- In this movie, we're going to do
some actual shape building.
Now the thing about the shape builder tool
is that it does permanently modify your path outlines
and you never know when you're creating something like this
whether you're going to come back
to your original paths or not.
So it's always a good idea to duplicate them
by going back to the layers panel
you can see I have a backup on screen.
And then clicking on the flyout menu icon,
and choosing the duplicate shapes command.
And then I'm going to turn off the original shapes layer
and I'm going to double click
on an empty portion of this layer
and I'm going to call this guy main star
and I'll change the color to medium blue let's say.
And then click okay.
Alright, now you just want to select everything
by pressing control a or command a on the Mac.
And then go ahead and grab that shape builder tool
and press the shift key and just marquee everything like so
in order to merge it all together.
Alright now I want to create the reflections inside the star
and so I'm going to again duplicate this layer
by clicking on that flyout menu icon
and choosing duplicate main star.
And I'm going to double click an empty portion of the layer
to bring up the layer options dialogue box.
I'll go ahead and call this layer inset because
we're going to eventually inset the star as you'll see.
And I'll change the color to let's say violet
just so it stands out and I'll click okay.
Alright, I no longer want the stroke,
but changing the stroke at this point
isn't going to make any difference.
Notice if I change the stroke from brown to white
we're not actually seeing a change
and that's because we're working
with the shape builder tool.
And so the easiest way to really change that stroke
is to press the v key to switch back to the black arrow tool
at which point you'll see that the stroke is still brown.
And I can now change it to white
just for the sake of demonstration.
But I really don't want it so I'm going to change it to none
Alright, now we want to draw a really big ellipse.
So I'm going to click into the shapes layer
to make it active and turn it back on as well.
And then I'm going to zoom out from my artwork
and I'm going to get the ellipse tool
and as opposed to dragging with it,
I'm just going to click and I'm going to turn off the link
and I'm going to change the width value to 900 points
and I'll take the height value
up to 500 points and click okay
in order to create this gigantic shape right here.
And then I'll go ahead and drag it
up to about this location here.
So notice that it's higher than the center
over here on the left hand side
and it's lower than the center on the right hand side.
So I'm along those lines.
Of course, you can go your own way if you want to.
And then I'll just go ahead and zoom back in
and I'm going to make a copy of this shape
on the inset layer by alt or option dragging
that little square which indicates the selection.
And because I alt or option dragged it,
I made a copy of it after which point
I'll just go ahead and hide the shapes layer once again.
Alright, now let's go ahead and merge these shapes together
by shift clicking on that star
and then I'm going to once again grab the shape builder tool
And I'll just divide things by clicking on this top portion
and then clicking again in this bottom area
and then alt or option clicking on the ellipse
outside of the start because we don't need it.
And then I'll switch back to the black arrow tool
by pressing the v key.
And I'll go ahead and click off the shapes to deselect them.
And then I'll click on this top shape to select it.
And then I'll click on the first swatch
up here in the control panel to change the fill
and I'll set it to this final color in the group
which is C1 M8 Y32 K5
in order to produce this effect here.
Alright now we need to create an inset reflection
and so I need to go back and get the main star
once again by clicking in the corner,
the upper right corner of the main star layer.
That'll go ahead and select the contents of that layer
which is just that one shape.
And then I'll alt drag or option drag it
up the stack like so to make a copy of it.
And now I'll go back to my shapes layer down here
turn it on, click on the big ellipse,
alt or option drag its square up to the inset layer,
turn that shapes layer off again,
and then I need to click on the big star to select it
and we want to inset it.
We want to move all of its points inwards
so that the shape becomes smaller
and you do that by going up to the object menu,
choosing path, and then choosing offset path.
And normally you're offsetting the path
outward like so and you can see what that means
by turning on the preview check box.
That's not what we want though.
We want to take it inwards.
So enter a value of negative three
and then click the okay button
in order to accept that change.
And that leaves a copy behind right there incidentally,
so you want to get rid of that copy
by selecting it and then pressing the backspace key
or the delete key on the Mac.
And then you want to select the inset path,
get rid of its stroke once again
by changing that stroke to none
and then click on the big ellipse.
And I want to change the color of both of these shapes
to the darkest of the brass colors
which is C21 M49 Y100 K7,
and then we're going to switch back
to the shape builder tool again.
And click on this top shape, click on this one as well,
and then alt or option click on the portion
of the ellipse we no longer want.
Alright, now I'm going to switch to the black arrow tool
once again, click off the paths to deselect them,
and click on this guy to select it.
Now generally, you probably want to fill the shape
with a gradient, but we're not going to
get to the gradient tool until the advanced course,
so for now just go up to the effect menu,
choose stylize, and choose inner glow.
And here's the settings I came up with.
So the first thing you want to do
is click on the color swatch right there,
and then click on the color swatch's button,
and then navigate your way down to the browns,
which are pretty low in the list as you can see here.
The one we want is R96 G56 B19
which is the second to darkest brown, then click okay.
You want to change the mode to multiply
so that you're darkening the star with this color.
An opacity value of 30 percent works really nicely,
and I cranked the blur value up to 50 points.
And if you want to see what that looks like,
just go ahead and turn on the preview check box
and you'll see that soft darkening effect right there
at which point you can go ahead and click okay
in order to accept that change and then just go ahead
and click off the path outlines to deselect them.
And now if you zoom in over here,
you can see that this reflection carries on
past the inset to those original objects below.
Alright, and so that's it.
I'm going to go ahead and press control zero
or command zero on a Mac to zoom out.
And that's at least one way to use the shape builder tool
to create an inset reflection here inside Illustrator.