From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
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Coloring paths and testing the interlock - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Coloring paths and testing the interlock
I've saved my progress as Ready to deploy.ai. In this exercise, we're going to take this guy, we're going to assign some fill colors, we're going to group them together, we're going to rotate him to create the other various humanoids, and we're ultimately going to assemble a rough repeating pattern that will then serve as the basis for a rectangular tile pattern. So I'm going to switchover here to the Black Arrow tool. I'm going to click in this big humanoid shape here. From the Swatches panel, I'm going to fill it with this Muted red. But first of all, I need to make sure the fill is active. So I'll switch over to the Color panel, it's not. I'll click on Fill, or press the X key, switch back to Swatches and then click on Muted red in order to fill that guy with red. And now I see what other filled shapes I have, including this little interior of a thumb shape. That's going to be fun to select. So I'll go ahead and marquee, just this tiny marquee around it, in order to select both of…
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What was old is new again39s
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Introducing tile patterns6m 11s
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Determining the points of intersection6m 51s
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Extending paths from the intersections5m 40s
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Crafting symmetrical subpaths5m 38s
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The final flawed subpaths5m 52s
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Reconciling misaligned paths5m 34s
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Completing the core path outline6m 14s
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Making a symmetrical modification6m 47s
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Adjusting the interior elements8m 26s
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Coloring paths and testing the interlock9m 29s
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Establishing a rectangular tile6m 22s
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Defining a tile pattern3m 43s
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Creating a few color variations8m 50s
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Protecting patterns from transformations6m 9s
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Transforming patterns without paths5m 30s
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