Making Artwork with Shapes
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
LESSON OVERVIEW
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:
Create a new document.
Change bleed size and document settings.
Use tools and commands to create a variety of shapes.
Understand Live Shapes.
Create rounded corners.
Discover other ways to round corners.
Work with drawing modes.
Use Image Trace to create shapes.
Simplify paths.
Create with Generative AI.
Explore Generative Expand for bleeds
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This lesson will take about 75 minutes to complete. To get the lesson files used in this lesson refer to the instructions in “Accessing the lesson files and Web Edition” in the “Getting Started” section at the beginning of this book.
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Creating shapes and editing them are essential to creating Illustrator artwork. In this lesson, you’ll create a new document and then use the shape tools to create and edit a series of shapes for a clothing badge.
Starting the lesson
In this lesson, you’ll explore various ways of creating artwork by using the shape tools and other methods to create a clothing badge for a shoe company.
Start Adobe Illustrator.
To make sure that Adobe Illustrator behaves exactly as described in this lesson, reset the Adobe Illustrator preferences. See “Restoring default preferences” in the “Getting Started” section at the beginning of the book.
Choose File > Open. Open L3_end.ai in the Lessons > Lesson03 folder you copied to your computer.
This file contains the finished project that you’ll create in this lesson.
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Choose View > Fit All In Window; leave the file open for reference, or choose File > Close.
