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

916 Lantern tile: Type 3, scallop

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

916 Lantern tile: Type 3, scallop

- [Instructor] All right, now that I've shown you how to create the type one lantern, the onion, as well as the type two traditional lantern, I'm going to show you how to create what I'm calling type three, which is the scallop. All right, so I'll go ahead and switch over to those base guys that we created a couple of movies ago, and then I'll go over to the tool box and select the Ellipse tool from the Shape Tool flyout menu. Then what you want to do, assuming by the way that your smart guides are turned on, that's very important. You want to drag from one corner of this guide rectangle to the other, like so, in order to create this ellipse that measures, as you can see in that heads up display, 708 points wide by 472 points tall. You can easily go with some other measurement, if you like. The technique will work regardless. Right, notice up here in the horizontal control panel that we have two swatches, one controls the field, the other controls the swatch. If you're working inside the ginormous Properties panel, you will see similar options. I'm going to go ahead and set the fill right here to none. I'll confirm that the stroke, which is the second swatch, is set the black, and then I'll go ahead and change the stroke value here, which affects the line weight, to 21 points. All right, now what you want to do is go up to the Object menu, choose Path, and then choose this guy right here, Add Anchor Points, which is going to add a total of four anchor points to each one of these curving segments. Now, go ahead and switch to the White Arrow tool, the one that Illustrator calls the Direct Selection tool, but it has a keyboard shortcut of A for arrow, and then marquee these four interior points, like so. So you want to make sure that the outermost points on the left and right sides, as well as at the top and the bottom are not selected. Then switch to the Scale tool, which you can get by pressing the S key and press the Enter key, or the Return key on a Mac, to bring up the Scale dialog box and change this uniform value right here to 74%. At which point, go ahead and click Okay to accept that change. All right, now I'm going to switch back to the White Arrow tool by pressing the A key, and then I'll marquee these three bottom-most anchor points here, and I'll press the Backspace key, or the Delete key on a Mac, to get rid of them. Then I'll just go ahead and marquee this lone anchor point right there, and then you want to go up to the Edit menu and choose the Copy command, or you can just press Control + C, or Command + C on the Mac. And then return to the Edit menu and choose Paste in Front, or you can press Control + F, or Command + F on the Mac, and that will go ahead and paste a copy of that path outline, like so. All right, now let's do the same thing with this guy. Go ahead and marquee that anchor point right there, just one anchor point is all you need, and then press Control + C, or Command + C on the Mac, followed by Control + F, or Command + F on a Mac, and you will have yet another partial path outline. And so, anytime you duplicate a single anchor point, you also duplicate its surrounding segments. All right, now I'm going to go ahead and grab this anchor point right here. So I'll drag this leftmost anchor point until it snaps into alignment with this guy. And now, just to make things easier, I'm going to switch back to the Black Arrow tool, which you can get by pressing the V key, and then I'll click on this path to select it and I'll drag it by its right anchor point until it snaps into alignment right there. And now, I'll press Control + A, or Command + A on the Mac, in order to select all of those path outlines. And I'll go up to the Object menu, choose Path, and choose the Join command, or you have a keyboard shortcut of Control + J here on the PC, or Command + J on the Mac. And that should join everybody into a single path outline. Now I want to round off the corners and I'll do that by clicking on the word Stroke up here in the control panel, and selecting this corner option Round Join, which will round off all of the corners, including the right and left corners, as well as this guy down here at the bottom. All right, now I'll go ahead and drag these guys around in order to show how they will repeat seamlessly, as we're seeing right here. And I can drag these path outlines by their anchor points because my bounding box is turned off. All right, so I'll make sure both of these top guys are selected and I'll drag him down, like so, and then press the Alt key, or the Option key on the Mac, to duplicate them, and then I'll go ahead and turn off the Guides layer. And that's how you create what I'm calling a type three lantern tile, or if you prefer, a scallop tile that repeats seamlessly here inside Illustrator.

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