From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

915 Lantern tile: Type 2, traditional

From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

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915 Lantern tile: Type 2, traditional

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- [Instructor] All right, now that I've shown you how to create a type one lantern tile, I'm going to show you how to create a more traditional what I'm calling type two tile. And when I say type one and type two, I'm just totally making that up. Whereas a lantern tile, by the way, is an established thing. And notice how, just as in the case of the type one tile, the type two tile repeats seamlessly. All right, so we're going to start off with that grid that I created in the previous movie, but we're going to add to it a little bit by first going up to the View menu, choosing Guides, and then choosing Unlock Guides in order to unlock our guide lines. And then, armed with a black arrow tool, which you can get by pressing the V key, just go ahead and marquee this vertical guide line right here. So you don't want to marquee down in this region. Go ahead and marquee up here in order to select that guy. And then notice the word transform up here in the horizontal control panel. If you're not seeing the horizontal control panel, you can choose Control from the Window menu. I happen to prefer this very lean panel to the newer but much more screen-gobbling properties panel. All right, so I'll go ahead and click on the word transform in order to bring up this panel right here. And notice this X value. You want to click after it and then enter +40, like so. And then, don't press the Tab key. Instead, press Alt + Enter here on the PC or Option + Return on the Mac, and that'll create a copy of that vertical guide line. Now, you want to go ahead and click on the original one. It's generally easier, by the way, to marquee. So go ahead and draw a little marquee around it. Click on the word transform once again, and then click after that X value, and this time, enter -40, like so, and then press Alt + Enter here on the PC or Option + Return on the Mac. All right, that's all the guides we need. So return to the View menu, choose Guides, and then choose Lock Guides in order to lock them down. All right, now switch to the ellipses layer here inside the Layers panel. And then go to the shape tool fly-out menu here and choose the ellipse tool. All right, now just go ahead and click any old place inside of the document, and that'll bring up the ellipse dialog box, as we're seeing here. We want a width value of 314 points and a height of 200 points, and that's going to work out nicely where this document is concerned, at which point I'll click OK in order to create that ellipse. Now, in my case, the ellipse has neither a fill nor a stroke. And so I'm going to click inside this stroke value here, and I'm going to change the line weight to 21 points like so. And that should go ahead and automatically assign a black stroke, as we're seeing right here. All right, now I'll press the Escape key in order to dismiss that panel. And I'll switch back to the black arrow tool, the one that Illustrator calls the selection tool, which you can get by pressing the V key. And I'm going to drag this left point right here. And for that to work, you need your bounding box to be turned off. And so I'll go ahead and drag this guy, so it snaps into alignment right there. All right, now, notice the center point here, which Illustrator automatically assigns to ellipses. Go ahead and drag that center point until you snap to the topmost horizontal guide line and then press the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac so that you're seeing that double white arrow cursor and release. And that'll create a copy of that shape. Then drag it again by its center point all the way down to the bottommost horizontal guide line and press and hold the Alt key or the Option key on a Mac in order to create yet another copy of that ellipse. All right, now you want to press Control + A or Command + A on a Mac to select all of the ellipses. And go ahead and drag any one of them, let's say, by the leftmost anchor point like so, until it snaps with the leftmost vertical guide line. And then press the Alt key or the Option key on a Mac to create yet another copy of those ellipses. So in all, you should see six ovals on your screen. All right, now let's go ahead and create a copy of this layer by clicking on the fly-out menu icon in the top right corner of the Layers panel and choosing Duplicate ellipses in this case. Then turn off the original layer, and let's go ahead and modify this one by double-clicking on an empty portion of the layer. And I'll call this lantern because it's going to contain the lantern tiles. And I'll change the color, let's say to gold. Although, of course, you can go your own way. All right, now I'll go ahead and click OK to accept that change. And I'll switch to the white arrow tool, the one Illustrator calls the direct selection tool, which has a keyboard shortcut of A for arrow, by the way. And now I'll go ahead and marquee these two points right here. So the rightmost point in this left-hand shape and the leftmost point in this right-hand shape, you just want those two anchor points selected. Then press the Backspace key or the Delete key on the Mac to get rid of them. All right, now I'm going to scroll up a little bit, and I'm going to marquee these two anchor points, this top one here in this right point, and then I'll press the Shift key and marquee these two anchor points like so. And then I'll scroll down, and I'll press the Shift key and marquee these two anchor points. So we're keeping these guys, by the way. They are not going to get selected. And then Shift + marquee these ones as well. So all in all, if I press Control + 0 or Command + 0 on a Mac, you can see that I have a total of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight anchor points selected, at which point I'll press the Backspace key or the Delete key on the Mac to get rid of them. All right, now I'll go ahead and zoom back in, and I'll press Control + A or Command + A on the Mac to select all of those remaining path outlines. And I'll go up to the Object menu, choose Path, and then choose Join. Or you have a keyboard shortcut of Control + J here in a PC or Command + J on a Mac. And that joins all of those path outline into one big open path. It does leave a gap up here, however, which is why I'm going to press Control + J once again, that's command J on a Mac, in order to finish off that shape. All right, now I'll press the V key in order to switch back to my black arrow tool. And I'll go ahead and drag this guy around like so. So I'm going to snap it into alignment at this location. Then I'll drag it by this anchor point right there until it snaps into alignment over on the left-hand side of the shape. And then I'll Shift + click on that top guy right there, and I'll drag them by their middle anchor points right here down to this location and press the Alt key or the Option key on a Mac in order to demonstrate how we have a seamlessly repeating tile. And that is how you create what I'm calling a type two lantern tile here inside Illustrator.

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