Combine Multiple Shapes with Pathfinder Tool
Lesson 12 from: Adobe Illustrator: From Shapes to Complex & Beautiful IllustrationsJunichi Tsuneoka
Combine Multiple Shapes with Pathfinder Tool
Lesson 12 from: Adobe Illustrator: From Shapes to Complex & Beautiful IllustrationsJunichi Tsuneoka
Lesson Info
12. Combine Multiple Shapes with Pathfinder Tool
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Course Introduction
1Introduction
01:44 2Basic Concept of the Course
00:58 3Examples and Applications
00:39 4Process Overview
01:44 5Quiz - Introduction
Getting Started
6Concept Development
09:12Tips for Pencil Sketch
18:12 8Shape Tool Basics
06:58 9Shape Tool Advance
08:36 10How to Control Shapes by Different Movements
04:49 11How to Control Shapes By Reflect Skew and Rotate Tools to Create Complex Shapes
05:45 12Combine Multiple Shapes with Pathfinder Tool
04:19 13Create Complex Shapes with Pathfinder Tool
06:51 14Quiz - Getting Started
Case Study 1: Stand Alone Graphic
15Case Study 1 Overview (Stand Alone Design)
02:04 16Creating an Environment for Converting the Pencil Sketch into Editable Vector Graphic
03:29 17Create a Group of Shapes to be Used as a Base of the Illustration
13:03 18How to Introduce Large Medium and Small Design Elements to the Overall Design to Achieve Depth and More Detailed Result
05:43 19Adding Colors
11:12 20How to Fine Tune the Design and Finalize It
03:27 21Exercise
00:51 22Quiz - Case Study 1: Stand Alone Graphic
Case Study 2: Illustrative Pattern
23Case Study 2 Overview (Illustrative Pattern)
01:41 24Creating an Environment for Converting the Pencil Sketch into Editable Vector Graphic
01:37 25Create a Small Unit of Complex Shapes to Use as a Base of the Whole Illustration
14:01 26How to Introduce Large Medium and Small Design Elements to the Overall Design to Achieve Depth and More Detailed Result
01:48 27How to Introduce Foreground Middle and Background Elements to the Overall Design to Achieve More Depth
09:56 28Adding Colors
07:27 29How to Fine Tune the Design and Finalize It
06:38 30Quiz - Case Study 2: Illustrative Pattern
Conclusion
31Conclusion
00:59Final Quiz
32Final Quiz
Lesson Info
Combine Multiple Shapes with Pathfinder Tool
in this lesson I will show you how to combine multiple shapes into one shape. Using pathfinder tool. This way it is easy to create rather complex shape. Using some simple shapes for example I will start with a rectangle tool to create this rectangle here and I add circle on each side of the corner and on this side Using the selection tool I will move this circle onto the other side and here I am holding down shift key so that the movement is aligned with the original shape and also holding down the option key will create the duplicate of the original circle. Right now I have two circles in one rectangle shape and these are separate shapes but using the selection tool to select all the shapes and open the pathfinder panel and use unite option will create these three shapes into one single sheet. You can also combine this idea with the rotation tool using rotate tool, I will move and duplicate this oval shape by holding the option key to click the bottom of the oval and for example I typ...
e in 60 as rotate angle and hit copy community or control D. If you're using windows until the oval goes around. So I started from one oval shape but select all these and again using pathfinder unite then I can make this kind of flower type of design Out of just one simple oval shape. There are a few other ways to combine different shapes into one shape but I find this pathfinder united function. It's easy to understand and if you have so many shapes to combine into one, this is very efficient tool. If you have lots of small shapes overlapped each other, all you have to do is select everything and use Pathfinder unite option to make multiple shapes into one sheet. This is very useful function to create very complex shapes out of very simple shapes.
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