From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)
836 Adding impossible shadows in Illustrator
From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)
836 Adding impossible shadows in Illustrator
- [Instructor] All right now we're going to take our super shaded impossible trident, and we're going to give it equally impossible drop shadows right here so that the positive space on both sides is casting a shadow, while the negative space is not. All right so, I'll go ahead and switch over to my document so far, and we're just going to draw some rough path outlines using the pen tool, which you can get by pressing the P key. All right so I'm going to start clicking right about there. And I'll click at this location as well. And up here should do it. I'm just clicking around to make sure that we have all of the area covered. I don't think it's going to be very useful to have that white fill. So as you can see, my fill is active here in the swatches panel. And so I'll just click None. Or if you're looking for a keyboard shortcut, you can just press the slash key. All right but as you can see, the path outline remains active, so I'll just go ahead and click to create a few more points. And ultimately I'll close the path outline like so. All right now I'll press the V key to switch back to my black arrow tool. And because the appearance panel is up on screen, I actually have no idea what layer I'm working on, so I'll go ahead and switch back to the layers panel. And it's actually the top layer in the stack, which is the one that contains my name. That's not what I want. I want to drag this guy, so I'm going to drag this little purple square all the way down the layers panel to the behind layer back here. And then I'll click on the path outline to make it active, or at least that was my intention. I missed. So I'll go over here and click on this portion, because all I have is a very thin black stroke and no fill. I want the opposite. I don't want a black fill and no stroke, so I'll press Shift + X in order to swap those attributes like so. Looks like we have a problem over here. I will be addressing that momentarily. All right now I'm going to go up to the Effect menu, choose Blur, and then choose Gaussian blur. And I'm going to apply a whopping radius value of 20 pixels. At which point I'll turn on the preview checkbox to make sure I like what I see, and then I'll click OK. All right so, a couple of problems here. I'll press the A key to switch to my white arrow tool. And I'll grab this anchor point here. And if I want more shadow at this location, I can drag it out further, like so. But my bigger issue is this little bit of darkness over here, and the fact that we're not shading this portion of the purple shape. And that's because it's trapped inside of that clipping mask. So what I need to do is press the V key to switch back to the black arrow tool, click on this guy to select it, and press Control + C or Command + C on the Mac in order to copy the entire thing. And then you can press the A key to switch back to the white arrow tool. And select these points at the very least, and press the Backspace key or the Delete key on the Mac to get rid of em. And that way we don't have that little gray smudge. All right now I'll press the V key to switch back to the black arrow tool. And I'll click on this little bit of purple right here, which will select the clipping mask. And now I'll double-click on it in order to isolate the mask and its contents. And now I'll go ahead and click on this purple shape to select it, and I'll press Control + F or Command + F on the Mac in order to paste that guy in front, like so. And that's really all there is to it. Now I can just press the Escape key in order to escape out of the isolation mode. And then I'll click off the path outlines to deselect them. All right now I'm going to draw shadows for these cylinders down here. So I'll just go ahead and zoom in by Control + Spacebar clicking. That's Command + Spacebar clicking on the Mac. I'll switch back to the pen tool. Again, you can get it by pressing the P key. And then I'll drag in order to create a smooth point. And I don't want it to be so high. I want it to be down right about here. And so I'll press the Spacebar in order to move it on the fly. And then I'll go ahead and create another smooth point right about there. And now I'll sever off that control handle by Alt or Option clicking, like so. And then I'll go up somewhere around here, I think. I want to make sure that I go up high enough. So right about there should do it. But I want to tuck inward, so in other words, I want to go into the shape a little bit. And then I'll create another anchor point right about here. And I'll return to the first anchor point and just click on it in order to convert it from a smooth point to a cusp. All right now I'll press the V key to switch to the black arrow tool. I'll click on the shape to select it. And I need to drag this guy down to the behind layer as well. So notice this tiny red square. It represents the selection on the trident layer. I'm going to drag it down to the behind layer. And now it appears at the back of the stack. All right I want it to be blurry as well, so I'll go up to the Effect menu and just choose the first command. The one that does not have a dot dot dot. That'll go ahead and replay the 20 pixel radius. And that ends up looking pretty darn good. If you want a little more of a shadow you can drag it out a little farther, like so. And now I'm going to duplicate this shadow by Alt or Option dragging it to about this location should work out nicely. And now I'm going to Alt or Option drag it again, but I missed it, darn it, so I'll press Control + Z or Command + Z on the Mac to undo that change. And I'm just going to lock down that trident layer by clicking in the lock column here inside the layers panel. And then I'll try to select that guy again. And this time I'll drag it by its anchor point until I get it right about here. And by the way, I'm pressing the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac in order to create a duplicate of that shadow. Or I meant to. I accidentally had the Spacebar down. That's why it pays to look at the cursor when you're movin things around. So I'll undo that move. I'll drag again, and this time I'll press the Alt key. And notice that I now get a double arrowhead cursor, which is exactly what I'm looking for. All right now I'll press Control + 0 or Command + 0 on the Mac in order to zoom out. And if it looks like you have too much darkness right here at this location, we don't want anything just suddenly getting cut off, then go ahead and select the shape once again. Press the A key to switch to the white arrow tool. Select this point independently of the others, and then just drag it up a bit. But perhaps not that far. Maybe I'll drag it just a little bit back downward. And you can always play with these points by the way. You can take them out if you want to in order to create more shadow. Or I might actually drag this guy in if I were to first select it. And so I'll click on the anchor point, and then I'll drag it up, like so in order to make sure my shadows are nice and clean. All right that pretty well takes care of it. So I'll go ahead and click off the artwork to deselect it. And that is how you further enhance your impossible trident with the addition of a few impossible shadows here inside Illustrator.
