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Author: Tao-man, Contributing Editor
Welcome to the second tutorial in my series on how to create knotwork and other interwoven patterns using Adobe Illustrator. We'll pick up where we left off by creating some more complex shapes using the various filters and path commands. Things will be a little more complex this time around but I'll try to explain all the details. Once again, I'll describe actions according to the menu commands that run across the bar at the top of the screen, using a greater-than (>) symbol to walk you through sub-menus. For example Filter > Distort > Punk & Bloat means go to the Filter commands. From that drop-down menu select the Distort commands. From that drop-down menu select Punk & Bloat. If there is a keyboard shortcut, it will be listed in parentheses, like so (Command C) Here we go again! |
| Fire up Adobe Illustrator. If you don't already see a blank page,
go ahead and create a new document File > New (Command -N) Select something bright for your fill color. This will make it easier to see what we're doing in later steps. I chose the default yellow. Go ahead and select the Ellipse tool (L) Click once on your page and the ellipse dialogue box will pop up. Enter four inches for both the width and height. Press the enter key. Click again and make a second circle that's two inches by two inches. Press enter again (you knew that, didn't you?). |  |
| Select both circles. You can drag your selection tool (V) over both of them, go to Edit > Select All or just hit (Command A). Now go to the align commands Window > Show Align (I like having Transform, Align and Pathfinder all grouped together like you see here). Use Horizontal Align Center and Vertical Align Center to get the two circles lined up on top of each other. Go to Object > Path > Offset Path. The Offset Path dialogue box will pop up. Enter -.125" as the offset amount. Since we had both circles selected, the Offset Path command will be applied to both of them, saving us a bit of time. |  |
Click in a blank part of the canvas to deselect all four circles. Select the outer two circles. We're going back to our Pathfinder tools now. The tab window will be open since we just used it for our align commands. Just click on the Pathfinder tab. Use the Minus Front command. Select the inner two circles and Minus Front again. |  |
Now we have two hollow rings, like so. |  |
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