Hi everyone.

In this video we are going to draw this sleeping fox.

Okay? We're going to draw it with simple shapes.

rectangles, triangles, stars, lines, curves

just basic stuff so that we can learn the fundamentals of illustrator.

We're actually only going to get this far two triangles and a curvy rectangle.

But there's lots of foundation.

All fundamental stuff in this video, so don't skip.

Plus, we'll learn how to bring in images

and lock them in the background so that we can trace over the top.

All right, let's get going.

All right.

Our first up we are going to create a file.

Either click this button here or file new.

Up to you.

There's a bunch of preset sizes along the top here okay.

We're going to go to an easy one that we probably all know and love.

We're going to use us later.

If you're a metric person just use later

okay.

So I'm going to use letter.

And over here I'm going to go portrait I'm going to go to landscape okay.

And get started.

The other thing we're going to change is under color mode down here okay.

We're going to change to RGB.

Okay.

we'll talk about color later on in the course.

RGB camera, computer screen color, Cmyk, Smallville commercial printing.

I was just going to stay on the computer.

You have more colors than RGB,

so we're going to keep that things a brighter and nicer.

We're not worried about rust effects at the moment.

Leave it. Whatever it is.

And then let's click create.

Next up, we're going to all draw from a pitch that have drawn okay.

Like a hand drawing.

We're going to bring it in and trace over the top of it.

And I'm just to keep everybody doing the same thing and not getting too lost.

So we're going to go to file and we're going to go to this one called place okay.

File place is the same as file import.

illustrator likes to be different like the only program ever okay.

So go file place.

And I want you to look in your exercise files. Okay.

And there's one in there that should be called sleeping Fox.

Okay.

And before you bring it in, what I want you to do is there

should be some stuff in the bottom here on a PC and a mac.

I'm not actually sure

if it's on a PC as well, but if you can't see the stuff in the bottom,

there's a little options.

Button shows the options because we want to do this template.

I'll show you what it does instead of just bringing in, in an image.

Okay. What it'll do is that'll do some fancy stuff for us.

Let's click place.

Okay.

What's fancy about it

in, it is kind of washed it out so we can draw over the top of it.

Normally this would be solid black.

If we go to our layers panel over here in the top right.

Okay. It's put it on its own layer.

Let's this one here.

It's locked it so we don't record okay.

And we can turn off visibility on and off so we can see it.

But let's see that little lock there.

It's locked it and it's made another little layer for us to draw on.

So it's just a tracing layer. That's why it's good.

They call it a template. Thank you illustrator okay.

Go back to properties and we'll start drawing.

First thing we're going to draw is we are going to draw a rectangle.

Very exciting. There it is there. Click on it okay.

If yours is somehow on something else okay.

Any of these tools that have see the little, chevron or

the little triangle in the bottom corner, that means there is

if I click hold, hold, hold my mouse down the stuff underneath it.

Some of them don't have it, but a lot of them do.

Okay.

So if you've got something other than the rectangle tool,

click it, hold it down, pick the rectangle tool. Okay.

So what we're going to do is draw the body here.

So I'm going to start at a point I can see click my mouse down hold it.

And just kind of covered.

We're going to be really rough here.

We're not going to be like surgical precision.

But you can kind of see that looks like it kind of covers the body.

Nice.

Once you have drawn it, if you've done it terribly,

what we can do is we can resize it okay.

And that is the black arrow.

So this one here okay.

Remember this was kind of like really big movements.

And the direct selection tool does little parts.

So let's click this top one okay.

And you can grab any of these squares and any of the corners to go up okay.

And move it around and kind of get it close and drag it along there.

You can grab the corner ones and resize it okay.

There you go.

So get it something like this.

It doesn't have to be perfect.

Now what we want to do is play around with the stroke in the fill.

So depending on what you last drew, you as might look different from mine.

Yours might look the same.

we've got over here a fill of white and a stroke,

which is the line around the outside of black.

I want to give it a fills click on the little,

this little square here next to the word fill. If it's not there.

Okay, grab the black arrow.

Okay. If it's gone, you got to click on the object. Okay.

And if you can't click on the objects, maybe click on the edge of the object

that doesn't have a fill means you can click the center.

Similar to click the edge.

So Black Arrow haven't selected.

You should see the fill over here.

And we're going to pick a Fox color ish.

Anything you like you can have a green fox blue fox okay.

Next thing I want to do is I just click off

and that little panel drops back in there.

I'm going to get rid of the stroke.

At the moment.

If I click from the background, can you see

there's a black stroke around the outside?

If I select on it and say you my friend, it's a click on that box there

that has the stroke color.

Okay, you might have this one here, you might not.

This is the none.

The little red line means I have no stroke.

You can do with the fill as well.

I can have no stroke and no fill.

It's not very useful.

It's a rectangle, okay.

