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thanksss Pixel and Bracket!!! Got nothin to do in this pandemic home bound situation, found you on youtube and now I can practice my Illustrator skill :D
Very nice and informative. Many other videos are so fast and you cant even follow! They do something by using shortcuts and you can never learn them at the first time! You did everything slow but very easy to learn. thanks
How do you have such finesse.. and what ease are your tutorials. I try but can't stay on anyother tutorial for more than 5 mins. You make it all so easy and i have learnt so much from you. Thank you so much! Are you a self taught? Also, may i ask why didn't we use shapebuilder to make shadows in this one? thanks a ton again! please keep bringing more tutorials.
Really good tutorial. Very informative and easy to grasp. It was something i had doubts about when working with illustrator. Thanks for clearing things up
i had to multiply to 0.02 , weird. And i had the same config as you. Also my shadow wasnt working, but there was this thing in the opacity settings called Knockout Group, so i unchecked that and it worked out fine, thanks a lot for the tutorial dude, amazing.
HI @Pixel&Bracket, one tip, you should have your layers visible, because people can get lost along the way and without seeing your layers its tough to catch up
@@pixelandbracket Really? I've heard that from folks before. Your tutorials are awesome. I think i was distracted on this one so I'm doing it again. Thanks for providing the free content. Your channel is great!
Excellent tutorial! It's the first time I've used illustrator and I couldn't sort out how to do certain things- you explained them perfectly so I could do what I was in my project! Thanks a million!
You’re so welcome! I’ve actually got a FREE course over on Skillshare I think would be really helpful to you if you’re new. Just takes an email to sign up! Here’s the link: skl.sh/2z0MViZ Let me know if you ever have any questions!
This is a great tutorial and I have to say, you do a great job at teaching, but some things were over complicated, per deleting half of the "branches" and creating a copy flipped over the vertical axis. Instead, you can easily just use the scissors tool and cut between the top middle point and the bottom middle point we created. This would make two exact shapes and leave out the complication. Overall great video regardless! just thought to point it out. Edit: I only thought to point this out because I've only been using illustrator for less than a week and this is something I noticed.
After this tutorial I learned about the shape builder tool which makes things infinitely easier, check out my flat design cactus tutorial for the latest and greatest!
This is really helpfull and very kind of you to make a video tutorial for the begginers! I enjoyed following your steps and do what you did, until the part where you showed us how to cut the branches in half. Well, that's what happened to me after hitting delete... The angles of the one side of the tree disappeared and then it was just a straight line with the tree still there. The tree branches were still there (the tree as body still existed), but without the triangular corners, it looked kinda llike a ''slope'' going down. So why that part of deleting the half didn't work out? I followed exactly what you said and did. I tried to do that like 10+ times, but I couldn't make it untill the end because of that. Thank you in advance if you answer me and thank you for your time as well for doing the video! I'll see more of yours.
I kind of just got lost and confused in the triangle parts for the branches of the tree, but i decided to just put a line in the middle and erase the half part of it and polished off the center part to make it look seamless. Overall, my first tutorial in Illustrator is so fun! I kind of learned something about the tools and the shortcut keys on how they function and what it's purpose are. Thank you for this!
+Lil Kiwi once you learn the techniques you can really start kicking butt in this style. I just released a new video today in the same style that shows you how to make a birthday cake (it's my birthday haha). Check it out if you liked this one and thanks for watching, I really appreciate it!
Thank you sooo much for this tutorial!.. although I didn't make the tree, the information here comes in handy in many ways, your efforts are much appreciated!
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I recently started to pick up illustrator again and this really helped! I experienced some issues creating a smooth shadow blend though.. mine appeared like many tiny "steps" rather than a smooth gradient that fades to transparent.. any idea how to fix this ? I'm using Illustrator CC 2020. Thanks!
hi there, thanks for the tutorial, I tried to create the shadow with half of the tree by blending, but the blending doesn't seem so smooth, aww, wish I could send you the picture, I have tried to adjust the pixel but it doesn't help at all. Don't know how to fix it.
Hi, it's very helpful tut! :) Thank you! I am AI beginner and I can not get it how you really delete the half of the tree? How did you use direct selection tool, in order to select those 3 branches points? I keep watching this moment and do not see how you really select them. :)
thanks! I could look into that, are you looking for character faces or full body? I've seen some good tutorials out there I could probably do something similar sometime, characters made out of basic shapes, etc.
Great video! The only issue I have, is after 12:59 (the blend). I can't see the right part of the tree anymore. It"s only black and no tree shape in it.
