651 Frankenstein’s emoji’s iconic neck bolts

- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll add Frankenstein's emojis iconic neck bolts. Now, what they are exactly, I don't know. Electrodes? Who cares. Let's make 'em. Alright, so, I'm going to start things off, by going over here to the shape tool fly-out menu, and selecting the polygon tool. Then, I'll click any ol' place over here on the left side of the illustration. And, notice that I've set the sides value the eight. So, we're going to end up with an octagon. And, I've set the radius to 40 points. Afterwards, I'll click okay, in order to create this regular polygon.

Now, I don't need a stroke, so I'll go ahead and click on this second swatch, up here on the Control Panel, and set it to none. And then, I'll click on the first swatch and set it to black. Alright, now I'm going to go ahead and zoom in on this shape. And now, I want to make it narrower than it is tall. And so, I'll grab the scale tool, which you can get by pressing the S key. And, I'll go up to my view menu, and make sure my smart guides are turned off. And then, I'll Alt or Option click, on one of these left hand points, in order to bring up the scale dialog box, and I'll tap down to the horizontal value, and I'll set it to 50% and then, I'll set the vertical value to a 100%, like so.

After which, I'll click okay. Alright, now you want to press the V key, to get your black arrow tool. And I'm looking to line this octagon, to the left side of the big circle, and so, I'll Shift click on that circle, and then, I'll click on it again. You don't want to Shift click, you just click on it again, to make it the key object. And then, click under the word Align, up here in the Control Panel, and click on this first icon, horizontal align left. Which will align the bolt, to the left side of the big circle. And then, you want to click on this fifth icon in the first row, vertical align center, to produce this effect here.

After which point, you can go ahead and hide that panel. Alright, now go ahead and zoom out a little bit, by pressing Control minus, or Command minus on the Mac. And I'll click off the shapes to de-select 'em. And then, I'll click on the octagon, to once again select it. And with the black arrow tool selected, press the Enter key, or the Return key on a Mac, to bring up the move dialog box. Change the horizontal value to zero. And then, you want to set the vertical move value, to a 180 points. And that goes ahead and moves the octagon, into a good starting position.

Alright, now go ahead and click okay, and I want to create a copy of this shape, by dragging it by it's top left point, until it snaps into alignment with it's top right point. And then, you want to press the Alt key, or the Option key on the Mac, so that you're seeing a double arrow head cursor. Both arrowheads should be white, by the way, which shows you that you're snapping into alignment. And then, when you release, you'll create a copy of that shape. Alright, now I'll click on the first swatch, up here on the Control Panel. And, I'll change the color of the fill to this guy right here, this shade of gray, in which the RGB are all set to 128.

Alright, now I'm going to zoom in even further, right here. And we want to create the impression of a couple of additional edges, by first switching from the polygon tool, to the rectangle tool. And then, you want to drag from this point, all the way down to this one. So, because your Smart Guides are turned on, everything should snap into alignment. Then, click on this first color swatch up here in the Control Panel, once again, and change the color to this gray, where the RGB values are all 179. And that'll brighten things up. Alright, now click outside the panel to hide it.

And then, press the A key, to switch to the white arrow tool. Go ahead and select this top left anchor point, and then Shift click on the top right one. And because you selected the top left one first, you'll be able to select the top right one even though it's in the background. Now, press Control C, Control F. That's going to be a Command C, Command F, on the Mac, in order to paste in this partial path outline. And then, once again, click on the first color swatch, up here in the Control Panel, and change the color to the shade of gray, in which the RGB values are all set to 77.

And you get a pretty dark shade of gray, but not as dark as black. Alright, now, let's draw a stem, connecting the electrode, into the emoji's neck. And I'm going to do that, using th rectangle tool. So, go ahead and grab the rectangle tool, and then, click any ol' place here, to bring up the rectangle dialog box. Change the width value to a 160 points, it's going to work out nicely. And set the height to 50 points. And then, click okay, and you'll end up with this big thick rectangle. Alright, now I want to go back to these octagons here.

And so, I'm going to press Control Y, or Command in a Mac, to switch to the outline mode, and I'll select this guy, and then I'll Shift click on this one, so that they're both selected, and then I'll go up to the window menu, and choose the attributes command, in order to bring up this little panel right there. And you want to make sure that it's all the way expanded. So that you can access right here, Show Center. Go ahead and click on it, and that will bring up center points, for each one of the shapes, after which, you can hide the attributes panel. Now, go ahead and drag the rectangle, by it's center point, until it snaps into alignment.

