Master Adobe Illustrator: 17 Pro Tips For Graphic Designers

[@ForeverDansky]

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[@osikebruno]

I just realized I don't know how to use Adobe illustrator this way after 5 years. Thank you Dansky. You are now part of my graphic design family tree.

[@ForeverDansky]

Thank you! Happy to help 😊

[@AlanoTekashi]

Love how snappy and to the point all your examples always are. Great video as always!

[@dilsdesigns]

I WISH I KNEW ABOUT THIS DRAW INSIDE TOOL A WEEK AGO OH MY GOSH 😭 i spent ages making clipping masks for my last piece.

[@ForeverDansky]

Haha oh no! 😅 Yea it's something I didn't know about for a long time, and whenever I demo it on a stream, it often surprises people watching! Definitely a lesser-known trick for sure!

[@clevermissfox]

Speaking of the twirl tool, holding down the tilde key ~ when drawing shapes gives you some crazy paths that would take ages with radial repeat or manually❤

[@ibidesign]

How on Earth did you discover that? Impressed over here.

[@clevermissfox]

@@ibidesign watching videos on illustrator shortcuts and hidden features , which I knew which one so I could give them proper credit !

[@terencegibbins3894]

Fantastic video presentation and thank you so very much for making and uploading. I always struggled with Adobe Illustrators more advanced techniques, but am gradually making progress thanks to your wonderful video's. Thank you so very much:) 😊

[@BlackDidThis]

Pretty much all given techniques were far from new to me. BUT I have to especially credit that you HAVE put together a good set of "keep these in mind" tips that WILL speed up your workflow. There are many less experienced users that I am sure will benefit a LO and most possibly those that "DO KNOW (and use)" these will most possibly remain silent... Thus, I thought a feedback and gratitude would be in order to appreciate your selection of share. It was NOT a waste of my time in any ways. And for this: Thank you!

[@markjjnstradling]

As always, something for everyone. Great video!

[@matthewjayyy]

Dansky, you rule. Thanks for sharing!

[@ForeverDansky]

Cheers Matthew! You're welcome 👊

[@NoelSufrin]

Great tips as always, Dan! I always feel validated when I already know them, but even then you'll still find a way to showcase a nuance of said tip that I hadn't thought of. 👏👏👏

[@Jaysmainn]

Thank you so much for sharing!

[@peterburns9147]

I feel proud that I know some of these tips already, but love that I learn something new too! I never really used the Transform panel before but, seeing how easy it is to create 3D text, I definitely will be, thanks!!

[@Alumx]

I just started using illustrator and these videos are blowing my mind in terms of what that software is capable of

[@joebine6644]

J'apprends toujours beaucoup de tes vidéos! Merci Dansky bro

[@PaperSurf-by1ys]

Loved this tutorial!!!! Brilliant stuff!! really reduces our time while creating our designs! thanks a lot!

[@techyjc]

These are great! You can apply a single gradient across separate objects by selecting gradient and dragging across the selected objects as well. You may know this already but thought I’d share.

[@ChrisZappa]

Love all your videos, Dan. Thank you for sharing all that you do.

[@ForeverDansky]

My pleasure Chris, thank you 😊👊

[@yazdaneram9365]

thank you much for share this tips..i learned multipale thingh from you

[@ravindra741]

Thank You Very Much!

[@ScrixMusic]

That was a super educational video. This is going to help me a bunch. Cheers mate, you've just earned a sub :)

[@ForeverDansky]

Awesome, thank you!

[@irfanhanif55]

you are brilliant trainer i appreciate you thanks for guide

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks! Glad it was helpful! 😊

[@EducationalArt-HL]

Best teacher ever! Showed me the way to options for the effect tools. Now the world’s in trouble Coz I feel as powerful as Thanos.

[@avinashsurve2898]

Very Helpful video Thanks

[@ForeverDansky]

Glad it was helpful!

[@msmemon1088]

I am not so good at Ai, but after watching these pro tips ❤i am excited to improve further 🎉

[@ForeverDansky]

Hey that's so great to hear 🥳

[@david_arthur_brown]

The pattern fills are also scaleable, rotateable and skewable without affecting the shape they are in by unclicking the "Transform Objects" box (as seen at 15:57).

[@uberstevo]

That was SUPER informative, as always, Dan. Thank you for sharing. 🩶

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it Steven 🙌

[@dilsdesigns]

also you can make a heart super easily by taking a corner with the end points at the same level and a round end cap, increasing the stroke until its heart shaped, and then outlining the stroke! if you want it to be rounder i like using effects (fish eye, pucker and bloat, etc)

[@meratcompany5279]

Thank You man, I can Call These Tips " The Designer Survivor Kit"

[@ForeverDansky]

You're welcome 🙂

[@mirrashidakbari1829]

Thanks my dear about these importing things you teach us ❤❤

[@vakutam]

very nice keen information.. 👌 we are greatful to your content

[@manuelhartwig4519]

Great Video!!! 🙌

[@genesis102076]

Amazing!

