Welcome to Deke's Techniques. … Now, I don't know about you, … but I've always been fascinated by this thing: … the impossible trident, … also known as the devil's tuning fork. … This thing has a crazy awesome history. … The guy who invented it in 1964, D.H. Schuster, … called it the three-stick clevis. … Look at an American keyboard and you'll see what I mean. … Anyway, this thing, … it's such a head-scratcher in Adobe Illustrator, by the way. … Here, let me show you exactly how it can't possibly work. … All right, so here's our impossible trident. … Let's get to drawing it here inside Illustrator. … First thing I'm going to do is target this trident layer … here inside the Layers panel … by clicking on its circular so-called meatball, … and then I'll go up to the Opacity value … here in the control panel, … and I'll reduce it to something like 30% … so that we can at least kind of see it, … and then I'm going to lock that layer down … so I don't mess it up. … All right, so step number one is to select the Ellipse Tool, …
Author
Deke McClelland
Updated
5/26/2020Released
1/13/2011Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.
Skill Level Intermediate
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