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Contents
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767 Mandala patterns in Photoshop CC 20191m
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768 Painting a free-form mandala pattern9m 5s
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769 Painting mandala-style dot patterns6m 56s
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770 Coloring your mandala pattern7m 48s
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771 The final full-color mandala6m 27s
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772 Illustrator CC 2019 new preview mode1m 1s
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773 Illustrator CC 2019 presentation mode3m 21s
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774 Global edit in Illustrator CC 20196m 30s
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775 Applying a global edit from the control panel4m 8s
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776 Freeform gradients in Illustrator CC 20198m 29s
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777 Freeform gradients: Points versus lines8m 10s
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778 Freeform gradient limitations6m 29s
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779 Crop and develop a great white shark8m 54s
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780 Sharpening your great white shark6m 11s
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781 Low vibrance and high saturation9m 3s
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782 Vibrance, saturation, and sharpness9m 11s
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783 Actioning a full-color hedcut in Photoshop1m
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784 Recording an action to play all actions9m 37s
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785 Draw something, color the outlines8m 46s
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786 Combining multiple works of line art7m 3s
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787 Group your line art, clip to the group4m 9s
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788 Coloring outside your line art in Photoshop6m 32s
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789 Flip horizontal view in Photoshop CC 20191m
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790 Creating a White Walker in Photoshop1m 59s
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791 The White Walker begins9m 25s
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792 Giving a guy a digital shave in Photoshop3m 58s
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793 Carving deep wrinkles or scars into skin8m 37s
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794 Shading the White Walker’s deep-set brows6m 21s
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795 Creating pale, lifeless lips in Photoshop5m 57s
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796 Giving your White Walker glowing blue eyes10m 46s
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797 Adding some creepy lifeless pupils6m 40s
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798 Adding a cold and gloomy background12m 18s
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799 Adding cold and brittle snowflakes6m 25s
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800 Using the Transparency Shapes Layer option5m 29s
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801 Combining a radial filter with a range mask8m 35s
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802 Flipping a photograph in Camera Raw6m 20s
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803 An actual dream effect, in Photoshop14m 37s
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804 Augmenting your Photoshop dream8m 45s
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805 Applying distortions as Smart Filters6m 37s
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806 Combining distortions with blend modes10m 5s
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807 Drawing a 24-sided star in negative space12m 48s
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808 Making your star a repeating hex pattern8m 27s
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809 Shading your star pattern in Illustrator6m 57s
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810 Creating a gradient pattern in Illustrator4m 31s
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811 Making one pattern fade into another6m 23s
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812 Welcome to my seamlessly repeating summer1m 35s
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813 Drawing a cubical gobstopper in Illustrator14m 55s
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814 Creating a pattern of gobstoppers7m 23s
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815 Aligning your many gobstoppers5m 54s
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816 Blending line textures in Illustrator12m 58s
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817 Combining object blends with a pattern8m 40s
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818 Carving cubical holes into cubical objects9m 52s
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819 Nesting gradients inside a pattern5m 36s
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820 Drawing 3D isometric arrows in Illustrator7m 33s
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821 Positioning the tips of your arrows7m 17s
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822 Filling in the gaps in a repeating pattern8m 50s
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823 Drawing cartoon teeth aligned to the hair5m 50s
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824 Drawing a triangular cartoon eye8m 6s
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825 Adding windows to the houses pattern10m 46s
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826 Creating a perfectly tessellating pattern4m 32s
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827 Op art experiment 4: Triangle tunnels6m 58s
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828 Expressing your triangles as a hex pattern7m 18s
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829 Adding color to your triangle tunnels7m 55s
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830 Recoloring your triangle tunnels3m 20s
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831 Creating rainbow gradients with blends6m 18s
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832 The downside of using blends in patterns3m 35s
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833 Drawing an impossible trident in Illustrator9m 49s
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834 Shading an impossible trident with gradients4m 3s
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835 Painting paths with opposing gradients13m 51s
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836 Adding impossible shadows in Illustrator6m 42s
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837 Drawing an impossible hex object14m 8s
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838 Creating impossible latticework5m 46s
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839 Painting like Joan Miró in Adobe Sketch9m 46s
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840 Painting a watercolor wash background8m 23s
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841 Signing your artwork like Joan Miró4m 17s
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842 Opening your Sketch artwork in Photoshop9m 1s
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843 Enlarging your Miró to poster size11m 5s
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844 What if Joan Miró had met Jordan Peele?14m 10s
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845 Coloring your terrifying Miró/“Us” scene11m 47s
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846 Painting a Rorschach background9m 22s
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848 What to do when Content-Aware Fill fails?10m 4s
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847 Finishing your “Us” artwork in Photoshop10m 35s
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849 Hand turkey 20191m 56s
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850 Tracing your actual hand on an iPad10m 6s
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851 Drawing a highly articulated hand9m 50s
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852 Adding color to your hand-drawn hand12m 33s
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853 Painting your hand-drawn fingernails9m 3s
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854 A hand becomes a Thanksgiving hand turkey9m 6s
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855 Painting the turkey’s tail feathers13m 30s
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856 What’s wrong with this drop shadow?11m 14s
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857 Introducing Photoshop for the iPad13m 6s
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858 Photoshop for the iPad: Part 29m 13s
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859 Photoshop for the iPad: Part 310m 17s
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