1 00:00:00.05 --> 00:00:01.06 - In this movie, we're going to do 2 00:00:01.06 --> 00:00:03.03 some actual shape building. 3 00:00:03.03 --> 00:00:04.09 Now the thing about the shape builder tool 4 00:00:04.09 --> 00:00:08.08 is that it does permanently modify your path outlines 5 00:00:08.08 --> 00:00:11.08 and you never know when you're creating something like this 6 00:00:11.08 --> 00:00:13.00 whether you're going to come back 7 00:00:13.00 --> 00:00:14.09 to your original paths or not. 8 00:00:14.09 --> 00:00:17.03 So it's always a good idea to duplicate them 9 00:00:17.03 --> 00:00:19.00 by going back to the layers panel 10 00:00:19.00 --> 00:00:21.00 you can see I have a backup on screen. 11 00:00:21.00 --> 00:00:23.05 And then clicking on the flyout menu icon, 12 00:00:23.05 --> 00:00:25.08 and choosing the duplicate shapes command. 13 00:00:25.08 --> 00:00:28.07 And then I'm going to turn off the original shapes layer 14 00:00:28.07 --> 00:00:30.03 and I'm going to double click 15 00:00:30.03 --> 00:00:31.06 on an empty portion of this layer 16 00:00:31.06 --> 00:00:34.01 and I'm going to call this guy main star 17 00:00:34.01 --> 00:00:37.02 and I'll change the color to medium blue let's say. 18 00:00:37.02 --> 00:00:39.02 And then click okay. 19 00:00:39.02 --> 00:00:41.00 Alright, now you just want to select everything 20 00:00:41.00 --> 00:00:44.00 by pressing control a or command a on the Mac. 21 00:00:44.00 --> 00:00:46.04 And then go ahead and grab that shape builder tool 22 00:00:46.04 --> 00:00:50.08 and press the shift key and just marquee everything like so 23 00:00:50.08 --> 00:00:52.08 in order to merge it all together. 24 00:00:52.08 --> 00:00:56.05 Alright now I want to create the reflections inside the star 25 00:00:56.05 --> 00:00:59.00 and so I'm going to again duplicate this layer 26 00:00:59.00 --> 00:01:01.04 by clicking on that flyout menu icon 27 00:01:01.04 --> 00:01:03.06 and choosing duplicate main star. 28 00:01:03.06 --> 00:01:06.04 And I'm going to double click an empty portion of the layer 29 00:01:06.04 --> 00:01:07.08 to bring up the layer options dialogue box. 30 00:01:07.08 --> 00:01:11.00 I'll go ahead and call this layer inset because 31 00:01:11.00 --> 00:01:13.03 we're going to eventually inset the star as you'll see. 32 00:01:13.03 --> 00:01:16.04 And I'll change the color to let's say violet 33 00:01:16.04 --> 00:01:18.09 just so it stands out and I'll click okay. 34 00:01:18.09 --> 00:01:20.09 Alright, I no longer want the stroke, 35 00:01:20.09 --> 00:01:22.05 but changing the stroke at this point 36 00:01:22.05 --> 00:01:23.08 isn't going to make any difference. 37 00:01:23.08 --> 00:01:26.03 Notice if I change the stroke from brown to white 38 00:01:26.03 --> 00:01:28.06 we're not actually seeing a change 39 00:01:28.06 --> 00:01:29.09 and that's because we're working 40 00:01:29.09 --> 00:01:31.04 with the shape builder tool. 41 00:01:31.04 --> 00:01:33.06 And so the easiest way to really change that stroke 42 00:01:33.06 --> 00:01:37.03 is to press the v key to switch back to the black arrow tool 43 00:01:37.03 --> 00:01:39.04 at which point you'll see that the stroke is still brown. 44 00:01:39.04 --> 00:01:41.03 And I can now change it to white 45 00:01:41.03 --> 00:01:43.01 just for the sake of demonstration. 46 00:01:43.01 --> 00:01:45.06 But I really don't want it so I'm going to change it to none 47 00:01:45.06 --> 00:01:49.04 Alright, now we want to draw a really big ellipse. 