- [Voiceover] All right, now let's try our hands
at a real world project in the form of this Sheriff's badge,
which may look a little bit complicated,
but it's actually quite doable,
and it's made exclusively of this star,
along with a bunch of circles and a big ellipse.
All right, so the first thing we want to do
is bring up our center guide template,
by going up to the File menu
and choosing the New from Template command,
or you can press Control+Shift+N,
or Command+Shift+N on the Mac,
and then locate your template file
and click the New button in order to make a new document.
All right, now I want to lay down a couple more guides here,
so I'm gonna click on the Guides layer here
instead of the Layers panel, and I'll press Control+R,
or Command+R on the Mac in order to bring up the rulers,
and then, I'll drag out a horizontal guide, like so,
and now, I'm going to press Control+R,
or Command+R on the Mac, to get rid of the rulers,
and I'll go up to the View menu, choose Guides, and then,
choose the Lock Guides command to unlock the guide,
and I'll go ahead and marquis it like so,
and then, you want to bring up the Transform panel,
or if you can already see the Y-value in the control panel,
don't worry about it.
In either event, just go ahead and change the Y-value here
to 50, and press the Tab key, and that will move the guide
to 50 points below the top of the artboard.
All right, now click in that Y-value again,
and this time click in front of it,
and enter 672, which is the height of the artboard,
minus 50, and then, instead of pressing the Enter key,
press Alt+Enter here on the PC, or Option+Return on the Mac,
and that'll go ahead and make a copy
of that guide, as you're seeing there.
Then, go ahead and click off the guide,
go to the View menu, choose Guides, and choose Lock Guides
to, once again, lock them down.
All right, now I'm gonna create a new layer
by pressing the Alt key, or the Option key on the Mac,
and clicking on the little page icon
at the bottom of the Layers panel.
The color of green is just fine,
but I'm gonna call this guy background, let's say,
and then click OK, and now, I'm gonna zoom out a little bit
by pressing Control+Minus, or Command+Minus on the Mac,
and I'm gonna select the Rectangle tool,
and I'm gonna drag from one bleed corner to the other
of that red bleed boundary,
in order to create this gigantic rectangle,
and it comes up with no stroke or no fill in my case.
Having no stroke is just fine,
and I'm gonna change the fill
to this shade of green right here,
the dark one, which is R0 G104 B55,
in order to create this big, green rectangle, like so,
and then, I'm gonna click in this Lock column
in order to lock the background layer.
All right, now I'll go ahead and zoom in,
and I'm gonna rename this drawing layer Shapes,
because it's gonna contain the main shapes
that we're going to reference multiple times
inside this project, and now, I'll just press the Enter key,
or the Return key on the Mac, to accept that name,
and I will click and hold on the Shape tool,
in order to bring up the Shape tool flyout menu,
and I will go ahead and select the Star tool,
and I'm gonna drag from the intersection
of these two guides downward, like so, and notice that
we currently have a five pointed star.
I want a six pointed star, so I'll press the up arrow once,
and then, I'll drag down until I snap to that guide
at the bottom of the screen, and before I release,
I'll press and hold the Alt key,
or the Option key on the Mac,
so that all the sides align with each other,
and then, I'll go ahead and release the mouse button,
and then, release the Alt or Option key
to create that new shape.
All right, I wanted to have a brown stroke,
so I'll go ahead and set the stroke
up here in the control panel,
and I want the line width to be four points,
and I also want to set the interior color of the star
to something other than green.
All right, the swatch I'm looking for
is not here by default.
What you have to do is click on that little Libraries icon,
in the bottom left corner of the Swatches panel,
and then, choose Metal,
and that'll bring up a bunch of groups of colors,
as we're seeing right here.
Make the panel nice and big, so that we can see
this guy right here, Brass2.
You want to drag that entire folder,
and drop it into the Swatches panel,
and then, click off those swatches to deselect them,
and you can close the free floating Metal panel,
and then, assuming your fill is active,
go ahead and select this third swatch,
C=0 M=19 Y=54 K=8,
in order to fill the star, like so.
All right, now we want to make a bunch of circles
at the tips, and so, I'm gonna click and hold
on the Star tool, to once again,
bring up the Shape tool flyout menu,
and I'll select the Ellipse tool,
and then, I'm gonna Alt+click,
or Option+click up here at the top,
in order to bring up the Ellipse dialogue box,
and notice that the Width and Height values are the same.
I want them to remain the same,
so I'm gonna turn on this Link icon right there,
and I'm gonna change the Width value to 40 points.
That changes the Height value to 40 points as well,
at which point, I'll go ahead and click OK
in order to create that circle.
All right, now, I'm gonna grab the black Arrow tool.
Now, you may know that there's a way
to basically rotate these circles around the badge.
I don't want to do that though,
because that'll end up creating problems later,
so I'm just gonna duplicate this circle
by dragging its center point
until it snaps into alignment with the star point,
at which point, I'll press the Alt key,
or the Option key on the Mac,
in order to create a duplicate,
and then, I'll do the same over here,
so I'm constantly dragging by the center point,
and now that I've got these two circles
right next to each other,
I'll Shift+click on this guy, and drag it down,
so that I'm duplicating both of those circles,
and again, I want to make sure
that I'm snapping into alignment,
so I want to see a double wide arrowhead,
at which point, I'll go ahead and release,
and then, I'm gonna duplicate this guy
up here at the top, down here at the bottom,
and I'll, again, press the Alt key,
or the Option key on the Mac,
and make sure that I'm snapping into alignment, like so.
And now, I'll click off the circle to deselect it,
and now, I'm gonna press Control+A, or Command+A on the Mac,
to select all of those shapes,
and I'll go up to the Window menu and choose Appearance,
to bring up the Appearance panel,
and I want this stroke to be in back of the fill,
so I'm just gonna go ahead and drag it and drop it
in back of the fill, like so,
and then, I'll click off the shapes to deselect them.
All right, that takes care of our base shapes.
In the next movie, we'll merge them together
using the Shape Builder tool.