Want to make this cool eye in illustrator?
Level: Begginer/Moderate
Skills needed: Pen Tool, Pathfinder Tool
Heres how:
Make a circle:
Then, using the centre of the circle as an anchor, make a triangle in the top left hand of the circle, at a 45° angle.
Use the pathfinder tool to cut a hole into the circle.
Draw another circle.
Change the circle you have just drawn to whatever colour you want the eye to be, and the 'pac-man' shape to black.
The blue circle is on top of the black circle so if you right click > Arrange > Send to back
Alternatively, you can move the circle onto a new layer and drag that new layer to the bottom.
then move the black shape onto the blue circle.
Open a new document and make a circle, then copy and paste it so you have two identical circles.
Move them on top one another so they look like a venn diagram.
Their edges should touch the centre anchor of each other.
Then use the pathfinder tool > intersect. this makes a shape that is made from the overlap.
Take this new shape and turn it exactly 90°. You can do this by holding shift and rotating it with corner
'rotate' icon. this appears when you put your mouse on the corner of the shape object box.
Now make it white and use the selection outline to see where you are putting it, (you wont be able to see the actual shape)
Then once you have positioned it, Add a cartoon skin tone, I opted for pink but you can match it to your comic book character.
The pink box will be in front of the eye, so again, right click > Arrange > Send to back.
with the pen tool, Draw a curved, skinny triangle in the left top corner. Make it the same colour as your eye, but a tiny bit lighter.
Add a small white circle on top of the black shape.
Go to the toolbar at the top and find Effect > Stylize > Feather. this will bring up a small box. Set the radius to 7px. Press Ok then draw a similar shape to the light blue one, or you can copy and paste this, then mirror it, but that is more difficult. Make it black.
Huzzah.
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