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- In this movie, we're going to create

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these sculpted circles

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at each one of the six points of the star.

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This is largely a function of assigning

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multiple, variable-width strokes.

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So, I'll go ahead and switch over to

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my star in progress;

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I'm going to turn off the main star

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and Inset Layers for a moment,

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and then click on the Shapes
Layer to make it active.

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I want to go ahead and select
this circle right there,

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and then I'll press the Alt key,

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or the Option key on the Mac,

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and drag that colored square

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up to the Inset Layer, in
order to make a copy of it.

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Then, I'll turn off the Shapes Layer

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and turn the other two layers back on.

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Now, I'm going to zoom in on
this circle, quite a bit here.

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The thing about a circle,
is that it begins here,

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on it's right-hand point,
and that means that

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if we're going to assign
a variable-width stroke,

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we've got to have a
width-point right there,

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which is not what I want;

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that'll make a mess of everything.

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I need to rotate this
beginning point, in the circle,

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upward to the top of the
shape, and you can do that by

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clicking on the word Transform,

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up here in the Control Panel,

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and then, make sure the
center point is selected,

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in a Reference Point Matrix,

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and change this Rotate
Value to 90 degrees,

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and press the Enter key or
the Return key on the Mac.

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It will not look any different,

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but it will behave differently.

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Now, go up to the first color swatch,

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up here in the Control Panel,

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and change the fill color
to the darkest brass

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which is e21m49y100k7
and then let's go ahead

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and change the stroke
color to this last guy,

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c1m8y32k5, and now what I want you to do,

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is increase the Line Weight
Value to 15, like so.

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Now, go ahead and get the Width tool,

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which, as you may recall,
has a keyboard shortcut

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of Shift + W, and go
ahead and double-click

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on this top Anchor point, there,

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to bring up the Width
Point Edit dialogue box,

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Change the first Size value to 0,

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and change the second Size
value to 15, and then click OK.

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You notice, we cannot delete this point,

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because this is the point
at which the shape starts.

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Now, just go ahead and click OK.

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The reason we're not seeing anything,

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is because the fill's
in front of the stroke,

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so, go to the Appearance panel,

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and just drag the stroke up to
in front of the fill like so.

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Now what you want to do is,

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double-click on this bottom point,

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and go ahead and change
the Size 1 value to 0,

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and change the Size 2 value to 1,

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and then click OK in order
to accept that change.

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Now, we want to reduce the
Opacity of this stroke,

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so you want to click on
the actual stroke itself,

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and notice, I want you to see something.

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When we're seeing this Asterisk
after the Line Weight Value,

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that's telling us that we
have a Variable-Weight stroke.

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I just want you to notice that.

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I'm going to go ahead
and click on that stroke,

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twirl it open as well, by
clicking on it's little triangle,

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and then click on the word Opacity,

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and I want you to take this
Opacity value down to 25%

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and press the Enter key or
the Return key on a Mac,

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so that we have this translucent stroke.

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Now we're going to build it up

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by selecting the stroke once again,

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and then clicking on the little page icon

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at the bottom of the panel.

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Now, you want to reduce
the Line Weight to 10;

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you don't have to do anything

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about the Variable Width, it's all fine.

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Then click on the word
Opacity and take it up to 50%

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this time, and now let's make another copy

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by clicking on the 10 point stroke,

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clicking on the little page
icon at the bottom of the panel,

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reducing the Line Weight to 5 points,

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and this time I'm going
to click on the word

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Opacity right there, and
then click on the trash can

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at the bottom of the Appearance Panel,

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in order to restore an Opacity of 100%.

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Now, I'm going to zoom out,

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so you can take in the
entire illustration,

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and I have to once again
duplicate this circle,

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so you might have figured
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a better idea to bring
over all six circles

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and modify them all at the same time,

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but in my experience,
it doesn't really work.

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Things get all messed up.

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We're just going to
duplicate this guy again,

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by pressing the V key

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to switch back to the Black Arrow tool.

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Go to your Layers panel and
turn on the Shapes layer,

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just so we have something
to snap into alignment with.

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Then go ahead and drag this
guy by its center point,

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until it snaps into position right there,

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do it again over to this position,

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and by the way, I'm pressing the Alt key,

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or the Option key on the Mac,

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in order to make it
duplicate of these circles.

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Shift + Click on that guy,
and then drag him down

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while pressing the Alt key,
or the Option key on the Mac.

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Then, finally, grab this top guy again,

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and drag him down by his center point,

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

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in order to make that final copy.

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Then, I'll go ahead and
turn off the Shapes layer,

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so we can take in our artwork.

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That's how you create a
kind of sculptural effect,

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by layering multiple,
Variable-width strokes,

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here, inside Illustrator.