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Hey Abi, at min 3:45 you are using the pencil tool to cut off the tail of the "G" but I somehow don't have that tool in my toolbox even though I have the newest version of adobe illustrator.. and even if I have it, what's the shortcut to using the pencil tool to erase / separate something? Thank you!
@@gnosisdoula7380 If you press and hold down the buttons in the toolbox, you will find that some of them will pop up. Alternatively if you search in the search box for pencil it should direct you x
Abi, you make everything look possible! I've been teaching myself Illustrator for a month now and am working on my very first design portfolio. Your channel has been such a huge inspiration.
I’m very interested in branding and figuring out illustrator and manipulation have been the hardest part😅. Thank you for all the tutorials and the vlogs! It’s helped me out a lot!
OMG!! yesterday i was manipulating some typography and it was so hard to me, THIS VIDEO SAVED ME🤝✨❤️ I love your videos ABI, greetings from Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
I swear I every time I see your videos I feel over the moon. You are the best teacher and designer and you make me a better graphic designer with every video you make. Keep going 💓
I'm self-taught just like you, and it's so refreshing to learn from someone who doesn't linger on complexities and has found ways to just use common sense instead of doing things "by the book". It's amazing what you can learn just getting lost in tutorials, and you just added quite a few ideas to my arsenal. I usually prefer to read rather than watch videos... But in this case, considering how you make it very easy to understand and don't use obscure tools or lengthy techniques (and I must admit... gorgeous blonde + British accent = hell yes), you sold me from the first second. Subscribed. Liked. Bravo!
I've spent about two years studying photography so my Illustrator chops were a bit rusty. This really helped me to get back into gear with my Illustrator skills. Thanks!
Hi Abi, thank you a lot for this video. As a designer I tend to have the feeling to be stuck often but seeing you so enthusiastic and showing anything is possible, it's really inspiring! 🙏🏽
I'm so excited to watch this video. You're such a great influencer/youtuber 🥺 Thank you so much for being yourself! My most favorite days are when you upload 🤍
I wouldn't mind watching more videos exactly on this topic, Abi :D Also, I really like watching you. Learned so much already! Thank you for sharing! The way you do it allowed me to see how the whole branding process can look like. I appreciate so much your videos
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed the process 🧡 definitely will do some more of these types of videos as it’s something I needed when I started designing!
I have been doing graphic design wrong this whole time Abi 😭 seeing this my mind was blowing up that I never did this before and now i wanna cry with joy, excitement, and sadness that I hadn’t done this before 😂 thank you Abi for making this!
Saving this, this is some spectacular reference. I backed into graphic design from an illustration background and while icons and drawn elements comes easily to me, typography is, thanks in large part to you, becoming less of an enigma! Thank you!
I was in Starbucks earlier working on a project wondering how exactly you go about doing this. Came up with some ideas, but if I had saw this video earlier, I prolly coulda done more
I m new to illustrator and learning logo design . Thanks for sharing your knowledge it will really help me . I will definitely practice and try to create something new.
Thank you for this lesson I am a novice and love graphics design Please could you do more explanation on how to use the pencil tool and the width tool?
You're my soleil ! (I know you've learned the word, i watched all your videos haha) Thank you so much for the quality of your videos ! you rock ! Greetings from France !
with that B letter in minute 14:00 by making the upper part of the letter thinner and tweaking the bottom part a bit and using that curve tool u could've done some kind of ballerina body like she's dancing, it would look dope😄
I'm SOO happy that I found your page! I've learnt so much already. I was wondering if you could make a video on the selling of a brand package process (quick steps) - questionnaire, follow up call, presenting the proposal and handoff. I hope that makes sense haha. Also, what things to include in a portfolio. Thank you again fro all these videos!
I'd add in a bit about reading licenses for your fonts, doing something like this for a brand logo is an easy way to get sued by the creator of a font if it is prohibited (in the US).
Hi Abi , I was wondering if you can look at the one I try to do and give me some tips on what I should do different or advice to help me improve more .
i think this video was actually life changing for me. thank you so much! you explained stuff in a few minutes that could never get through my mind in hours haha
Great detailed video. Thanks for sharing your process! I loved seeing what tools you use and the steps you take to manipulate type and make a logo look unique. I've been looking for tutorials on this to help better my skills and was happy to come across yours!
Thank you! Appreciate the support😊 This video might help as well: ruclips.net/video/lNOqlS5X1GU/видео.html also I actually have a video coming next Tuesday about customising type as well!
wow I just found your channel and I really love it! Am not an English mother tongue speaker so for me the way u explain things is very important! Keep going! and of course, I will subscribe!