And it's really hard to select afterwards.

So, don't do it.

You can't grade the edge though.

Okay.

But I'm going to have a fill and I'm going to have a stroke of none.

Here we go. We've done a rectangle.

Only took us a couple of minutes.

We'll get faster as we go.

That's the thing about fill and stroke. We're using this one over here.

You can totally use this one over here.

Same, same.

Okay, I can click the fill.

I actually got double click it.

And I can drag this slider up and down to pick different colors.

I can move this little circle around

to pick colors within shades within that color.

Okay. And same with the stroke.

I can click on this one here, the stroke of the background.

Double click it okay.

And in the same thing here I can drag this around and drag within the hues of here

to pick a stroke in a fill color I'm going to hit cancel and get rid of this.

I can go up to here and just pick orange.

That'll work, but I can use the undo.

So undo is undo it. It undo the shortcut.

It's one of those shortcuts you going to use a lot okay.

It's on the shortcuts sheet that you've printed off.

Or write it down.

Okay.

On a mac, it's command Z controls the on a PC.

Okay. You can go back loads.

I don't think there's a limit on it okay.

So just keep hitting undo

either coming up here or using the shortcut to edit undo

until it's back to where we didn't break it.

All right.

The next thing we're going to do is the radius of the corners.

This is something fancier.

Now with my black arrow okay I can click

any of these, see these like the little targets in the corners.

If I click hold and drag it.

Look at that. Look at rounded corners. Yes.

But you'll notice that if I move this out of the way, I only want two corners done.

So I'm going to undo. Undo.

Okay.

Remember mine's command Z on a mac, Ctrl Z on a PC.

And what I want to do is actually just do one corner okay.

So I can click on this once.

You can kind of tell, can you see the target looks a little different.

Yeah.

It just looks different.

click hold and drag that one.

Look at that same over here.

Click the moments. Drag that up.

Cool. Don't worry for this video.

We're just making it good enough.

But if you did want it to be perfect, I'm undoing again.

You can click one, hold shift and click the other.

Holding shift and clicking

multiple things will kind of select both of them at the same time.

Now with nothing held down, I can click and drag one of them.

Look, they're both perfectly the same

and my drawing is not perfect, so don't sweat it if yours isn't okay.

I'm sweating it because I want to move it up here. Go.

go. Rounded corners. Awesome.

Next up, let's draw the head.

We're going to use the polygon tool which is triangles of polygon.

There's no particular triangle tool okay.

We've got the polygon tool.

Remember to get to all these other tools.

Just click hold it down.

Hold hold hold and pick polygon.

Now by default it probably picks this I just clicked and dragged out

okay I don't know. Octagon.

No that is a pentagon hexagon Pentagon I think. So.

Anyway, what we can do if we want all the options

because we want triangle isn't three sides.

Okay.

What you do is with the tool selected, just click once

and you get given things like the radius which is the size of it

and how many sides I'm going to want three because I want triangle.

Whatever gets drawn will do okay.

Doesn't matter if yours is bigger or smaller or if it's crooked or not crooked.

Okay. We have got, triangle.

What I would like to do now is scale it and rotate it

to kind of sit over the top of this. Okay.

So what I'm going to do is, show you how to scale, rotate, grab the black arrow.

Now you can do it over here.

Like if we want it to go 90 degrees, you can just type it in 90 degrees.

And I didn't want it to go 90 degrees.

You can get it to go -90 or to 70, whichever you prefer.

Okay. So that's one way.

The most common way of doing things is actually just doing it

with the black arrow tool.

So look at this.

when I'm hovering above these corners, there's two options.

There's this one, the little double arrow and then the one just a bit further out.

This is like no man's land, right? Like this.

This one here is actually scale. We'll do him in a second.

But the rotation one is not there.

But just a little bit further out,

but not too far because it goes back to the arrow

somewhere in here, this magical land of rotation.

So what we're going to do is click hold once we see it.

Okay.

If you can't see it, remember have the selected find the Magic Zone.

Click and drag it.

You can drag it any which way you like okay.

What I want to do is get it to lock in

to kind of commonly use, angles, which is holding the shift key down.

So I'm still dragging hold shift and it goes in 45 degree angles.

Boop boop boop boop boop. There you go.

So I want to pointing that way okay.

The next thing I want to do is play around with size okay.

And we kind of saw it

before any of the corners you can rotate or do size doesn't matter.

up to you.

So I want this little stretchy arrow thing okay.

And I can drag it any size I want.

Okay.

If I want it to be like I don't want it to kind of distort, okay.

You can hold down the shift key like we did with the rotation.

That really common that shift key okay.

To get things to kind of go to normal sizes.

Or in this case it constrains the height to be the width as well.

So it kind of gives proportionately bigger.

So get it close.

Move it I'm going to grab the center of it.

Sometimes you need to grab the edge of it.

