Follow this Adobe Illustrator How To and make yourself a pile of gold for St. Patrick's Day.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Today we have another exciting Adobe Illustrator How To tutorial that will show you how to create mind-blowing holiday layouts. After all, every leprechaun needs to find gold at the end of the rainbow.
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Getting Started with Illustrator
If you do not have Adobe Illustrator installed on your computer, you can buy it from Computer Parts Greenville. You can also download a 30-day trial version from Adobe.com. Some of our clients actually download cracked versions of Adobe CS 5.5, but we do not condone that practice. Now that you have Adobe Illustrator installed, open a new document.
Drawing an ellipse
Grab the Ellipse Tool from the Illustrator toolbox.
Start by drawing an ellipse for the gold coin.
Now, draw a narrow ellipse like the one you see here. We will use different color fills to distinguish different shapes throughout the course of this tutorial, so don’t sweat the odd colors, OK?
Fill the ellipse with a color to help keep things sorted.
Now, grab the Selection Tool, press the Alt key and then drag the ellipse down to create a copy. The video clip below shows how .
Add a Rectangle
Next, get the Rectangle Tool from the toolbox (it’s in the same cluster as the Ellipse Tool) and create a rectangle to form the side of the coin.
Using Pathfinder
Select the lower ellipse and the rectangle using the Selection Tool. Next, open the Pathfinder window and then click the Unite button.
Use Pathfinder to unite two paths in Adobe Illustrator.
Now bring the top ellipse to the front and add some color and gradients. I used the following settings:
- E9ECC6
- FCB117
- FCBB1B
- F2D933
Now add gradients to the side of the coin.
- E9ECC6
- F0E53B
- FCB117
- FCDD33
- FCC11F
Add gradient to the edge of the coin.
Offset Path
Now, get the Selection Tool and then click the ellipse to select it. From the main menu, choose Object, Path and then Offset path. Change the value in the Offset field to -1.5 pt.
Using the Offset Path window.
Add a gradient to the offset path. Use FCBB1B and B75627.
Copy the offset ellipse and then paste it in front using Ctrl+F. Nudge it to the right and then apply a new gradient. I used:
- E9ECC6
- F0E53B
- FCB117
- FDDF33
Add gradient to the duplicated offset path.
Group and Pile
Select the entire drawing by pressing Ctrl+A. Then right-click and choose Group. This groups the paths so you can easily copy your coin.
Group the paths associated with the coin.
Wrap up this Adobe Illustrator How To tutorial by piling up some gold.
A pile of gold, fit for any pot and any rainbow.
Be sure to read some of the other Adobe Illustrator How To tutorials we have here at Computer Parts Greenville.
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