- Working with Fill and Stroke
- Recolor Artwork
- Arrange Basic Objects to Create a Robot
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Arrange Basic Objects to Create a Robot
Video Project 01-04 Basic Shape—Shapes for Robot
You can create oval and rectangular objects that can become the pieces for a recognizable shape—a robot head as shown in Figure 4.14. Using the shape tools, draw the large pieces first so that the smaller objects will be stacked in front of them.
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Figure 4.14 Assembling the robot heads
Create Multiple Copies Using Transform Again
To create a copy of and reposition selected objects, you can Option-drag (Mac OS) or Alt-drag (Windows). Then, you can use a command to quickly create and reposition additional copies. This method is much faster than dragging additional copies manually.
- Select an object.
- Option-drag (Mac OS) or Alt-drag (Windows) to create a copy. Leave the copy selected.
Choose Object > Transform > Transform Again. Alternatively, press Command+D (Mac OS) or Ctrl+D (Windows) press several times to make additional copies that are separated from each other by the amount you dragged in the previous step (Figure 4.15).
Figure 4.15 Multiple copies created, and spaced as you specified
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