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- In this movie we're going
to create this leather

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smartphone case, and then
we're going to put our iPhone

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into the case.

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I'll start off by turning
my guides layer back on

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so that I can see where I need to position

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these various objects here.

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And then I'll go ahead and
click on that rounded rectangle

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to select it.

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Now I want to copy the
rectangle to the center

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of my artboard, and I'm going to do so

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by dragging its centerpoint.

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Now one of the great
things about Illustrator,

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and it's been this way forever,

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is that you can drag the selected object

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even when it's covered up by other objects

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as we're seeing here.

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And so if I drag that
selected centerpoint,

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I'll move the selected object
without disturbing anything

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in front of it.

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And now I'll go ahead and move my cursor

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to the intersection of
these two guidelines,

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and then I'll press the
alt key, or the opt key

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on the Mac, so I can make
a copy of this object,

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and then I'll release my mouse button

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to drop it into place.

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All right, now I'll press ctrl + c,

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or cmd + c on a Mac in
order to copy that object

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because I'm going to come
back to it in a moment.

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And I'll go up to the Window menu

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and choose the Appearance command

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in order to switch to
the Appearance panel.

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And I'll click on that top
gradient stroke right there

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and then I'll click on the trash icon

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in the lower right corner of the panel

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in order to get rid of that extra stroke.

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All right, now as long
as we're here inside

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the Appearance panel, I'm
going to change the fill

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and the stroke.

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So first, I'll go ahead and
click on the fill swatch

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and I'll change it to the
second to darkest warm brown,

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which is R=96 G=56 B=19,

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and then I'll go ahead and
click on the stroke swatch

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right here, and I'll change
it to the darkest brown,

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R=66 G=33 B=11.

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And then I'll go ahead and
take the line weight down

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to 1 pt.

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All right, now we need to create the hole

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for the phone's camera,
and we're going to do that

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using yet another rounded rectangle.

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So go ahead and select the Rectangle Tool,

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which you can get by pressing the m key.

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And then click in order to bring up

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the rectangle dialog box.

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And again, based on my measurements,

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the hole is three
quarters of an inch wide,

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so I'll just enter 3/4,

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and press the tab key to
advance to the height value,

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which is 5/16 of an inch.

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So I'll enter 5/16 and press the tab key

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in order to perform the conversion,

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and then I'll click OK in
order to create that rectangle.

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All right, now what we
need to do is move it

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into the right place.

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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'll drag its right
edge until it snaps

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to the right edge of
the rounded rectangle.

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And then I'll drag its top edge
while pressing the shift key

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until it snaps into alignment
with the top of the rectangle.

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All right, now I need to move
it into the proper location.

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So I'll press the enter key,
or the return key on the Mac,

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to bring up the move dialog box.

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And I'll set the horizontal value to -3/8

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in order to move the rectangle
3/8 of an inch to the left.

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And then I'll change the
vertical value to 1/8

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in order to move that
rectangle down 1/8 of an inch.

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And then I'll click OK
to accept that change.

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All right, now we want to
combine these two shapes

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into a compound path,
and I'm going to do that

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by shift clicking on
the big round rectangle,

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and then I'll go up to the Object menu,

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choose Compound Path and choose Make,

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in order to turn the smaller
rectangle into a hole.

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Now this needs to be
another rounded rectangle,

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so I'll press the a key to
switch to my White Arrow Tool.

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I do not want the large
rectangle to be selected,

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so I'll shift click on it, but if I do,

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I also deselect the innermost rectangle

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because insofar as
Illustrator is concerned,

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they're both part of the same path.

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If I want to select the
innermost one independently,

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then I need to press the
alt key or the opt key

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on the Mac, which gives
me a little plus sign

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next to my white arrow cursor,

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and then I'll click on the path's outline.

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So don't click in the brown area.

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Alt click or opt click
in the outline instead,

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and then you want to go ahead and drag

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one of the round corner
widgets as far as you can

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in order to get the maximum
amount of round as possible,

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so that we essentially
have two half circles

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connected by horizontal segments,

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in which point you can go ahead
and press ctrl + shift + a,

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or cmd + shift + a on the
Mac, in order to deselect

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your artwork.

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All right, now I'm going to
zoom out a little bit here

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so that I can see the entire case at once.

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All right, now I want to
draw an edge around the case,

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and so I'll bring back
that round rectangle

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that I copied earlier in this movie

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by pressing ctrl + f,
or cmd + f on the Mac.

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Now we need to get rid of the fill

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by clicking on this first color swatch

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up here in the control panel
and changing it to none

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so that we can see our
shape in the background.

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And I'm also going to
change the stroke here

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to 6 pt, in order to
make it nice and thick.

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And now we want to change the
stroke attributes as well,

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and because we have two
strokes, we need to do so

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inside the Appearance panel.

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So I'll click on the rearmost stroke here,

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and I'll click on its
color swatch and change it

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to that second to darkest shade of brown,

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which begins R=96.

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And I'll also change its line weight.

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Notice that it's currently 2 pt still.

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I need to raise it up to 6 pt like so.

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And then I'll go ahead and
click on the topmost stroke.

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I want to reverse its direction,

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and I can do that here
inside the Gradient panel,

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just by changing that angle
value to -90 degrees like so.

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And I also want to do a better
job of blending the gradient

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with the stroke behind it,

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and so I'm going to
click on the word Opacity

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below the top stroke.

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And I'm going to apply a blend mode

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by clicking on the word Normal

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and choosing this guy
right here, Soft Light.

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Now we're going to be
reviewing blend modes in detail

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when we get to the mastery course,

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but for now, just know that soft light

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gently enhances the contrast,
as we're seeing right here.

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So we get a nice colorful blend.

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All right, now I'll press the escape key

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in order to hide that panel.

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And then finally, I need to
open up this path outline

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down here at the bottom.

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So I'm going to press ctrl + shift + a,

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or cmd + shift + a on the
Mac to deselect this object,

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and then I'm going to click
on this bottom segment

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to select it independently
of the rest the shape,

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and I'll press the backspace key,

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or the delete key on the
Mac, to get rid of it.

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All right, now if you notice here,

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we've got some butt caps going on.

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We need them to be round,

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so I'll go ahead and click
on the top stroke here

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inside the Appearance panel,
and I'll select a round cap.

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And then I have to do that
again for the bottom stroke

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by clicking on it and then
selecting round cap once again.

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All right, now let's just
go ahead and press ctrl + 0,

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or cmd + 0 on the Mac to zoom out.

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And let's put the iPhone in the case

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by pressing the V key to
switch to the Black Arrow Tool.

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I'll go ahead and marquee the
paths that make up the iPhone

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over here on the left
hand side of the artboard,

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and then I'll go ahead and
drag the centerpoint over

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until snaps into alignment

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with that final pair of guides.

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And then I'll press the alt
key, or the opt key on the Mac,

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in order to create a copy.

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All right, now we want to do
the same thing with this path,

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just the foremost path,

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so go ahead and select it and
drag it by its centerpoint,

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until it snaps into
alignment with those guys.

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And then press the alt key
or the opt key on the Mac

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to make a copy of it as well.

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And now I'll switch
back to my Layers panel

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and I'll turn off the guides layer,

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and I'll go ahead and press
the f key a couple of times

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in order to switch to
the full screen mode,

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and I'll go ahead and zoom in as well.

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And that's how you draw a
professional quality iPhone,

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complete with a leather
case using a bunch of basic

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rounded shapes here inside Illustrator.