PATTERNS

STRIPE SHIRT


create pattern

draw a white box
use the same shape tool to create a stripe (stroke off)
copy stripe alt-shit-drag-command d
turn stroke off the box so that the black box disapears

find the repeat
hold down shift and make a box
make sure you get the repeat correct
turn both storke and fill off on the square (it becomes a boundary box)
send box to back
select box with black arrow
edit-define pattern-name pattern-ok

pattern should appear in the swatch box. It now works as any colour would.

EXPANDING BRUSHED AND SELECTING SAME ITEMS (WITH RUFFLE)

EXPANDING BRUSHED AND SELECTING SAME ITEMS (WITH RUFFLE)

EXPANDING BRUSH
Make it into a repeat:
1. Copy and paste ruffle, dragging opposite ends together to see how they match.
2.  Use white arrow to delete one end of the ruffle so you can start to match it to the other end of the ruffle. (square it off).
3. Repeat with this ruffle for the other end.
4. Turn fill off.
5. Use white arrow to fix the rest of the frill in.
6. Select top line and bottom line of frill and copy and paste.
7. Join the ends of these lines to create a SHAPE.
8. Turn outline off so that the shaoe is just a white fill colour.
9. Drag white shape over original frill and 'send to back'.
10. Group together.
11. Push grey bits to the back by:

• double click into the group
• use white arrow to select ONE of the grey shapes
• select-same-fill colour
• right click-send to back

NOTE: If this doesnt work, ungroup and try again.

12. Make the brush by:

• New brush-pattern brush-ok
• method-tints-ok

If the brush comes out with a white fill, go back to ruffle and ensure that fill is turned off everything but the white shape...re-save brush and it shoudl work.

COLOURING THE INSIDE OF THE BRUSH
For whatever drawing you do, when you are 100% happy, you group the image and copy and paste before inserting colour.

for brush, you need to change it from being a brush into an artwork.
To do this

• select brush-object-expand appearance (this will group ruffle)
• double click on group-select white-change fill colour

FILL WILL BE LEFT ON SINGLE LINES
Delete these by:

• white arrow
• select one white mark
• select-same- fill colour
• press delete

Repeat for grey areas.

COLOURING (WITH METAL ZIP BRUSH)

select brush-object-expand appearance
click one metal tooth
select-same-fill colour
change colour
click gradient (you can adjust settings using buttons in the gradient box to achieve your desired effect)

NOTE: Gradient tool is great for all metal details and shading for the inside of garments on technical sketches.

You can also change the colour of the gradient by clicking on the colour box in the gradient menu and select the appropriate swatch.

ILLUSTRATOR- DRAWING TECHNICAL SKETCHES

Download Template

illlustrator
A4 File
create dark grey background
-new layer
paste in template
make template transparent if you wish using the transperancy box (WINDOW)
Lock layer
create new layer
Make guides byturning rulers on (VIEW-RULERS)
Click an pull a guide into place for CF and CB
Lock Layer

DRAWING GARMENT SILOUETTE
New Layer-Pants (Make sure every other layer is locked)
Select Pen tool
Zoom in close to template
Click to create ancor point at CF
do the same at the side seam to create a curve
click line to make it black!
Repeat for pant leg

TO CREATE ANGLES CLICK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HANDLEBAR AND THEN CONTINUE DRAWING


WHite arrow-direct selection tool
When something needs fixing:
either click on a line to adjuct OR click and drag using computer arrows to move the line
(DO NOT draw both sides of the pant we can just copy-paste and flip it.)


Manipulating path of line:
Select the line you want to change with the white arrow
Pen tool, hover pover path, click on it to create ancor point
back to white arrow, move point down to pocket click.
Repeat.

To make lines match up:
correct sections of the path

YOU ONLY WANT ONE HANDLE BAR TO MOVE
press ALT, a plus will appear.
Repeat as above to correct line.

to delete an anchor point (say the one between the end of pocket and the hem)
select area using white arrow
pen tool
hover over ancor point you want to delete amd you will see a minus
click once to delete

to make creases, create two ancor points and use handle bar to drag the line
correcting curves:
add in anoter two ancor points, one on either side of the problem areas.
Delete middle ancor point


COPYING PANT
black arrow
click and drag selection box all around pants
reflect pant by going to object-transform-reflect-vertical (as we are working on the CF)-COPY
black selection arrow
hold shift to move pant half along the axis
use arrows to adjust pant

JOINING POINTS TO CREATE WHOLE PANT
connecting TWO points:
use white arrow to click and drag around the area you want to join
right click-join
Repeat for other areas



ADJUSTING LENGTH OF PANT
use white arrow to select area your adjusting
use arrows to make pants shorter/longer


FILL WITH COLOUR.
if colour is above lines select area
right click-send to back


ADDING DETAILS TO GARMENT
WAISTBAND
Turn fill off
pen tool
draw line, using rulers to make sure it is level


window-pathfinder
black arrow
select shape and line(using shift)
select divide from pathfinder

NEVER SPLIT WITH A FILL

GROUPING
double click on psnt to view group.
This will enable you to select the shapes seperately.
To get out just double click somewhere outside the image and it will take you out of the group.
right click to ungroup areas.

NEVER GROUP UNLESS ASKED


right click-send to back to get lines back up!!

DRAWING LINES
CF Line (width should be thinner)
Stroke at Crotch (stroke-profile-seclect line under 'uniform' for a softer line)
Fly Stitch Line (stroke-dashed line-cap-middle box for round cap)
Dash Lines (stroke-width-2pt-profile-select triangle stroke)
Belt Loops (Shape tool-rectangles-layer ontop of waistband)
Button (Rectangle tool-elipse-hold shift-click and drag-repeat for smaller circle in the middle-cirlce tool-change to black with no fill-copy-paste to create 4 holes-switch fill and stroke to draw stitching)
Button hole (line at side-make it thick-change profile of line)



NOTE: For all details simply duplicate for the other side


Click and select button with black arrow
right click-group
move into position
make button into a SYMBOL so that it can be put in  library and re-used again in future

CREATING SYMBOL LIBRARY
windows-symbol
select the thing you want to create into a symbol
right click-create new symbol

ALSO SAVE FRONT AND BACK DASH LINES AS SYMBOLS ETC

Draw in the back
make lines curved at the edges
send to back

BACK
Black selection-object-transform-copy
delete bits you dont need for the back view and add in the new things you do need