WEBVTT 00:00.870 --> 00:06.480 High there in this video we are going to make lots and lots of lines and make them join up and do cool 00:06.480 --> 00:09.580 geometry and sign Graaff looking things. 00:09.690 --> 00:11.320 Also lots of gradients. 00:11.430 --> 00:12.630 All right let's get started. 00:12.630 --> 00:13.110 OK. 00:13.110 --> 00:13.860 To get started. 00:13.890 --> 00:16.610 Open up blending the thing you don't really need to. 00:16.620 --> 00:19.210 All I've got is happy little whale on the corner there. 00:19.280 --> 00:20.280 You can do with anything. 00:20.400 --> 00:23.970 So first we need to understand how blending works. 00:23.980 --> 00:28.440 Get a couple little principles to understand and then Lugoff makes some really fun stuff. 00:28.440 --> 00:34.780 So the first thing is I'm just going to grab the ellipse too I'm going to give it a spill of none and 00:34.800 --> 00:38.460 a stroke of weight just so I can see it against my background. 00:38.490 --> 00:45.810 I'm going to draw a circle holding Shift and I want another one and I copy it and paste it and drag 00:45.810 --> 00:46.240 it out. 00:46.370 --> 00:51.270 OK so two of them now all blending does it say as you like two of them and you say I want to join these 00:51.270 --> 00:51.920 two. 00:51.930 --> 00:54.500 The way you do it is a blending tool over here. 00:54.540 --> 00:59.550 So click on this guy OK and you click on specific on anchors you can click on anywhere but I want to 00:59.550 --> 01:01.240 explain that side to that side. 01:01.290 --> 01:03.750 So just click once click twice and it blends it. 01:03.750 --> 01:08.700 And now cases just on one step to change how many steps are in between these planes. 01:08.700 --> 01:13.110 All you need to do is double click the ball into K and you've got a couple of options. 01:13.200 --> 01:18.200 Smooth color will kind of work when you've got different colors between the two circles. 01:18.270 --> 01:22.560 The two of them are white and I can never seem to get a smooth colored work for me. 01:22.560 --> 01:28.290 The one that you'll use the most is specified steps specified distance will you can you can say I want 01:28.290 --> 01:30.790 to be exactly four points apart. 01:30.840 --> 01:35.980 Case you might decide that we're going to use this one mostly in this course specified steps and it's 01:35.980 --> 01:41.820 tended up to say 8 K and I've Chimay preview on and you can see kind of joins them up you'll see because 01:41.820 --> 01:46.080 of the widths of my stroke a little different kind of blends as it goes out. 01:46.080 --> 01:49.350 Now this is an active effect like it's kind of applied the whole time. 01:49.360 --> 01:55.980 OK so you can turn it on and off by going up to object and go to blind K and you can say either expand 01:55.980 --> 02:01.190 the kind of stop doing it and and give you all those circles K or you can relax and say go back to how 02:01.190 --> 02:02.350 it was OK. 02:02.370 --> 02:07.890 The other thing you might look at is am I going to undo that is that they're actually still editable 02:07.890 --> 02:09.960 shapes so I'm going to grab the white. 02:10.100 --> 02:14.830 I going to call us outside CIPA and things I can do I can change them. 02:14.880 --> 02:19.350 With canes you see it's kind of updating as it as we work. 02:19.350 --> 02:20.870 OK you can also start dragging it around. 02:20.880 --> 02:26.000 I grabbed the side as well and I don't know what I'd done but you get the idea right. 02:26.010 --> 02:28.000 Both in and out of shapes editable. 02:28.050 --> 02:34.550 You might want to jump to the command y k on a Mechel control y on a PC which is outlie mode k just 02:34.560 --> 02:35.510 a c. 02:35.550 --> 02:37.320 So is easy just to see it in here. 02:37.470 --> 02:41.610 And sometimes if you like if you type in with typed in out if you like only that type and what looks 02:41.610 --> 02:45.580 like at a thousand prepare the computer to roll over and die. 02:45.780 --> 02:50.300 OK a little handle small numbers fine but really high numbers that it'll struggle. 02:50.490 --> 02:52.530 So let's have a look at a couple of other fundamentals. 02:52.530 --> 02:56.050 Let's put this thing we've made. 02:56.400 --> 02:57.550 You're going over there buddy. 02:57.750 --> 02:59.620 And never be seen again. 02:59.790 --> 03:01.680 Let's grab this. 03:01.680 --> 03:03.090 Why is he white with a stroke. 03:03.090 --> 03:05.250 I had him selected before by accident. 