in today's first illustrator logo design
tutorial of 2019 you can follow along as
we design a very stylish and a sleek
Lego design in Adobe Illustrator you can
then be used in various different ways
as you can see on the screen now making
today's video possible is the nifty
extension for Photoshop and illustrator
font self
font self allows you to use your artwork
directly from Photoshop or illustrator
to turn into an actual font that can be
used across the board online or anywhere
else that you can think of check out the
phone self link down the description box
below and try and make your very own
font today so a fellow designer and
Instagram user Jules TRT inspired me to
bring you today's illustrator tutorial I
strongly suggest that you head over to
their account as there are some
seriously good and stylish design work
over there it's a portfolio of work that
has a running theme throughout which is
something I've always been telling you
guys to do on your own portfolio of work
so take some notes I also give Jules a
follow in Illustrator you firstly need
the rulers activated so press command or
control R if they're not open and then
drag onto your artboard a guide from the
left hand side now we need to make a
grid to be precise for this logo design
and so we're firstly going to make a
margin for the negative space on the
logo so hold down the alt or the option
key and duplicate the guide or just drag
a new one on to the outboards try to
make the new one not too far away from
the original now select both guides and
use the old option key to duplicate them
again but this time with a larger gap
between
without pressing anything else use the
command or control D function to repeat
the process across the entire airport so
when you're happy with your guides
select every single guide and then
finally use the adoption key again to
duplicate them one last time
still with the selection selected rotate
the guides by 90 degrees now essentially
this is our grid ready for the Lego
design and you can lock the guides down
by pressing command or control 2 on your
keyboard so the thin spacing on the grid
is the negative space on the design and
the thickest spacing is going to be
where the lettering or the blocks for
your logo are going to go now press M
for the rectangle tool and use the
guides to carefully draw in your design
I'm gonna start with the s for Satori
now having really tall and thin
lettering I feel works best for this
style of logo as you're going to see as
you follow along in the tutorial now
it's a good idea to use the adoption key
to duplicate existing rectangles to keep
everything the same thickness throughout
the entire design
and you can preview your work by right
or control-click in the upward and then
hiding the guides and then ultimately
clicking again to show them to continue
the design now for my design I kept a
running theme along where the middle of
the s join here continues throughout the
logo so for the a I'm gonna set the
middle join in the same kind of height
also having your smart guides activated
is really gonna help you this design and
you can turn them on or off with
pressing command or control U and as you
do go along your design keep hiding and
showing the guides to track your
progress and we can tidy things up later
at the end of video
so who is my Laker designed thus far and
as you can see I've made the lowercase T
because an uppercase T wouldn't work on
this style of design and also I've added
in some extra blocks to fill the
negative space in a kind of artistic
manner
I think this logo looks really neat
actually but let's go ahead and finish
it off you can actually join your blocks
together as one vector shape in the
Pathfinder window and for my design I've
still got some things to change an ad so
again showing the guides we're going to
add an outer bounding box firstly along
that horizontal line that we're speaking
of I'm going to extend a block leading
away from the design on both sides and
then it's just a case of using the
adoption key to duplicate the rectangle
to fit around the outside using the
thicker guide spacing to apply the
blocks as we've been doing throughout
the entire logo design tutorial
now this stage I'm going to zoom right
into the Lego itself and make sure that
the blocks are neatly lined up to the
guides across the entire design they're
probably going to be off in certain
areas and for my design that's basically
just down to the facts I have not been
zoomed in whilst designing the Lego have
been pretty far zoomed out
you can really have some fun with this
technique and you can create some
awesome artwork in a matter of minutes
just make sure to check over everything
as I'm doing here on my design and when
you think you're done you can then unite
everything in the Pathfinder window or
you can leave it and use it in many
different ways in Photoshop or
illustrator so yeah as I said you can
use your design for applications in
Photoshop or pretty much anywhere that
you can think of just get creative for
the techniques and have some fun
designing a stylish and a neat logo
design in this style scene today I'm
actually gonna take a few days off and
I'm gonna be back on Monday next week
I'm actually still finishing up their
website and course is to go on the
website and I'm working on an in-depth
cost on freelancing on how to get
started how to maximize your progress as
a freelancer there's gonna be loads of
courses like logo design courses
illustrator courses in design courses
and so forth so stay tuned to the end of
this month or the start of February for
my subscription-based website that is
going to be launched in also pop down
some comments in the comment section
below on ideas for future videos on the
channel and also courses that you want
to see on the subscription-based website
but of course until Monday have a great
day and a great weekend and design your
future today peace
you
