From the course: Illustrator 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals
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Drawing two perfectly aligned circles - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Drawing two perfectly aligned circles
- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll create the central element of the magnifying glass, which is these two circles, one inset inside of the other, and along the way I will pass along some new tips for working with any shape tool inside Illustrator. All right, so I'll go ahead and switch over to my document so far, and I'm not really interested in anything that I've drawn, so I'll go up to the select menu and choose all, in order to select everything, or you can press control + A, or command + A on the Mac, and then I'll delete the shapes by pressing the backspace key, or the delete key on a Mac. All right, now I want to create a couple of additional guides, and so I need to unlock the current guides by going to the view menu, choosing guides, and then in the most recent version of the software. If you see lock guides with a check mark in front of it, go ahead and choose it instead. And now, I'll mark this vertical guide with…
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And now, we draw better1m 40s
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Creating a time-saving template5m 18s
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Using the Ellipse tool7m 43s
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Live ellipses and pies4m 44s
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Drawing two perfectly aligned circles8m 22s
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Creating compound paths7m 1s
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Using the Rectangle tool5m 40s
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The dynamic round corner controls7m 39s
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Adding some simple reflections7m 50s
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Rotating your artwork into position6m 19s
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Using the Polygon and Star tools6m 8s
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Working with live polygons7m 1s
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Creating the perfect five-pointed star6m 10s
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Repeating stars in alternating rows6m 23s
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Introducing the group Isolation mode7m 12s
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Adding a drop shadow to a layer2m 54s
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Using the crazy Flare tool6m 19s
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The top-secret tilde key trick3m 53s
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