Hi there. In this video we are going  to build this logo shape here using the shape builder. We're also gonna build all of these fun little guys. Okay? So let's go and do that and learn how  to use the Shape Builder tool. Okay, first up, let's delete these guys.

They were from earlier tutorial, okay? And we're gonna use this paste area on the side here,  but you can use a new document. So the Shape Builder tool, you are going  to love when they came out with this as a trainer,  I was jumping around happy days. 'cause the next thing we had to do  after this is the pen tool. And if you have tried to learn Illustrator before  and you've gone to the pen tool  and you've tried a join path, it's a pain in the bum. Okay?

Now the shape builder is gonna make you a  pro pretty quick. Okay? So, uh,  what we're gonna do is I'm gonna draw a couple of shapes. I'm gonna give this one a, what do we do? I'm gonna give it a stroker on the outside of magenta just  'cause I'm gonna give it a nice thick stroke  so you can see it hold down  shift to get it a perfect circle. I'm gonna do the same with the rectangle tool.

Rectangle tool. I'm gonna draw this. I'm just building a random shape, okay? To show you a bit of an example,  I'm gonna grab the star tool. You can see there's all sorts of weird things going on here. Now if I want to kind of fill these things,  if you've never used Illustrator  before, you might not be as impressed.

But if you've fumbled around trying to teach yourself,  this is gonna be mind blowing. So I've selected all three of them. I'm gonna grab this innocent looking tool down here, okay? It's called the Shape Builder Tool. And what it allows me to do is a couple of nice things. It allows me to fill these gaps, okay?

They're not actually joined, okay? But this is gonna make them do it for us. So I'm gonna pick a fill color. I'm gonna say I want you to fill with,  I don't know, where's my swatches? These are the swatches that I, um,  brought in from over here. Okay?

So I'm gonna grab that green and watch this. Okay? Close that back up because I can say I want you to be green  and maybe you, you'd be green,  but I'd like the rest of you say this bit to be orange. Okay, well they're really color. Okay. You can see how quickly and easy it is  to start coloring these things.

What you can also start to do is start joining them. Say that, uh, um, I want this, these guys  to be the same shape, not two separate colors, okay? With a stroke around it, what you can do is, I picked  that color here, I'm gonna drag across. Can you see I drew a line clicking  and holding my mouse across these two  and watch it makes it fuses it. So if you've ever messed around with the Pathfinder tool,  say goodbye Pathfinder tool as well. Um, nice thing as well is you can trim things up.

Say that you don't want this box up here. You can hold down the alt key on a PC  or the option key on a Mac and watch this and click this  and hey, trimmed it up. Nice, huh? So I can say, actually I don't want that. Don't want that. You can trim up a couple of things I want.

Don't want either of those two. Okay? You can start building shapes whilst using kind  of existing pre-made shapes. Okay? And yeah, it makes it really easy to, yeah,  start creating things and you can see they're all separate. Okay, so I've got a cool little, I don't know what that is,  but, so that's kind of the getting started with it.

I'm not sure where he was left from. Um, but let's look at  what are the things you can do with it. Say let's use the line tool. Um, let's draw ourselves a little home icon. So you know, like a home button. I'm doing a kind of freehand  and all you gotta do is make sure they overlap.

You can see my little stick house here, okay? Little house down the bottom here,  making sure everything overlaps. If they don't grab your white arrow, okay, click on one  of the dots, click off on the background, click on one  of the dots and you can move them around. Okay? Just make sure they all overlap. Select it all, grab my shape builder, da da da.

Pick a color. We're gonna fill it with,  actually let's put a roof on this thing. Let's put a roof on it. Grab my shape builder, actually select them all. First grab shape builder. Pick a fill color one of my colors there.

Pick green for the roof. Cool-aid. You can just fill it in and then I can go to,  what else have I got in there? Pick a different color orange, fill the house  and the door's gonna be yellow. Just really easy to create custom shapes here. Now you might be thinking, um,  what about all the ugly strokes?

There's a couple of things we could do. I could de, I've just used my black arrow. Click off from the background, I'm clicked on you. Shift, shift, select all three of these. I could just use that. Okay, okay, then I've got this.

It's still got the stroker on the outside. I could select them all and say no stroke. Okay, you can see there. Ta-da, I've made all these shapes. Or you can start doing stuff like this. Say that I just want, I want bits of the strokes,  but I want to trim these edges off using  the shape builder tool.

Again, holding down alt, remember  by default it's kind of adding shapes. So I can click an add, but if I want to remove shapes,  I hold down the alt key on a PC or option key on a Mac. Watch this, I can drag across these guys. Goodbye. How cool is that? Eh, I do love this tool.

