Hey there,
And welcome to my second tutorial. I used this site a lot to inspire me making things. So i thought to do something back. I could not find a decent tutorial for making these circels so i thought well lets make one.
If you know a little about illustrator you should be able to follow this one. I tried to explain everything as good as possible. But if you still have som questions you can alwase ask ofcourse!
Ok lets start. First of all you should open illustrator -> create new!
Follow up:
The image you get should be something like this. You can enter you own width and height according to how big it should be. Also be free of choise to change the advanced options!
First thing to do after you have clicked OK, should be this:
Go to View and then click snap to grid. this will make it a lot easier to get the good size. And also it will make it a lot easier to fit the circels in eachother
After this tiny setup we can start drawing our first circle. Go to the rectangle icon, and hold click you left mouse on it a few sec until you get this menu. Then select the elipse tool
Draw an elipse, your result may be different then mine!
Once you have created 1 ellips, pres the alt key to copy this on. Left click on it then press alt en then move.
You now have to identical circels. Select one circel and change it size and colour and place it above the other.
Repeat this step as often as you like. But be carefull. if you want like 10 circles above eachother. Select different colours. Later you can change them to the colours you like. But for a step later on you will notice it will spare you lots of time when you chose different colours! (i chose twice black, in this step, so i will show you that this takes more time then when i would have selected for example blue.
Select the 4 path;s and group them (press ctrl-g)
You should get something like this in the layers menu.
Once you have grouped the circles. you can easily copy them. Another great method in illustrator for doing this is makeing the first copy by hand and for the rest just pres ctrl-d. Repeat as often as you like.
You can do this as well as hirizontally as vertically.
Select al the circels. and go to the object-transform-transform each. This will change the appearence of every circel.
ust play a little with the settings. Remember to check the boxes. Random and Preview, to see the result. You can check/unckeck random to get a different randomisation.
After you got the circel's you like place them in a position you like. It doens;t matter if they are on top of eachother. This makes the effect only better!
After you placed them a way you like, Ungroup them all. You can easily do this by selecting them all and press ctrl+shift+g(ungroup).
At this step it will be a lot easier if you would have chosen all kinds of colours. It can be quite hard to select for example every single circel. So to do this the easy way go to select->same->fdill colour. This will select every object with the same fill colour. Once selected you can group them. to make it lot easier to make changes.
The select->same->fill colour
I had 4 different circleshapes. I grouped them each so it is easier to send them back/bring them to front.
After doing that my result was this: This is already quite good looking. So if you want you can stop here and use what you've made in one of you illustrations
But if you want to give it a little extra i recommend you continu.
Select the rounded rectangle tool
And create some rectangles. (the rounded shape of the rectangle you can change by pressing the left and right arrow on you keybord!) Place the rectangels above the last group but underneath the others. So it will look like this.
If you're still not happy, you can put some splatters behind it.
