- In this movie, we're gonna draw
Saturn and its rings.
And I'll go up to the View menu,
and choose Outline, or you can press
the keyboard shortcut that allows you
to switch back and forth between
the Outline and the Preview modes,
which is Ctrl+Y here on the PC,
or Cmd+Y on a Mac.
And that will allow us to see all the path outlines
that make up that compound shape.
Now go in and turn the Guides layer back on
so that you can see, among other guides,
this vertical center guide right there.
And now you wanna go ahead and select
the Ellipse tool from the Shape tool fly-out menu.
Now go ahead and drop down to this intersection,
which is found at the top of this rectangle
that represents the exhaust plume and that
vertical center guide, and then go ahead
and Alt or Option+click at that location
to bring up the Ellipse dialogue box.
Now change the Width value to 480,
and change the Height value to 480 pt as well.
And then click OK to create this big circle right here.
And now just go ahead and press
Shift up-arrow twice, once, twice,
in order to raise that circle 20 pt.
And to confirm it's in the right location,
go ahead and click on the word Transform
up here in the Control Panel,
and select the center point in a Reference Point matrix,
notice that the Width and Height values
are both 480 pt, as we just entered,
the X value, which is the coordinate location
of this middle point in the circle, is 482 pt,
that's the exact horizontal center of the document,
and the Y value should read 260,
at which point go ahead and press
the Enter key, or the Return key on a Mac,
to accept that change.
Now go ahead and switch back to the Preview mode,
either by choosing one of the Preview functions
up here at the top of the View menu,
or pressing Ctrl+Y, or Cmd+Y on a Mac.
And what're gonna find is that you're
covering up the rocket in the background.
To send this shape to the back,
right-click on it, choose Arrange
and then choose Send to Back,
or you could just press this keyboard shortcut
Ctrl+Shift+[, that's Cmd+Shift+[ on a Mac,
in order to produce this effect here.
We don't need the guides anymore,
so go ahead and turn off the Guides layer,
so that we can see the shapes by themselves.
And I'm gonna make a couple of changes.
First, I'm gonna change the circle to black
by clicking on this first swatch
up here in the Control Panel,
and selecting black from the Swatches list.
Go ahead and make it a little bigger, as well.
And by the way, I'm seeing the Medium Thumbnail View,
just so you can better read these swatches in the video.
Anyway, I'll go ahead and select black,
and then I'll click in the second swatch
which represents the Stroke, and I'll change it to None.
Because by and large when you're
creating logos inside of Illustrator,
you wanna work with Fills and only Fills.
Strokes generally are not your friends.
Alright now I'm gonna press the V key
to switch back to my black arrow tool
and I'm gonna click on this rectangle here
to select the entire rocket.
And we wanna fill it with white.
Problem is, you can't see the Fill
and Stroke options up here in the Control Panel
when a compound shape is selected.
It's kind of an oddity, frankly.
So what I'm gonna do is switch over to my Swatches panel,
which you can also get by going to the Window menu,
and choosing way down here the Swatches command.
But in my case it already has a check mark in front of it,
which tells me that I can see the panel on-screen.
Notice that the Fill is currently active,
so I'll go ahead and click in white,
the white swatch in order to change the fill to white.
Then I'll click in the Stroke right there
to bring it forward, and I'll select None
in order to get rid of that Stroke, like so.
Alright now let's create the rings.
We want the rings to be exactly centered on the circle,
so go ahead and click on the circle
with the black arrow tool to select it,
and that way you'll be able to see
the center point right there.
And then switch back to the Ellipse tool,
and Alt+click or Option+click on that center point
to bring up the Ellipse dialogue box.
And we're gonna enter some values
that I just came up with over the course
of designing this logo.
I'm gonna change the Width value to 752 pt,
and I'm gonna change the Height value to 120 pt,
and then I'll press the Enter key,
or the Return key on a Mac,
to create that first ring,
and then I'll Alt+click, or Option+click again
on that center point, and recall the fact
that you're pressing the Alt or Option key
will ensure that the ellipse is centered at that location.
And now I'll go ahead and enter some smaller values.
I'll change the Width value to 592 pt,
and I'll take the Height value down to just 92 pt like so,
and then I'll click OK in order to create that new shape.
Alright, we need to cut the inside ring
out of the outside ring, so press the V key
to switch back to your black arrow tool
and Shift+click on the outside ring like so.
Then, go up to the Window menu,
and choose the Pathfinder command
to bring back the Pathfinder panel
and go ahead and select the second Shape Mode, Minus Front,
in order to subtract the top ring
from the bottom right like so.
And then you can hide the Pathfinder panel.
And finally, let's send this guy to back,
by again right-clicking on the object,
choosing Arrange, and then choosing Send to Back.
And now the rocket appears to be
in front of Saturn, like so.