03:05.440 --> 03:11.790 OK so I'm going to give him a full color of one of these lovely gradients and getting rid of the white 03:11.790 --> 03:16.330 stroke game and we'll bring him in. 03:16.410 --> 03:17.180 All right so. 03:17.330 --> 03:19.220 And we're going to blend two fellows. 03:19.230 --> 03:20.240 So going to one guy. 03:20.280 --> 03:20.910 Going to drag it. 03:20.910 --> 03:25.380 Hold on hold on my PC option on the Mac and have two copies. 03:25.380 --> 03:27.660 Let's look at changing the fill in the second one as well. 03:27.660 --> 03:29.770 Pick any of these ones and have OK. 03:29.790 --> 03:33.810 And the cool thing about blending is that when you've got different colors it'll do that for you as 03:33.810 --> 03:34.390 well. 03:34.410 --> 03:41.520 So blending two click points like the other point blinds them not very excitingly But if you double 03:41.520 --> 03:49.920 click the two specified staves and it's go to say something like 10 10 preview on K. it'll blend the 03:50.130 --> 03:50.970 colors. 03:50.970 --> 03:55.680 Now there's two things we look at now is that there's actually a spline that is being created you can 03:55.680 --> 04:00.620 kind of see it this is kind of like a light red line or red line that runs through the middle. 04:00.760 --> 04:02.730 OK I can click on that and adjust it. 04:02.730 --> 04:03.360 That's the. 04:03.480 --> 04:05.190 Well actually let's kick off. 04:05.190 --> 04:09.780 OK so this guy's a little group if I want to adjust them I'm going to double click them to go into isolation 04:09.780 --> 04:10.260 mode. 04:10.390 --> 04:15.180 Ok so I'm inside this play and I can click on this guy once just drag him down and when I'm ready to 04:15.180 --> 04:18.750 come back out double click click this arrow until it goes away. 04:18.750 --> 04:19.870 Now we're out again. 04:19.950 --> 04:24.520 This gives me a kind of a clear understanding of that spline. 04:24.630 --> 04:28.960 If I grab the white arrow and click on the spline say this and here you can kind of see the is here 04:29.400 --> 04:33.030 and you can adjust this guy now a little bit easier than going inside. 04:33.030 --> 04:34.760 Other thing you can do is you can edit it. 04:34.770 --> 04:42.450 So paintable courage to whatever you're good at and you can stop bending that spline and then you kind 04:42.450 --> 04:46.740 of run into problems that you might run into a style or something you want to do what you like. 04:46.740 --> 04:51.100 Actually I want that guy to the front and that guy to beat that back because it's kind of yeah it's 04:51.290 --> 04:52.050 probably the way I want to. 04:52.050 --> 04:57.850 But let's test that with a selected go to object and down to blend gain. 04:57.900 --> 04:59.640 This is kind of all the hardcore stuff gets done. 05:00.270 --> 05:05.160 And we want to go the one that says reverse front to back you can see now this guy is at the front and 05:05.160 --> 05:11.260 the guys at the bank kick off you the last thing before we get into the drawing who shapes is with it 05:11.260 --> 05:11.930 selected. 05:11.930 --> 05:15.210 If we get to object and go to blend and get a blend. 05:15.210 --> 05:17.820 Options are actually pretty easy just double clicking the top. 05:17.920 --> 05:19.910 This one here that didn't do anything. 05:19.920 --> 05:22.740 It doesn't do anything with a straight line but when there's a curved line. 05:22.890 --> 05:27.750 K Timberview on you can see it orients itself to the line and kind of moves across. 05:27.750 --> 05:29.270 So I like that. 05:29.340 --> 05:34.020 And I'm going to change this one back to reverse and back. 05:35.070 --> 05:36.730 Totally raking it. 05:36.860 --> 05:43.680 And so let's leave out while friend came over here and let's start building some of those kind of nice 05:43.680 --> 05:45.610 fancy lines we saw at the beginning there. 05:45.850 --> 05:49.130 So we're going to only introduce one more kind of idea from that. 05:49.140 --> 05:56.240 So let's you see a lot of that kind of like sine graph kind of on the front cover of an album. 05:56.330 --> 05:59.620 Man I can't think of it but. 06:00.000 --> 06:01.230 Yeah let's do that. 06:01.230 --> 06:02.810 So we're going to start with squiggly shapes. 06:02.820 --> 06:05.310 You can draw all squiggly shapes any way you like. 06:05.310 --> 06:07.170 I'm going to use the pins too. 06:07.330 --> 06:12.270 OK so the pencil to underneath the shape of two and you could use the pin to give it to. 06:12.350 --> 06:18.540 If you double take the pains to yank up the smoothing and turn off keep selected and fill out make yours 06:18.540 --> 06:19.490 look like mine. 06:19.740 --> 06:21.310 It just helps your drawing. 