813 Drawing a cubical gobstopper in Illustrator

I began this weekly series about eight … and a half years ago now. … And when I first started, I was covering things … like ice type and putting wings on a horse … and changing the color of a car. … But nowadays I give myself permission … to venture let's say farther afield. … of the object, rendered in the background … is a repeating tile pattern, just so that you have … a chance to see it open in the context … of Adobe Illustrator. … And here is that cubical gobstopper … that we'll be creating absolutely … from scratch in this movie. … And so if you're working along with me, … first thing you want to go up … to the File menu and choose the New command. … And notice that I'm creating … a document that's 1,008 points wide … and 672 points tall, just because … that happens to work well in our videos. … And I've set all of the bleed values … to 12 points and I'm working in the RGB mode. … At which point, I'll click Create in order … to create that document. … Now we need to add a pair of center guides, …