- [Instructor] Wings are a very common logo motif,
especially for car and motorcycles.
In this example, I'd like to recreate
these metallic, beveled wings.
Let's just take a look at the Layers panel
before we get going.
You can see that we have, on a locked layer,
the finished version and also on a locked layer, the type.
This was created by drawing half of it,
reflecting that half, and then joining the two together.
It has a gradient applied to it.
My first task is to, with the line tool,
draw a line from the center point,
I'm just going to mark the center point with a guide,
and extending beyond the edge.
I'll then apply a 30% gray stroke
10 points in weight.
I'll change its width profile to width profile number four
and because that goes the wrong way for what I want,
and change the direction of that width profile.
so I'm just going to get the width tool
and increase the weight of that at the starting point.
Now I'm going to rotate copies of this line.
I'll press r to access the rotate tool.
Optional alt+click on the anchor point at the center
I'll rotate copies.
Having made my first copy, I'll press cmd or ctrl+d
to repeat that transformation.
I'll then press cmd+a and make all of these elements
into a group, but I do want the background shape
included in that group, so I'll come to the Layers panel,
and we'll lock the background shape.
I'll group all of those lines
and then, with my reflect tool,
optional alt+clicking on the center point, reflect a copy.
I now want to draw this curve line
that we see in the finished version,
so I'll come and choose ellipses tool
and draw myself
an oval.
I'll make sure it has the same stroke color
and make it the same stroke weight.
I'll come and choose my scissors tool
and I'm going to break this in two places,
right there on the second spoke down
and then at the center point.
I'll now delete the portion of that that I do not need.
I'm going to change the weight
of this stroke here to eight points.
I'll zoom in,
get my pen tool,
and pick up this open endpoint.
I'll click and drag on that endpoint,
then move up to the top line.
Click and drag, holding down the shift key,
to connect that line with the top spoke.
We see that it's ever so slightly wider,
so I'm just going to get my width tool
and
narrow it.
Now I want to reflect this.
Once again, from the center point,
optional alt and make a copy.
Now I need to add a stroke to the whole outside shape.
Going to come to the Layers panel.
I'm not going to add it to the one that we have.
We need that to stay where it is
at the bottom of our layer stack
because I will be, once I've added the stroke,
converting this to a path.
I'm going to copy this path right here,
by holding down optional alt and dragging it
to the top of my objects.
I'll unlock it, select it,
press forward slash to apply none to the fill,
and then apply the same stroke color
and give it a stroke weight of eight points.
I'll now select everything, that's all of the strokes,
Come to the Object menu and choose Path, Outline Stroke.
so that we remove all of those overlapping shape areas.
I'll select the background shape
and you can its selection outline
is in the center of the outlining stroke.
This is because the strokes
that we are using are center-weighted.
So what we need to do before we can
make this into a clipping shape
is come to the Object menu,
Path,
Offset Path.
Now I outlined the stroke by eight points,
as I said, it's center-weighted,
and you can see that, on the Layers panel,
It's now time to apply the bevel effect.
I want to add this to the contents of the clipping group.
On my Layers panel, I'm going to expand the clipping group.
I'll select the contents.
I can do that here on the Layers panel
or I can do it up here on the tool options.
would cause the gradients to be rasterized,
so we can add the gradient as a separate step afterwards.
I'll come to the Effect menu and 3D, Extrude and Bevel.
If you don't see all of these options,
With the position up front,
so we need to just offset things slightly.
I'm going to offset things on the x axis
by minus five degrees.
And then I'm going to change the perspective to 60 degrees.
And we can now see the bevel appearing
and then the preview just freaks out, but we won't panic,
it's going to restore itself in just a moment.
I'm going to come to my light here and have the light be
direct on and I'll simplify things
by reducing the number blend stamps from 25 to five.
So we now see the bevel effect,
next thing we can do is add the gradient.
I'll do this on the Appearance panel
where we see the fill, currently a 30% gray.
I can change this now to a chrome fill.
I'd like to make this a bit more reflective.
Let's just close those panels.
You can see that we have this nice, dark stripe
over here on the right-hand side,
I would like one of those over on the left-hand side.
I'm going to come and choose my gradient tool
and we see the gradient bar appear beneath
and there are all of these different gray values
in the gradient.
I'm going to grab the black gradient stop right here,
hold down my optional alt key,
and drag this over to copy it
to the left-hand side of the gradient.
I may also wish to adjust the midpoints
like moving the diamonds on the top of the gradient slider.
Now I can just come to my Layers panel
and I'm going to borrow the type from the finished version.
I'll select it there and hold down optional alt
and drag it down into position.
I'll also then just need to drag the type layer
to the top of the layer stack.
So there we have our completed
metallic, beveled winged logo or badge.