How To Draw Interlocking Puzzle Pieces In Illustrator

In this tutorial we'll be going over how to create a vector puzzle piece using Adobe Illustrator. This is accomplished using some ellipses and a little bit of design magic. The resulting puzzle piece can be duplicated and connected infinitely.
Get 200+ free design templates: freetemplates....
Want to learn more about how Adobe Illustrator works? Check out my Illustrator Explainer Series - a comprehensive series of over 100 videos where I go over every tool, feature and function and explain what it is, how it works, and why it’s useful: logosbynick.co...
🔗 RESOURCE LINKS
Official website: logosbynick.com
Get my premium logo templates: logosbynick.st...
🎓 EXPLAINER COURSES
Inkscape: logosbynick.co...
Affinity Designer: logosbynick.co...
GIMP: logosbynick.co...
Adobe Illustrator: logosbynick.co...
Take my logo design workshop: logosbynick.co...
▶️ MY OTHER CHANNELS
Inkscape & GIMP tutorials: / logosbynick
Mobile tutorials: / @make_it_mobile
🎵 MUSIC USED
In Da Mood - Combustibles

[@mitchellpayne3674]

I am continually and unexpectedly feeling mind-blown every time I watch one of your vids that I haven't seen before. You're just fricken MAGIC! That is all. :)

[@aniketjoshi7518]

Wow, You are a genius explainer.

[@mannyfilmsinc]

this is an awesome video! thank you!

[@janettetsmith]

Amazing! I have an old version of illustrator, so I couldn't round those corners; but other than that, mine look pretty good! Thanks!

[@AyyyyyyyyyLmao]

Very nice! I'd like to see how you'd go about making a puzzle piece texture from this

[@JenniferHackbarth-Musil]

Do you know if I can bring this into design space on cricut as a cut?

[@PastorTWoodworks]

Why doesn’t my center add to the circles to make the peanut??

[@grampsworld]

Would this work in Affinity designer?

[@DesignMadeSimple]

Yes, works just as well although snapping the ends together is trickier

[@nadineappletini]

​@@DesignMadeSimple I tried it, but the result was pretty inacurate. How would you approach the snapping of the ends?
I also found it tricky to remove single lines when I used the shape builder tool...or am I just missing some knowledge?

[@FOX007-um1wr]

2nd since the person below me has 1st. LOL.
Nice Tutorial. Very clear in your instruction too. Thank you. :)

[@jaysonfontela5761]

👍

[@jordan0076]

For some reason this doesn't work for me, the shape builder only works if the shapes are overlapping? Which doesn't create the perfect shape

[@WILKERALLAC]

1st

[@FOX007-um1wr]

2nd