9 Shapes Every Designer Must Know in Adobe Illustrator

[@ForeverDansky]

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[@TheGreatFury]

The arrow technique is pretty awesome, we've dubbed this type a "swoopy arrow" at my work and I'll plan to pull up illustrator next time it's needed instead of doing it manually.

[@ForeverDansky]

Any arrows you create can also be added to the "Graphic Styles" panel and applied to any path with a single click! 🙌

[@steevo1976]

Bloody love your videos Dan. It’s like a best mate giving out great tips and throwing in a bit of humour here and there. All the best.

[@ForeverDansky]

Thank you sir, I very much appreciate your kind words 😊

[@HAYRINmy1986]

Totally awesome.

[@sforsterification]

Great video Dansky. Basic skills like these help you to create simple but effective info and motion graphics. Thanks so much.

[@ForeverDansky]

Glad it was helpful! ☺️

[@stoleymo79]

Superb job. Thanks Dansky.

[@ForeverDansky]

You’re welcome ☺️

[@TheINKspiredLife]

Simply fantastic! Thank you for sharing.

[@ForeverDansky]

Cheers Jason! 🙌😁

[@rejaraju7469]

Learning day by day

[@safiya2u]

Amazing techniques, thank you

[@SkArifHossain]

Amazing tips, love the coil 😍😍😍

[@Adouleh5]

Thank you very much for this valuable information

[@LTartworkx]

So helpful, Thank you for posting this ❤

[@ForeverDansky]

You're very welcome 🙂

[@flytetime7637]

Good tips! 👍🏼

[@ForeverDansky]

Awesome!

[@vobmomen640]

I will now have to hone my skills, which you have recently demonstrated

[@PenumbraCh]

This is pure gold! THANK YOUUUUUUU!

[@ForeverDansky]

You're welcome!!

[@Marina_on_Air]

Thank you! You show me much more options😊

[@ForeverDansky]

You’re welcome 😊

[@NaBa.O3O]

The sparkle, heart, and spiral are going to be specially useful for me. I'm a digital artist (not a designer), but drawing those shapes like this shorten so much of the process instead of fully drawing them by hand with the pen tool! Thank you. I'm glad I found your channel.

[@inayathkhan100]

Too good, every shape is very unique technique thank you.

[@ForeverDansky]

Thank you so much 😀

[@haseebpeerzada7667]

Beautifully explained - Thank you

[@ziaulhasankhan8690]

Excellent

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks!

[@KalaMedia]

I've learned so many useful things in just a few minutes, thank you so much dude!

[@robertgarner11]

Very helpful!

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks Robert 😊

[@ytpankaj123]

Very Useful video ❤

[@ForeverDansky]

Glad it was helpful!

[@amer4716]

very appreciated, please keep making videos like this, simple, direct, and informative

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks, will do! 🙌

[@doladutta4990]

Thank you very much. It was truly helpful.

[@zackjons3702]

Very helpful ❤❤

[@ForeverDansky]

Glad it was helpful! Zack! 🙌

[@kathresmee6204]

Great ways!

[@mcly6490]

the best, thank you my friend.

[@ForeverDansky]

Thank you too!

[@HTARAVI]

Thanks 😊🎉

[@Natalia-oe2cq]

I have made all of them! Thanks really good tutoryal

[@ForeverDansky]

Nice! Great to hear! 😊

[@DesignWho]

Hey.. the chair didn't spin at the end

[@ForeverDansky]

Aha the chair is under the desk, as I'm standing up in this video! 🙌

[@DesignWho]

@@ForeverDansky poor chair..

[@mohamed-of6wx]

Thank you very much for these tips

[@mohamed-of6wx]

Thank you very much for these tips ❤

[@mehmethimmetoglu3879]

Thanks for sharing

[@ForeverDansky]

My pleasure! Thanks to watching 😊

[@Sufyanshots]

thanks !

[@ForeverDansky]

You're welcome!

