Hi and welcome to this a ribbon making class in Adobe Illustrator.
We're going to use an envelope distort and particularly Amish to make this pretty rainbow ribbon.
All right.
Let's jump in.
All right.
First up I haven't forgotten this time.
Open up a ribbon from your exercise files.
Again it can be anything these rectangles that have gradients in them.
They don't have to be anything other than that.
And is quite nice it was just lines and it's quite cool.
First thing we need to do is we need to go to object and we need to actually make a duplicate first.
What do you need a backup cankered object and go to envelope distort and go to make with mesh.
Now by default I think is that three by three.
The more detailed it is the more control you have.
But often it doesn't look as natural.
So for Raben something like this just one by one is perfect.
Now nothing really happens except when I grab the Drik selection to the white arrow.
I click on any of these corners now.
Watch.
On.
So it's a little hard to see there's a red dot there and there's a handle out here.
So anchor point and handle and what is going to make it into the ribbon like you saw earlier and it's
just kind of freehand.
Now one thing you might notice is that red dots on those rate think it's quite hard to see the colors
right.
Dealing with rainbows is probably the worst one.
So you can just see you know the advanced trick double clicking there anyway but the name OK and you
can go in and pick a different color.
If that kind of suits what you're doing with the science you're not going to work.
But hey rainbow life.
Ok so I'm just going to fiddle around with that now and try and turn it into something that kind of
looks like.
Robin
you can hang around with me for a little bit.
But again it's just I'm just winging it.
You I have a special project and you kind of want a special shape.
I'm just kind of making something that's maybe a balloon that way.
It straight.
We going to do now is oh phosphor it's because.
Just what I'm.
All right.
You're back.
And one thing that I did kind of do while you were was hoarding is I turned off the smog guides.
Were just kind of jumping around snapping to things and causing just making it a little bit tough.
C'mon you want to make will control you want a PC to turn that off.
So I've got this thing here and I promise I'll start fiddling with it.
I thought I would.
OK.
All right.
So you've got this.
Now I want another option.
So the one that kind of runs underneath.
Now what I might do is go back to the beginning one and use this again.
I'm going to make a duplicate what I do is because if I start I practice this before and when it's underneath
and you're trying to make the ribbon It's actually really hard to know where the other one starts and
finishes.
So what I thought would I do is do the recolor artwork because I want it to be a bit darker anyway so
it looks like it's in the background casting a shadow maybe.
So when you get it it it it colors color artwork.
And the best option is go to it it was really confusing and I was good at it.
And then the bottom here I'm going to link all of the colors and just make them a bit.
I play around with that brightness and lower them down.
OK.
And I'm going to use this one to get started.
I was going to kind of get it close.
I'm worried about it.
And now I'm going to go to object and I get an envelope distort and make with another one by one Mish.
It's OK for me.
I'm changing my guides back on command you on a Mac will control you on the PC Why.
Because one of the things that I want is my direct selection tools I want this corner.
And good point to be watching this.
It kind of snaps to that one.
So at least that kind of joined up.
That's kind of the first thing I wanted.
I might turn them off again in a second.
It's looking all right.
My guides and now we're going to fast forward again because I'm just going to fly around with this until
it feel like a robot.
All right.
Just what Tom
all right jump back in a promise you can't go on this thing because that goes in the way.
So what I'm going to do black areas slept on him and his command to K or control to the PC they just
locks him for a second.
OK.
You can go to object lock means.
Now I can click on this guy in the background and he's not mincing about with me.
All right back to speedy version.
All right so you're back.
I really want to just tell what I feel like we've got it across.
There's something we bet I'm going to leave it on because we don't want to do is that could be it.
You might be happy with that.
And I'm going to add a bit of shading in shadows going to lose it's kind of like I don't know flip Victis
style.
K is kind of like semi flat but that's OK.
So what we're going to do is I'm going to grab my outboard tool and I'm going to make a duplicate by
holding down the option key on a Mac or key on a PC.
And what I want to do is unlock all the objects because I like that top Guyra.
So what I'd like to do is and he's going two of them.
I'll do the top one first to show you.
And then also to the bottom I'm with you as well.
But what I want to do is make a gradient on top of this.
So I want to do two things I want to get an object envelope to what is one called expand.
Basically is no longer using mesh anymore.
I can't do those adjustments but it's OK.
Next thing I want to do is kind of stick them all together and I can do that using my shape a little
I can hold them my shift key.
Just drag a box around the mall kind of if that kind of gap in the middle there.
I'm OK with that because what I want to do is just fill it with a gradient and remember what the shortcut
was for fiddling with gradient.
The full stop period.
OK so got a gradient.
What I want is this into the gradient I double clicked the little white house I want the transparency
opacity down to zero.
Q And Cook-Off close him down because I want to do is this kind of want to stick it over the top now
white to be in his.
Probably not a great idea it's probably best having black at the end.
It's not going to Metafont my application.
OK so it's not snapping.
So I'm going to turn on my smartcards again.
It's in a window.
It's my guns.
And now it's about playing around with the blending modes.
OK so then I click on a PSAT and normal.
OK.
I think I like multiply the base caliber in B case or go through them all and pick out which one you
like.
I'm guessing multiples going within ISIS.
What I might do is with my gradient tool G there is there isn't going to drag out my gradient to be
just a little bit smaller just kind of dragging it cross
Yeah kind of killing the little good looks again.
So I'm going to the same thing with this same person.
If you're happy with that you can start the video going to the next one.
If not you can follow me again do it twice object and let's go to envelope distort expand and you know
a shortcut to my shape a little which is shift.
Im holding down the Shift key.
Drag a box around them period and it's removed but in my last gradient which is awesome.
You shouldn't be on your shape all the time when you hit the Pirri King didn't work.
OK be on your back arrow.
Now I feel like we're going to do it.
The reason I didn't do what I should have done what before this.
I changed it to black.
It's going to give me a better kind of effect.
You my friend are going to snip down there and then we're going to probably had G.K.
maybe more k and I find a Blayney that works and maybe turn down the opacity as well.
Darkon multiply Culligan can go back to multiply multiply right.
So anyone for that is al 3D ribbon thing.
And you could obviously see it's application for fabrics and lots of other things but that meshes quite
CUC be done with.
You can put type into that mesh.
We did a ribbon because it looked nice but you could use it for lots of different applications.
OK so last but not least it's class project homework time.
OK.
And it's all I want you to do is do some sort of 3D.
It doesn't have to be using this gradings it can do you can just do slightly different shapes like different
musingly different shapes different colors you may or may not use the gray that kind of gradient to
kind of color it.
And yeah I'd love to see what you make.
Case so make sure you publish it on this Web site so I can see it or else and send it to me on Instagram.
Bring your own laptop and on Twitter.
I am.
Dan loves Adobe or I'd love to see what you've done.
Class projects go to.