This was such a necessary video. I have been struggling as a new designer to get this right. Please we'd appreciate a detailed video on how to make patterns on Ai, like the snake pattern you did in a previous video. Love from Nigeria.
I'm so excited for this. Tried using these techniques after watching this video and I'm so grateful!!! It helped soo much. I'm always asking myself when I'm trying to customize text, "what would Abi do with this letter?!" 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you Abi! I also have no degree background But since I younger I interested in graphic design And luckily I found you channel which is very helpful for my self-taught journey! Thankss ❤️ love from Indonesia 🇮🇩
This video is just what I was looking for! Thank you so much for sharing, I've been struggling with typography on illustrator. This is very helpful! ♥️
ohh my God abi, you really doing great things. I adore you so much, your content is so inspiring. please keep spread your positive energy with your content. Good job abi :)
Hello there! Love the information you offer in your videos! Do you think you could add some videos with the same content, but do them with the pencil and an iPad? Thanks in advance!
Hello Abi, thanks for this very helpful video! One thing I was struggling in was when you deleted the G's tail besides using the pencil tool, what did you press to delete the tail ? min 3:54
Hey! Glad you found this useful! I don’t press anything to delete the tail I’m just using the pencil tool to draw and get rid of part of the tail! It can be quite fiddly to get right first time but keep playing around with the tool!
hi, im have same struggle as you, maybe our ai have diff ver of her. so what i do is just turn my letter into outline. go on type menu and than choose create outlines and than you can use pencil tool like in this video. hope this will help you😁
This is very helpful, Abi. If you can, please also make a video about creatives trying to get started with RUclips. I am trying to start my own channel but I have almost no other following anywhere. Would be great to learn how you did it.
Hey Abi. I'm new to illustrator, is there a video on how to get fonts into illustrator? I'm not seeing many fonts to choose from. Do I need to bring fonts in?
So you can head to fonts.adobe.com/ log in, have a look through their font directory and activate any ones you like. This is free with creative cloud. Or, you can find fonts online from places such as CreativeMarket, MyFonts etc and purchase and then manually install. It's just a case of Extracting Files from the Zip Download, clicking on the OTF file and then clicking install!
hi abi .. i have started to use the pencil tool and the width tool to manuplate my typography as you advised but i have found my self bumping into a new problem .. when i change the colour of it the manuplated part gets totaly ruined like it losts all of the work I've done with it .. can you tell us how to solve that problem ?
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Hey Abi, at min 3:45 you are using the pencil tool to cut off the tail of the "G" but I somehow don't have that tool in my toolbox even though I have the newest version of adobe illustrator.. and even if I have it, what's the shortcut to using the pencil tool to erase / separate something? Thank you!
@@gnosisdoula7380 If you press and hold down the buttons in the toolbox, you will find that some of them will pop up. Alternatively if you search in the search box for pencil it should direct you x
Super helpful and great vid! Do you use a tablet and pen to do this or just freehand with a mouse?
From one brand designer to another, Girllllll! You're a life saver.
Happy to help!💛💛
Abi, you make everything look possible! I've been teaching myself Illustrator for a month now and am working on my very first design portfolio. Your channel has been such a huge inspiration.
I’m very interested in branding and figuring out illustrator and manipulation have been the hardest part😅. Thank you for all the tutorials and the vlogs! It’s helped me out a lot!
Abi, your channel is f*ck*ng underrated. I just breezed through it after this video. I'm amazed. Keep it up!
haha I appreciate it 😊 I'd rather it be appropriately rated, but hopefully we'll get there one day!
Because of you, I learned how to use the pencil tool to edit my typography! Thank you!! It has changed the way I design things completely.
I wish you never-ending(high paying) clients for this IMPECCABLE and INSIGHTFUL video!!
I appreciate it, thank you 😊
OMG!! yesterday i was manipulating some typography and it was so hard to me, THIS VIDEO SAVED ME🤝✨❤️
I love your videos ABI, greetings from Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
Yay, glad this has helped!! Just keep practising with different letters - that’s what has helped me🧡
I swear I every time I see your videos I feel over the moon. You are the best teacher and designer and you make me a better graphic designer with every video you make. Keep going 💓
You're too sweet! So glad you enjoy my videos and like my teaching style! Thank you x
I'm self-taught just like you, and it's so refreshing to learn from someone who doesn't linger on complexities and has found ways to just use common sense instead of doing things "by the book". It's amazing what you can learn just getting lost in tutorials, and you just added quite a few ideas to my arsenal. I usually prefer to read rather than watch videos... But in this case, considering how you make it very easy to understand and don't use obscure tools or lengthy techniques (and I must admit... gorgeous blonde + British accent = hell yes), you sold me from the first second. Subscribed. Liked. Bravo!
