The SECRET to a LINEAR SPIRAL in Illustrator

[@zarakxd]

Everyone create tutorials but there's just something about yours that're just out of the box. Top-Notch quality Dan! Learned so much from your channel. 🖤

[@tullio_official]

thanks a lot! just one question for adobe: why?

[@lalilukauka]

Holy heck! Thank you!!! I don’t comment often but I really gotta give you props for your delivery, explication, editing, etc., etc., etc. TOP NOTCH!!!

[@ForeverDansky]

Wow thank you Laurel! Honestly that really means a lot 😊

[@yvku4390]

Herzlichen Dank für dieses Video! Ganz toll erklärt und besonderen Dank für das verständlich gesprochene Englisch!

[@derpchick6562]

Really helpful and to the point! You saved my life, thank you very much

[@ForeverDansky]

You're welcome!

[@AlphabetPublishing]

Brilliant. Can't believe how simple that was.

[@Grimlock77]

OMG! I've been messing around with those awful controls on the Spiral tool for about an hour! Thanks so much

[@alanjohnson4541]

Best example iive seen by a mile. You have saved me so much time. Greatly appreciate

[@nicolemougin2425]

So helpful! Clear and concise, thank you! Looks so much better than the spiral tool, especially when adding text.

[@hanabobanna]

This is awesome. Love your teaching style.

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks so much!

[@foreleftyall]

this is fantastic. needed to make a spiral for a branding project, this made it so so much easier. thanks!

[@Zinjo]

To those with issues where the first line snaps perfectly but every other line is skewed: Go back in the polar grid tools' settings by left clicking on the canvas, and make certain the skew on both dividers is **0%**, if it's even 1% it'll all be messed up. This fix worked for me, I think illustrator might set it to 1% by default or something

[@peterengle56]

i love when i find a tool hiding somewhere that i didnt know that i needed. Thanks man.

[@JoshuaRodriguez-sp4gq]

this was mad helpful, thank you! you're more appreciated than you know

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i just stuck on a job and searched. This was useful and job was completed. Nice.

[@ForeverDansky]

Great to hear!

[@artiaj]

you seem to have solution to every other problem i face while designing. Thanks a ton for these amazing videos!

[@ForeverDansky]

Happy to help Joytra! :)

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Thank u so much,

[@александроленев-ц4ц]

thank you, you're awesome!

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks so much! 🙏

[@MooshAttack]

Had to google something and this video helped me out today! Look at baby Danksy from 4 years ago! haha. Still fantastic even back then! Thanks for sharing your wisdom as usual!!!

[@ForeverDansky]

Haha if I shaved off the beard, I would probably look about 12 😅 Thanks Moosh, appreciate you! 👊

[@aryholic]

I'm so grateful to you. ! I was really curious about linear spiral. It was very informative. Thank you so much!

[@onemirra]

I AM SO GLAD I FOUND YOU. HAVE A GOOD DAY! THANK YOU

[@mohammedvasim13]

Thanks a million! Dansky this was really helpful. I love it

[@ForeverDansky]

That’s great to hear! Thanks so much Mohammed 😃

[@rockdashneo]

so clear! thank you!

[@ForeverDansky]

You're so welcome!

[@jennypage2771]

Great instructions - I was able to get it to work within just a couple tries. Thank you!

[@jamalmajdi8521]

Great job as always.Million thanks

[@ForeverDansky]

Thank you too!

[@truckjumperdude]

I love this tutorial! It helped me out while I was having problems with the spiral tool.

[@ForeverDansky]

Awesome! Yea they’re different types of spirals 👍

[@reinholdstaden]

Very helpful. Thank you very much!

[@ForeverDansky]

You're welcome!

[@audreycramer2659]

*Moves top half of circles over one section to the right* "and there you are, you have spiral!" = MIND BLOWN! :D

[@justmerx]

Fast and clear, my thumbs up

[@j.b.flores1383]

you just made my life easier today

[@ForeverDansky]

Awesome! Happy to help :)

[@lalagopaladasi7781]

Thank you very much for this tutorial!

