From the course: Learning Illustrator on the iPad
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Draw polygons - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Learning Illustrator on the iPad
Draw polygons
- We're going to start off by drawing the Lander in the background here. So let's go ahead. And first of all, what we'll do is we'll draw just a straightforward rectangle around about the size of the one here, but it's easier to draw in the native orientation of the document here. So now we've drawn that, what we could do is go ahead and change the color on that. So I'm just going to change the brightness here. Okay. So it's a lighter gray just for now. In fact, what could do is just move across a little bit and add a little bit of blue into that I think would be kind of nice. There we go. Something like that I think works pretty well. Now we can go ahead and add another rectangle underneath that. So what we could do is duplicate our existing rectangle. Okay. And make that smaller, like so, in terms of height and then resize it like so, but if we use our touch shortcut here, okay, and slide to the…
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Edit a document preset1m 27s
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Import Assets2m 7s
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Add Layers1m
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Draw polygons3m 6s
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Modify anchor points2m 53s
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Use a flip transform1m 54s
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Modify stroke weights2m 17s
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Outline stroke2m 4s
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Work with groups1m 37s
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Combine shapes2m 16s
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Pencil tool4m 8s
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Convert combined shapes1m 3s
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Add a linear gradient3m 5s
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Layer options3m 23s
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Pen tool4m 56s
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Working with paths3m
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Challenge: Draw the face31s
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Solution: Draw the face5m 7s
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Use path segments4m 58s
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Gradient transparency1m 47s
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Clipping masks2m 13s
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