WEBVTT 00:00.180 --> 00:05.730 Hi and welcome to this a ribbon making class in Adobe Illustrator. 00:05.730 --> 00:11.910 We're going to use an envelope distort and particularly Amish to make this pretty rainbow ribbon. 00:11.940 --> 00:12.140 All right. 00:12.150 --> 00:13.150 Let's jump in. 00:13.150 --> 00:13.490 All right. 00:13.500 --> 00:15.100 First up I haven't forgotten this time. 00:15.120 --> 00:17.670 Open up a ribbon from your exercise files. 00:17.670 --> 00:21.840 Again it can be anything these rectangles that have gradients in them. 00:21.990 --> 00:23.710 They don't have to be anything other than that. 00:24.150 --> 00:27.600 And is quite nice it was just lines and it's quite cool. 00:27.990 --> 00:32.970 First thing we need to do is we need to go to object and we need to actually make a duplicate first. 00:32.990 --> 00:39.150 What do you need a backup cankered object and go to envelope distort and go to make with mesh. 00:39.630 --> 00:41.950 Now by default I think is that three by three. 00:41.970 --> 00:44.520 The more detailed it is the more control you have. 00:44.520 --> 00:46.170 But often it doesn't look as natural. 00:46.170 --> 00:50.010 So for Raben something like this just one by one is perfect. 00:50.100 --> 00:54.750 Now nothing really happens except when I grab the Drik selection to the white arrow. 00:54.980 --> 00:56.610 I click on any of these corners now. 00:56.640 --> 00:57.800 Watch. 00:57.890 --> 00:58.600 On. 00:58.680 --> 01:02.860 So it's a little hard to see there's a red dot there and there's a handle out here. 01:02.860 --> 01:06.510 So anchor point and handle and what is going to make it into the ribbon like you saw earlier and it's 01:06.510 --> 01:07.770 just kind of freehand. 01:07.770 --> 01:12.990 Now one thing you might notice is that red dots on those rate think it's quite hard to see the colors 01:12.990 --> 01:13.830 right. 01:13.830 --> 01:15.780 Dealing with rainbows is probably the worst one. 01:15.780 --> 01:21.420 So you can just see you know the advanced trick double clicking there anyway but the name OK and you 01:21.420 --> 01:22.750 can go in and pick a different color. 01:22.770 --> 01:26.960 If that kind of suits what you're doing with the science you're not going to work. 01:26.970 --> 01:29.530 But hey rainbow life. 01:29.640 --> 01:34.440 Ok so I'm just going to fiddle around with that now and try and turn it into something that kind of 01:34.440 --> 01:36.450 looks like. 01:37.020 --> 01:37.290 Robin 01:41.260 --> 01:44.200 you can hang around with me for a little bit. 01:44.760 --> 01:46.720 But again it's just I'm just winging it. 01:46.720 --> 01:49.720 You I have a special project and you kind of want a special shape. 01:49.830 --> 01:54.860 I'm just kind of making something that's maybe a balloon that way. 01:56.910 --> 01:57.820 It straight. 01:58.390 --> 02:01.700 We going to do now is oh phosphor it's because. 02:02.930 --> 02:18.780 Just what I'm. 02:18.990 --> 02:19.230 All right. 02:19.230 --> 02:19.940 You're back. 02:19.950 --> 02:28.090 And one thing that I did kind of do while you were was hoarding is I turned off the smog guides. 02:28.260 --> 02:32.490 Were just kind of jumping around snapping to things and causing just making it a little bit tough. 02:32.500 --> 02:36.360 C'mon you want to make will control you want a PC to turn that off. 02:36.390 --> 02:39.560 So I've got this thing here and I promise I'll start fiddling with it. 02:39.630 --> 02:41.120 I thought I would. 02:41.610 --> 02:42.300 OK. 02:42.330 --> 02:42.870 All right. 02:42.900 --> 02:43.830 So you've got this. 02:43.830 --> 02:45.760 Now I want another option. 02:45.760 --> 02:47.430 So the one that kind of runs underneath. 02:47.430 --> 02:50.560 Now what I might do is go back to the beginning one and use this again. 02:50.580 --> 02:55.800 I'm going to make a duplicate what I do is because if I start I practice this before and when it's underneath 02:55.800 --> 02:58.950 and you're trying to make the ribbon It's actually really hard to know where the other one starts and 02:58.950 --> 02:59.850 finishes. 