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- In this movie, we'll
draw this long shadow

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that's being cast by the blocks,

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while the letters are mysteriously

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casting no shadows at all,

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for the obvious reason that I
don't feel like drawing them.

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So, I'll go ahead and switch over

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to my document of progress here.

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And I'm going to zoom out
by pressing control minus,

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or command minus on the Mac,

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and I'm going to create
a new layer for my shadow

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by clicking on a template layer,

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and then alt or option
clicking on a little page icon

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at the bottom of the layers panel.

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And I'll just go ahead
and call this layer table.

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Let's say, and click okay.

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And now I'm going to draw a big rectangle.

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So this is the one thing
I'm not going to draw

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with the pen tool.

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I'll go ahead and grab the rectangle tool,

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which, of course, you can
get by pressing the M key,

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and then I'm going to trace
around the red boundary

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that represents the
bleed, in order to draw

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a very large rectangle, indeed.

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Now, for you it might
come up some other color,

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but I'm going to go ahead
and change it's color

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by clicking on the second swatch up here

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in the control panel, and
I'll change it to none.

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And then I'll click on the first swatch

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and change it to this
medium brown, let's say.

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The problem is, once
again, if we take a look

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at the original image inside photo shop,

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you can see that the
table is a lot warmer.

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Meaning that it's a little redder

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and it's more saturated as well.

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So notice, if you hover
over that first swatch

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in the control panel, you
get a message that tells you

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to hold the shift key to bring
up an alternate color UI.

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And so let's go ahead and do that

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by shift clicking on that color swatch,

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and that's going to most
likely bring up your RGB values

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or your CMYK values,
we want the HSB values.

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And so I'm going to change the hue value

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to 25 degrees, which is a
little redder than what we have.

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And then I'll take the saturation
value up to 77 percent.

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And I'll change the brightness
value to 60 percent.

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And these values are going
to waiver a little bit

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because Illustrator is trying to find

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the nearest RGB equivalent,

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but what we're seeing here is just fine.

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So I'll press the escape
key to hide that panel.

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Alright, now we need to draw a shadow

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that emanates from this block right here,

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emanates from the front of it,

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as well as the right side,
the hidden right side

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of this block over here on the right.

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And that means I kind
of need to figure out

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where that right side is.

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So I'm going to press the V key

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to switch to my black arrow tool,

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and I'm going to go ahead and click

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on this shape to select it.

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And I'm going to alt or option drag it

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until it snaps into alignment
with this bottom corner.

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And what that's going to tell me

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is where the back of the
right edge is located,

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which would be, at this point,
approximately right here.

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It would actually be a little farther down

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because of perspective,
but this is good enough

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to get the job done.

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Alright, I'm going to go
and zoom out once again

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by pressing control minus,
command minus on the Mac.

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And I'll go ahead and
switch to the pen tool,

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which I can get by pressing the P key,

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and I'll click right about here.

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Now notice my problem.

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I don't know if you're seeing it,

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but my pen tool cursor is
lighting up an anchor point,

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and I'm seeing a little
slash next to the cursor,

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which tells me I'm going to
resume drawing this line.

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And so if I click here, and
then start clicking around

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to create this shadow,

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I'm going to get a very
strange effect, indeed.

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And that's because I'm extending my blend,

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which is not what I want.

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And so I'll press control
Z, or command Z on the Mac

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a couple of times in order
to undo those segments.

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And then, you can see I still
have an active pen cursor,

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so I'll press the escape key

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in order to deactivate the line.

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And I'll just go ahead and
click near it, like so,

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in order to start a new path outline,

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and then I'll click right about here,

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below the right edge of the D,

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in order to set another corner point.

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I'll click here in the bottom
right corner at the bleed,

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and then I'll click down toward the bottom

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of the N, I think is going to work.

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And I'll go ahead and
click on that anchor point,

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now that's safe to click on

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because it's a closed path outline.

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So you can't extend it.

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And then I'll go back to my first point

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and click on it, in
order to close the path.

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Alright, now I'm going to press the A key

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in order to switch to the wide arrow tool.

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And I'll go ahead and drag that point up

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until it snaps into
alignment with that one point

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that I did not want to extend.

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And I want to change both
the fill and the stroke

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of this path, so I'll press
the V key to switch back

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to my black arrow tool.

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I'll click on the path outline
to select the entire thing.

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I'll go up to the second swatch

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up here in the control
panel, and change it to none.

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And then I'll click on
the first color swatch,

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and I'll change the fill to
the second darkest brown,

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which is R96 G56 B19, in order to create

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this shadow shape here.

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So I'm on the wrong
layer, and that's because

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I accidentally activated
that line in the blend,

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and so I'll press the escape
key to hide that panel.

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And I'll drag that little red square

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down to the table layer
so that it turns green,

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and then I'll move the
path outline as well.

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And now, I'll go ahead
and click off the path

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in order to evaluate it.

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Now notice that the angle of this segment

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is much sharper than the
angle of the right hand one,

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and that's not actually
accurate because visually

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things grow larger as they come toward us.

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So I'm going to press the A key

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to switch to the white arrow tool,

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and I'm going to grab this anchor point

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and shift drag it to here, let's say,

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and now shift drag this one upward

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so that the shadow is
growing slightly larger

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as it comes toward us.

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Alright, now I'm going to press the V key

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to switch back to my black arrow tool,

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and i'll click on this path outline.

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Technically, I don't need it anymore,

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but i kind of don't want to lose it,

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because it's been a valuable friend.

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It helped me create this shadow,

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so I'm just going to
drag this red square here

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inside the layer's panel,

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that represents the selection down

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to the table layer, once again,

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in order to move that shape

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and back of all the other blocks,

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and then I'll click off
the shape to deselect it,

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and I'll press control zero,
or command zero on the Mac

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to center my zoom.

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And I'm also going to
lock the table layer,

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because I don't want to mess it up,

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by clicking in this second column,

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right next to the layer,

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and then it'll give me a little lock icon,

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then I'll click on the blocks layer

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to, once again, make it active.

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And that's how you create a long shadow

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in perspective, using
the pen tool, of course,

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here inside Illustrator.