Hi :) Thank you for giving me a good tutorial. I enjoy learning illustrator through your video! However, I can't understand how you move triangles down after you copy them with 'Shift and click it' . It seems you just click it three times but I can't follow it! :) If I do arrow down, it movies a little unlike what you do!
You locked the object, not the layer, with Command-2, at 1:26. Locking the Layer is a different action. But, i get it. Also, you could indicate that you have the bounding box showing. Also, also, if you hold the Command key while you move, the piece will automatically try to align with points and edges.
@@tempest7001 I'm having the same problem as him. I have a pretty beafy pc though so I thought it was going to be the problem. I'm like 90% sure this is it because when I try to export it, it shows it fully. I just have no idea of how to change it. :(
Hello! I'm a newbie towards the whole Adobe suite, especially the Illustrator (I'm not even an artist lol) and I was able to follow everything up until putting an anchor and getting the anchors on the other half of the tree to have halved and removed. I'm using CS6 and somehow, it won't do it. Anything to help me with this? By the way, great tutorial! :D Would be happy to hear from ya.
Thanks JC I appreciate it. I tell you what, go watch my Potted Plants tutorial. It’s much better and if I were to teach a lesson to a beginner it would be that one :)
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this was so fun!! my first illustrator tutorial and i like how you actually talk through everything.
oh very cool! thanks so much :)
thanksss Pixel and Bracket!!! Got nothin to do in this pandemic home bound situation, found you on youtube and now I can practice my Illustrator skill :D
Very nice and informative. Many other videos are so fast and you cant even follow! They do something by using shortcuts and you can never learn them at the first time! You did everything slow but very easy to learn. thanks
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Wow, a tutorial with an actually well-designed image that doesn't look like it came from MS paint! Subscribed.
I’m here, I make things for real 👊
You can make really cool illustrations in MS Paint too, is just that people don't know how to use it properly.
your have a good voice it helped me listen all through your informative videos
Thanks a lot for helping....I am able to survive this lockdown by watching illustrator videos and then trying by myself...can't thank enough
Thanks for being calm and taking your time explaining things.
How do you have such finesse.. and what ease are your tutorials. I try but can't stay on anyother tutorial for more than 5 mins. You make it all so easy and i have learnt so much from you. Thank you so much! Are you a self taught? Also, may i ask why didn't we use shapebuilder to make shadows in this one?
thanks a ton again! please keep bringing more tutorials.
It can’t get any simpler and clearer than that. Thank you. Subscribed.
Right on! Thanks so much for watching and the sub :)
I'm new to illustrator and seeing ur videos makes illustrator seems easy. Thanks, this is so helpful!
happy to hear, thanks for watching!
Thank you so much, it helpful for me, i am using affinity designer actually, but i learn from you
Very clear instruction, thank you.
this is my first comment
I have never commented on any youtube video since 2014 but i wanna thank you for your great tutorial.
Well I’m honored to be the video you decided to comment on! :)
very detailed explanation. I like it
excellent lesson
After seeing this , What i did next ? Liked , Subscribed and pressed the notification icon.
Loved it, I didn't know about the blend option!
+Demiën Drost thanks man, honestly I didn't either haha! Very cool tool, can't wait to use it more
The blend tool can create some very 'interesting' shapes indeed!
Dansky so you're watching pixel and bracket too 😋
+Dansky looking forward to exploring some more techniques with it!
How do you smooth out the shadow? Mine is filled with clear strokes. Thank you!
Really love these flat design tutorials. Would love to see more.
Really good tutorial. Very informative and easy to grasp. It was something i had doubts about when working with illustrator. Thanks for clearing things up
The Background music makes me want to play Sims 😂
haha well what are you waiting for!?
Excellent tutorial! Really easy to understand.
great tutorial
i had to multiply to 0.02 , weird. And i had the same config as you. Also my shadow wasnt working, but there was this thing in the opacity settings called Knockout Group, so i unchecked that and it worked out fine, thanks a lot for the tutorial dude, amazing.
Excellent video, great tutorial! Earned a subscriber :)
thanks Jackson!
and another one
bites the dust
HI @Pixel&Bracket, one tip, you should have your layers visible, because people can get lost along the way and without seeing your layers its tough to catch up
would it pain you to hear that 99% of the time i don't use layers in illustrator? eek!
hope it was easy enough to follow however!