02:59.850 --> 03:05.040 So what I thought would I do is do the recolor artwork because I want it to be a bit darker anyway so 03:05.040 --> 03:07.800 it looks like it's in the background casting a shadow maybe. 03:07.860 --> 03:11.200 So when you get it it it it colors color artwork. 03:11.430 --> 03:15.550 And the best option is go to it it was really confusing and I was good at it. 03:15.660 --> 03:20.360 And then the bottom here I'm going to link all of the colors and just make them a bit. 03:20.390 --> 03:24.280 I play around with that brightness and lower them down. 03:24.410 --> 03:24.890 OK. 03:24.990 --> 03:26.810 And I'm going to use this one to get started. 03:26.820 --> 03:28.960 I was going to kind of get it close. 03:29.180 --> 03:30.940 I'm worried about it. 03:31.210 --> 03:38.870 And now I'm going to go to object and I get an envelope distort and make with another one by one Mish. 03:39.110 --> 03:40.550 It's OK for me. 03:40.580 --> 03:45.130 I'm changing my guides back on command you on a Mac will control you on the PC Why. 03:45.190 --> 03:50.290 Because one of the things that I want is my direct selection tools I want this corner. 03:50.300 --> 03:51.800 And good point to be watching this. 03:51.800 --> 03:53.370 It kind of snaps to that one. 03:53.390 --> 03:55.510 So at least that kind of joined up. 03:55.520 --> 03:57.010 That's kind of the first thing I wanted. 03:57.050 --> 03:59.120 I might turn them off again in a second. 03:59.120 --> 04:00.180 It's looking all right. 04:02.570 --> 04:08.290 My guides and now we're going to fast forward again because I'm just going to fly around with this until 04:08.290 --> 04:09.330 it feel like a robot. 04:09.560 --> 04:10.300 All right. 04:10.470 --> 04:10.970 Just what Tom 04:14.580 --> 04:19.080 all right jump back in a promise you can't go on this thing because that goes in the way. 04:19.090 --> 04:24.250 So what I'm going to do black areas slept on him and his command to K or control to the PC they just 04:24.250 --> 04:26.090 locks him for a second. 04:26.320 --> 04:26.900 OK. 04:27.010 --> 04:29.250 You can go to object lock means. 04:29.260 --> 04:32.830 Now I can click on this guy in the background and he's not mincing about with me. 04:32.830 --> 04:38.260 All right back to speedy version. 04:38.280 --> 04:39.480 All right so you're back. 04:39.480 --> 04:42.220 I really want to just tell what I feel like we've got it across. 04:42.230 --> 04:46.580 There's something we bet I'm going to leave it on because we don't want to do is that could be it. 04:46.590 --> 04:47.880 You might be happy with that. 04:48.090 --> 04:53.250 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 04:53.250 --> 04:54.180 style. 04:54.240 --> 04:57.720 K is kind of like semi flat but that's OK. 04:57.720 --> 05:03.000 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 05:03.000 --> 05:05.840 holding down the option key on a Mac or key on a PC. 05:06.090 --> 05:10.190 And what I want to do is unlock all the objects because I like that top Guyra. 05:10.320 --> 05:14.030 So what I'd like to do is and he's going two of them. 05:14.040 --> 05:16.260 I'll do the top one first to show you. 05:16.380 --> 05:19.450 And then also to the bottom I'm with you as well. 05:19.500 --> 05:22.040 But what I want to do is make a gradient on top of this. 05:22.050 --> 05:28.180 So I want to do two things I want to get an object envelope to what is one called expand. 05:28.470 --> 05:30.870 Basically is no longer using mesh anymore. 05:30.950 --> 05:32.880 I can't do those adjustments but it's OK. 05:33.090 --> 05:37.440 Next thing I want to do is kind of stick them all together and I can do that using my shape a little 05:37.830 --> 05:39.150 I can hold them my shift key. 05:39.150 --> 05:43.280 Just drag a box around the mall kind of if that kind of gap in the middle there. 05:43.320 --> 05:48.990 I'm OK with that because what I want to do is just fill it with a gradient and remember what the shortcut 05:48.990 --> 05:50.840 was for fiddling with gradient. 