- In this movie, we're going to create the clouds
and the birds, out here in the background.
And we're going to do so very simply,
by once again clicking with the Blob Brush
and the Eraser Tool, but this time
we're going to adjust the roundness of the brush.
I'm going to go ahead and switch over to
my document in progress, which as you can see,
is a little different than the one I created in advance.
And now, I'll switch to the Blob Brush,
which I can now get by pressing the b key,
and I'm going to increase the size of my brush
by pressing and holding the right bracket key,
but I also want to create something of a flatter brush.
Something that's not exactly this round.
And so I'll press the enter key,
or the return key on the Mac.
And notice these options down here below the Size value.
We've got Angle and Roundness.
Well, Angle's not going to make any difference
until you adjust the Roundness.
And you can do that by either reducing the Roundness value,
so anything less than a 100%, is an oval,
as you can see right here.
Or, you can drag these little handles
that are located on either side of the ellipse.
Then, you can modify the Angle, if you're so inclined,
and in addition to adjusting the Angle value down here,
you can drag this little arrowhead
on the right hand side of the oval.
In my case, I'm going to leave the Angle value
set to zero degrees,
and I'm going to change the Roundness value to 75%,
and then I'll click OK to accept that change,
and you can now see that I have a flatter brush.
At which point, I'm going to scroll over
a little bit like so.
And of course I want the clouds to be white,
and so I can either change the fill to white,
or I can specify a white stroke, like so.
And then, I'll press the escape key to hide that panel,
and I'll go ahead and click right about here,
to create my first oval.
Then I'll reduce the size of my brush and I'll click there,
and I'll reduce it even farther,
and click right about there,
above the guy's ear.
And I might want to put another oval
right about there, and possibly a larger one here,
and perhaps a smaller one right there.
And then I'll just paint the rest of the cloud,
in order to finish off that effect.
And now I'm going to go ahead and create another one
over here on the right hand side.
And you may have noticed
that I kind of misjoining these guys together,
and that's because I was clicking at different locations,
and because of that setting, that checkbox up here,
Merge Only with Selection, I have to have the clouds
selected in order to merge them.
Which means, that I could press the ctrl and shift keys,
that's command and shift on the mac,
and then click, on this cloud to select it,
and then if I just drag like so,
I'm going to merge all those clouds together.
Alright, now I might press shift, right arrow,
just to nudge those guys to the right a little bit,
and now I'm going to zoom in even more,
and I'm going to press ctrl, shift, a,
or command, shift, a, on a Mac to deselect the clouds.
And I'm going to change the fill color up here,
either fill or stroke actually,
to this light shade of gray,
where all the RGB values are 204.
And then, I'll press the escape key to hide that panel,
and I'll go ahead and increase the size of my brush
a little bit more, and I'll click there,
and then I'll reduce the size of my brush,
click right about here,
and I'll increase the size again, and click there.
Alright, now what we need to do,
is erase away some of these ellipses,
so that just the bottom edges of the clouds are gray.
And so I'll do that by first switching to the Eraser Tool,
which I can now get by pressing the e key,
and then I'll press the enter key,
or the return key on the Mac,
to bring up the Eraser Tool Options,
and I'll change its Roundness value to 75% as well,
and press the enter key,
or the return key on the Mac, to apply that change.
And now I'm going to make my brush just slightly smaller,
than this right hand ellipse.
And I'm going to click right about there,
and now I'll make the brush smaller still,
and click here, and then I'll make the brush bigger,
and the Eraser Tool seems to react much more quickly
than the Blob Brush, to you pressing the bracket keys,
so just bear that in mind.
And then, click a third time in order to create this effect,
and now I'll press ctrl, shift, a,
or command, shift, a, on the Mac,
to deselect those paths.
Alright, now let's go back to the very first cloud,
and select the Blob Brush once again,
and it looks like my cursor's big enough
to click right there, in the center of things,
and now I'll reduce the size of my brush,
and I'll click here, and here,
and then finally I'll reduce the brush size even further,
but not too far because I want to be able to click
on that selection, right at this location here.
Alright, now I'll return to the Eraser Tool.
Again, you can get that by pressing the e key,
and I'll click here with a slightly smaller brush I think.
And right about there, with a pretty large brush.
A still bigger brush is needed at this location
and then a smaller brush again right there.
Alright, now I'm going to switch back to the Blob Brush.
And I'll go ahead and zoom out by pressing ctrl, zero,
or command, zero, on the Mac,
and I'm going to zoom in on the right hand side,
once again, to create those birds,
and I'm going to make that happen by pressing the enter key,
or the return key on a Mac,
to once again bring up this dialogue box.
And this time I'm going to take the Roundness value
down to 50%, and I'll click OK,
in order to accept that change.
And I'm going to change the fill color to black,
this time, and I'll just go ahead
and click right about there,
and just to the right to add another ellipse to that shape.
Alright, now I want to erase into those shapes slightly.
So I'll switch back to the Eraser Tool,
and I'll press the enter key, or the return key on the Mac,
in order to bring up the dialogue box.
I'll change the Roundness value to once again to 50%,
and then I'll press the left bracket key a couple of times,
in order to reduce the size of my brush,
maybe to about there, let's say.
So my ellipse brush is a little bigger
than the one that I used with the Blob Brush Tool,
and now I'll click right about there.
Alright, now I'm going to press the v key
to switch back to the Arrow Tool.
I think my bird is a little too big at this point,
so I'll click on the word Transform,
up here in the Control Panel,
and you want to make sure that the chain icon
is turned on, at which point,
I'll go ahead and click on the w, to select the width value,
and I'll change it to 50 points,
and that'll reduce the size of the bird quite a bit.
And now, I'll go ahead and move this guy over to right here,
let's say, and then I'll create a copy at this location
by pressing and holding the alt key at the end of the drag.
And then, I'll create a third bird over
at this location right there.
And then, I'll go ahead press ctrl, zero,
or command, zero, on the mac to zoom out.
I think these guys should be on the background layer,
so I'm going to go ahead and marquee these shapes
over here, on the right hand side,
and then I'll shift marquee the ones over here
on the left hand side.
I messed up that shape right there.
I went and colored it black, but in any event,
I'm going to unlock my background layer,
by clicking on this lock icon,
then I'll drag that purple square down,
so that all the shapes are now on the background layer.
I'll click off the shapes to deselect them.
I'll select this guy again, and I'll click on its fill icon,
and change it back to that light shade of gray.
And then I'll click off the shapes to deselect them.
Unfortunately, that went and selected the sky.
And so to deselect it, I'll just go ahead
and lock down that layer by once again,
clicking in that second column.
And now I'll zoom in slightly
so that we can take in the final effect.
And that's how you create a couple of cartoon clouds
and some distant birds, by once again,
simply clicking with the Blob Brush and the Eraser Tool,
set to reduced Roundness values.