- In this movie we're going to add
a giant circle around the star
and we're also going to color in each one
of these circles at the stars point.
And along the way,
I'll show you a different way to color shapes
using the Shape Builder Tool.
And so I'll go ahead and switch over to
my document so far
and I'm going to draw a couple of circles here.
And I'm going to press the Alt key,
or the Option key on the Mac,
and click at the intersection of those
two center guides to bring up the
Ellipse dialog box, and I'm going to
change each one of these values,
the Width and Height values,
to 600 points, and click Okay.
And that goes ahead and creates a circle
from the center outward.
And then I'll Alt, or Option click again
in order to revisit the Ellipse dialog box.
I'm going to turn on the link this time around,
because the values are the same,
and I'll change the Width value to 550
and that will change the Height value, as well,
and then click Okay.
All right and now let's go ahead and join
these shapes together by first
switching to the black arrow tool,
which of course you can get by pressing the V key.
And then I'll Shift on the outside circle
and I'll go ahead and select the Shape Builder Tool.
And then I want you to press the Enter key,
or the Return key on the Mac,
to bring up the Shape Builder Options dialog box.
And let's change Pick Color From
to Color Swatches, like so,
and then turn on the Cursor Swatch preview.
And next, click Okay,
and you will see a little preview of your color swatches
above your cursor, at which point you want to
press the right arrow a key a bunch of times
until you come up with that light shade of orange
right there.
And you also see it highlight inside the Swatches Panel,
it's R251, G176, B59.
And now what you want to do is just click in this ring
right there and that will divide it off
and color it, as well.
And then press the Alt key,
or the Option key on the Mac,
and click inside the circle
in order to get rid of that area.
And now just go ahead and press the V key
to switch back to the black arrow tool.
The shape should be selected,
in which case, go ahead and drag it down
to the Main Star layer, like so,
here inside the Layers Panel.
And then right click on it, choose Arrange,
and choose Send to Back in order to send it
in back of that star.
And now you want to switch to the Appearance Panel,
which in my case is right next door to
the Layers Panel, so I'll go ahead and click on it.
And I'm going to change the Stroke color
to that dark brown, once again,
R66, G33, B11.
I'll go ahead and change the Lineweight to four points,
and I'll drag the stroke below the fill, like so,
in order to produce this effect.
All right, now let's add a dotted border
by once again getting the Ellipse Tool.
And I'm going to again, Alt click,
or Option click at the intersection of those two guides.
And this time I'm going to set the Width value to 575,
the two values are still linked,
so that changes the Height value, as well.
I'll go ahead and click Okay
in order to accept that change, and I'm
going to get rid of the fill up here in the Control Panel
by getting rid on that first swatch
and changing it to None.
And then I'm going to change the color of the stroke
to this brightest Brass color
which is C0, M5, Y15, K4.
And I'll increase the Lineweight value
to 16 points, like so.
And again, we need to move this guy back,
so this time I'm just going to press Control X,
or Command X on the Mac, to cut up the shape
and then I'll press the V key
to switch to the black arrow tool
and I'll click on that ring right there
and press Control F, or Command F on the Mac
in order to paste the new shape directly in front of it.
All right, I'm looking for a dotted stroke this time, and I
want a total of 36 dots around the entire circumference
of this circle, so I once again went to the Circumference
Calculator, and I dialed in half of our diameter,
which is 287.5, incidentally,
I just figured that out on the calculator.
And as soon as I hit Calculate,
I get this big value right here,
I'm just going to select everything up
to the first three decimals deep,
and press Control C, or Command C on the Mac
to copy that value.
And then I'll go back to Illustrator,
click on the word Stroke,
go ahead and turn on your Round Cap
and then click on the dash line check box.
You want the Dash to be zero points
and then you want the Gap to be that value
you just copied divided, so slash 36,
and then press the Tab key
and that gives us a Gap value of 50.178.
And it's okay to leave this preserve icon turned on.
After which point just press the Enter key,
or the Return key on the Mac,
then go over here to the Appearance Panel,
click on that Stroke to make it active,
and click on the little page icon at the bottom of the panel
to make a copy of it and then change the color to this guy,
C0, M19, Y54, K8, in order to darken things up.
And now go ahead and reduce the Lineweight value
to just 12 points, like so.
All right, now I want you to add a drop shadow
to these elements so that you can gain access
to this Main Star layer, click in its upper right corner
in order to select all three of the shapes on that layer,
and then I want you to go up to the Effect menu,
choose Stylize, and choose Drop Shadow.
After which point you can enter these values right here,
so we got an Opacity of 75%,
the X offset is negative five,
both the Y Offset and the Blur, are positive five.
If you want to see what that looks like
turn on the Preview check box
and you'll end up with this result right here,
after which point you can click Okay
in order to apply that drop shadow,
and then click off the shapes to deselect them.
And that's how you create the big circle
and ornaments around the star,
as well as how you modify the color of the shape
as you're creating it using the Shape Builder Tool.