Oh, and the interactive typography cheat sheet... THANK YOU! That's brilliant!
I've spent about two years studying photography so my Illustrator chops were a bit rusty. This really helped me to get back into gear with my Illustrator skills. Thanks!
Happy to help!
Hi Abi, thank you a lot for this video. As a designer I tend to have the feeling to be stuck often but seeing you so enthusiastic and showing anything is possible, it's really inspiring! 🙏🏽
You're so welcome! Glad my videos can make you feel inspired 😊💛
You have officially become my favorite graphic-designer youtuber/influencer! thank you so much for your videos. It's been big big help! xx
I used your video to create a unique looking "a" for a logo. My clients loved it! Thanks a lot!
YAAS, love this! Glad my video helped you and your client! x
I´m still learnin´ English, but from far away a realised that this channel is the one... to much powerfull content
I'm so excited to watch this video. You're such a great influencer/youtuber 🥺 Thank you so much for being yourself! My most favorite days are when you upload 🤍
You are the sweetest!! Thank you angel and hope you enjoy the video 🧡!!
You are an awesome teacher/educator and an incredible designer. Eager to learn more from you everyday. Thanks a million Abi ! 💚
Thank you!😊
That last b felt like butterflies, bees and nice charecteristics you've depicted,such a visual depth your brain has✨✨✨✨🎨
I wouldn't mind watching more videos exactly on this topic, Abi :D Also, I really like watching you. Learned so much already! Thank you for sharing! The way you do it allowed me to see how the whole branding process can look like. I appreciate so much your videos
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed the process 🧡 definitely will do some more of these types of videos as it’s something I needed when I started designing!
You're amazing at what you do. The joy in your delivery is magnetic. Makes me as excited about your work as you are. Keep killing it.
Aw thank you, really appreciate this! This comment put a big smile on my face so thank you 😊💛
I have been doing graphic design wrong this whole time Abi 😭 seeing this my mind was blowing up that I never did this before and now i wanna cry with joy, excitement, and sadness that I hadn’t done this before 😂 thank you Abi for making this!
There's no right way to do design!! I'm glad this video has helped though, i always love knowing how other designers work or manipulate typography!
My only regret is that it took me two years to see this. Thanks Abi❤
Glad it was helpful 😊
Would LOVE more of these typography videos, I really struggle working with types.Thanks for this!!
The second you come out with a course I am IN! I've learned SO much about design from your videos that have helped my biz immensely. THANK YOU!
Seriously! More than all my other classes put together
Saving this, this is some spectacular reference. I backed into graphic design from an illustration background and while icons and drawn elements comes easily to me, typography is, thanks in large part to you, becoming less of an enigma! Thank you!
Glad I could help :)
I was in Starbucks earlier working on a project wondering how exactly you go about doing this. Came up with some ideas, but if I had saw this video earlier, I prolly coulda done more
You literally read my mind with this video, I’ve been wondering about type customisation but I didn’t know where to start
Really and truly this is the best tutorial on the whole of RUclips. I am so grateful for stumbling across this. Thank you so much ❤❤❤
Glad it was helpful!🙂
Your channel is golden, I am grateful for your knowledge and basically free courses for your subs
Happy to hear that! Thank you 😊
I m new to illustrator and learning logo design . Thanks for sharing your knowledge it will really help me . I will definitely practice and try to create something new.
Welcome 😊
Thank you for this lesson
I am a novice and love graphics design
Please could you do more explanation on how to use the pencil tool and the width tool?
You are freaking amazing!!!! Really breaking this down step by step! Very easily subscribed to this! You ROCK!
Glad it helped! Thank you for the support :)
This is the video I’ve been waiting for!! Can’t wait to watch, I’ve been struggling with this and I love how unique your designs always are ☺️
Yay, hope you enjoyed the video!! Thank you so much, you're too kind! Love creating unique designs!!
Am in love with typography already
❤ I just love this channel already
Glad to hear it! I have plenty of videos on the channel about customising type and fonts!
this tutorial maybe 3 years ago, but thank you! your videos really helped me
You’re so welcome!
