High there in this video we are going to look to add more than one stroke to a path.
What that means is that there's just one path and these extra strokes applied to it makes it cool when
we do lame old shows like this.
You can see it follows along and it's just one path you can turn it into a style so that you can apply
simply quickly.
Let's go and learn how to build that now.
OK so first up opens stroke start from the exercise files you don't obviously need that one.
But if you want to follow along I'm going to draw a shape you know draw us to and then we give it no
fill for the moment just to give our Ficht its full awesomeness gang and move down.
See it.
So first up I'm going to give it a strict weight for something kind of heavy the point I'm going to
give it a fill color of anything I'm going to use the colors that I've got here and my switches panel
now and adding more strokes is easy.
You need to use the appearance panel.
Now in this version you can hit the dotted lines and it opens up.
We can get a window appearance and all you need to do is click and we are strokers and then click this
new one.
A duplicate selected item kind of two lines.
Now they're the same color and the same width so it's not going to work.
So all I need to do is pick a new color and pick a new size.
I'm going to go up to 20.
Well somehow that's it.
That's how you add more than one story.
You can add as many as you like.
OK.
I'm going to add another one.
And down here I'll show you a little trick and say you want to jump sizes big.
OK so instead of going up 1 1 1 1 hold shift and click the up and it goes up 10 points making your really
big chunks and also you can play I would lay it to decide on who's on the bottom and who's on top case
if you get around the wrong way just click hold and drag them.
Now let's apply it to a couple of things so let's go to my lips to lips K and I can use my eyedropper
to to select the center of this and a little ply.
Now one thing to note as well is that if I grab my black area and shrink this down it depends on what
your sitting was lost.
But if I shrink this down you see it's actually made the lines proportionately smaller.
That's maybe what you want.
OK but no that with it selected actually click off into the background nothing selected this is when
he has his scale strokin effects and that off you get a different effect.
OK.
So hold shift.
Scale it down you see it retains the same matching size.
That's kind of what I want to do right.
I want a couple of shapes that I could resize that match this and see if I have nothing selected.
Turn that on and off.
Now we've just done some I guess interesting strokes.
Now lots of different people illustrator you know sometimes this design is illustrate is fashion design
is urban planners.
They use.
Everyone has a use for illustrator.
Now let's say that the plan is right.
They do a lot of things like roads and detailed drawings on maps and stuff.
So that's about pin Salto you might find you was underneath the shape of is going to drop out of shape
right.
And you're kind of a cool thing we can do with it selected and you can get quite complex.
OK so I'm going to go I'm going to start with a maybe a dark gray maybe a light gray like the K and
the size wise I'm going to make it 40 points.
OK.
And next thing I want to do is I'm going to do the same thing again.
It's going to show you right here you can build some reasonably complex ones maybe a little bit more.
That's going to into my road I'm actually going to have another one that's going to be yellow and it's
going to be on two points.
Drag it to the top here and with it click on story and say actually restrict options here you can have
left.
OK if it's dotted weirdly and you leave that 0 dasht you leave that 0 and that gap to you can get dotted
and dashed K and you also might need to switch the caps to round it and then actually get Perrine's
be bigger 20.
If you don't know how to make dotted lines you do now leaves really hard dasht is easy but dotted you've
got to put 0 and then the gap spacing and make sure that you're not on blackcap you're on round cap.
So you make it even more detailed and you want to use over and over again for other projects.
Marshall we've got dotted lines but anyway with it's selected you can use your graphics stylus library.
It's under a window down here.
Graphic styles came with a slick that just drag it into there.
OK.
And the thing about it now is I can draw any lines instead of using my eyedropper tool.
OK.
So let's go.
It's like that.
Go do the same with these guys.
You can use that one.
Drag it in.
OK.
Now one interesting thing the thing that happens is if I make a new document k those don't come along.
OK.
So you can see it's kind of play it off.
So what you can do is say you do spend some time say your fashion design and you make some kind of like
decent zip Patten's or some sort of seems and you make some complex things and you want to save them
out to share them with yourself or with other people in your team what you can do is you can tidy this
one up.
So cool go way I can.
I'm going to select all of these and just build them.
OK.
So let's say I've made just this one here.
You me I think you need to leave the default in there.
So what we can do now is going to option here and say I would like my friend to be saved and give it
a name and that store that somewhere and might be record all your roads and all your stitching.
OK.
And if you want to load it so you go to a new document you say you open and then the bottom he his other
library and go find that thing you saved and it will load in then there are some interesting ones in
here.
Have a look.
These are the defaults from Illustrator.
I'm not a fan of them all Neon is kind of cool because I'm kind of cool.
Neon one of my favorite of the bunch to do.
Come on ladies.
It's get all neon and zoom in it's kind of neon right.
Yeah.
Anyway so graphics library also know that there are other people who have made graphics dolls libraries.
I betcha if you have a look Google graphics styles for stitching you will find some sort of stuff out
there.
Just download it and go to that open library.
All right I hope that was interesting.
Let's get on to the next video.