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks!

[@sfowler1017]

Such great tips, thank you!

[@aminmohammadi1304]

helpful video. many thanks Dan.

[@pranavpatel1369]

great shit man! i really needed this :)

[@richardadams9159]

Always looking forward to your tutorial,very helpful..as a bag designer and new to using illustrator,can you pls do something on how to put stitching line on the pattern..

[@JohnJohnson-fy2ny]

Perfect work !!!

[@ForeverDansky]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@peterjrgensen2015]

great vid dude

[@JerryN7970]

There were a few of those I already knew about, but a lot of them were new to me so, I’m definitely going to be trying them out!

[@djdrrec]

Great video thankyou!

[@palo_mudo]

Great video, thanks

[@ForeverDansky]

My pleasure!

[@coleplacemb]

Thanks so much, Dan!

[@ForeverDansky]

My pleasure!

[@mohamedbasem4943]

Amazing artist ❤

[@ShahJalal-i2g]

Great learning

[@FishaNostalgia]

you the best ! thanks for tips . merci beaucoup

[@ForeverDansky]

Thank you! 😃

[@moth312]

The Gradient POW one, you can also use the Gradient tool and click and drag a line in any direction/axis to do the same thing

[@sabschus]

As always a great video for us! Thanks Dansky💯

[@Edwins1984]

Nice one 👌👌

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks ✌️

[@thuyvuphamnhat6083]

thank you so much, it's really helpful

[@ForeverDansky]

You're welcome! 😊

[@vectorprofessor182]

I actually Did know about the swarches library! Also, you can make a gradient go across several separate objects by using the Gradient Tool, from the right side. Just cleaning click, hold, and drag across all the objects. Done!

[@andres.am.]

Some are tips and others are different ways to arrive at a result. Thanks for everything 🌹

[@praddy9778]

Love your videos and your style of teaching. Quick question: in order to keep the text editable can't we apply the gradient fill to a text through the Appearance Panel. This way the gradient will be spread across the entire word and the text will be editable. If we convert it to outlines we can't edit that anymore.

[@gulljee7473]

wow thanks sir about the pattren

[@ricovickyanto4225]

Cool video as usual dan...👍

[@claudschgi4794]

holy what a handy tipp with draw inside :D

[@theskycantsleep]

wow thank you so much!

[@aritimena]

0:30 draw inside, basically drawing on an alpha locked layer or clipping mask 1:05 basically just messing around with the effects tab, (pucker & bloat, zigzag) 2:02 how to draw a heart 3:00 variable fonts 3:30 illustrator has patterns. wow I am so whelmed 5:30 smooth out handwriting from the pen tool with object>path>smooth 6:20 warp/distort shapes with width subtool (twirl tool) 7:30 a more uniform way to make shadows than the first tip, the important takeaway is width profiles which is in the stroke panel 9:00 pathfinder crop 9:44 how to manipulate fonts 10:30 masking and gradients 12:10 point type vs area type 12:40 object > path > split into grid 13:30 literally just lasso select 14:00 for selecting similar objects: select > same > [attribute you wish to select] 14:50 object > compound path > make 15:30 duplicate fill color and go to town on transform effects bloody windbag

[@alesandrasantorcas86]

thanks

[@กิษณุพงษ์สุนันทา]

thank you very much💯🤓

[@mdatiqurrahman9606]

Fantastic video

[@אתווןדאורייתאהאורשבשם]

Great video. Light & packed

[@TorajanBoys]

Dan, i would to ask where i can find font that free to use on my Project? i get many font but most of them is Paid. lol, i hope you can help me with this. btw, i always love your Video. when i got stuck your Video is life saver. Thanks, and keep the Good work. Cheers

[@TheShir1]

Draw inside. 💥🤝

[@deepaksahota]

Thank you sir

[@PucOrder]

tq you sheamus for the tips

[@GraphicIdea-GI]

Thank's DAN

[@howtonothing3556]

Great Video

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks!

[@HashebAnzar]

Wow swirl tool 😮 gonna keep that tool in mind

[@ilkinmvv]

Nice techniques!

[@ForeverDansky]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@CosmicAmusement]

Really Helpful Video. Thanks Dan!

[@ForeverDansky]

Super! Glad it was helpful! 🙌😃

[@jibrilabdulkadir4078]

Tanks 4 ur help Dude!

