Create Complex Geometric Shapes EASILY - Illustrator Tutorial
We’re going to explore the Offset Path function and the Shaper tool in Adobe Illustrator and see how they can help us quickly create all kinds of shapes, from the simple to the complex. It’s a great bit of fun and extremely helpful for all of us as we build our artwork and designs from basic shapes.
🧠 The basic shape in this design was inspired by and stolen from this app: apps.apple.com/us/app/spectre...
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🔥 ↓ VIDEO GUIDE ↓ 🔥
00:00 Back to the start
00:21 What we’re making
01:20 Making the color scheme
03:13 Build the basic lines
05:59 Punching the gaps between lines
07:53 Create the bar spacers
10:12 Use the Shaper Tool
12:20 Please don’t leave yet
13:03 Using the Shaper Tool MORE
17:30 Adding color/gradient
20:53 Create a glowing reflection
23:30 Adding more sparkle and highlights
25:52 Wrap it up!
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If you finish this tutorial, post your results on Instagram and tag me @theNathanielDodson I'd love to see your work!
@DJinaShoebox
2 жыл бұрын
love seeing you back making videos bro!!
@hassanmasood186
2 жыл бұрын
I wish I had learned how to make shapes like that
@theredmaster_superbee
2 жыл бұрын
please, can you help me? I have a question, can you follow a path with the illustrator blade and drag the tool with a freehand but follow the line drawn with vectors as if it were an automated path? It would be great... but I don't know if it's possible.
@emmaw1435
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I almost didn't believe my eyes when I saw this was posted "40 minutes ago" SO GLAD YOU'RE BACK! Yes, yes and yes!
@tutvid
2 жыл бұрын
Haha, thank you! I'm glad to be back, too. Lots more stuff to come!
Within the first 7 minutes...I had learned about 3 new things that I didn't know were possible in Illustrator!!! Thank you!
What a great tutorial. Thanks for making this so easy to follow. Cheers.
So glad to see you are back, Nathaniel, looking forward to more tutorials, this one is splendid !
@tutvid
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you like it! Thank you! :)
Nathaniel...It is so nice to have you back with these tutorials that you are sharing and teaching us. I look forward to more in the future. Thank you!
Good to see you are back!! Been missing your tuts. You had easily the best tutorials in a very educational way, easy to understand and follow. Keep up the good work 🧡
Ive been watching your stuff years ago when I got into design and became successful and still find myself going back to brush up on my skills so thank you for putting out all this content!!!
You really made my day Nathan seeing you are back! Thank you very much indeed for restarting to share amazing creative things ❤
So glad to see you back in action!!!!
it's great to see you back you taught me more about adobe and art than college for graphic design did.
I missed you Nathaniel! Nice to see you getting back into the groove of things again :) I binged a tonne of your illustrator videos in mid 2020 and realised at some point "hang on, I know how to use this software now even though I've never opened it". I took the plunge and got Adobe Illustrator and it's been a great creative outlet for me. I can throw myself into a project and happily wipe out a Sunday just making something cool which is really refreshing since normally I write code and I've never really been an artsy person. I get sunlight and go outdoors don't worry! But I just want to say thanks for doin that you do!
Love your energy so much ! Can’t wait for future videos 🙏🏽🔥
GLAD TO SEE YOURE BACK!!!!!!!
Love to see you back, Thanks for the video.
Awesome tutorial! Your tutorials helped inspire me to pursue a design career so I am super glad to see you back. Thank you!
Wellcome back missed your and you amazing videos for a long time ❤️❤️❤️
Woohoo... you are back! Nice!
Very happy to see you back dude!
Great and fun to follow. Thanks a bunch, Nat. Boom! 👍🏻
Best Adobe CC tutorial content creator on KZread. So glad you're back!
Love that you left in the flub at the beginning. :) I'm enjoying your tips and tutes. Great stuff.
regarding making CMYK black by giving everything 100% - don't do that. You end up with 400% color and it will dry very slow when printed. If you do any kind of commercial offset printing, stick with 40% for everything except K that you crank to 100. then you have 220% ink on the page. Still a lot but it dry fast and won't give errors and is still a true black.
Wow, that's how you do that! Most of what I do is very flat and cartoony stuff, but it's great to see how these slick graphics can be so easily made. Thanks!
OMGG waiting for you since very long time ❤️ missed your tutorials really badly. Love from India ❤️❤️
So good to see you back! Wihaa! :-)
You're the king of doing tutorials! Love your videos! :D
Another great one! Awesome work dude.
Wow.. You are back 👌👌
Happy to see you back in the game!
