Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video 152 Drawing a perfect linear spiral in Illustrator, part of Deke's Techniques.
Hey gang! This is Deke McClelland. …Welcome to Deke's Techniques! This week we're just going to rage on the spirals. …This is the kind of spiral that you create in Illustrator using the Spiral tool. …It's not a Fibonacci spiral. It's not nearly anything that's cool, it's like …an exponential logarithmic spiral, something like that, but it's the kind of spiral only …an engineer could love. …And that's the problem, it's not the kind of spirals we want to draw. …We want a nice linear, Archimedean spiral, like this one right here.…
And I'm going to show you how to create it using, by the way, a tool you've probably …never used inside of Illustrator, the Polar Grid tool, and we'll end up creating this …absolutely hypnotic effect here. …You're getting vector sleepy. …Here, let me show you exactly how it works. …I'm going to start things off by showing you how to use Illustrator's Spiral tool, …just so you have a sense for how it works, and then I'll show you how to create a linear …spiral using the Polar Grid tool.…
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1/13/2011Skill Level Intermediate
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