Introduction to Adobe Illustrator

Overview

“In this unit, you will learn to move the strokes in a positive and negative way to give volume or thickness to texts. It is important to create a composite form and expand with pathfinder to have a better result when moving. ”

In this video lesson Aarón Martínez addresses the topic: Displacement, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 5: Use of Text. Learn how to generate texts as well as choose a typeface and adjust its characteristics to make it curved.

Partial transcription of the video

“ILLUSTRATOR COURSE 5 LESSON 12 Displacement In this lesson we will learn, with the Offset tool, to create new negative and positive outlines. Let's start. Now we are going to generate offsets. We already have this "rocket" logo. I'm going to duplicate it. I am going to generate a hexagon and a star. Here I am going to round the tips. If I duplicate this star, Command + C, Command + F, and make it bigger, we don't have an even growth in all its parts. The shape grows proportionally but not the distances between lines. There is more distance from this section to this than from this to this. I...”

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Course summary for: Course 5: Use of Text

• Level: Beginner
• 11 students
• 14 units
• 14 lessons (1h 27m)
• 3 downloads