*enjoyed as well & definitely learned something new 💗*
Hey, I just watched your Adobe Express tutorial/hype video and thought you were hilarious and your enthusiasm was great so I'm browsing your other videos to see what else you have that can help me. The beginning of this video is great; that intentional lean in to the goofy side made me smile. Great job!
welcome back bro nice to see you again.
huh finally !! welcome back dude 😎✌
Welcome back man
Finally you're back. Great to see you again.
awesome as always!!!
Hello from Brazil, That is fantastic you are back Nathaniel
This is great! Thanks for the great tutorial.
It's good to see you back man It's been a while
this was really cool man! you're a great teacher.
Super cool an fun to watch tutorial! Thanks! Good to have you back! And I liked it very much that you kept your Photoshop intro in the video 👍
@tutvid
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome, thank you!
Thanks for this excellent Photo...i mean Illustrator tut !...good to see you back.
Welcome back!
Wonderful. Thank you.
great mannnnn i have learn.... about the shaper tool and transperancy.... i use alot of gradient colors... but now i see you can make some awsome depth art works.... thx for this tutorial...
Cool! Thanks
Brahhhhhh. I am so glad that you are back. Really missed your videos. Hopefully you will be uploading more frequently.
Great tutorial, thanks for sharing!!!
welcome back !
thx man for this cool tut❤️✨👍🏻
Super dope 👌🏻😍🔥
So good!
Thanks a lot buddy. i enjoyed it a lot, i am making it again and again. thankyou so much. :)
Good to know you are alive ...
Thanks for the Tuto brother. Used this on a background.. UFFF
You are my HERO!!! Thank you a lot!
Great tutorial!
Fun stuff. Thanks.
amazing presentation .. detailed and interesting way to express things boom boom boom....... have a good one.
really sick
welcome back sir
Thanks for sharing
Welcome back, Nathaniel!
@tutvid
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Glad to be back!
Yessssssssss TUTVID IS BACKKKKKK GOD BLESS YOU MAN
welcome back .. !!!
16:37 Love that 😁 Your tuts are always awesome...
@tutvid
2 жыл бұрын
Haha, thank you! I appreciate it.
beautiful .
definitely going to need a tutorial on that instagram call out! that was incredible
Amazing
sir love from india .. U r the best mentor ever ..Thank you sir
u r the best dude
Omg legend is back! Hope you are doing well!
You are the best. Thanks 👌👌👌👍👍👍
NDOD is BACK, baby! wohooo.....
@tutvid
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!!
What a great video!! greetings from Germany
Welcome back
Wow bro😘 You are amazing person☺️
Its been a Loooooooonnngggggg time, I'm happy you are back. This time...STAY!!!
Thanks a lot Sir i wanna learn more effects please keep it up more effects tutorials.
Wow you are back.
I am not a graphic designer anymore but i still love to watch your videos.
Welcome back! Nice tut, please something about retrowave on PS thanks!
@videomarknet
2 жыл бұрын
channeling the 80s vibes
Super chido!
Very nice
Shape builder tool is amazing makes it fun to cut up shapes.
@videomarknet
2 жыл бұрын
100% agree
Hi! Welcome back, Nathaniel! I belive this tutorial is inspired by new Matrix movie :-)
Thanks nate
I think there's a movie that uses a similar design, but square on their poster. I can't remember the name and I haven't seen the film but I see the poster occasionally and it always stands out to me.
Love the video! I use the shape builder tool constantly, but I'm not very familiar with the shaper tool. Is there a difference between using the shaper tool vs. holding alt or optn with the shape builder tool?
Nathaniel is back, party like it’s 2017!
When I got the notification I couldn't believe it! Welcome back Nat! Hope you're here to stay!
@tutvid
2 жыл бұрын
I hope so too! (I am!) Thanks for the kind words.
i love the new logo glitch effect. But the old one was awesome too.
Just found your channel. I’m trying to learn photoshop! Easy to follow!
@videomarknet
2 жыл бұрын
You rock, Ghostxvii!
Helpful tip. There’s no need to make a black swatch with 100% CMYK values, it’s already in the swatch panel. It can easily be identified with the target on the swatch icon, and in printing terms is called registration. It is also a swatch that cannot be deleted from the swatch panel.
Thanks
12:08 - I hit the thumbs up button. ...but I stayed!
@IanJones942
2 жыл бұрын
For what it's worth - everything worked like a charm until about 20:53, somehow. I still love the result!
Nice! Love seeing new and easy ways to create complex looking shapes. Sorry to hear about your IG account hack! Just followed your new one. Good to see you again! :)
@videomarknet
2 жыл бұрын
One step after another
I don't have illustrator, just Photoshop as far as Adobe apps but this is pretty cool.
@videomarknet
2 жыл бұрын
I remember doing a Photoshop paths tutorial once
Shape tool is one of my favourite shape builders. You instantly know how it works. But when use pathfinder I have to click nearly every button and it's never what I intended.
@videomarknet
2 жыл бұрын
right on!