From the course: Introducing Illustrator
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Using the Rotate tool - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Introducing Illustrator
Using the Rotate tool
- [Instructor] Over the course of this chapter, we'll be creating this piece of artwork absolutely from scratch. It's a lot like the NBC peacock, except I've rearranged the colors and obviously it's a penguin. We're going to start by creating this kind of upside down cone shape as a combination of a circle and a couple of straight lines. And along the way, I'll introduce you to the very useful rotate tool. All right. So as you can see, I've set you up with a few guidelines in advance. And so I'm going to go ahead and select the ellipse tool from the shape tool fly out menu, and then I'll position my cursor at the intersection of those two center guys, and I'll press the alt key, or the option key on the Mac, and click to bring up the ellipse dialog box. And these are the values I'm looking for, both the width and height of 200 points at which point I'll click okay, and because I alt or option clicked, I'm creating…
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