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[@ForeverDansky]

You're welcome 😊

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Excellent thanks for that !!!!! Love your tuts style :)

[@ForeverDansky]

Glad you like them! Thanks so much 😊

[@anouarmaalej]

Great tutorial! Thanks.

[@BrilliantDesignOnline]

Thank you! Very helpful.

[@ForeverDansky]

You're welcome!

[@xaviermcmanus7160]

Thanks so much, I was trying to redesign the logo for The Smiler rollercoaster at Alton Towers and I didn't know that there was actually a spiral tool. This video has saved me so much time and stress. Keep up the great vids!

[@relaxrelax1427]

This 5 year old video just saved my project! LOL Thanks Mate!!!

[@johannarafalski]

You're my hero! Thank you for that great tutorial.

You are amazing, dude! Greetings from Brazil!

[@mdoyledesigns]

Thank you for this! Very good teacher!

[@ForeverDansky]

Hey thanks Melissa, that’s very kind of you 🙂

[@markuswolfert3129]

One of the best tutorial I've ever seen. Thanks guy. I'm still puzzled how you figured it out. :-)

[@ForeverDansky]

Thanks Markus, another tutorial from somewhere on KZbin most likely 😋

[@Lessen0]

awesome awesome guide that very clearly walked through what to do and why/how, tho as lichterloh said in another comment 3 months ago, the deletion process can be done more quickly by Joining all the paths once you're at the step where you have two spirals nested in each other, then deleting one of the spirals. (tho having actually done this now, after writing that comment, i realize there's an added step of separating the two middle points from each other after the Join, and I don't actually know the fastest way to do that since I'm only somewhat familiar with Illustrator. But I guess if your intent is to 100% get rid of the extra spiral, then you just need to delete the first point in the spiral to separate it from the other spiral, and then select the rest of the offending spiral with the V selector and delete it.)

[@Res_ER]

Such a great video thank you !

[@ForeverDansky]

You're so welcome!

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"Im up the in corner now. Woo, hello! Look at me!" haha

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You aren't Mr Meseeks

[@peterwood2683]

Thanks a lot, great way of doing it.

[@ForeverDansky]

Awesome, thanks Peter!

[@RPBarrett]

AWESOME! Thanks so much

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I have just subscribed this channel. I love it! sooo clear and simple to understand. Thank you so much

[@suzuhaa]

You are a real life saver

[@inactive832]

thank you so much dansky

[@giovan1989]

Thanks for your help. It was very useful.

[@robinbird53]

Great! Been trying to draw a red and white Christmas peppermint candy. I think this will help!!!!

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[@ForeverDansky]

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Thank you!

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Thank you so much!

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You made my day man , greetings from Chile!

[@arinalowery7167]

In one of your videos you gave a download link to an aisc scripts, and there is a script called "Archimedean Spiral". It is the same that you're doing in this tutorial but it takes only 2 secs to do it, you just select it in the "file" and there is your spiral :)

[@ForeverDansky]

Hey Arina! It's a similar end result, this video is more focused on how to do it without relying on scripts and in a way that gives you more control. The script version is a great time-saver though 👍

[@arinalowery7167]

Dansky yeah, I understand, just in case for other people, who needs it to be done faster:) LOVE your videos! That would be cool to have a little bit more on InDesign though :) Keep it up!

[@coloronbynut]

I'm glad to see you Very easy to teach. Thank you very much Will help share

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[@rallymonkeez]

This was such a great tutorial, sir! Great job explaining, and leaving out all fluff. A+ quality. Thank you!

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[@macjonald]

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[@jackielindsay6673]

Absolutely brilliant thank you

[@GauravDubeyji]

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[@anantsharma5330]

Thanks ! Dan.

[@romanfuhrer8821]

Great tutorial to work along!

[@jyseo56]

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[@karlanders1200]

Worked for me.

[@joshlake3169]

Incredibly useful, thanks so much for this

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Thanks for this, really useful

[@ForeverDansky]

Glad it was helpful!

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Awesome! Thanks! :)

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Awesome Tutorial !!!👌👌👌

[@pedroalk]

Thank you very much. I didnt think about that way of doing a spiral. I took it to after effects and was easier on a animation I have to make. Tks

[@ForeverDansky]

You're welcome Pedro!