Probably the best design video I have ever watched . You are a great teacher Abi . Lots of love from India 😊🇮🇳
Wow, thank you! Glad to be of help, I appreciate the kind words 😊💛
Clever and beauty. Thanks abi
Thank you! 😊
yessss!!! Just the other day I was thinking - how much editing is /too/ much editing
Great tutorial!!! Please, I need to know the configuration of your pencil tool. Mine don't do that.
it's Amazing.....thankyou you for uploading so amazing content
Aww thank you! Glad my videos are helpful 🥳
You're my soleil ! (I know you've learned the word, i watched all your videos haha)
Thank you so much for the quality of your videos ! you rock !
Greetings from France !
with that B letter in minute 14:00 by making the upper part of the letter thinner and tweaking the bottom part a bit and using that curve tool u could've done some kind of ballerina body like she's dancing, it would look dope😄
Yes I see that! That would have worked really well actually! I appreciate the feedback :)
@@abiconnick Omg wow i was not expecting for u to awser, haha ty and you are yvw
You had me at the way you manipulated the letter G in the first example, I was like WOAH
Thank you 😊
You've just taught me black magic!! hahaha I'm so excited to try this out on PS
haha! Well grateful you found the video helpful 😊 Hope it helps!
Thank you, Abi ! I really like watching you. Learned so much already! Thank you for sharing!
I'm so glad!
OMG Abi, I wish I knew these tricks when I started out in design. I didn't even know when the video ended. Super super helpful and handy!
Glad the videos have been of help! Thank you for your support and kind words ☺️
Abi, Thank you for your tutorials and vlogs. I love your personality and no-nonsense approach to Illustrator and logos!
Thank you for this, your kind words mean a lot!😊💛
I'm SOO happy that I found your page! I've learnt so much already. I was wondering if you could make a video on the selling of a brand package process (quick steps) - questionnaire, follow up call, presenting the proposal and handoff. I hope that makes sense haha. Also, what things to include in a portfolio. Thank you again fro all these videos!
I'd add in a bit about reading licenses for your fonts, doing something like this for a brand logo is an easy way to get sued by the creator of a font if it is prohibited (in the US).
the best video I`ve ever seen about typography in the logos!!! Thanks a lot!!!!!
Yay, so glad you enjoyed this video and glad it was helpful!! Love manipulating typography so much!
O-M-G You salved my skin with this vídeo. Just THANK YOU HONEYYYY🥺🥺🙏🏻🙏🏻💓💓💓
😂 glad I could help 💛😊
Such an epic video! I didn’t know about the curvature tool, I learn something new with every video of yours!💖
Such a good tool!!! Yay glad you’re learning lots 🧡
Hi Abi , I was wondering if you can look at the one I try to do and give me some tips on what I should do different or advice to help me improve more .
i think this video was actually life changing for me. thank you so much! you explained stuff in a few minutes that could never get through my mind in hours haha
This is amazing to hear! a lot of effort goes into the videos to make sure they provide value, so thank you! 😊
Thanks for this, I was just saying to my friend I need to work on my channel branding. This was inspiring and useful, thanks.
Abi you are a star - so generous with your solid tutes.Thank you!
Aww thank you! Glad you like the content 🧡
Great detailed video. Thanks for sharing your process! I loved seeing what tools you use and the steps you take to manipulate type and make a logo look unique. I've been looking for tutorials on this to help better my skills and was happy to come across yours!
Loved your video and have subscribed. New to illustrator and have been asked by my tutor to create custom letters. this was so helpful. thanks
Thank you! Appreciate the support😊 This video might help as well: ruclips.net/video/lNOqlS5X1GU/видео.html also I actually have a video coming next Tuesday about customising type as well!
wow I just found your channel and I really love it! Am not an English mother tongue speaker so for me the way u explain things is very important! Keep going! and of course, I will subscribe!
Great to hear, thank you :) Really appreciate the support!
This was such a necessary video. I have been struggling as a new designer to get this right. Please we'd appreciate a detailed video on how to make patterns on Ai, like the snake pattern you did in a previous video. Love from Nigeria.
I'm so excited for this. Tried using these techniques after watching this video and I'm so grateful!!! It helped soo much. I'm always asking myself when I'm trying to customize text, "what would Abi do with this letter?!" 🤣🤣🤣
Hi, im confused about the pencil tool and how you deleted the tail off the original g
Thank you Abi!
I also have no degree background
But since I younger I interested in graphic design
And luckily I found you channel which is very helpful for my self-taught journey!