48 00:01:49.04 --> 00:01:51.02 So I'm going to click into the shapes layer 49 00:01:51.02 --> 00:01:53.05 to make it active and turn it back on as well. 50 00:01:53.05 --> 00:01:55.08 And then I'm going to zoom out from my artwork 51 00:01:55.08 --> 00:01:57.03 and I'm going to get the ellipse tool 52 00:01:57.03 --> 00:01:58.09 and as opposed to dragging with it, 53 00:01:58.09 --> 00:02:01.06 I'm just going to click and I'm going to turn off the link 54 00:02:01.06 --> 00:02:04.03 and I'm going to change the width value to 900 points 55 00:02:04.03 --> 00:02:05.06 and I'll take the height value 56 00:02:05.06 --> 00:02:07.09 up to 500 points and click okay 57 00:02:07.09 --> 00:02:10.09 in order to create this gigantic shape right here. 58 00:02:10.09 --> 00:02:12.04 And then I'll go ahead and drag it 59 00:02:12.04 --> 00:02:15.01 up to about this location here. 60 00:02:15.01 --> 00:02:17.04 So notice that it's higher than the center 61 00:02:17.04 --> 00:02:18.07 over here on the left hand side 62 00:02:18.07 --> 00:02:21.08 and it's lower than the center on the right hand side. 63 00:02:21.08 --> 00:02:22.08 So I'm along those lines. 64 00:02:22.08 --> 00:02:24.06 Of course, you can go your own way if you want to. 65 00:02:24.06 --> 00:02:27.01 And then I'll just go ahead and zoom back in 66 00:02:27.01 --> 00:02:29.07 and I'm going to make a copy of this shape 67 00:02:29.07 --> 00:02:33.03 on the inset layer by alt or option dragging 68 00:02:33.03 --> 00:02:36.01 that little square which indicates the selection. 69 00:02:36.01 --> 00:02:38.01 And because I alt or option dragged it, 70 00:02:38.01 --> 00:02:40.02 I made a copy of it after which point 71 00:02:40.02 --> 00:02:42.08 I'll just go ahead and hide the shapes layer once again. 72 00:02:42.08 --> 00:02:45.04 Alright, now let's go ahead and merge these shapes together 73 00:02:45.04 --> 00:02:47.08 by shift clicking on that star 74 00:02:47.08 --> 00:02:50.08 and then I'm going to once again grab the shape builder tool 75 00:02:50.08 --> 00:02:54.04 And I'll just divide things by clicking on this top portion 76 00:02:54.04 --> 00:02:56.07 and then clicking again in this bottom area 77 00:02:56.07 --> 00:03:00.01 and then alt or option clicking on the ellipse 78 00:03:00.01 --> 00:03:02.07 outside of the start because we don't need it. 79 00:03:02.07 --> 00:03:05.03 And then I'll switch back to the black arrow tool 80 00:03:05.03 --> 00:03:06.06 by pressing the v key. 81 00:03:06.06 --> 00:03:09.03 And I'll go ahead and click off the shapes to deselect them. 82 00:03:09.03 --> 00:03:12.00 And then I'll click on this top shape to select it. 83 00:03:12.00 --> 00:03:13.04 And then I'll click on the first swatch 84 00:03:13.04 --> 00:03:15.07 up here in the control panel to change the fill 85 00:03:15.07 --> 00:03:18.08 and I'll set it to this final color in the group 86 00:03:18.08 --> 00:03:22.02 which is C1 M8 Y32 K5 87 00:03:22.02 --> 00:03:24.03 in order to produce this effect here. 88 00:03:24.03 --> 00:03:27.06 Alright now we need to create an inset reflection 89 00:03:27.06 --> 00:03:30.07 and so I need to go back and get the main star 90 00:03:30.07 --> 00:03:32.07 once again by clicking in the corner, 91 00:03:32.07 --> 00:03:35.01 the upper right corner of the main star layer. 92 00:03:35.01 --> 00:03:37.05 That'll go ahead and select the contents of that layer 93 00:03:37.05 --> 00:03:39.01 which is just that one shape. 94 00:03:39.01 --> 00:03:41.05 And then I'll alt drag or option drag it 95 00:03:41.05 --> 00:03:44.03 up the stack like so to make a copy of it. 96 00:03:44.03 --> 00:03:47.06 And now I'll go back to my shapes layer down here 97 00:03:47.06 --> 00:03:50.00 turn it on, click on the big ellipse, 98 00:03:50.00 --> 00:03:53.06 alt or option drag its square up to the inset layer, 99 00:03:53.06 --> 00:03:55.01 turn that shapes layer off again, 100 00:03:55.01 --> 00:03:58.02 and then I need to click on the big star to select it 101 00:03:58.02 --> 00:04:00.03 and we want to inset it. 102 00:04:00.03 --> 00:04:02.05 We want to move all of its points inwards 103 00:04:02.05 --> 00:04:04.00 so that the shape becomes smaller 104 00:04:04.00 --> 00:04:06.03 and you do that by going up to the object menu, 105 00:04:06.03 --> 00:04:09.08 choosing path, and then choosing offset path. 106 00:04:09.08 --> 00:04:12.00 And normally you're offsetting the path 107 00:04:12.00 --> 00:04:14.08 outward like so and you can see what that means 108 00:04:14.08 --> 00:04:16.04 by turning on the preview check box. 109 00:04:16.04 --> 00:04:17.08 That's not what we want though. 