@@pixelandbracket Really? I've heard that from folks before. Your tutorials are awesome. I think i was distracted on this one so I'm doing it again. Thanks for providing the free content. Your channel is great!
thanks! i would definitely recommend my potted plants tutorial, learned a lot more since this one!
@@pixelandbracket For sure i will, thanks Spencer!
Thanks for another good tutorial! Just one quick question, how did you bring those color palette into the board?
Excellent tutorial! It's the first time I've used illustrator and I couldn't sort out how to do certain things- you explained them perfectly so I could do what I was in my project! Thanks a million!
You’re so welcome! I’ve actually got a FREE course over on Skillshare I think would be really helpful to you if you’re new. Just takes an email to sign up! Here’s the link: skl.sh/2z0MViZ
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GUYS!
colors he used:
DCB58E
4E392B
31241C
5A560F
212103
Danke from Austria
Great Great and Great....learned a lot
Good Good and Good... I'm glad you did!
Thank you, it worked! The only issue I had was calculating the size. every time I added *1.5 it made the triangle super big.
Glad you got it figured out! Doesn’t have to be an exact science I suppose you could just eyeball it!
If someone haves the same problem - just go * 1,5 instead 1.5
Ah, this is a difference overseas ya?
@@pixelandbracket Yeah looks like
This is a really good tutorial. It's not fast, the explanation and talking is really good. :)
Thanks Justin! I really appreciate it
really loved it ... you make illustrator seem easy ,thank you soo much !!!
thanks for tutorials
Hi:
Your tutorials are useful and I'm inspired and happy to start as Illustrator beginner....
It is Great.,...I learned balance from this video...its amazing how you explained littles points...
I do my best haha! thanks :)
This is a great tutorial and I have to say, you do a great job at teaching, but some things were over complicated, per deleting half of the "branches" and creating a copy flipped over the vertical axis. Instead, you can easily just use the scissors tool and cut between the top middle point and the bottom middle point we created. This would make two exact shapes and leave out the complication. Overall great video regardless! just thought to point it out.
Edit: I only thought to point this out because I've only been using illustrator for less than a week and this is something I noticed.
After this tutorial I learned about the shape builder tool which makes things infinitely easier, check out my flat design cactus tutorial for the latest and greatest!
This is really helpfull and very kind of you to make a video tutorial for the begginers!
I enjoyed following your steps and do what you did, until the part where you showed us how to cut the branches in half.
Well, that's what happened to me after hitting delete... The angles of the one side of the tree disappeared and then it was just a straight line with the tree still there. The tree branches were still there (the tree as body still existed), but without the triangular corners, it looked kinda llike a ''slope'' going down. So why that part of deleting the half didn't work out? I followed exactly what you said and did. I tried to do that like 10+ times, but I couldn't make it untill the end because of that.
Thank you in advance if you answer me and thank you for your time as well for doing the video! I'll see more of yours.
This was before I was teaching the shape builder tool, try this one for making a tree! th-cam.com/video/iDnUq_mcNvI/w-d-xo.html
thamks man, i had illustator for weeks and didnt know basic skills. thanks for teaching me
These are great, thanks so much.
This was really helpful thank you!! :)
Thanks for your tutorial, it's quite interesting and lovely, like the design very much : )
I kind of just got lost and confused in the triangle parts for the branches of the tree, but i decided to just put a line in the middle and erase the half part of it and polished off the center part to make it look seamless. Overall, my first tutorial in Illustrator is so fun! I kind of learned something about the tools and the shortcut keys on how they function and what it's purpose are. Thank you for this!
Thank you 😊
Awesome. I have seen this style of artwork a lot recently and I love it. Never thought I'd be able to do it myself!
Thank you!
+Lil Kiwi once you learn the techniques you can really start kicking butt in this style. I just released a new video today in the same style that shows you how to make a birthday cake (it's my birthday haha). Check it out if you liked this one and thanks for watching, I really appreciate it!
Pixel & Bracket awesome! I definitely will check that out. Thank you!!
+Lil Kiwi 🙌🙌🙌
Pixel & Bracket and happy birthday by the way!
+Lil Kiwi haha thanks so much! Subscribing would be a nice present if you haven't already 😉
Thank you sooo much for this tutorial!.. although I didn't make the tree, the information here comes in handy in many ways, your efforts are much appreciated!
and your comment is very much appreciated!
Awesome tutorial, I succeeded through the entire process!
i learn something thanks, keep the good work
That was awsome! Thanks!!!
Useful tutorial. Thank you so much!