So you should that you're vertically snapping into alignment, with the center points of those polygons. And you're also snapping the left edge, of the rectangle, with the center point of the right hand polygon. Alright now, assuming that your keybord increment is set to one point, as by default, and I'm checking that, by pressing Control K, or Command K on a Mac. Go ahead and click okay. You just need to press Shift, right arrow, in order to scoot the rectangle 10 points to the right. Alright, now, I want to bend this left hand edge right here, and I'm going to do that, in the most recent version of Illustrator, by click and holding in a pen tool, and switching to the anchor point tool, which you can get by pressing Shift C, and then you want to drag, this segment right here, by it's center, over to the left, as we're seeing.

And that's going to bend that segment. Again, that's a feature that was introduced in Illustrator CC. And now, press and hold the Shift key, in order to constrain the angle of the Control handles, to exactly horizontal. And, I want to move this edge, to somewhere between the two center points. That is, the center points of the two octagons. And that's going to give me something approximating a cylindrical edge. Alright, now I'll press the V key to switch back to my black arrow tool, and I'll click, what was formerly a rectangle to select it, and now, I'll press Control Y, Command Y in a Mac, to switch back to the preview mode.

Now, we want to fill this shape with a vertical gradient, by going to the Window menu, and choosing the Gradient command, if need be, to bring up the gradient panel. Don't choose the command if it has the check mark in front of it, 'cause that'll hide it. And then, here inside the panel, make sure that the fill is active, which it's not, in my case, so, I'll go ahead and click on that fill swatch, and then just click on the ramp, any old place, in order to apply the gradient. I want the angle to be 90 degrees, so, I'll go ahead and dial that value into the angle field. And then, I'll bring back my swatches panel, and I want both the first and last colors, to be the shade of gray, in which the RGB values are all 128.

So, I'll drag that guy to the first color stop, and then, I'll drag and drop it to the last color stop as well. Alright, now we want to introduce black. And so, I'll grab the black swatch, and I'll drag it and drop it, right about there, I'm looking for a location value, however, of 20%, so I'll go ahead and dial that in. And then, I want to grab this very light shade of gray, in which the RGB values are all 230. I'll go ahead and drag and drop that guy to right about there, and this time, I did pretty good, I'm looking for a location value of 60%, and that's going to produce this cylindrical lighting effect.

Alright, now, you want to click off the shape and press Control zero, or Command zero on the Mac, to zoom out. And now, I'll just switch to the stroke panel, so we have a little more room to work. And I'll switch over to the layers panel as well. And I'm going to twirl close the head layer, click on the guides layer, and drop down to the little page icon at the bottom of the panel, and Alt or Option click on it, to force the display of the Layer Options dialog box. I'll call this new layer bolts, and I'll change it's color, to let's say, to violet, and then I'll click okay.

Alright, now, I'll partially marquee, these bold shapes right here. I don't want to select the face, so, if you accidentally select the big circle, Shift click on it to deselect it. And then, go over to the layers panel, notice this little blue square, that represents the selection. You want to drag it and drop it, on to the bolts layer, and that's going to move the bolts in back of the head. Unfortunately, I missed a path. Notice, if I click off, I've got this guy right here, that didn't get moved to to the proper layer, and so, I'll go ahead and undo that move, of course, and press Control X, or Command X on the Mac, to cut it.

And then, I'll click on this black octagon, to select it, and I'll press Control F, or Command F on the Mac, in order to paste that guy in front. Alright, now, I want to select everything on the bolts layer, and so, I'll click in the top right corner of that layer, here inside the layers panel, and then, I'll go up to the Object menu, and choose the Group command, or you can press Control G, here on the PC, or Command G on the Mac. Alright, now let's dynamically rotate this screw, by going out to the effect menu, choosing distort and transform, and choosing the Transform command, and now, you just want to set the angle value, to whatever you like, I came up with 15 degrees.

And then, turn on the preview check box, and you can see, out here on the document window, that I've dynamically rotated the group, in a counter clockwise direction, at which point, I'll click okay to accept that change. Alright, now we need to duplicate that bolt to the other side of the head. And, I'm going to do that, by first pressing Control Y, or Command Y in a Mac, to switch to the outline mode, so I can that point, right there at the center of the big circle. And then, I'll click and hold on the rotate tool, and select the reflect tool from the flyout menu, and I'll Alt or Option click on the center point, in order to bring up the reflect dialog box.

You want the x's to be set to vertical, at which point, just go ahead and click copy. And now, if you press Control Y, or Command Y in a Mac, you can see, that you have another bolt, on the opposite of the head, but it's rotated in the wrong direction. And to fix that, go up to the Window menu, and choose the Appearance command, to bring up the appearance panel, and that should reveal this transform item right there. Go ahead and click on it, and then, set the angle value from positive to negative, like so, and turn on the preview checkbox.

And you'll end up with this symmetrical effect here. At which point, go ahead and click okay to accept that change. Then, press the V key to switch to the black arrow tool, and click off the paths to de-select them. And that's how you create Frankenstein's emoji's iconic neck bolts. Perfect for jump starting your next online conversation, here inside Illustrator.