Illustrate by Building with Shapes | Adobe Illustrator Essentials
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Learn how to combine basic shapes to build more complex shapes. This method of illustrating is why you don't need to be good at drawing in order to create high-quality, complex illustrations! You’ll learn how to use the Shape Builder Tool and the Pathfinder Panel to unite, cut out, intersect, exclude shapes and more. Plus discover a trick to combining shapes while keeping them editable.
👀 Watch the Adobe Illustrator Essentials series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGfHurvYEHhXrIYXEZmzGhCVHk47u1ybC
The Illustrator Essentials series is designed to help beginners get started in Adobe Illustrator. While there’s a focus on the tools and techniques used to create illustrations for animation, it’s also applicable to graphic design and static illustrations.
➡️ Check out the visual notes that accompany this video to help you quickly remember how to do something in Illustrator: www.meganfriesth.com/illustratoressentials/shapebuilding
➡️ Practice what you learned here with a real project: https://link.animationexplained.com/aiessentials
In this video:
0:14 - Shape Builder Tool
0:57 - Pathfinder Panel: Shape Modes
1:34 - Non-Destructive Workflow
3:05 - Pathfinder Panel: Pathfinders
#adobeillustrator #illustration #vectorillustration #illustratortutorial #illustratortutorialforbeginners
My website: https://www.animationexplained.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/animationexplained
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/explanimated/
Learn how to combine basic shapes to build more complex shapes. This method of illustrating is why you don't need to be good at drawing in order to create high-quality, complex illustrations! You’ll learn how to use the Shape Builder Tool and the Pathfinder Panel to unite, cut out, intersect, exclude shapes and more. Plus discover a trick to combining shapes while keeping them editable.
👀 Watch the Adobe Illustrator Essentials series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGfHurvYEHhXrIYXEZmzGhCVHk47u1ybC
The Illustrator Essentials series is designed to help beginners get started in Adobe Illustrator. While there’s a focus on the tools and techniques used to create illustrations for animation, it’s also applicable to graphic design and static illustrations.
➡️ Check out the visual notes that accompany this video to help you quickly remember how to do something in Illustrator: www.meganfriesth.com/illustratoressentials/shapebuilding
➡️ Practice what you learned here with a real project: https://link.animationexplained.com/aiessentials
In this video:
0:14 - Shape Builder Tool
0:57 - Pathfinder Panel: Shape Modes
1:34 - Non-Destructive Workflow
3:05 - Pathfinder Panel: Pathfinders
#adobeillustrator #illustration #vectorillustration #illustratortutorial #illustratortutorialforbeginners
My website: https://www.animationexplained.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/animationexplained
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/explanimated/