If you don't have a fill okay I'm going to get it close to it.

Hold the shift key down.

You can hold shift before you start dragging or afterwards

get it close enough.

All right. So we're going to head to Big Triangle.

And I want to do a couple of things.

But I need to be able to see the thing in the background.

So we've added fill and remove this stroke and all of this

I want to select this hold shift to select the header as well okay.

So I've got them both selected.

And then I'm going to say that fill

that we just picked I'm going to switch you to none.

And the stroke

okay I have to kind of click off to get the little box in close up okay.

So I just kind of click off in the background.

If you do click off in the background like I accidentally did.

Now kind of on purpose.

Not really.

Okay.

Is even though I can't see it, it's got no stroke, no fill.

I can kind of hover around and eventually there's this thing, it says, hey,

there's something here, it's going to fill a stroke,

but I can click on it once, hold shift, try and find that one.

Now I've got them both selected.

They both have no fill, both have no stroke.

Let's give the stroke black okay.

So I can see the outside of it and clean off the background.

Because what I want to do is get this to be the right size, okay?

I pretty much got it before it's close enough.

Okay.

I want to play around with the corner options down here.

So I'm going to click off and click here.

Now in the corner options down here I want to run this one.

It only has one target at the moment okay.

So what I can do with a triangle is would be using the black arrow.

I told you that you use that mostly and you use the direct selection tool

which is the white arrow for little pieces.

Okay.

Because what I really want you to do is just do all the rounded corners.

Just kind of ignored these down here, okay.

Just didn't have them.

So if I go to the, like selection tool, which is like the details tool,

it gives me more details.

I'm going to click on just this target okay.

And drag this one up. Nice.

So you end up toggling between these two loads I'm back on my black arrow.

It's my like default tool is the one you end up falling back to.

Now let's draw the nose.

We're going to do another triangle just to practice.

So we want the polygon tool okay I'm going to if I click out and drag

you notice it gone from a pinch again to a triangle automatically.

It just remembers the last thing you've done.

What I want to do is that I want it to come out at some random shape and angle

and size. I'm going to hold down.

Remember the key that kind of constrains things.

Do you remember it was. That's right. Hold down shift key.

You can see it kind of locks it into position and I can pick a rough size.

And for good measure we are going to look at the black arrow.

And we are going to get in that no man's land not size.

We're going to rotate it, hold down, shift.

So it kind of gets it into the right angle that we want.

Now it has no fill.

I can see no fill, no stroke.

Remembers the last thing we did. Okay.

And I'm going to drag it over.

You can either I end up dragging the the line.

You can drag the dot in the middle okay.

That if you find that more handy okay, I end up dragging the line for some reason.

So we're going to get it down to kind of where we need it.

And then we're going to zoom in.

Who remembers what zoom in is.

It's right plus that's right.

Command plus on a mac, control Plus on a PC.

Come in nice and close.

Remember, hold down the spacebar with the handle

just to kind of get it in position.

And what we want to do is we want this I got nothing selected.

So just click in the background.

I want this to line up perfectly with this.

Sometimes if you try and do it, which is if I grab the edge here.

So it's this is what happens.

It's easier to have it deselected because I want this point

to line up with this point.

If I grab it to start with.

And what you'll notice is there's all these words, right?

Okay. They're called smart guides and they're helpful.

Says do you want to grab the anchor. Yeah. Like yep.

Do you want to grab this path, which is the line

if I want to grab the anchor.

Okay.

If you can't see any of those words, go up to view

and make sure your Smart Guides has a little techniques to it.

Okay.

And what we're going to do is grab the anchor

and say, you go and match that anchor and it kind of gets close to it.

It should snap in if you're zoomed out, which is command or control minus,

it's a little hard to do it. Watch this.

If I try and do it out here, kind of

and that's what can frustrate people in illustrator.

But if I zoom in, it kind of says I really focus on this area, okay,

so I can drag you and it's just a little bit,

you know, nicer to work when you're zoomed in. Okay.

And you see, in this case what it said was intersect.

Would you like this anchor intersect with this one?

Yes, please. It's a bit big.

So I'm going to hold down my shift key and make it smaller.

Then grab it again.

So remember I deselect it off and then just grab the anchor.

Get it in there.

Look at that's what I like to do is give it a fill of black.

And does it need a black stroke?

It can, it can't.

I'm just going to turn it off okay.

So it has a fill but no stroke command or control minus to zoom out.

There we go. Got a hint with the nose.

All right.

It's a long video and we haven't done a whole a whole lot.

What we can do is we go to layers panel.

Let's turn the visibility of our template off.

And this is it.

We hit the big time.

but it's giving us a sense of the tools.

Let's get on to the next video.

We'll draw the eye and the whiskers and the stars and all the rest of it.

Is that coloring it into making it look awesome?

All right, I'll see in the next video.