From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Building up depth with offset strokes

Building up depth with offset strokes - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Building up depth with offset strokes

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- [Voiceover] In this movie we're gonna build up the appearance of depth by adding a bunch of off-set strokes. Now word of warning up front here, this movie involves a fair amount of repetition because in addition to assigning a transform effect to this yellow stroke that we applied in the previous movie, we're gonna need to add seven additional strokes in order to get the smooth color transition. The upshot though, is that we'll end up with this beautiful honey comb effect as opposed to the fairly rinky-dink effect that we have right now. So, if you're working along with me, make sure you have that polygon selected and you can confirm that by the appearance of the word 'polygon' or at least 'path' over here in the far left side of the control panel. Then, go ahead and click on that yellow stroke that we assigned in the previous movie. You might wanna twirl it open as well. And then, click on the fx icon down here in the bottom left corner of the Appearance panel. Go up here to…

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