From the course: Illustrator on the iPad: Typography and Type Effects

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Dimensional shadow

Dimensional shadow

From the course: Illustrator on the iPad: Typography and Type Effects

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Dimensional shadow

- [Instructor] In this movie, I am going to recreate this dimensional drop shadow. I'll scroll over to my second art board, where we begin with an E, that is in acumin variable concept. And because it's a variable font, we have the ability to change its weight and its width. Now, the first thing I want to do to this piece of type is outline it, and then click Done. Now, I'm going to duplicate it, and I'm going to drag the copy of an angle of 45 degrees. So I'm holding down my touch modifier as I do that, I'll switch the Fill and Stroke properties on the copy. Now, with my direct selection tool, I'm going to come and modify the anchor points of that copy, I'll deselect, and then click back just on that anchor point and pull it down to the corner of the letter. And I'll repeat that for each of the horizontal crossbars. At the top, I will switch to my pencil and add an anchor…

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