[@ogunsanjoshua7554]

This is mind blowing🤩🤩🤩

[@tooooooooooooota]

Nice! ❤

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks! 😄

[@polacofaggiolani1169]

Buena remera!!! 👕👌

[@Evie_Ruby]

Clicking alt/option resizes it centrally instead of stretching from one side

[@SemaAkgun3]

1:06 ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧ Here is the simplest way to make a 4-pointed star Thank you Dansky, excellent educational video as always. 🧡

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks Sema! 😊

[@zackjons3702]

Hello Dansky when will you stream ?

[@Samuel_aparici0]

Cheers mate!

[@Zarrin.T]

Hey Dansky, Thank you so much. You've been very helpful. I wanted to ask you, which version of illustrator have you been using? My illustrator is acting up.

[@100hundert]

First shape into the video and I already learned something. I used to make that sparkle by filling the negative space between four circles 🤣

[@ForeverDansky]

Awesome! 🤩

[@afifakhan2687]

wow🙌

[@liliyaStorogenko-p9w]

Hi, Dan. Thank you for this lesson. I am 73 years old, and I understood everything you said. Best wishes from Ukraine.

[@KathBorup]

Note with the droplet make sure you don't leave a long tail at the top, erase quite a bit of it, otherwise your don't get the rounding options from the direct selection tool.

[@brevman71]

Nice Punisher-Tee… could you tell which brand and where to get it from? Thanks and many greetings from Tirol/Austria

[@evm6177]

Design pro ❌😎❌ Design novice, still picking up on those fine basics. ✅✅ Thanks to Dansky! 🤓

[@Content860]

I am from Bangladesh , take love dear ❤

[@monicanowak4889]

Hiya, I have created a sparkle and I can't select - effect - expand appearance , no expand appearance option listed whatsoever, can you please help? Thanks!

[@tobiaslunte6992]

Just in case anyone would rely on this: That is absolutely not an archimedian spiral, the curvature does not change smoothly. Might be okay if you just need something spiral-y looking, but unfortunately there are no shortcuts if you actually need an Archimedian. (The other trick I sometimes see uses the twist tool, same as the lollipop swirl. That one would work in theory, but breaks down due to compounding errors due to lack of precision when calculating the new path). (The pucker/bloat star in the beginning is nice though)

[@samiansari8872]

You are Amazing. ❤ from Pakistan.

[@________________D]

Illustrator will definitely wake up - perfectly fit 😂

[@ForeverDansky]

😂👍

[@GraphicIdea-GI]

❤

[@Mr__Fogg]

Interesting - adding that arrow head to stroked line crashes my illustrator!?

[@ForeverDansky]

Woah what?! 😭 Is that Illustrator 2024? Also are you on Mac or PC?

[@Evie_Ruby]

7:16

[@Evie_Ruby]

9:29

[@jaysonfontela5761]

👍

[@MXBash087]

i have a 60% keyboard i ant use arrow keys idk how

[@josephbradford4455]

Why are my lines in the twist tool not smooth? There are no settings that I can find to adjust this. And the smooth tool doesn't work. I'm using AI 2024.

[@danpuiu3325]

same happens to my lines they are not at all smooth and my Iatest updated version of Illustrator keeps crashin sometimes when I use this tool.

[@somefroggyhere]

Why not just use scissors on the top and bottom anchor points of the ellipse to cut it in two? Only two clicks instead of... how many have you done?

[@ForeverDansky]

There's generally a lot of ways to do the same thing in Illustrator. Makes little difference in terms of speed when using keyboard shortcuts, and sometimes just depends which technique someone prefers to use.

[@DanielKEMBEU-k1x]

Very funny this guy...

[@ForeverDansky]

😂

[@JoeBodego]

thanks but there is a much easier way to create a heart

[@ForeverDansky]

There’s a lot of different ways, depending on the type of heart shape 👍

[@JoeBodego]

@@ForeverDansky would you believe its with a rectangle? I am working on launching an illustrator channel and this is one of the tutorials in the pipeline.

[@ForeverDansky]

@@JoeBodego Awesome, that's great to hear Joe! 😍

[@ytRap007]

greatly amaziingly

[@Karabanka]

0:57 i did this today with square and circles xd

[@md.bulbulislam5373]

Hello sir Could you provide me with some tasks?

[@TheKiRBiR]

The 12 year old version of you just called... He want's his badboy t-shirt back

[@ForeverDansky]

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