110 00:04:17.08 --> 00:04:19.02 We want to take it inwards. 111 00:04:19.02 --> 00:04:22.01 So enter a value of negative three 112 00:04:22.01 --> 00:04:23.06 and then click the okay button 113 00:04:23.06 --> 00:04:25.04 in order to accept that change. 114 00:04:25.04 --> 00:04:28.07 And that leaves a copy behind right there incidentally, 115 00:04:28.07 --> 00:04:30.09 so you want to get rid of that copy 116 00:04:30.09 --> 00:04:33.08 by selecting it and then pressing the backspace key 117 00:04:33.08 --> 00:04:35.02 or the delete key on the Mac. 118 00:04:35.02 --> 00:04:37.01 And then you want to select the inset path, 119 00:04:37.01 --> 00:04:39.05 get rid of its stroke once again 120 00:04:39.05 --> 00:04:41.04 by changing that stroke to none 121 00:04:41.04 --> 00:04:43.01 and then click on the big ellipse. 122 00:04:43.01 --> 00:04:46.04 And I want to change the color of both of these shapes 123 00:04:46.04 --> 00:04:48.09 to the darkest of the brass colors 124 00:04:48.09 --> 00:04:52.05 which is C21 M49 Y100 K7, 125 00:04:52.05 --> 00:04:54.03 and then we're going to switch back 126 00:04:54.03 --> 00:04:55.07 to the shape builder tool again. 127 00:04:55.07 --> 00:04:59.05 And click on this top shape, click on this one as well, 128 00:04:59.05 --> 00:05:01.06 and then alt or option click on the portion 129 00:05:01.06 --> 00:05:03.04 of the ellipse we no longer want. 130 00:05:03.04 --> 00:05:05.06 Alright, now I'm going to switch to the black arrow tool 131 00:05:05.06 --> 00:05:08.00 once again, click off the paths to deselect them, 132 00:05:08.00 --> 00:05:10.04 and click on this guy to select it. 133 00:05:10.04 --> 00:05:12.04 Now generally, you probably want to fill the shape 134 00:05:12.04 --> 00:05:14.05 with a gradient, but we're not going to 135 00:05:14.05 --> 00:05:17.00 get to the gradient tool until the advanced course, 136 00:05:17.00 --> 00:05:19.00 so for now just go up to the effect menu, 137 00:05:19.00 --> 00:05:22.08 choose stylize, and choose inner glow. 138 00:05:22.08 --> 00:05:24.09 And here's the settings I came up with. 139 00:05:24.09 --> 00:05:26.07 So the first thing you want to do 140 00:05:26.07 --> 00:05:28.07 is click on the color swatch right there, 141 00:05:28.07 --> 00:05:31.02 and then click on the color swatch's button, 142 00:05:31.02 --> 00:05:34.04 and then navigate your way down to the browns, 143 00:05:34.04 --> 00:05:37.00 which are pretty low in the list as you can see here. 144 00:05:37.00 --> 00:05:41.04 The one we want is R96 G56 B19 145 00:05:41.04 --> 00:05:44.05 which is the second to darkest brown, then click okay. 146 00:05:44.05 --> 00:05:46.09 You want to change the mode to multiply 147 00:05:46.09 --> 00:05:49.06 so that you're darkening the star with this color. 148 00:05:49.06 --> 00:05:52.09 An opacity value of 30 percent works really nicely, 149 00:05:52.09 --> 00:05:55.03 and I cranked the blur value up to 50 points. 150 00:05:55.03 --> 00:05:57.01 And if you want to see what that looks like, 151 00:05:57.01 --> 00:05:59.06 just go ahead and turn on the preview check box 152 00:05:59.06 --> 00:06:02.06 and you'll see that soft darkening effect right there 153 00:06:02.06 --> 00:06:04.08 at which point you can go ahead and click okay 154 00:06:04.08 --> 00:06:07.08 in order to accept that change and then just go ahead 155 00:06:07.08 --> 00:06:10.08 and click off the path outlines to deselect them. 156 00:06:10.08 --> 00:06:12.05 And now if you zoom in over here, 157 00:06:12.05 --> 00:06:14.07 you can see that this reflection carries on 158 00:06:14.07 --> 00:06:18.02 past the inset to those original objects below. 159 00:06:18.02 --> 00:06:20.01 Alright, and so that's it. 160 00:06:20.01 --> 00:06:21.04 I'm going to go ahead and press control zero 161 00:06:21.04 --> 00:06:23.04 or command zero on a Mac to zoom out. 162 00:06:23.04 --> 00:06:26.07 And that's at least one way to use the shape builder tool 163 00:06:26.07 --> 00:06:31.05 to create an inset reflection here inside Illustrator.