Illustrator Tutorial: Dynamic Line Wave
This is a tutorials I decided to follow, to up on my Adobe Illustrator skills for my course and as a graphic designer.
I looked up an Illustrator Tutorial on making dynamics lines, as I felt that would be an interesting artistic aspect to study.
First I create 2 new layers on an A4 document
needed to create a
For the background, I needed to create a shape with no fill, and later I needed to convert it to a gradient.
The gradient background needed it’s colours shifting, so whenever I would double click the coloured dot on the gradient background, I would select the painting palette icon, set it to RGB, and alter the furthest to a dark blue and the closest to a lighter shade of blue.
How that the gradient background is done, the next step is the lines. I renamed the top layer ‘Design’ and created a line using the line tool (make sure it’s white or black depending on the background’s lighting, and there’s no fill).
To save time, I went into the ‘distort & transform’ options, where I set the lines to 4.15 vertical and 50 copies.
Afterwards I create ‘enveloped mesh’ of 1 by 1, because I needed to use the ‘direct selection’ tool, to touch the top left corner, find the anchor point in the middle, drag it to the top left corner, and repeat the process for the right side.
Last stages are dragging it down, using the mesh tool on the left to make multiple areas to manipulate, form a mountain like structure, ‘expand’ the wave lines (making sure object and fill are on) and then lastly, a gradient is applied (to the lines only, not the fill).
This was a fun and very informative line of work to look at, and for any future works, it can come in handy to try out.
Reference: Ladalidi. (2019, November 3). Dynamic Line Wave | Adobe Illustrator Tutorial. Retrieved March 6, 2021, from Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtakbeEDu2A
