- [Instructor] In this movie,
we're going to add a few line art embellishments,
including this reflection line in the metal portion
of the brush, these bristle lines,
and then finally this little dollop of paint.
All right, I'll go ahead and switch over to my document
in progress, and I'll ctrl+spacebar or cmd+spacebar click
in order to zoom in.
And we're going to start with the reflection line here
by switching to the curvature tool, which once again,
you can get by pressing shift+~.
And then, let's say I want to begin my line right here
at this point.
If I click right here,
then I'm going to end up selecting this path outline,
which is not what I want to do.
So you always have to bear in mind
that the curvature tool is part drawing tool
and part selection tool.
All right, so I'll go ahead and press ctrl+shift+a
or cmd+shift+a in the Mac to deselect that artwork,
and I'll start a little higher than that path outline
at this point right about there,
and then I'll click a little farther down,
and I'll click right here,
and then I'm just going to go back and forth.
And it's kind of hard to see what I'm doing,
and that's because my line wave is too darn thick.
So I'm going to go up to the stroke option,
click the down pointing arrowhead,
and choose two point from the pop up menu.
So you can change the fill and stroke any way you want
as you're working along here.
And so now I'll go ahead and click right about here,
and then I want to end things right at this location,
but again, if I do that,
I'm going to end up selecting the other shape again,
which is not what I want.
So I'll go ahead and click on this guy in order
to light up that end point,
and I'll click right about here instead.
All right, now I want to move things
into the proper locations, but if I start clicking,
I'm going to add a point.
So I'll press the escape key in order to get rid
of that rubber band, and I'll go ahead and drag this guy
to about this location here, let's say,
and notice that lit him up, which is not what I want,
so I'll press the escape key in order
to get rid of the rubber band again.
I should've known better than that.
And now look, notice every single time I move a point,
I get into trouble, so I'll press the escape key.
Apparently, I'm going to have to do that a lot.
And now I'll do it again,
and I'll drag this guy up a little bit,
and I'll move to the other end point,
but I don't want to click on it until I press the escape key.
And now I'll drag it down to, let's say, right about there,
at which point it seems
to me we have a pretty good reflection line.
Press the escape key again in order to experiment
with just moving this point
to a slightly different location,
maybe closer to the first point, like so.
All right, that takes care of the reflection line.
So I'm just going to press the v key,
even though I've got a rubber band going,
I can press the v key to switch to the black arrow tool,
and get away from that pesky rubber band,
and then I'll click on this path outline right here in order
to select it, and I'll give it a very light gray fill,
which begins r equals 230.
All right, I'll go ahead and scroll up.
Now we want to add the bristle lines,
and we're going to do that using a feature
I haven't shown you yet.
And so go ahead and press the a key in order
to switch to the white arrow tool, and then click
on the side of this brush like so,
and you should see a point right about there,
and another point here.
So I want you to click on this one
and shift click on this guy.
And then shift click on this point,
and shift click on this one.
So we're selecting the pair of points on either side
of the brush.
And now I want you to go up to the edit menu
and choose a copy command or you can press ctrl+c,
and then return to the edit menu and choose paste in front,
or you can press ctrl+f or cmd+f on the Mac.
All right, now we're going to blend
between these two path outlines by going up
to the object menu, choosing blend, and then choosing make.
And that's going to create a single intermediate line
between the two.
Now I don't want it to be this thick,
so notice that my stroke panel is up over here
on the right hand side of the screen which gives me access
to my line weight, because I'm not seeing it up here
in the control panel anymore.
So I'm going to change that weight value to two points like so.
Now also notice these weird little wedges down here
near the bottom of the brush.
I'm going to go ahead and zoom in
so we can see them a little better.
That's caused by the fact
that our arced lines are still filled,
and we can fix that up here in the swatches panel.
Make sure your fill is active, and then click on none
or you can just press the / key.
All right, now we need
to change this one interval line right here to four lines,
and you do that by returning to the object menu,
dropping back down to blend, and choosing blend options.
And then go ahead and change spacing to specified steps
so that we can control the number of steps
that we're seeing.
Turn on the preview checkbox,
and then click inside that value that currently says one
for that one step right there,
and then press the up arrow key
until you get an effect you like.
For me, I went with four steps like so,
at which point you can go ahead and click okay.
And that, friends, is a very brief introduction
to a feature called blending in Illustrator,
and we'll be seeing more of it in the advanced course.
All right, now I'm going to go ahead and switch back
to my curvature tool,
and I'm going to alter opt+click right there
to create a corner point.
And then I'll click let's say right
about there and here as well,
and what I'm trying to do is draw some goopy paint
at the end of the brush,
and so I'm just going to create a total
of three loops right here, and then I'll click
at this location, up here, and then finally I'll click
at the very first corner point in order to close that path.
And now I'll go ahead and change the fill color
for that paint to the pink that begins R237
in order to produce this effect here,
and then I'll press the v key to switch
to the black arrow tool,
and I'll go ahead and click off the shape to deselect it.
And now I'll press ctrl+0 or cmd+0 on a Mac in order
to zoom out.
And that is at least one way
to add a few line art embellishments using a combination
of the curvature tool along
with the make blend command here inside Illustrator.