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Drawing a target with the Polar Grid tool

Drawing a target with the Polar Grid tool - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Drawing a target with the Polar Grid tool

All right let's take a moment to refresh our communal memories. I'm going to switch back to Fussy guides.ai found inside the 04_line_art folder of course. And you'll see that this heart is filled with a target and notice by the way that the target clips right along that beveled stroke thereby eliminating any concern about it. And we're going to draw this target as a series of concentric rings using the Polar Grid tool. So let's switch back to our project at hand. I've saved our progress as Classic heart.ai and I'm going to press Ctrl+Semicolon or Command+Semicolon on a Mac to bring up my guides once again. And I'll click and hold on the Arc tool which is the last Line tool I use. And I'll now switch to the Polar Grid tool and what I want you to do is drag from the center outward, like so. This is the center of the illustration out, in order to create something that doesn't look like a target at all because it has those pie wedges in it. Also it's not going to appear inside the heart…

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