I will give you a detailed analysis of the Illustrator software and share with you the tutorials on the design of the octopus.
Tutorial sharing:
1. start the Chinese version of Illustrator CS2, press Ctrl + N to open the "new document" dialog box, enter the name "Octopus", set the size of the canvas to A4, and the color mode to RGB, as shown in Figure 1. For printed output, select CMYK in color mode. After setting, click "OK" to create a document.
Figure 1 "new document" dialog box
2. Move the mouse pointer to the "rectangle tool" on the toolbox"
And press and hold the left mouse button until other hidden tools appear.
Click "elliptical tool"
. If you want to quickly switch from other tools to the "elliptical tool" without using the toolbox"
, You can directly press the "L" key.
3. The mouse pointer should be
In the drawing window, click. In the displayed "elliptical" dialog box, set the width and height to 200mm, as shown in figure 2. Click OK. A circle appears in the drawing area.
Figure 2 "elliptical" dialog box
4. Draw two circles in the same way. One is 100mm in width and height, and the other is 30mm in diameter. In this way, the drawing area has three circles, as shown in figure 3. Do not worry about their location first.
Figure 3 three circles
5. Click to cancel the selected image, and then click "select tool" in the toolbox"
Click the circle with a diameter of 100mm, hold down the Shift key, and click the circle with a diameter of 30mm, so that the two smaller circles can be selected at the same time.
6. Select the menu command "window & rarr; alignment" to open the "alignment" panel. Click align horizontally in the left-side navigation pane"
And vertical center alignment, so that the two selected circles become concentric circles, as shown in figure 4. After alignment, press Ctrl + G to combine the two circles.
Figure 4 alignment of two smaller circles
7. Hold down the Alt key and drag the two circles together to copy the same two circles. Select the circles, and the Shift key is still used, and then click vertical center alignment in the alignment panel ". The result is shown in figure 5.
Figure 5 align two circles
8. The right side of the left-side circle combination is next to the left side of the right-side circle combination. First, click the blank area in the drawing area to cancel the selection, then select the combination of the two circles on the left, click the "transform" panel on the left side of the "alignment" panel, and write down the X coordinates of the combination, for example, "52.785mm", and then click the combination on the right to change its X coordinate to "785mm" in the "transform" panel, because the width of each combination is 100mm, in this way, by changing the X coordinate, the two combinations can be exactly connected together.
9. Select the two combinations at the same time, and press Ctrl + G to combine them. That is to say, it is now a combination of four circles. We have used the combination function for many times. It is best to skillfully use the combination function when drawing a graph. Keep the selected state of the new combination. Hold down the Shift key and click the largest circle to select all the circles at the same time.
10. Next we will align the largest circle with the new combination. Click align horizontally in the align panel"
Align the selected circle with the combination. The result is shown in figure 6.
Figure 6 alignment of a large circle and a new combination
Here, I don't know if you have noticed that the circle alignment and position transformation in this example are very accurate. This technique can be used in many logo designs or other graphic designs.
11. Change it a little later to see the final October shape. Click "none" at the bottom of the toolbox.
To set the fill color to none. The default black color of the stroke does not need to be modified. Click Cancel image once in the blank area, and then click Select tool in the toolbox"
, Select a box in the position shown in Figure 7, so that you can select the anchor at the top of the circle with a diameter of 100mm. After this anchor is selected, press the Delete key on the keyboard to Delete it. In the same way, delete the anchor at the bottom of the circle with a diameter of 100mm to obtain the graph shown in figure 8.
Figure 7 select an anchor
Figure 8 octopus chart
12. The next step is to fill in the color. If you use a previous version of Illustrator, you must perform path operations before filling. The real-time coloring feature in Illustrator CS2 allows you to easily fill in the color.
Press Ctrl + A to select all the images, and then click "real-time coloring tool" in the toolbox"
(Shortcut key: K), move the mouse pointer to the graph, you can see the prompt as shown in Figure 9. Click on the selected graph to convert the graph to a "real-time coloring" group.
Figure 9 move the mouse pointer to the graph
13. do not rush to color after the conversion. Select black in the "color palette" panel, and click at the position where the color is to be colored. You can see the black and white babufish swap at the bottom of the graph, as shown in Figure 10.
Figure 10 octopus chart
14. Use "select tool" in the toolbox"
Select a real-time color group and click the "extend" button (as shown in Figure 11) on the control panel above the window to convert the real-time color group to a separate path. At this point, the production of the babufish image is complete.
Figure 11 extend to a separate path
15. Press Ctrl + S to save the file.
All right, the above information is the detailed design tutorials for the users of Illustrator's software, you can see that the user here, Xiaobian believes that you are now very clear about the drawing method, then everyone will go to follow the small series above to share with you the tutorial to draw your own gossip fish.
