Create Vector GEOMETRIC Background Illustrator Tutorial

[@turbojambox]

Step 1: Set video playback speed to 50% Step 2: Laugh uncontrollably for minute or two because Nathaniel now magically sounds hammered Step 3: Follow along with ease as he is now moving at the speed of a normal, mortal human (Great tutorial, thanks man!)

[@danilocolakovic3429]

75%

[@bloodwolf2609]

1.75x is the most efficient

[@a_ahmadi]

This is so true xD Thanks for the tip, I always feel like he's too fast to follow

[@stevenrehfeldt8664]

I can't stop laughing at how accurate this is! He sounds absolutely hammered at 50% speed

[@GierlangBhaktiPutra]

Great tutorial. I always admire people who can speak this fast. They make youtube tutorials so engaging. Although it also makes me need to pause and rewind sometimes to follow your instruction.

[@tutvid]

Thanks for watching, Gierlang Bhakti Putra

[@paulienva]

Great video! If you wanna save loading time though, make a pattern out of it instead of copying it over and over. Like this, you can also use the pattern in other files! :)

[@cheetahlion79]

Wow amazing! I have no idea how you completed all of those steps in 20 minutes. But I much prefer your concise way of teaching than some other tutorials. And fortunately there is a pause and rewind button.

[@slobodanlang7135]

Thank you Nick for explaining everything. I'm watching another teacher on KZbin but he/she just shows us what he's/she's doing but it's so nice to be able to hear what is going on. thank you, these videos mean a lot.

[@fiddlermom9629]

This is great! If you want to make a pattern of this, you set the pixels at 444 wide, and 384 vertical.

[@ChrisHanline]

Really cool shapes! I feel like it would be helpful for you to utilize certain tricks for aligning the shapes together, such as 1) Outline Mode, 2) selecting a shape with the Selection Tool, then dragging one anchor point with the Direct Selection Tool to get it to snap exactly to another anchor point, 3) basic keyboard shortcuts like [Cmd/Ctrl]+C, +F, +B, +G, +D, etc. Really handy to know these tricks to take the guess work out of a method like this.

[@spuddyl9938]

Hey Nathaniel. I had some problems with the blur values and film grain amount. they turned out different results then in your video. Turns out you are working at 300dpi and I'm on 72dpi. But you don't show that at the document creation at the start of your video. Maybe a tip for future videos.

[@tutvid]

Bahh, I usually try to remember to include that info. My mistake on this one. Glad you sorted out the issue on your end, though! 👌

[@datahound2u]

That was awesome! I thought I did a pretty good similar shape, but that one blew mine away! Thanks for sharing.

[@effectvision]

Nice video! I would like to add a piece of advice if you allow me to. Whatch out using so many effects in a pattern. This makes the whole artwork file too big and hard to work with especially for print. Make sure that you keep the pattern is on separate linked file and rasterize it before submit it to the printer.

[@zaobab]

Amazing WorkS!! took me 3 hours to completed!! it is super helpful for what your explanations. thank you a lot!

[@bloodwolf2609]

I love usually love the tutorials because I can always do them after I watch the video and I can see how it's mostly done before the video, but the pattern / shadow elements are hard to develop by myself without having the measurements for how much shadow, or where to put the gradient with the gradient tool. Any tips for how you designed the shadows on the individual segment before seeing the final product? did you have a reference image or is it just eyeballing?

[@sputnikadrift4155]

Great tutorial, thanks! Although for the final part, it's easier to turn the shape into a pattern instead. Resize the tile to fit, and choose "Hex by Row" in tile type. and if you want to make changes, edit the final shape and that will effect the rest of pattern.

[@tutvid]

I debated doing do this, but didn't take the time to sort out how I would convert it to a pattern and make it all work. You're probably 100% right, though. It would only make sense that a pattern would be more efficient than me copy and pasting 100x, haha Thanks for the comment!!

[@jacknagy7962]

New to Illustrator here, but I've seen the Transform effect be used to quickly duplicate lines a certain distance / rotation away. Would this have also worked for these objects? Why / why not? Thanks for the great tut!

[@magspurvis7479]

Wow done it at last thanks tut can't do without my daily tut tut

[@marieunuka22]

My attention span is usually crap and I lose interest quite easily BUT because you were talking so fast for some reason I didn't drift off into space like usual lol This was awesome man thank you! lol If I could go back in time and tell my teachers why I didnt learn from them, its because they were talking too slow bhahahah (or maybe they just sucked at teaching! :s) AWESOME video!! Keep it up!!!

[@flagmot]

if it goes to fast for you, than lower the speed of the video. like 0.75 or 0.5 .. and you can click on subtitles, so you can read what is said. - it works

[@hemal97]

Your VECTOR DESIGN really AweSOme

[@jgraph2744]

20:15 Try using Cmd + D on Mac or Ctrl + D on Windows.

