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Creating Art / Retro TV pt. 2




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Now let's go ahead and draw the legs. So I'm going to make a new layer once again, double click and name it legs. We have to have the legs pretty much on top of the sides here, which is fine, so we're going to draw the legs here. I'm going to once again get rid of my strokes so I can see what I'm doing, but this time we're going to use a rectangle and I'm going to draw it over here. I'm going to draw one rectangle and I'm going to grab my direct selection tool and I'm going to reshape it, like so, so it kind of looks like what's over here. It doesn't matter about the size. Let's go ahead and give that a color and, with our move tool, we're going to move this into position. And let's move our mouse out here, rotate it and resize it, move it up into position. Let's go to edit, copy, edit, paste, move the other leg where it belongs, and once again we'll paste again and we'll move this leg and put it where it belongs and we'll resize it down and we're going to copy this new one and paste it and put this one over here. You can see the benefit to layers already. It's just a great way to work. Last but not least, let's lock that down. Let's create another layer and what we're going to do is put the little design that you saw in the sketch, so we're going to call this zigzag and what we're going to do is once again get rid of the fill, grab our pen tool, and on the zigzag layer, which of course should be on top of this side, which it already is, I'm going to click and draw a couple of lines like this. I'm not dragging. I'm simply moving my mouse back and forth to draw these cool zigzag lines. I'm going to go to the very top one and lock that into position by closing that shape and I'm going to give this a nice dark color and we have our retro TV coming along very nicely. Now let's click on the glass layer and click to make a new layer, which goes right on top, and we'll call this reflections. What we can do is grab some simple shapes, like a rectangle, get rid of our fill, and we can just draw a rectangle right there and we can give it a white color by clicking right here, and we can now resize that or we can rotate it by grabbing our tools, rotating it where it belongs, and we can grab our direct selection tool, deselect it, and just kind of re-form that shape a little bit, like this. Let's grab an ellipse here and drag one over here and we'll drag one over there. As you can see, this is quite easy to do. What we can do for the antenna part is we can just draw a curve if we want to, so I'm going to get rid of the fill. I'm going to click here, I'm going to click here, and I'm going to drag. What we can do as well is we can give that stroke a little thickness, but I'll leave it as it is for now. Now, last but not least, let's grab our line tool. We'll click and drag one here, and we'll draw one here, and last but not least, we'll make two small ellipses right here. We'll give this a black fill. We'll put one here and now we have our retro TV. We can go ahead and hide the sketch and there you go, a quick TV based on a sketch as a template that was very easy to draw. What I would suggest you do is grab your direct selection tool and tweak some of the points, add some shading by just drawing some smaller shapes, add some shadow colors, and play around with it.

Tutorial Information

Course: QuickStart! - Adobe Illustrator CS3
Author: Dwayne Ferguson
SKU: 33769
ISBN:
Release Date: 2007-06-29
Duration: 1.5 hrs / 19 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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