In this movie, we'll finish off the rocket
by creating this jet stream,
I guess it's known as an exhaust plume,
that's coming off the bottom of the rocket,
and we'll also draw in both of the two wings.
I'll go ahead and switch over
to my document in progress here,
and I'll zoom out a little bit, as well.
Then I'll go ahead and scroll up
and select the Rectangle Tool once again.
This is the easy part, by the way.
And you just wanna go ahead and alt click,
or option click, at the intersection
of the bottom of this square guide
and the vertical center guide
in order to bring up the Rectangle dialog box.
And go ahead and set the width
of this rectangle to 80 points
and set the height to 240 points,
and click okay, at which point you'll end up
with this rectangle smack dab in the center of the rocket.
And to confirm, go ahead and click on the word Transform
up here in the control panel,
select the center reference point there,
and you should see an X value of 482 points
and a Y value of 400 point,
at which point, go ahead and press the Enter key,
or the Return key on the Mac, to hide that panel.
All right. Now to create the wing.
Just three smooth points and it's gonna be easy peasy
because of these guides.
So go ahead and select the Pen Tool,
which you can get by pressing the p key.
And honestly, you're gonna be able to pull this off
even if you've never used the Pen Tool in your life.
Just make sure, under the View menu,
that Smart Guides are turned on.
And then go ahead and click and drag
from the center of that rectangle, like so.
And you wanna drag until you snap into alignment
with the top left corner of this little guide right there,
at which point you'll create this very first smooth point.
Notice here, in Illustrator CC,
we have this rubber band function.
If you're working inside an older version of Illustrator,
doesn't matter, we'll just do without the rubber band.
What you need to do in either case is,
click and hold at this location.
Notice it occurs at the intersection
of these three rectangles.
And go ahead and drag all the way up
until you snap into alignment
with the top of this left-hand rectangle.
And next, go ahead and move your cursor
up to this location right there.
Notice that we're a little high on the rocket.
It's the bottom of this little
rectangular guide right there.
And then drag upward to the top of that guide, like so.
And that completes our work with the Pen tool.
Now you can go ahead and press the a key
to switch to the white arrow tool,
which allows you to modify specific anchor points
and control handles inside of Illustrator.
Click on this anchor point,
the left-hand anchor point on the wing,
and notice that this bottom control handle
has descended too far.
So go ahead and grab it and drag it up
until it snaps into alignment with the bottom
of this lowest rectangular guide, right here.
And that completes the first wing.
Now you can press the v key
to switch to the black arrow tool
and click anywhere on the path outline
to select the entire thing.
All right. Now we need to take this left-hand wing
and flip it to create a right wing.
And you can do that by clicking and holding
on the Rotate Tool icon and selecting the Reflect Tool.
And then, press the alt key, or the option key on a Mac,
and click on this very first anchor point in the wing
in order to determine the location of the axis
about which you're gonna flip this path outline.
And by virtue of the fact that you press the alt key,
or the option key on a Mac,
that brings up the Reflect dialog box.
Go ahead and set the axis to Vertical,
turn on the Preview check box,
and you could see that that actually
horizontally flips the wing across a vertical axis.
And then go ahead and click the copy button
in order to create a copy of that path.
All right. Now I'm gonna press control zero,
or command zero on a Mac, to center my zoom.
And I may go ahead and zoom in a little bit manually.
Notice this value down here
in the lower left corner of the window.
That's the zoom value.
I'll go ahead and click inside it
and press shift up arrow a couple of times
in order to increase that value to 120%.
That's what works on my screen.
It will be very different on yours,
because your screen is undoubtedly larger.
And now that I'm done with these guides,
I'm just gonna turn off the Guides layer
here inside the Layers panel.
But I made a big mistake.
Notice that my wing and my exhaust plume went away.
So I'm gonna have to turn that layer back on.
And I'll go ahead and select all the objects on that layer
by clicking on that little wedge
in the upper right corner of the layer
here inside the Layers panel.
And you might think, "Well, Deke,
"there's a ton of stuff on that layer."
Well, everything else is guides, and the guides are locked.
So I'm only gonna select these three shapes,
at which point I'm gonna move them to the base shapes layer
by dragging this little brown square right there up
until it turns into a blue square.
Now that we can see all of the anchor points
have turned blue, which tells us
that these shapes now exist on the base shapes layer,
because it's the blue layer.
Now I'll turn off the guides layer
and the guides will disappear
and the shapes will remain visible.
All right. Now we wanna combine all of these shapes
into a single compound shape.
And you do that by pressing control a,
or command a on a Mac, in order to select everything.
Then go up to the Window menu
and choose the Pathfinder command
in order to bring up the Pathfinder panel.
Now, we can unite all these shapes into a single shape
by clicking on this very first icon,
Unite, under Shape Modes.
But that's gonna get rid of all of our original shapes,
which is not something I wanna do.
If you wanna keep those original shapes,
just in case you might wanna use them later,
then press control z, or command z on a Mac,
to undo that change.
And then press and hold the alt key,
or the option key on a Mac, and click on Unite,
and that will result in a compound shape
in which all the original path outlines
are still maintained.
And now, if I were to press the v key,
in order to switch back to the black arrow tool
and click off the shape,
you can see that it is fused together.
We have just one transparent fill
and one stroke around the combined forces
of all five of these subpaths.
And now I'll go ahead and click
on this little double arrow icon
to hid my Pathfinder panel.
And that's how you draw the exhaust plume
as well as the wings, while achieving
the same exact results that I have,
and then fuse all the path outlines
into a single flexible compound shape
here inside Illustrator.