- In this movie we're going to draw this spiral
at the end of the smoke using the Spiral Tool,
which is easily the whackiest of the Line Tools
in Illustrator.
And it's got a ton of keyboard shortcuts
that you can take advantage.
I'm just going to throw them at you
and you can decide whether you like them, or not.
And then, of course we will draw this Path outline.
All right, so I'll go ahead and switch over
to this document, so far.
And I'll select the Spiral Tool,
either from the middle of this floating toolbar,
or you can click and hold on what is now the
Polar Grid Tool, and select the Spiral Tool
from the flyout menu.
And then just go ahead and drag
from approximately the center out,
with this tool, like so,
in order to create a spiral.
And you can see as soon as you release,
by default, you get a spiral that is one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 segments long.
And so basically we have a bunch of arcs that are collapsing
in on each other.
All right, now let me show you all the things you can do
with this tool.
I'll go ahead and press the Backspace key,
or the Delete key on the Mac,
to get rid of the spiral we have so far.
Now remember how if you're drawing an arc
the wrong direction, you can tap the F key to flip it?
Well, in the case of the spiral, you don't tap the F key
to flip it, you tap the R key to reflect it.
So there's one option that's available to you.
You can also change how many segments this spiral has,
and by pressing the up arrow key to add segments,
or the down arrow key to reduce the number of segments,
and these are all things that you're doing on the fly
with your mouse button down.
If you just want Illustrator to add and delete segments
on the fly as you drag,
then you press and hold the Alt key,
or the Option key on the Mac,
and it'll just go ahead and sort of add and delete segments
as it likes.
If you add a ton of segments, like so,
by pressing the up arrow key a bunch of times
then it will try to sort of maintain the number
of segments it thinks it needs to have
to create that same effect
as you're pressing the Alt, or the Option key.
And then finally I'll go ahead and release that key,
you can press the Control key as you drag.
So this is what happens,
if I press the Control key as I drag inward
I collapse the spiral on itself,
and that would allow me to add a ton more segments,
like so.
Or if I press the Control key, or the Command key
on the Mac as I drag outward
I'm going to go ahead and peel those segments apart.
And the effect, in the end,
is a kind of conch shell.
All right, that's not quite what I want,
so I'll press the Backspace key,
or the Delete key on the Mac,
and I'm going to reset a few things
just so that we start with the same experience
by clicking with the tool to bring up the
Spiral dialog box.
The Radius value really doesn't matter,
that's just the size of the spiral.
Let;'s go ahead and reset the Decay to 80%.
The Decay, by the way, is the thing
we were modifying while we were
pressing the Control, or Command key.
And then let's change the Segments back to 10,
and let's go ahead and click on the other Style option
near the first one, in order to reflect that shape.
And then I'll click Okay
in order to create a dummy spiral right there.
And then I'll get rid of it by pressing the Backspace key,
or the Delete key on the Mac.
All right, now I'm Control Spacebar clicking
in order to zoom in,
that's a Command Spacebar click on a Mac,
and I'm going to start by dragging from the center outward,
very important if you want to get the same effect as me.
And then drag out to the second to last
concentric circle, like so.
Now press the down arrow key
until you only have five segments,
which is what we're seeing right here.
So notice that the line just barely
loops in on itself.
And now I want you to press the Control key,
or the Command key on the Mac,
and drag outward in order to increase
the space between the segments.
And then release the Control, or Command key
and come back, like so.
And you should see this sort of alignment,
and now I'm going to release, by the way,
so you can see what I'm talking about.
And so notice that the shape starts down here
at the second to last of the circles,
and then loops in so that the top of the line
is more or less in sync with the third to last circles,
so the one, two, third circle in, so in other words,
the middle circle of the bunch,
and then comes in and aligns
wit the innermost circle.
And if you want some specific settings
just so that you get the same results as me,
just go ahead and get rid of your shaping,
click with the tool, and what I came up with
was the Radius value of about that really
134.5 is what I'm looking for.
And the Decay, that's a little high,
I'm going to reduce that Decay value to 74.77%.
I know that's ridiculously specific,
but that's what I came up with.
And then we want five segments.
This first Style is going to work beautifully,
after which point, go ahead and click Okay
in order to create this shape.
The problem is, it comes in at the wrong angle,
as you can see here.
So just go ahead and press the V key
to switch back to the black arrow tool,
and drag the spiral to a different spot, like so.
Now we need to rotate the spiral,
so see the word Transform up here
in the Control Panel?
If not, that's because you're working on a larger screen.
And I can simulate that by going over
to the flyout menu icon
on the far right side of the Control Panel,
and clicking on it, and then choosing
the Align command here to hide the Alignment icons.
And now notice instead of the word Transform,
we see little hot links for the position of the spiral,
that is the X, and the Y,
as well as W for the width,
and H for the height.
And so if I click on any of these letters,
let's say I click on the W, for example,
you'll bring up the Transform Panel.
So in other words, you can either click the word Transform,
or you can click on the X, Y, W, or H.
And then notice this value right here,
the Rotate value?
We want to change it, not to 90 degrees,
but rather negative 90 degrees, like so.
At which point I'll go ahead and press the Tab key
to invoke that modification.
And then I'll press the Enter key here on the PC,
or the Return key on the Mac,
in order to apply that change.
Now I'll once again go over to the flyout menu
and choose the Align command
in order to bring back my Alignment icons,
and change the hot link letters back
to the word Transform.
So just remember, in case I forget to mention it
in the future, any time I say to click the word Transform,
you can alternately click the X, Y, W, or H, instead.
All right, now at this point it may look like
we've done things wrong,
but if you just drag the spiral back down
you'll see that everything's the way
it's supposed to be.
All right I think I'll Spacebar drag the document down
a little bit.
All right, now I'm going to drag this anchor point,
the left point, so that it snaps into alignment
with this middle circle right there,
the middle of the concentric circles,
and now I'm going to click and drag
this top point upward while pressing the Shift key
so that I'm constraining my drag to exactly vertical.
And I'm going to release when I intersect
with this second to outside circle
in order to produce this effect, right here.
And just to give you a sense of what that looks like
from a distance, I'll go ahead and press Control zero,
or Command zero on the Mac, to zoom out.
And now let's just go ahead and increase
that Lineweight value up here in the Control Panel
to 30 points, so that we're matching the thickness
of the original arc.
And now I'll click off the shape to deselect it.
And those friends,
are the many ways to use the Spiral Tool.
In our case, to create the curling end of the smoke
from our cheerful factory,
here inside Illustrator.