[@johnupdate]

Are the different stages of variable fonts developed by typographers or are the fonts just altered „mecanically“ without paying attention to typographical rules?

[@ForeverDansky]

I think the intent with variable fonts is to tick all the best-practice-boxes from a typography perspective, and also work in a way that doesn’t require every possible suite of characters to be created manually, as that would be a lot of combinations! 😅

[@drichiisaac662]

Bro you're funky good

[@lloydjungcogiray5193]

very useful

[@ForeverDansky]

😃

[@alaqrab_alsam]

👍👍👍👍🌹🌹🌹 thank you bro you are the best

[@farhaan1335]

Dan da goat

[@g-force1699]

I actually stumbled on that patterns the other day, was wondering how to make a dotted square

[@jyotirmayanagar9729]

Danskey whatdoes compound path do???? Ive seen a lot of videos but I still can't figure it out.

[@ForeverDansky]

If you make a collection of separate shapes a compound path, Illustrator will treat all of the individual shapes, as a single shape. That’s why in this example the gradient runs through all of the shapes as one 👍

[@RasikaSampath-jo1pc]

thanks

[@LehTieKah]

Dang, I really know nothing about illustrator lmao

[@mr.ch4rli3_]

Lol same. But I've only been playing around with it for the past couple months. I just wish adobe would release illustrator and Photoshop In a cheaper bundle. $88 a month to have access to both is steep.

[@sandiletwala3001]

Same I have just been making a mess and playing around with them

[@cajle3605]

I have a degree in graphic design and Omg! This guy showed me stuff I’ve never even heard about! Thank you!

[@njoachejudechia311]

Bro all of us😭😭

[@tabysart]

Is the video that I needed

[@Ikonic_designer]

great video

[@zackjons3702]

I knew about swatches library

[@burakakgun193]

Hi! How can i create lines in design technique 6 ?

[@mkks7322]

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[@sarwarahmed6358]

Very important

[@vipulthakkar1111]

Nice bro

[@ConfusedCat-l2n]

i cant seems to select draw inside no matter what..how do i 'turn it on' or make it work??????

[@Noiziac]

I had this issue when trying to do it for text. So far what i've found is if you ungroup the layer then select the individual letter, it will ungrey it

[@zainghori6290]

Sweet.

[@NovaNocturneArt]

I have a bit of a niche question about Illustrator that I cannot find the answer to for the life of me. Perhaps you might have the answer? Is there some way to have the default "basic brush" (the plain line for outlines) to have the colorization settings "tints and shades" like one can do with a pattern brush option? I like to use tints and shades to create outlines that are the same color as the shape, with just a slightly darker tone that I don't have to manually set (utilizing a 75% gray for the base pattern brush). The problem with this is that in order to get this effect with a pattern brush is it creates astronomical numbers of points and makes everything run super slow. If I could duplicate the default "basic brush" and just use "tints and shades" it would solve my issue entirely, but I don't know if its possible.

[@ball8kiwi]

Select > Same > Stroke color 🤯

[@lessg283]

Increíble

[@LufianCloud]

I tried the last one because it looks so Awesome but the problem is that no matter how much copies I made makes the first few copies the the back of the text still don't look smooth at all so I tried to double the transform and my laptop starts lagging. lol

[@ForeverDansky]

Set the ‘Scale’ value to 99.9% or the ‘Move’ value to 0.1px and increase the number of copies a lot more 🙌

[@LufianCloud]

@@ForeverDansky thanks, will try that. :)

[@epel4416]

🎉👏🏻👏🏻

[@sammmmmmmmy]

itz great tips for beginner but not really pro tips

[@ccaamille_]

Ayooo that draw inside thing could literally save a GD’s life 😂😂😂

[@jaysonfontela5761]

👍

[@KAZVorpal]

You keep saying meaning axis, singular, but saying axes, plural.

[@Rio-by1eh]

I have worked with illustrator for 32 years … but I feel it is so unstable these days , running it on M1 chip mini these days , appearances are really horrible

[@bn5055]

Draw inside? 😘🤌

[@ithamarlowe6158]

5:45 Who draws like that with a mouse and calls it "VERY, VERY BADLY"! Please sir, please be more humble, we know you're a pro. Anything I draw with the pencil tool looks like a scribble.

[@FabioCavalcantiMJF]

the last one cost a lot of my pc performance

[@ForeverDansky]

A workaround for this is to use whole percentages (eg. 99%, 98%). The edges will look jagged and not great, but everything will run better performance-wise. Then once the design is done, change the values to something like 99.9% and increase the number of copies for more detail, and do this right at the end before exporting the final design 👍