From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Fundamentals
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Duplicating and scaling spirals - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Fundamentals
Duplicating and scaling spirals
- [Instructor] All right now, we're going to duplicate and scale the only spiral we've drawn so far in order to create this stylized cloud. And so I'll go ahead and switch over to the documents so far. Notice that my black arrow tool is active up here at the top of the toolbox. And I'll go ahead and click on this spiral and actually for this next trick to work, we need Smart Guides to be turned back on. So I'll go up to the View menu and choose Smart Guides in order to turn on that command. And then I'll go ahead and drag this spiral by its left-hand anchor point until it snaps into alignment right here with the first ring in. Notice that the intersection of the first ring in and the existing spiral. You can see that we've got a snap when I move my cursor into the proper position. Cause I'm seeing it turn from black to white. And then if I press and hold the Alt key or the Option key in the Mac we get a double white…
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Now, you draw1m 10s
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Guidelines and center guides7m 38s
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Positioning guides numerically4m 51s
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Using the Line Segment tool6m 5s
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Working with and without the bounding box6m 21s
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Moving and duplicating objects7m 44s
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Select Similar Objects and Global Edit3m 15s
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Introducing the Scissors tool4m 4s
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Joining your line segments6m 41s
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Introducing the Eyedropper tool3m 11s
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Using the Arc tool8m 28s
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Using the Spiral tool7m 11s
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Using the Polar Grid tool8m 11s
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Duplicating and scaling spirals7m 5s
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Using the Rectangular Grid tool4m 56s
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Auto-blending fill colors6m 12s
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A preview of shape building5m 34s
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