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Advanced techniques: Creating a winter icon - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Creating Icons with Illustrator
Advanced techniques: Creating a winter icon
- [Instructor] With all the techniques that you've seen up until now in this course, you should be able to design a lot of different types of icons here. But I decided to give you a little bit of extra bonus content. So what we'll be doing in the next couple of videos is we'll learn how to design these four icons representing the four seasons in the year. So again, these techniques are new, through a little bit more advanced here, but I just want to share how you build these icons just so you can learn a little bit more. Let's start out with the first one which is going to be winter. I'll dive into my winter start file here and let's get going. Now, first I need to create a triangle. So what you can do is just click this tool here the polygon tool. Click and drag but don't hold down the mouse, and press down a couple of times to reduce the total amount of corners. And now hold down the Shift key to put the…
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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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