05:51.180 --> 05:52.590 The full stop period. 05:52.700 --> 05:53.760 OK so got a gradient. 05:53.760 --> 05:58.680 What I want is this into the gradient I double clicked the little white house I want the transparency 05:58.800 --> 06:00.510 opacity down to zero. 06:00.780 --> 06:06.390 Q And Cook-Off close him down because I want to do is this kind of want to stick it over the top now 06:06.630 --> 06:07.680 white to be in his. 06:07.690 --> 06:11.210 Probably not a great idea it's probably best having black at the end. 06:11.220 --> 06:13.250 It's not going to Metafont my application. 06:13.440 --> 06:14.980 OK so it's not snapping. 06:15.030 --> 06:16.980 So I'm going to turn on my smartcards again. 06:16.980 --> 06:17.820 It's in a window. 06:17.890 --> 06:18.820 It's my guns. 06:19.020 --> 06:22.730 And now it's about playing around with the blending modes. 06:22.860 --> 06:27.050 OK so then I click on a PSAT and normal. 06:27.150 --> 06:28.440 OK. 06:28.680 --> 06:35.250 I think I like multiply the base caliber in B case or go through them all and pick out which one you 06:35.250 --> 06:36.150 like. 06:36.150 --> 06:38.030 I'm guessing multiples going within ISIS. 06:38.050 --> 06:44.100 What I might do is with my gradient tool G there is there isn't going to drag out my gradient to be 06:44.100 --> 06:47.400 just a little bit smaller just kind of dragging it cross 06:51.400 --> 06:54.430 Yeah kind of killing the little good looks again. 06:54.770 --> 06:57.060 So I'm going to the same thing with this same person. 06:57.080 --> 07:00.230 If you're happy with that you can start the video going to the next one. 07:00.350 --> 07:09.090 If not you can follow me again do it twice object and let's go to envelope distort expand and you know 07:09.150 --> 07:12.210 a shortcut to my shape a little which is shift. 07:12.220 --> 07:15.120 Im holding down the Shift key. 07:15.290 --> 07:21.810 Drag a box around them period and it's removed but in my last gradient which is awesome. 07:22.010 --> 07:25.710 You shouldn't be on your shape all the time when you hit the Pirri King didn't work. 07:25.830 --> 07:27.100 OK be on your back arrow. 07:27.380 --> 07:28.730 Now I feel like we're going to do it. 07:28.730 --> 07:31.020 The reason I didn't do what I should have done what before this. 07:31.040 --> 07:32.240 I changed it to black. 07:32.240 --> 07:35.440 It's going to give me a better kind of effect. 07:37.160 --> 07:41.900 You my friend are going to snip down there and then we're going to probably had G.K. 07:45.170 --> 07:51.140 maybe more k and I find a Blayney that works and maybe turn down the opacity as well. 07:51.310 --> 07:59.140 Darkon multiply Culligan can go back to multiply multiply right. 07:59.200 --> 08:05.860 So anyone for that is al 3D ribbon thing. 08:06.020 --> 08:11.150 And you could obviously see it's application for fabrics and lots of other things but that meshes quite 08:11.160 --> 08:12.060 CUC be done with. 08:12.140 --> 08:13.950 You can put type into that mesh. 08:13.970 --> 08:18.820 We did a ribbon because it looked nice but you could use it for lots of different applications. 08:18.890 --> 08:23.530 OK so last but not least it's class project homework time. 08:23.530 --> 08:23.790 OK. 08:23.790 --> 08:27.520 And it's all I want you to do is do some sort of 3D. 08:27.540 --> 08:31.630 It doesn't have to be using this gradings it can do you can just do slightly different shapes like different 08:31.850 --> 08:38.120 musingly different shapes different colors you may or may not use the gray that kind of gradient to 08:38.120 --> 08:39.380 kind of color it. 08:39.440 --> 08:42.020 And yeah I'd love to see what you make. 08:42.110 --> 08:49.690 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. 08:49.700 --> 08:52.210 Bring your own laptop and on Twitter. 08:52.210 --> 08:52.590 I am. 08:52.610 --> 08:56.930 Dan loves Adobe or I'd love to see what you've done. 08:57.050 --> 08:58.280 Class projects go to.