- [Instructor] In this movie,
we're going to take our denim pattern
and make it look like actual denim
instead of just a bunch of chunky lines.
All right, so the first thing I'm going to do is
fix these gaps right here
by double-clicking on the vertical denim pattern
here inside the Swatches panel.
And that will take us back to the pattern editor,
and I'll go ahead and zoom on in.
And, on second thought,
I've decided a Width value of 96 points
is going to work out just fine.
The problem is that some of these edges
are precariously close to the corners.
So I'm going to press the A key
to switch to my White Arrow tool.
And I'm going to marquee these top two points here,
and I'll marquee these bottom two points as well.
And then I'll press the left arrow key a couple of times
to move 'em over.
And I'm going to do the same with these guys.
I'll marquee these two sets of points, these two pairs,
and I'll Shift marquee the ones down here.
You've got to move the top and bottom points together,
always, in order to ensure that things line up.
And I'll marquee these two pair of points
and Shift marquee these guys
and nudge them over a couple of points.
Now what we need to do is just kind of fill in
some of these gaps here,
and that's just a matter of randomly grabbing points,
like so, and dragging them into different positions.
And this is all going to be manual work.
It's entirely subjective as well.
You want to make sure that you're
doing kind of different things with different path outlines.
So you don't always want to move a bunch of stuff
over to the left or over to the right either,
for that matter.
So you just want to vary it up as much as possible
so that we can keep this looking extremely random.
Problem is, you just don't want the negative space
of one of these guys to match up
with the negative space of its neighbor.
So you just want to fill things in reasonably.
And you don't need to spend a ton of time on it,
but, you know, the more time you spend probably,
the better results you're going to get.
In any case, let's see what I've come up with so far.
Maybe I'll grab this guy actually,
and just kind of drag him up.
And now I'll press the Escape key
in order to exit the pattern editor.
And I'll press Control + zero
or Command + zero on a Mac to zoom out.
And I can see some pattern showing up here.
There's this kind of swoop right there, for example,
that keeps repeating over and over again,
but that's not going to be a problem
once we tweak this rectangle.
So go ahead and press the V key
to switch to the Black Arrow tool,
and click on the rectangle to select it.
And you should see that it's selected here
inside the pattern layer.
And now you want to go up to the Window menu
and choose Appearance
in order to switch to the Appearance panel.
And let's go ahead and add a fill by clicking on this icon,
or you can just press Command + slash.
That's going to get you a new fill as well.
I'm going to drag this guy down to the bottom of the stack,
and I'm going to click on it.
And I'm going to select this swatch right here.
Now this is not a default swatch, by the way.
This is one I've created for you.
And so if you need to dial it in yourself,
it's R 118,
G 141,
B 168.
And it's a very low saturation blue
that's in keeping with blue jeans.
All right, so now I'll select this pattern fill right here.
And I'm going to click on the word Opacity,
and I'm going to change its Blend Mode to Soft Light
in order to produce this effect here.
All right, now I want to transform it a little bit.
And so I'll select that pattern fill,
there in the Appearance panel.
I'll go up to the Effect menu, choose Distort & Transform,
and choose the Transform command,
and I'm just going to change each of the Scale values to 50%.
I'll turn on the Preview checkbox to see that, oops,
I've actually made my fill smaller.
And so I'll turn off Transform Objects
so that we're exclusively transforming the patterns,
and then I'll click OK.
All right, now I'm going to go ahead
and zoom in just a little bit more,
and we're going to create a copy of this fill
by dropping down to the little page icon
and clicking on it.
So now we have two pattern fills.
I'll go ahead and click the word Transform
in order to bring back the Transform Effect panel.
And I'll turn on the Preview checkbox once again,
click inside the Angle value and press Shift + down arrow
in order to take it down to negative 30 degrees,
and I'll click OK.
And now we have something that better resembles denim.
And when you zoom in to it,
it doesn't look like denim at all.
But when you press Control + zero
or Command + zero on a Mac to zoom out,
it very much resembles the texture of blue jeans.
All right, I'm going to go ahead
and twirl these fills closed right here,
and I'm going to add another one on top of the stack
by selecting the top fill.
And then I'll once again click on the Add New Fill icon.
This time around, we do not want a pattern.
Instead, we're looking for a gradient.
So I'll just go ahead and select that White Black gradient,
and then I'll go to the Window menu
and choose the Gradient command
to bring up the Gradient panel.
And I'll expand the panel
by clicking on this double arrow icon,
and I'll change the Type to Radial.
And now I need to change the first and last colors.
So I'll go over to this swatch right here,
the one where the RGB values all read 179,
and I'll drag it and drop it onto the first color stop.
And then I'll go up to this color swatch
where the RGB values all read 77,
and I'll drag it and drop it onto the final color stop
so that we have this very soft gradient,
as you're seeing here.
All right, now I want it to be a little bigger,
so I'm going to zoom out here.
And I'm going to switch to my Gradient tool,
which you can get by pressing the G key,
and I'll go ahead and drag this guy outward, like so.
I want to be able to see the entire circle, however,
because I want it to be an ellipse in actuality.
And I'm just going to go ahead and move this guy
even farther out until the ellipse takes up
almost every bit of the artboard, like so.
And then finally, I'll twirl open this fill.
And I need a little more room to work,
so I'm going to collapse the Gradient panel here.
And then I'll click on the word Opacity,
and I'll change the Blend Mode to Overlay.
And that will result in a little bit of a vignette.
All right, now I'll press the V key
to switch back to the Black Arrow tool.
And I'll press Control + Shift + A
or Command + Shift + A on a Mac to deselect the artwork.
And I'll go ahead and zoom in as well.
And just so we don't mess anything up,
I'm going to switch back to the Layers panel,
and I'm going to lock this layer.
And you know what?
After just a few seconds of reflection here,
I don't think this looks exactly the way I want it to.
So on second thought, I'm going to unlock this pattern layer.
I'll click on the rectangle to select it.
I'll switch back to the Appearance panel.
And I'm going to twirl this guy open,
the very first pattern fill,
and I'll turn off the Transform Effect
so that some of the lines are bigger than others.
Now I don't want 'em to be quite that big,
so I'm going to take this Transform Effect,
and I'm going to drag it and drop it at the end of the list,
not onto that last fill, but at the end of the list,
right before the final word Opacity there.
And I'm going to turn that Transform Effect back on.
And I'll click on the word Transform.
And I'll change both the Horizontal
and Vertical values to 77%,
turn on the Preview checkbox,
and I think that ends up looking a little better,
after which point, I'll click OK.
And then I'll switch back to the Layers panel.
And this time, I am going to lock the pattern layer,
and I'm going to leave it locked.
And that, folks, is how you take a denim pattern
and make it resemble something
that might actually be blue jean fabric
here inside Illustrator.