

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to 50, and press the Tab key,
and that will move the guide

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to 50 points below the
top of the artboard.

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All right, now click
in that Y-value again,

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and this time click in front of it,

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and enter 672, which is
the height of the artboard,

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minus 50, and then, instead
of pressing the Enter key,

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press Alt+Enter here on the PC,
or Option+Return on the Mac,

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and that'll go ahead and make a copy

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of that guide, as you're seeing there.

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Then, go ahead and click off the guide,

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go to the View menu, choose
Guides, and choose Lock Guides

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to, once again, lock them down.

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All right, now I'm
gonna create a new layer

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by pressing the Alt key, or
the Option key on the Mac,

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and clicking on the little page icon

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at the bottom of the Layers panel.

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The color of green is just fine,

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but I'm gonna call this
guy background, let's say,

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and then click OK, and now,
I'm gonna zoom out a little bit

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by pressing Control+Minus,
or Command+Minus on the Mac,

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and I'm gonna select the Rectangle tool,

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and I'm gonna drag from one
bleed corner to the other

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of that red bleed boundary,

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in order to create this
gigantic rectangle,

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and it comes up with no
stroke or no fill in my case.

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Having no stroke is just fine,

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and I'm gonna change the fill

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to this shade of green right here,

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the dark one, which is R0 G104 B55,

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in order to create this big,
green rectangle, like so,

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and then, I'm gonna
click in this Lock column

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in order to lock the background layer.

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All right, now I'll go ahead and zoom in,

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and I'm gonna rename this
drawing layer Shapes,

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because it's gonna contain the main shapes

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that we're going to
reference multiple times

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inside this project, and now,
I'll just press the Enter key,

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or the Return key on the
Mac, to accept that name,

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and I will click and
hold on the Shape tool,

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in order to bring up the
Shape tool flyout menu,

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and I will go ahead and
select the Star tool,

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and I'm gonna drag from the intersection

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of these two guides downward,
like so, and notice that

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we currently have a five pointed star.

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I want a six pointed star, so
I'll press the up arrow once,

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and then, I'll drag down
until I snap to that guide

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at the bottom of the screen,
and before I release,

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I'll press and hold the Alt key,

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or the Option key on the Mac,

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so that all the sides
align with each other,

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and then, I'll go ahead and
release the mouse button,

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and then, release the Alt or Option key

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to create that new shape.

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All right, I wanted to
have a brown stroke,

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so I'll go ahead and set the stroke

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up here in the control panel,

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and I want the line
width to be four points,

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and I also want to set the
interior color of the star

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to something other than green.

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All right, the swatch I'm looking for

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is not here by default.

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What you have to do is click
on that little Libraries icon,

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in the bottom left corner
of the Swatches panel,

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and then, choose Metal,

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and that'll bring up a
bunch of groups of colors,

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as we're seeing right here.

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Make the panel nice and
big, so that we can see

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this guy right here, Brass2.

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You want to drag that entire folder,

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and drop it into the Swatches panel,

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and then, click off those
swatches to deselect them,

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and you can close the
free floating Metal panel,

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and then, assuming your fill is active,

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go ahead and select this third swatch,

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C=0 M=19 Y=54 K=8,

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in order to fill the star, like so.

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All right, now we want to
make a bunch of circles

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at the tips, and so,
I'm gonna click and hold

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on the Star tool, to once again,

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bring up the Shape tool flyout menu,

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and I'll select the Ellipse tool,

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and then, I'm gonna Alt+click,

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or Option+click up here at the top,

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in order to bring up the
Ellipse dialogue box,

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and notice that the Width and
Height values are the same.

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I want them to remain the same,

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so I'm gonna turn on this
Link icon right there,

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and I'm gonna change the
Width value to 40 points.

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That changes the Height
value to 40 points as well,

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at which point, I'll go ahead and click OK

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in order to create that circle.

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All right, now, I'm gonna
grab the black Arrow tool.

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Now, you may know that there's a way

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to basically rotate these
circles around the badge.

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I don't want to do that though,

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because that'll end up
creating problems later,

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so I'm just gonna duplicate this circle

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by dragging its center point

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until it snaps into alignment
with the star point,

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at which point, I'll press the Alt key,

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or the Option key on the Mac,

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in order to create a duplicate,

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and then, I'll do the same over here,

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so I'm constantly dragging
by the center point,

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and now that I've got these two circles

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right next to each other,

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I'll Shift+click on this
guy, and drag it down,

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so that I'm duplicating
both of those circles,

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and again, I want to make sure

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that I'm snapping into alignment,

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so I want to see a double wide arrowhead,

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at which point, I'll go ahead and release,

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and then, I'm gonna duplicate this guy

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up here at the top,
down here at the bottom,

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and I'll, again, press the Alt key,

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or the Option key on the Mac,

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and make sure that I'm snapping
into alignment, like so.

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And now, I'll click off
the circle to deselect it,

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and now, I'm gonna press
Control+A, or Command+A on the Mac,

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to select all of those shapes,

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and I'll go up to the Window
menu and choose Appearance,

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to bring up the Appearance panel,

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and I want this stroke to
be in back of the fill,

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so I'm just gonna go ahead
and drag it and drop it

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in back of the fill, like so,

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and then, I'll click off
the shapes to deselect them.

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All right, that takes
care of our base shapes.

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In the next movie, we'll
merge them together

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using the Shape Builder tool.