Make a Logo with Shapes
- Starting the lesson
- Starting the lesson
- Creating a new document
- Creating a new document
- Saving your document
- Saving your document
- Working with basic shapes
- Working with basic shapes
- Working with drawing modes
- Working with drawing modes
- Pasting artwork from another document
- Pasting artwork from another document
- Using Image Trace to convert raster images into editable vector art
- Using Image Trace to convert raster images into editable vector art
- Review questions
- Review questions
- Review answers
- Review answers
In this lesson from Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book, author Brian Wood works through creating captivating designs as you dive into the art of shaping, mastering Live Shapes, adding rounded corners, navigating drawing modes, harnessing the power of the Place command, unleashing your creativity with Image Trace, and simplifying intricate paths. Unleash your imagination and become a skilled artist within Adobe Illustrator with this immersive learning experience.
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.
Use tools and commands to create a variety of shapes.
Understand Live Shapes.
Create rounded corners.
Work with drawing modes.
Use the Place command.
Use Image Trace to create shapes.
Simplify paths.
This lesson will take about 60 minutes to complete. To get the lesson files used in this chapter, download them from the web page for this book at adobepress.com/IllustratorCIB2023. For more information, see “Accessing the lesson files and Web Edition” in the Getting Started section at the beginning of this book.
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Basic shapes 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 logo.
Starting the lesson
NOTE
If you have not already downloaded the project files for this lesson to your computer from your Account page, make sure to do so now. See the “Getting Started” section at the beginning of the book.
In this lesson, you’ll explore the different methods for creating artwork by using the shape tools and other methods to create a logo.
To ensure that the tools function and the defaults are set exactly as described in this lesson, delete or deactivate (by renaming) the Adobe Illustrator preferences file. See “Restoring default preferences” in the “Getting Started” section at the beginning of the book.
Start Adobe Illustrator.
Choose File > Open. Locate the file named L3_end.ai, which is in the Lessons > Lesson03 folder that you copied onto your hard disk, and click Open.
This file contains the finished illustrations that you’ll create in this lesson.
Choose View > Fit Artboard In Window; leave the file open for reference, or choose File > Close.