Thankss ❤️ love from Indonesia 🇮🇩
i cant figure out how you use the pencil tool to erase the tail! how do you do it?
this is the tutorial that's what im perfectly looking for aaaaaa thank u
Glad I could help! I have a bunch of other tutorials on costuming fonts on my channel, you you want to check them out!
ive learned about so many amazing tools in this!! THANK you!!!
Yay this makes me happy! Glad this video has helped because theres so many tools on adobe illustrator that it can be overwhelming!! x
Your work is inspiring. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
I appreciate that! 😊
This video is just what I was looking for! Thank you so much for sharing, I've been struggling with typography on illustrator. This is very helpful! ♥️
wowo you're so professional I admire👏
Thank you! 😊
this channel is golden , thank you for sharing abi!
Yay, glad you enjoyed the video!
ohh my God abi, you really doing great things. I adore you so much, your content is so inspiring. please keep spread your positive energy with your content. Good job abi :)
Hello there! Love the information you offer in your videos! Do you think you could add some videos with the same content, but do them with the pencil and an iPad? Thanks in advance!
Hi Abi, what are you holding while cutting out parts with pencil tool?
Hello, How is she available to erase parts with the pencil tool ? Thanks
loved this you make things so easy to understand and for that, I thank you loads!!!!! can you do one on making patterns?
This is my life support 🖤 thank u girl
Glad I can help 😊
Thank you for your video, I interested for this logo type but I don't know how it's called and how to learn, today I got it and thank you again.
GIRL IS JUST ADORE YOU !!!!
This video was so interesting and helpful!! I’m currently learning to improve my typography and this was such a useful resource to add
Wow, she's so organized!
I'm not always like that 😅
I just like it@@abiconnick. Keep it up.
@@ericmacharia7859 Thank you :)
Hello Abi, thanks for this very helpful video!
One thing I was struggling in was when you deleted the G's tail besides using the pencil tool, what did you press to delete the tail ? min 3:54
Hey! Glad you found this useful!
I don’t press anything to delete the tail I’m just using the pencil tool to draw and get rid of part of the tail! It can be quite fiddly to get right first time but keep playing around with the tool!
hi, im have same struggle as you, maybe our ai have diff ver of her. so what i do is just turn my letter into outline. go on type menu and than choose create outlines and than you can use pencil tool like in this video. hope this will help you😁
@@RafiNoorIslami thank you bc my pencil tool just makes a line lol
For the g are your outlines still there while use the pencil tool and width tool?
Yes they are!
What size should you start with for your document for good results?
This is very helpful, Abi.
If you can, please also make a video about creatives trying to get started with RUclips. I am trying to start my own channel but I have almost no other following anywhere. Would be great to learn how you did it.
This tutorial is what exactly I was looking for, thank you sweetheart you helped me a lot ❤️❤️❤️
Is there a way to permanently save these newer versions of the alphabet that we make as to access them from the text tool directly for other projects?
THANK YOU so much!
Thanks to your helpful video, I was able to create the logo I wanted.
So great to hear! I'm happy I could help 😊
Great video! Would it be easier if you used an iPad and an apple pen?
Thank you! I'm no good with a pen/pencil so I prefer to use a mouse but whatever you prefer 😊
Your videos are so fun to watch and also very informative!!Keep going
Yay thank you! Glad you love the videos 🧡
@@abiconnick love you baby🧡
Glyph is the term used to describe any character, not just the fancy ornamental ones.
Love your videos, they have such a good vibe and are so informative!
Hey Abi. I'm new to illustrator, is there a video on how to get fonts into illustrator? I'm not seeing many fonts to choose from. Do I need to bring fonts in?
So you can head to fonts.adobe.com/ log in, have a look through their font directory and activate any ones you like. This is free with creative cloud.
Or, you can find fonts online from places such as CreativeMarket, MyFonts etc and purchase and then manually install. It's just a case of Extracting Files from the Zip Download, clicking on the OTF file and then clicking install!
I always look forward to using the right termination.
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So how do you get it set-up to where you can now type with that font?
What a great and thorough video | Love this Abi😊
Just mad i didn't see this years ago! Great video❤
Thank you! glad it was helpful :)
@@abiconnickvery helpful❤
You're using Photoshopp CC or Illustrator CC to do this clip?
I love all your designs!
Glad you like them! Thank you :)
the wood set is absolutely remarkable! have you done a video on that already?
hi abi .. i have started to use the pencil tool and the width tool to manuplate my typography as you advised but i have found my self bumping into a new problem .. when i change the colour of it the manuplated part gets totaly ruined like it losts all of the work I've done with it .. can you tell us how to solve that problem ?