#How to make a triangle in illustrator full#
You may practice with different shapes and formats to get full control of your own skills. In this tutorial, you will be taught to make the correct use of the Transform Pallete tool. This is a VERY useful thing to know, so I wanted to share with you my method, and help you bypass some of the frustration I have long endured.
#How to make a triangle in illustrator how to#
You can download final result here.I have always wanted to know how to do this (and I'm sure mine isn't the only way) but through a little practice, I've come across a somewhat simple method to making seamless vector patterns without headache. We are done! I hope you enjoy this tutorial. Ungroup your icons and make some minor changes ( scaling, rotating ). Change the axis to vertical and set angle to 30 deg. For doing these grab shear tool and holding alt\opt key click on the top of your group. Make a group ( Ctrl+G ) and shear them around vertical axis on 30 deg. Now grab the Scale tool (S) and drag holding left mouse button key from the bottom-right to the to-left. Grab your direct selection tool and select only one anchor point of each gap : Now select all the “gaps” from your right and make them 10% darker and 5% more saturated using recolor artwork tool ( see previous image ). After doing this select corresponding gaps and sample color from the shapes on your right. Before we start adjusting their color, lock the layer with the shapes. Now we have all our “gaps” are sitting on the layer below. Now select all the shapes from your right and use recolor artwork tool to decrease the brightness and increase saturation.Ĭlick ok to make your right side a bit darker. Select two corresponding shapes ( one left and one right ) and set fill color: Select all your shapes and place them into new layer. Now we need to ungroup and delete all unnecessary stuff around. Slice all the necessary shapes:Īfter this manipulation we should have on one side 5 trapezoid and 1 triangle shapes ( I’m going to call them “shapes” ) with small “gaps” in between. Select the entire composition and grab your shape builder tool. Align it both horizontally and vertically and set stroke to black.Ĭreate pyramid’s shape with shape builder tool Height of this line should be bigger than 823px ( height of the triangle ). Add a line in the centerĭraw a vertical line with line segment tool holding shift key. Then increase stroke weight of a group of polygons to 10px. Select parent hexagon and go to Object|Expand Appearance. In opened dialog box set number of copies to 5 and vertical move value to -120px. To create 5 duplicates of hexagon go to Effect|Distort and Transform|Transform…. Hexagon and triangle should perfectly suit each other. Set fill color to none and stroke to 1px black. This time set number of sides to 6. Hit ok to create hexagon. Align it horizontally and vertically to the artboard. Set fill color to anything you prefer, stroke color to none. In opened dialog box set number of sizes to 3 and click ok. Grab the polygon tool and hit once on the artboard. Yes, today we’re going to build this pyramid in Adobe Illustrator starting with a simple triangle shape. I said it every time I had been able to create relatively complex design with simple transformations and basic shapes: I can’t even remember how many times I said to myself : “I like how things work in Adobe Illustrator”.