[@starmax1000]

he definetly should have already known that command, probably doesn't use it for the tutorials though, easier to understand for some i guess

[@fimikhkh3655]

It's seems, your work is perfect... Thanks for your time

[@ramzyabdul185]

Get it, got it, good

[@islamforeveryone8466]

nice toturial

[@shukrarai7780]

Wow! Realistic Pattern.

[@pappa6085]

first time i watch, plzzzzz dark mode

[@youtool6179]

ty

[@inghilt]

Thanks so much!!! love it !

[@laurenappledore6226]

Hi, just wondering if there is a reason you didn't use the pattern tool or create a pattern swatch ? like does it not function properly in this scenario or is it just how you work .. ps. great tutorial & thanks

[@Gravitytubes]

So cool!, it looks really sharp and clean! Good design idea and as always great tut, your cool charismatic nature makes it fun and interesting to watch. you should do an Illu tut on making an acoustic or electric guitar. maybe a PRS. that would be good for a course, i can see how many of the tools in Illustrator would come into play.

[@Maomaoxdos]

Very cool indeed. I think you can also can use the Pattern Options tool. Thanks!

[@tutvid]

Absolutely. Pattern maker is super powerful!

[@warrenproductions4228]

Amazing !! Complicated..... but amazing! Thanks!

[@yannickl1159]

Great tutorial :) , thumbs up

[@PeejIsSleepy]

ty bruu

[@md.shohag7607]

Very nice tutorial brother

[@adityadindorkaryt]

Awesome bro, it is great for learns

[@parvinmozafari3173]

Thank you very much perfect

[@Venu-99]

Master...

[@sann1n]

Super Cool Tutorial! Thank You!

[@tutvid]

Ahhh, Łukasz thank you so much!

[@fate2022]

Excellent tutorial, thank you. I do have a question, is there a way to "optimize" this file? Optimize may be the wrong word, but my situation is this, I save the final result as an Illustrator 3 file so that I can import into ezcad, the problem is when I do this, it bogs down ezcad badly. Granted I'm on an engineering laptop with an Nvida Quadro a 48GB of RAM, and an i7 cpu with dual nvme ssd's in a raid config for performance, so working with the end result of this files PC impact should be minimal at best.

[@adelkara6666]

Utterly agree with you, you should have a very performed machine to resume and finish the illustration.

[@cobusprinsloo]

I’m surprised that you did not use Illustrator’s built-in pattern making facility to create the final pattern.

[@kristenphlipot7987]

you have the best tutorials!

[@tutvid]

Thank you so much!

[@sergiocaceres9627]

Simplemente increible bro, si supiera te lo digo en ingles jejeje, diseño TOP, felicitaciones, like y sub

[@victorzhizhiyan785]

Great video! Thanks a lot!

[@foyzurrahman872]

You have just turned a simple thing to a harder one !!!

[@nikitasharma2391]

TELL US THE EASIER ROUTE.

[@niranjanmcky8940]

As always awesome, video you never fails to amaze the learners

[@BAMikeyD]

couldn't you make a repeating pattern swatch instead of copy pasting a bunch of times, or is there something in the effects you made that prevents it from being a truly seamless pattern?

[@nicholasfoley2284]

How do I get my illustrator properties tabs to look like that and show the layers at the same time?

[@valimdx]

Awesome tutorial. although you should mention that it's beginner aimed as it's super detailed. Also you have an interesting (different) workflow and thought process.

[@JayBaggio]

very cool, thanks, I learned a lot

[@tutvid]

Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks! 👌

[@mohamedusam4825]

insanely great ..

[@antondesigner]

WOW! AWESOME!

[@OsamaElgebaly]

Really thank you so much, your tutorials amazing

[@raveeindran2311]

wow! amazing work

[@melissatoney2810]

Amaaaaazing!!! Thanks so much!!!

[@Jharries1971]

Love this tutorial, great work!

[@tutvid]

Jason Harries, Thank you so much! 🍻

[@amird725]

wow! i did it!!!!

[@Sabirali00139]

cool Tutorial i will try this.

[@KeeponCreatingTV]

Nice one, very explanatory

[@mynicknameisjosh]

really great as always!

[@wasifemdad2621]

wow just awesome

[@paulkenney1194]

Hey, loved the tutorial, very informative. How easy would it be to change to different shades of colours or even complimentary colours?

[@kanaiya73]

very very nice tutorial bro !!!!

[@yomboprinting8769]

Thanks I have learned a lot. and i have done it. so teaches as more.

[@LORDSofCHAOS333]

Nice 👍 need to get use to illustator

[@tutvid]

It's an awesome app!

