- In this movie, we're going to
draw the sides of these blocks
of hot-metal lead, and they're
essentially perspective rectangles.
I'm not going to get into drawing these ledges.
You can if you want of course,
but frankly this project is complicated enough.
So I'm going to go ahead and zoom in
on this edge right here, which is
the one that's second to left,
and I'll once again grab my pen tool,
and I will make sure, before I start,
that my fill is set to none, so
that I can see my template, and then
I'll go ahead and click at this point right there,
I'll click down here. I'll shift click over
at this location, and I'll click back up here,
and then finally I'll click on the first point.
You want to make sure to do that.
It's easy to forget that step.
And make sure that you're seeing
a circle next to your cursor.
All right, now I'm going to zoom
way in on this right edge, and I'll press
the a key to switch to my wide-arrow tool,
and I might select that anchor point right there
and just nudge it a little bit
by pressing the left-arrow key a few times
and recall that we've reduced the keyboard increment
to 0.1 point, so we have a ton of control.
All right, now I'm going to marquee
this left edge, and I'm going to
press Ctrl + C, or Cmd + C on a Mac,
followed by Ctrl + F, or Cmd + F on a Mac,
in order to paste that guy in front,
and the idea is that this next path
is so very, very skinny that I want
to make sure that the two edges are parallel,
and so I'm now going to drag this guy up here
so that he snaps into alignment,
and I'll press the alt key, or the option key on a Mac
in order to create a copy, and now I'll press
the p key in order to switch to my pen tool.
I'll click on the top anchor point
in order to activate that path outline,
and then I'll click on this one
in order to connect these two segments,
and now I'll do the same down here.
I'll click and click again on each of
the end points in order to connect them.
All right, now I'm going to press
Ctrl + Shift + A, or Cmd + Shift + A on a Mac,
in order to deselect that path
so that I can click here and shift click right there,
and this is the bottom of the s I believe,
so we're going to shift click up to this anchor point,
shift click over to this one, and then click
down here at the bottom in order to close that shape.
All right, now press Ctrl + Shift + A,
or Cmd + Shift + A again, and I'll just click
around these guys, click here, click here,
shift click down here, shift click
at this location, and click up
in order to finish off that shape.
And I should say I haven't done
a terribly good job of following
the bottom edge of this block right here
inside the template, but according
to the rules of perspective,
there's no way I can bring this one edge down.
It has to be smaller than the front edge,
and right now it's the same size,
so I'm just going to fudge a little bit.
Doesn't really matter.
Now I'll press Ctrl + Shift + A,
or Cmd + Shift + A in order to deselect the art work.
I'll click right there, shift click way down here,
shift click over at this location,
and then click up in this corner.
You don't need to press the shift key,
and then click over on this anchor point
in order to finish off that path outline.
All right, now I'm going to zoom out a little bit here,
and it looks like the background
changed colors on us.
You sometimes see that kind of stuff happen
when you're previewing to the GPU.
If that bothers you, you can go
to the view menu and choose preview
on CPU instead, and that will restore
the proper colors.
All right, I'm going to click right there
at that corner, and then click at this corner
in the template, and shift click
right about there, and I'm too far in.
I just know I am, but I'm not worried
about it right now.
I'll click up at this anchor point,
and then I'll click at the very first anchor point
to close off the shape, and I'll press
the control key or the command key on a Mac
to temporarily get my wide-arrow tool,
which is the last one I used.
I'll click on this anchor point,
and then I'll press shift + right arrow let's say
in order to move that anchor point
more radically to the right until
these two edges are parallel,
and I don't need to do that because
this edge is going to get hidden,
but we might as well make things
as right as possible.
All right, I'm going to go ahead
and zoom out again and draw this
very first edge that I had put off
by clicking at this point right there,
and then I'll click down here,
and this time by starting at this location
I can assure that I have a more or less parallel edge,
and now shift click right there,
click up at this anchor point,
and click at the very first one
in order to close off that path outline.
All right, now let's fill these paths
by switching back to the black-arrow tool,
clicking in this path outline for example,
and I'm going to select this shade of grey
that has all values set to 102,
and then I'll click the next guy over
as well as shift clicking on this
little sliver of a path right there
if I can get it, which I did. Awesome.
And I'll change your fills to the shade of grey
where all values are set to 77,
and you can see that we're covering stuff up right here.
This edge should not be covering up
all these other details, so I'll
select it and then right click on it
and choose arrange, and then choose
send to back to send it all the way
to the back of the stack,
and now it's not covering up a darn thing.
All right, now let's go ahead and
select this guy, and set it to
the shade of grey where all values are 128,
and I'll select its neighbor and set it
to the next one over where all values are 102,
and then I'll select this guy,
want to make him a little darker,
and actually, turns out I missed
I'm misreading my notes.
This guy wants to be the grey with
all values set to 102, and this one
wants to be the next one darker
where all the values are 77,
and then finally I'll set this
final shape to this shade of grey right here
the one where all values are set to 77 once again,
and then I'll make it nice and dark,
and then as you can see it's in front
of some shapes that it shouldn't
be in front of, so I'll go ahead
and right click, choose arrange,
and then choose send to back, and then
I'll click off the shape to deselect it,
and I'll press Ctrl + 0, or Cmd + 0 on a Mac
in order to center my view.
All right, so that takes care of
the perspective edges of those blocks.
In the next move, we'll add these
little distress marks, again, with
the help of the pen tool.