Really cool looking tree, and also a great colour scheme. Thanks for sharing.
thank you for your tutorial, hope you keep doing some videos like this
thank you, it was my first tutorial for illustrator.
nice work Bro keep continu
Super good!!!
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I recently started to pick up illustrator again and this really helped! I experienced some issues creating a smooth shadow blend though.. mine appeared like many tiny "steps" rather than a smooth gradient that fades to transparent.. any idea how to fix this ? I'm using Illustrator CC 2020. Thanks!
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Even I'm having the same issue....did you sort it out?
It’s a rendering issue, should fix on export
Great tutorial but why didn't you use Gradient for the branches sir.
This is so cute, I love your video!
please upload tutorial for premier pro
What is the background music!? Its great!!
Love ur tutorials
hi there, thanks for the tutorial, I tried to create the shadow with half of the tree by blending, but the blending doesn't seem so smooth, aww, wish I could send you the picture, I have tried to adjust the pixel but it doesn't help at all. Don't know how to fix it.
did you found any solution to it?
In the transparency, untick "Knockout group"
How you add color panel in circular from
Hi, it's very helpful tut! :) Thank you! I am AI beginner and I can not get it how you really delete the half of the tree? How did you use direct selection tool, in order to select those 3 branches points? I keep watching this moment and do not see how you really select them. :)
Aaaah silly me! I see it now how you did it! Hahaha, my mistake! :D
Is there a simpler way to achieve a same result?
Loved the tutorial, immediately subscribed
welcome!
nice and good tutorial
Great tutorial. Super easy to follow along
thank you,nice
How did you create the color watches at first?? :)
Thank you very much for the lesson. It was so clear! Could you please create a flat characters tutorial?
thanks! I could look into that, are you looking for character faces or full body? I've seen some good tutorials out there I could probably do something similar sometime, characters made out of basic shapes, etc.
Pixel & Bracket I’m looking for a full body. It would be so nice if you could have done that!
sounds great! just keep an eye out, nothing planned yet but I definitely have it on my radar
Awesome
The commentary is nice.
Awesome!!
liked it ...
Please bring more sunch tutorials
Great video! The only issue I have, is after 12:59 (the blend). I can't see the right part of the tree anymore. It"s only black and no tree shape in it.
Great tutorial, thanks playah!
anytime man!
Thank you!
Thank for your tutorial
hi hello, quick question, how do I get the upper taskbar?
Nice tutorial bro.. Love this
thanks man
Hi, for some reason, even tough I followed all the steps, when creating the shadow, it kind of pixelated. Any solution? Btw, great tutorials!
@NA JIANG Thanks it's help
Great video
Thanks Jakob!
Subscribed!
Hi :) Thank you for giving me a good tutorial. I enjoy learning illustrator through your video! However, I can't understand how you move triangles down after you copy them with 'Shift and click it' . It seems you just click it three times but I can't follow it! :) If I do arrow down, it movies a little unlike what you do!
what a fun video!
You locked the object, not the layer, with Command-2, at 1:26.
Locking the Layer is a different action.
But, i get it.
Also, you could indicate that you have the bounding box showing.
Also, also, if you hold the Command key while you move, the piece will automatically try to align with points and edges.
7.40 which key using this move ?
instead of the shadow being smooth it looks like a bunch of lines broken apart. what could I be doing wrong?
i think its because of ur pc/laptop it probably cant render it correctly in illustrator i hope im not to late with responding XD
@@tempest7001 I'm having the same problem as him. I have a pretty beafy pc though so I thought it was going to be the problem. I'm like 90% sure this is it because when I try to export it, it shows it fully. I just have no idea of how to change it. :(
Go to View -> Render on CPU
nice work thank u
nice job
İt's great! thank you so so much
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I enjoyed it a a lot. Thank you:)
Hello! I'm a newbie towards the whole Adobe suite, especially the Illustrator (I'm not even an artist lol) and I was able to follow everything up until putting an anchor and getting the anchors on the other half of the tree to have halved and removed. I'm using CS6 and somehow, it won't do it. Anything to help me with this? By the way, great tutorial! :D Would be happy to hear from ya.
Thanks JC I appreciate it. I tell you what, go watch my Potted Plants tutorial. It’s much better and if I were to teach a lesson to a beginner it would be that one :)
Thanks a lot.
Everything great, but why my shadow is white? When i move him above the work rectangle it's black.
Many thanks for this tut...thanks thanks..
+Diego Poveda you're very welcome!
Very helpful, thank you!
You’re welcome Aaron!