[@asmaaibrahim4114]

MY BEST TEACHER

[@NbrAlonso]

Nice tutorial! Thanks 4 sharing

[@tutvid]

Thanks, brother!

[@nikitasharma2391]

Oh, my God! ow does it appear so smooth in his videos? I double judged by Adobe Illustrator for not doing it as Tutvid asks.

[@boo.hates.spiders]

Lol, mine looks nothing like this. I tried going back and redoing shapes and it just keeps coming out super ugly. I got the shapes in the right spots but the shadows -- especially the grains! -- look terrible! And I made sure to put in the exact numbers. Also for the triangle shadow groups, if I did what you suggested the shadows were completely gone. I had to go down to a 20% shadow in order for them to appear. Are my settings just all wrong?

[@tatesiemens3045]

Keep it up! I'm still watching bro!

[@salgsofia867]

That was great, in the style of M. C. Escher. Thanks.

[@tutvid]

Haha, thanks, Sal!

[@RobertGraficznie]

Hi. Well done! A great effect. What program did you record this tutorial?

[@sanjaux]

21:19 when you zoomed in I just thought that was a specular line, that could have worked lol

[@joesnow4079]

yea same it looks more realistic like that !

[@keymediastudioitself]

Then I apply 47 of Gaussian blur I have totally different result, maybe because of different version of the program, mine is CC 2017. The same thing with the Film Grain

[@keymediastudioitself]

Oh, it`s because of the different ppi, got it from the comment below

[@RobertoBraicovick]

Fantastico! Grazie!!!! ✪✪✪✪✪

[@bishalscreation9793]

Awesome 👌👌

[@GPOSARLGivryenArgonne]

Video extra speed but really cool Thanks a lot

[@kilyenbalazs6398]

Love it !

[@massomasso6880]

You are wonderful

[@RonDuckett]

Awesome show

[@100yan4]

Awesome tutorial!

[@tutvid]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@sheikhmuhammadadnan3]

Very very good

[@tutvid]

Thank you!

[@evgeniygolyaka4554]

Nice tutorials! You can also push Ctrl+D for fast copy fragments in previous distance;) Thank you!

[@tutvid]

Ooooh, that's a good point. Thanks for leaving the comment and the great tip!

[@evgeniygolyaka4554]

Thank you for your channel! Dub at Selected Anchors - nice script. I'm trying it;)

[@mdshahjahan5539]

very good

[@mohsinsayar3863]

superb

[@flagmot]

Dude - You rock big time, this is absolutely crazy good.. Did you know, that Now people can make their own Decals for Gran Turismo Sport. But limit is 15kb svg's .. any thoughts and ideas for easy making small sized decals/Banners for GTS .

[@tutvid]

Thanks a bunch for the kind words! I'll look into reducing the size of an SVG, that's a good question.

[@rajan2827]

I have done everything as per your guidance, but my results are nowhere near the accuracy as your result. What can be the reason?

[@DhavalMalvania]

nice pattern tutorial thumbs up

[@onlineprinting-]

how can i delete that things out off artboard ??? i hope you answer its big problem to me ?

[@AwaisHunjrapk]

Walla Amazing ... :)

[@NewAgeStudio]

شكرا صديقي :)

[@Szklana147]

Pretty cool!

[@tutvid]

Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks! 👌

[@Szklana147]

TY for your tutorials! :)

[@pinx5976]

why didn't use the pattern-tool in the endprocess?

[@tutvid]

I should have. In the heat of the moment, I just decided to copy and paste 100x. Pattern would have been *much* better 🍻

[@etymologist]

I used the pattern tool as I was following along. :D

[@jawadsikander007]

hi there i like your videos and i was wondering if you could help me in this video when im trying to create the shadow if you can help me please thanks

[@bashirahmad4889]

Wish you best of luck.

[@dibi6603]

If i want to change the color?

[@omarahmedsiddiqui5617]

@tutvid Thankyou SIr.. I made this really Amazing

[@williambrinkley4145]

Great tut, but I can't get the pen tool to display "anchor" when hovering over the guides. (±3:28 in the video). Illustrator CC2017. Smart guides checked. Any idea?

[@originalmarshmello]

Same Problem here bro!

[@originalmarshmello]

Go to View and uncheck Snap to Pixel.

[@waves1731]

If you make it a symbol before duplicating you can fix and problems with the original without needing to recopy them all.

[@rgarlinyc]

Two (more if I had 'em) thumbs up, ND!

[@tutvid]

Really appreciate the kind words! 👍

[@kyocode]

yay my laptop is 1440p so this is like the only tutorial that i can follow 1:1

[@chandalam7151]

Great sir.

[@tutvid]

Thanks! 🍻

[@lusinemnatsakanyan8226]

It is hard but awesom ! ))

[@tutvid]

Glad you liked!