[@jjfecik]

I have ALWAYS wondered about this one!! 🙏🙏🙏

[@KallinaK]

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Your tutorials are very nice and helpful. i was wondering if you can create the art work of the leaves that is on your cloth that would be awesome. Thanks in advance.👍

[@lichterloh9536]

second part is actually even easier to accomplish - you do not need to ungroup, neither to delete every other line - just: cut, paste, shift, select all and join once, delete connection in the center - then you have two complete spirals, delete one - done!

[@Lessen0]

ooh yeah that makes a ton of sense: since you have two spirals nested in each other, if you Join them first then you can very quickly delete one of them.

[@iam_adamfromearth]

Great tutorial !!!

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[@SemageNamalSurendra]

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[@notag_channel]

Great Tutorial, thank you! So much work for an easy spiral when they could implement the Spiral Tool with some more parameters. I miss FreeHand LOL

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really easy nd understandable...

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[@koklop]

great, thanks!!

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Thanks for the tutorial.

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Every tutorialist ever: "So without further ado let's get into it."

[@ForeverDansky]

Tutorialist? That’s a great word right there!

[@Lessen0]

Actually I ended up getting a bit fixated on how to get a nearly-perfect spiral, and I realized that this approach is visibly imperfect since it's made out of true half-circles and a true spiral is not made out of half-circles, and this flaw in the approach is more visible the fewer number of rings you have, and I wanted a good-looking linear spiral with a low number of rings. The approach I ended up using (per a different guide) was to create a line segment and then Twist it with the Twist effect, and then convert that effected line back into lines (with Expand Appearance), although the big trick I figured out that the other guide didn't mention was to make sure you do all this at a very large size, because the Effect's render quality gets worse and worse the smaller the size of the thing you're working on (to an extreme and super ugly degree at very small sizes), so you should create your spiral at a very large size and then once you have it converted back to line segments then you can shrink it. If anyone does end up seeing this comment and needs better explanation of how to create a really good spiral, leave a comment.

[@ForeverDansky]

Ooooh will have to try this method out, thanks for sharing! 🙏

[@isblaka]

I wanted to say that too about the nearly perfect spiral, and I am seeking a way to do it but I want it more precise and constant than with a twist tool, not sure yet how.... also with the twist tool it turns it into a segmented mess, is there a way to fix that ? Thank you!

[@Lessen0]

​@@isblaka I THINK I know what problem you're describing, and I think the problem is avoided by literally just scaling the line way up to a much larger size before Twisting (and then shrinking it back down once you've turned it into vectors), although I'm not completely sure WHY this works. Kind of amusingly, if you do the opposite (shrink it down to a really small size and then twist), the distortion gets really extremely and bizarre. I may be skimming over something important here so please ask additional questions as needed. Edit: Testing a little in Illustrator, twisting a line segment by 1800 degrees... if the line segment is 500px long then it's super segmented, 250px is bizarre, and below is increasingly bizarre. If the line segment is 3000px long though, then it renders a spiral very well when twisted. And if you then do "Object > Expand Appearance" then that converts it back to vectors so you can shrink it to your actual needed size. then there's a little additional vector surgery (kind of up to you what exactly to do at this step) to close up the spiral so you can fill it with a color. The most straightforward thing is to delete the furthest-out bunch of line segments until one end of the whole line is near the other end of the whole line, and then join those two points. I'm not sure how to say that more clearly though...

[@isblaka]

@@Lessen0 Sir, thank you for your detailed reply ! I have tried now :) made it about 4000px long, the line and the result is sweet :) , meanwhile, i happen to also have Autocad :D and there is a spiral tool that makes it clean from the start so I can import it etc.. but your method is the one I will use as it keeps things clean.

[@Lessen0]

@@isblaka Awesome awesome, glad it worked out. 👍👍

[@drawinfo99]

Supper this is very cool of way doing Spiral ....thanks!

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Amaziiiing!

[@reboot9247]

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[@LindaWisdomphotography]

Thank you for the instructions! How could i now make this into a text path?

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[@govshak]

Awesome tutorial. Greetings from Turkmenistan :)