AI Tips

Isometric logo

• 1 - draw three 6 side polygons
• 2 - different size
• 3 - align vert., horizontally, color in shades of gray (center light gray)
• 4 - make lines with pen tool
• 5 - pathfinder → split
• 6 - drag from swatches to artwork

Blend Flower

• 1 - make two stars
• 2 - create gradient align them
• 3 - make 100 step blend with Blend tool
• 4 - pucker and bloat -23
• 5 - effect roughen 36% relative
• 6 - details 0
• 7 - smooth points

Transform

• Select shape -> effect - dissort and transform -> transform
• Scale: horizontal 95%, vertical 95%
• Angle: 2°
• copies: 30
• make sure "Transform objects is ticked"

Gradient Mesh

• 1 - import banana image and create outline with pen tool
• 2 - with eyedropper fill shape with banan color
• 3 - with mesh tool click the banana
• 4 - with direct selection tool select parts of the mesh and fill them with different color

Repeat shape along circle path

• 1 - create 2 circles one small
• 2 - select both, center vertically
• 3 - click rotate
• 4 - alt + click circle centre
• 5 - enter how many degrees
• 6 - press cmd + d repeatedly to copy shape along the path

Transformations

• 1 - View -> fit artboards in window
• 2 - new artboard by artboard tool or from the artboards panel

Live painting

• 1 - Create rectangle and draw line accros
• 2 - Select all and click Object -> Live painitng -> create
• 3 - Live paint bucket tool - color only demanded areas

Blend with steps

• 1 - create one small circle left and one bigger on the right
• 2 - double click the tool, set specified steps to 12 -> click on the first circle and then on the second

Width tool

• 1 - create cirle
• 2 - with scissors tool cut part of it
• 3 - use width tool to change profile of the line