From the course: Creating Icons with Illustrator
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Creating artboards - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Creating Icons with Illustrator
Creating artboards
- [Instructor] When working with multiple icons it's really important to practice good document hygiene when using Adobe Illustrator. In this scenario, I have a document open which has six icons that need to be better organized into separate artboards. Doing this will not just help me keep everything in place in Illustrator while I'm working, but it will also drastically speed up the export process once I'm done with the design. And it will also enable me to easily place a document in other applications like Adobe Photoshop or Adobe InDesign. Now, how does it work? It's very, very simple. I have one artboard here with six individual icons that are all grouped individually. So what I need to do is I need to go up to the Window menu and then choose Artboards. So from here, I can manage all of the artboards in the documents. As you can see I only have one called Artboard1. So I'll click this icon here to open…
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