Hey everyone. In this video we're going to add some color. We're gonna add a gradient  to the stroke rather than the fill. The fill is easy, the stroke is mildly more complicated. So let's jump in and I'll show you how  to run it around the edges. There's a couple little tricks to it  and if you hang around to the end,  I'll show you the rotation tool as well.

It has a bonus trick, uh,  where we can change the center of rotation. Alright, uh, let's jump in. Alright, if you want this file, we're gonna start with, uh,  you can open up gradient stroke from your exercise files. All you need is something with no fill in a gradient. Have the gradient at the front. Remember X will toggle who's at the front.

Make sure the gradients at the front. Let's apply a gradient to the stroke. There's the default one in here, okay? And you click on that one. There you go. We've got a gradient on the stroke.

Let's pick a prettier one  and I'll show you how to adjust it. There is a gradients panel window, okay? And there's a pre-made swatches. So swatch libraries down the bottom,  there's one called gradients. And as far as some of the pre-built ones,  these are actually okay. Color harmonies or color combinations.

These are pretty good and you can just kind  of like work your way through these. Make sure the fills are not at the front. So undo X key to make sure the gradients are the front  and then you can kind of work through the ones you want. Okay, I'm gonna pick this one. Now, at the moment it's kind of like filling the stroke. What I want it to do is kind of like,  well, I'll show you some different options.

So let's open up the gradient panel. You can either click edit gradient if you've got it selected  or got a window and open up gradient  and you can't really use the tool. This one here, you have  to use this panel if you are using the stroke. Okay? And this is, these are the kind of different options. This one is going to put the gradient kind  of within the boundaries of here.

You can get it to run around, okay? Starting with the beginning of the stroke  and around this beginning  and end, you can kind of fix by going, all right,  I need you, whatever color this is,  I'm gonna double click it, grab the hexa decimal number,  copy it, okay, add another little circle here. We're just clicking underneath. Double click that one and paste it in. And we kind of, okay, mine didn't paste at all. Wait there, copy.

If you had accidentally add one  that you shouldn't have, just click and drag it off. Okay? And I'll grab this first one again  and I'm gonna go paste. Alright, so now I've got it in there so you can kind  of fudge the beginning and end by adding it. Okay, another way of doing that undo is if instead  of using a linear gradient, you can say, use a radial one  and it kind of blends them a bit better as well. So this just kind of has a gradient all the way  across like that circle.

Can you see it starts in the middle and expands out. This one runs along the outside  and then this one here runs on the inside. You end up with this kind of like stripy thing going on. I think I prefer mine is more of a thing going on, like,  yeah, let's do, let's do that one. Okay. Um, I'm gonna rotate mine around.

So that's it for a stroke on gradient. On a stroke. What I'm gonna do is close down gradient. I'm gonna flip it around and I'm gonna give you a little  bonus tip here for rotation. We've learned a few different ways. We did that repeat option earlier on.

I've been going up to object. There is repeat. Okay. And we could use the radio one, okay? This would get us kind of to where we wanna be. Um, I'm gonna show you a different trick.

You could use  Transform. There's  rotation over here, loads of things. I'm gonna show you this one 'cause it has a  handy bonus trick. See the rotation tool here, okay, is the R key. I can actually clicks anywhere in here. And can you see, I can um, hit this little target at Target.

You click and drag 'em. Now you gotta click 'em once to get 'em started  and then you can click and drag it around. It should snap to anchor points as long  as your smart guides are on. So command or control U to make sure those are on  that is the center of rotation. Now watch this. I've still got my rotation tool.

I'm just clicking holding anywhere  and look rotates around that. And I can do a couple of tricks. If I hold down my option key, ooh, while I'm dragging,  I get a second copy, okay? And if I, it's hypnotic, I'm hypnotizing myself. Um, if you do that same key,  so hold down option on a Mac Altner PC  and hold down shift as well,  it'll lock it into 90 degree angles. So you can go bl.

It takes a little bit of practice. You gotta start dragging it first. Then hold down those two keys from shift on a  Mac alt shift on a pc. Start dragging first and you get this duplicate  look at us doing cool stuff. There you go. That's the thing I had at the beginning.

Not sure what it is, but it has gradients on the strokes  and that's what we came here for. Alright, that is it. I'll see you in the next video.