You can get rid of the ones you want. Keep the ones you don't. Oh, okay. Uh, so yes, that's a little bit  more of the shape builder tool. And you can also do things like this. You can grab say type.

Okay, and I'm gonna do Dan, Nope. No I do not want diction. Okay, can type the word Dan. I'm gonna make it nice and big. Where's my font sizes? Even bigger.

Even hold down shift. Okay, use my black arrow, make it nice and big. Pick a font that's not super lame. Uh, yes, I'm me slab kind of a man. And now shape pillow is not gonna work like this  while it's editable type. So what we need to do is we go to type  and there's one in here that says Create outlines.

Okay? Now it's no longer editable type. I can't change the spelling or the font. Okay? So you might wanna duplicate it before you do this,  but now it's a shape like these other shapes here  and we can start messing around with them  by default, they're all grouped. So I'm gonna right click them ungroup  and hopefully now I can start doing some cool.

And when I say cool, it's gonna be pretty lame,  I can tell already. All right? But that's a good example. Select all of these guys. I'm gonna grab my shape builder tool,  stand back shape builder, okay? And what I'm gonna do is maybe just delete the bits  that cross over to do some sort  of, I don't even know what I'm doing.

Okay? Pick a fill color, well pick a color up here  from my switches. You  And You. Oh yes, terrible. Actually I might grab the shape of the two  and just delete that one there. I don't want to, oh yes, we are funky.

Okay, so shape builder tool getting better. Um, let's look at rebuilding our logo. 'cause that's really what I wanted  to do is make something like that and you can kind of stop. You're probably gonna be able to see, like  that's gonna be pretty easy, right? It's okay. So to make that shape there,  we're gonna grab my ellips still, okay?

I've hard down shift to make sure it goes, um,  perfectly spherical. And now I'm gonna grab my,  I might actually make it have a stroker on the outside. There's no reason to do this. Just make it easier for you guys to understand. Okay, so there's a, just a black stroker on the outside. I'm back on my black arrow now.

So I want two of these probably. So I'm gonna copy it  and if I paste it, illustrator,  just paste it in the middle of your screen. If you go to edit and go to paste in front,  nothing looks like it happens,  but there's another copy exactly  in front of the one we had before. If I grab one of the corners, I can make it smaller. If I hold shift while I'm grabbing it,  it will make it perfectly smaller  as in the height and the width. And remember that shortcut we learned a little a few videos  ago, if we hold down the option as well.

So shift and option or if you're on a pc, it's shift and alt  and it will do it from the center. All right? So we've got two little circles. You could just draw them separately,  select them both and align them. Next thing I wanna do is I want to grab my line tool and my,  because I've got smart guides on, okay? If you don't make sure that's ticked on  and I can go from the center here.

Cool. And if I try and draw another line from the center,  it starts adjusting the one I've got. So what you can do is go back to the black arrow,  click off in the background, then grab your line tool,  start a new one back to the black arrow,  click off in the background, a little painful. Okay? And I'm just doing this kind  of like line segmenting thing for our brand to be some sort  of infographic looking bit. And you can see how easy it's gonna be to fill.

Okay? So black arrow, select them all  and all kind of making something like this. Remember, except I've made a giant version, okay,  maybe got one too many segments. So I'm not sure how I'm gonna do that. Color them, we'll work it out. Okay?

So with it selected shape of the tool, okay? And what I'm gonna do is down here, I'm gonna pick a swatch. It doesn't matter whether you pick it up here or down here. Um, it does matter if you click on these,  it just fills the whole thing. It feels like a little bug with this. The libraries are awesome, but there's a few little things.

So remember, if you are jumping into this tutorial  by yourself, you might need to right click this guy  and say add the swatches so you've got 'em down here. So that color's gonna be that one, that one's gonna be  that one, that one's gonna be that one. It's going against a dark background. So that's why I get to use that white  and I, I'm okay with that. Um, awesome. So  what I wanna do is I could delete these guys.

There's a couple of ways, okay? But what I might do is just click this hold shift  and just select all of these pieces  and just move them off, okay? And select them all. They've still got a black stroke around them. Say none please. Okay.

And now I've got myself a cool little shapey thing  for my logo, okay? What I might do is, 'cause they're all separate,  which is cool, you select them all right,  click them and go to group. Okay? If you're on a Mac and you're trying to right click  and it won't right click, go to Object. And there's group in here. Alright?

So you'll find yourself using the Shape Builder  tool lots, okay? It's my go-to for building all sorts  of interesting shapes, okay? Without having to go to the pen tool. But the pen tool is a necessity  and we're gonna learn that in the next video. So let's go and do that.