Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video Working with slender, bending shapes, part of Illustrator CS6 One-on-One: Mastery.
In this movie, I'll show you how to work with the gradient mesh inside of a …slender, bending shape. Because here's the deal, gradient mesh …works beautifully inside of a circle. It also works really well inside these …gently curving sort of blobby forms that make up the red pepper shapes. …But once we have a path outline that curves around onto itself like this That …presents special challenges. After all, we have to prepared for what …begins as a column line going up the stem is going to have to curve around to …become a roll line that has column lines tracing across it.…
And that's the point at which things get pretty weird. …So, what you want is a high degree of patience and a willingness to modify the …mass using the light arrow tool. So, I'm going to go ahead and zoom in on …the stem and twirl open the mesh (UNKNOWN) layer go ahead and lock that …top red mesh, unlock the stem and then lock the other three red shapes as well, …just to keep them out of the way. And then I'll click on the stem to select …
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4/30/2013- Setting up angular construction guides
- Kerning and clipping hand-drawn type
- Creating and naming symbols
- Using symbols to simulate master pages
- Creating a gradient mesh
- Using gradients to cast shadows
- Fading artwork with a gradient opacity mask
- Warping and distorting artwork with Liquify and Envelope
- Assembling a seamless pattern brush
- Creating charts and pictographs
- Working in 3D space
Skill Level Advanced
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Q: In the "Assigning colors to mesh points" lesson, I cannot pick up the color of the visible tracing/photograph layer with the Eyedropper tool. What am I missing?
A: Make sure the template file is embedded in your file, not just linked, and try to sample the color again.
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33. Using Smart Guides
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Welcome to One-on-One2m 2s
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34. Working with Symbols
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Creating and naming symbols6m 42s
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Introducing 9-slice scaling4m 31s
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35. Gradient Mesh
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Creating a gradient mesh4m 23s
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36. Opacity Masks
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Introducing opacity masks6m 24s
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37. Liquify and Envelope
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Introducing the Warp tool7m 50s
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38. Pattern Brushes
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39. Charts and Pictographs
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40. 3D Effects
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Conclusion
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See ya52s
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