06:21.450 --> 06:25.920 OK now what we want is I'm going to I think selected drawing too. 06:26.070 --> 06:27.200 I'm going to have a stroke. 06:27.210 --> 06:30.780 No Phil my stroke is I've got gradients in this file. 06:30.780 --> 06:35.100 If you're not using my file you're left to make your own gradients and I'm going to start with this 06:35.100 --> 06:36.200 one looks kind of cool. 06:36.450 --> 06:40.430 So I'm just going to draw a top shape in a bottom shape and it's just a squiggly line. 06:40.440 --> 06:41.240 You notice what I like. 06:41.250 --> 06:44.260 OK you see it did a nice kind of smooth my lines. 06:44.280 --> 06:49.870 I don't want that curve for no reason other than it works with curves just like it without a k and the 06:49.890 --> 06:56.330 bottom one is going to be more of a zigzag kind of one because zigzags then more curvy. 06:56.350 --> 06:57.990 It's to see what a point happens. 06:57.990 --> 06:59.900 OK so I've got these two pots now. 06:59.910 --> 07:00.930 Now all I need to do. 07:00.930 --> 07:02.480 Same as before like out to. 07:02.490 --> 07:06.460 I select them both K and grab my curve. 07:06.540 --> 07:07.470 Sorry Blin too. 07:07.630 --> 07:08.120 OK click. 07:08.130 --> 07:08.770 Two points. 07:08.820 --> 07:10.970 You can like I'm clicking the ones that match. 07:11.070 --> 07:11.340 OK. 07:11.340 --> 07:15.780 And they join this way you can go and undo and click this one and then one over here. 07:15.950 --> 07:16.950 It does something different. 07:16.940 --> 07:20.770 Trying to flip itself around and it looks kind of cool and experiment with that afterwards. 07:20.790 --> 07:23.930 I'm going to go for the sure fire looks great way. 07:24.090 --> 07:25.700 And again we don't have enough. 07:25.830 --> 07:30.270 OK so we going to double click this go to specified steps. 07:30.330 --> 07:33.090 Crank it up. 07:33.540 --> 07:35.000 Hey now we're talking. 07:35.180 --> 07:35.910 OK. 07:35.940 --> 07:37.850 And I love it. 07:37.900 --> 07:38.710 Done. 07:38.790 --> 07:40.340 And what we can do. 07:40.590 --> 07:44.400 First of all I'm just going to slip this one down the bottom here with my white error and open up my 07:44.400 --> 07:50.520 stroke because I want the gradient panel because what I'd like to do is you my friend I would like to 07:50.520 --> 07:54.420 kind of flip it over to kind of get that sort of effect. 07:54.450 --> 07:55.070 All right. 07:55.260 --> 08:03.320 And the kind of next thing all the extra addition that we're going to learn here is and we the spline 08:03.320 --> 08:07.480 right is kind of a nice straight line what we want to do is actually create our own spines. 08:07.480 --> 08:11.700 I'm going to move this guy over and you can create anything you could use a circle with Square. 08:11.700 --> 08:15.940 I'm going to use my pencil to and draw a thing. 08:16.410 --> 08:16.940 OK. 08:17.040 --> 08:20.420 And now and I slick these two you can override that spline. 08:20.520 --> 08:27.120 You can say and object you can go to blend and you can say actually replace the spline. 08:27.120 --> 08:31.980 The one that you've made with the one I've drawn and you end up with bananas craziness but this is where 08:31.980 --> 08:36.530 it gets kind of co-writes kind of three dimensional sign graphic stuff. 08:36.750 --> 08:41.210 And one thing I might do is go and increase the splines. 08:41.250 --> 08:44.420 I'm going to go do that now play around. 08:44.550 --> 08:45.310 Yeah. 08:45.480 --> 08:51.720 Now you understand the kind of fundamentals What I'd really like you to do is experiment experiment 08:51.720 --> 08:53.740 with colors experiment with shapes. 08:53.820 --> 08:55.740 And I'd love to see your experiments. 08:55.740 --> 08:58.920 OK so this is going to be say as a class project. 08:58.980 --> 09:02.240 So come up with as many as you like. 09:02.250 --> 09:02.710 OK. 09:02.730 --> 09:07.020 At least one do 20 k but I want to see them. 09:07.020 --> 09:13.140 OK so put them up here on the Web site so everyone else can see and also share them with me on Instagram 09:13.230 --> 09:19.830 and on Twitter and the Instagram is bring your own laptop and on Twitter it's Dan loves Adobe. 09:19.860 --> 09:24.440 All right my friends go off and make awesome lines that Blin to get the.