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Advanced techniques: Creating a summer icon - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Creating Icons with Illustrator
Advanced techniques: Creating a summer icon
- [Instructor] Let's create the second icon in our series here, which is going to be about Summer. Now the icon is very simple. It's basically a series of circles and every single circle is a little bit larger than the previous one but they all have the same distance between one another. There are various ways to accomplish this but I prefer to use something that is already hidden in the toolbar. Now I don't have it here within my icon design toolbar here so let's go and grab that tool first. I'll click the ellipsis icon to have an overview of something that you might call the tool catalog or something. And what I'll do is I'll quickly come in and I'll choose the polar grid tool. I'll just drag this inwards until I found a spot. I'll let go, and I'll just click away to apply that tool here. So now I have this available. Now, not too many people have actually used a polar grid tool before, like as in ever in their life,…
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Designing with basic shapes7m 31s
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Setting stroke options7m 53s
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Using the Pathfinder panel4m 45s
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Understanding compound shapes4m 19s
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Mastering the Shape Builder tool3m 48s
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Discovering the Appearance panel6m 24s
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Useful filters and effects8m 15s
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Power tips5m 10s
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Advanced techniques: Creating a winter icon4m 57s
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Advanced techniques: Creating a summer icon3m 33s
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Advanced techniques: Creating a fall icon6m 45s
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Advanced techniques: Creating a spring icon4m 58s
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Challenge1m 6s
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Solution7m 41s
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