BMA142: creating shapes and patterns in Adobe Illustrator

shape builder tool in Adobe Illustrator
ellipse tool.  holding shift makes it a perfect circle, alt +shift makes it come out from center
make sure that the circle is in the absolute center of the paper
make small circle outside of big circle.  watch for green lines that will tell me when I've hit center line of paper
alt and drag to duplicate the shape, pull it over to the left until green lines appear and both circles are the same size and centered

green lines and dots appear to help me line things up
alignment tools show up when you're on black arrow mode?
center alignment tool which makes the small circles line up in the center of the big circle.
shape builder tool (small circle next to big circle), left click and drag from small circle to space next to other small circle but inside big circle to create yin yang symbol.  repeat on other side.


creating patterns
blob tool
brackets make brush bigger or smaller, like in photshop

object_ pattern_ make
dialogue box will allow you to futz with it
to make a brick wall, create one brick and then choose pattern and tile
hit done, then hit swatches to right hand side. you must save a copy to be able to use it in multiple documents
create spline with pen tool and then fill it with pattern swatch

This is how I can make textile patterns and other items for costume use.