At most one email a week. Unfollow anytime with one click.
Transcript
The full narration of this video. The current sentence is highlighted while the video plays; click any sentence to jump there.
Show transcript
Introduction
This is what we'll create in this episode, a travel map with dashed lines, dotted lines, and arrowheads, all from the stroke panel settings. Let's get started. Hello, welcome back to the complete Adobe Illustrator series from Cerdas Inovasi Digital. The stroke panel contains two features often used in maps, infographics, and coupon designs: dashed lines and arrowheads for arrow tips. Open the simple map file containing a light green background, a blue lake, and three location points.
Step 1: Base Map
Draw a winding path from the first point to the last point using the pencil tool, with an orange stroke of eight points.
Step 2: Dashed Line
In the stroke panel, check the dashed line option. Fill the dash length with 20 and the gap with 12. The path turns into a dashed line. This pattern repeats along the path, including in the curved section.
Step 3: Dotted Line
Create a second path that loops around the lake. Select the round cap, then fill the dash length with 0 and the gap with 16. Because the end is rounded, each segment of 0 becomes a perfect round dot.
Step 4: Arrowheads
Select the first path. In the arrowhead section, choose the triangle arrowhead for the end. The arrowhead appears at the end of the line, indicating the travel direction. Add label names of the locations next to each point, home, lake, and peak.
Step 5: Location Labels
Use a bold font so it's easy to read.
Step 6: Finalizing the Map
Add a thin dashed line as the boundary of the area. Save and export the route map. Done.
Done!
We have created dashed lines with the dash line setting, dotted lines with the round cap, and arrowheads with the arrowhead for the route map. In the next episode, we will adjust varying line thickness using the width tool. Need a logo design, brand identity, vector illustration, infographic, or print materials and social media content? Cerdas Inovasi Digital provides vector graphic design services, as well as Illustrator courses from beginner to advanced. Want to master the entire series? 106 episodes from the interface to the final project? All episodes, complete with step-by-step PDF guides, practice files, and vector project files, are available for premium tutorial subscribers. Subscribe starting at Rp69.000 per month, save 28% with the 12-month package, or pay once Rp999.000 for lifetime access. Want just one class? Buy a single class with lifetime access. Subscribe now at the premium page cerdasinovasidigital.com Contact us via WhatsApp, or visit cerdasinovasidigital.com Thank you for watching, see you in the next episode.
Ask the class material
Type a question or keyword; we find the part of this episode that explains it and jump the video there.
My notes
Notes are saved with the current video time and are only visible to you.
Questions & answers
Stuck on a step? Ask here; the instructor and other learners can answer.
No questions yet.
Your instructor
Cerdas Inovasi Digital Team
Software developers, BIM & 3D engineers, and AI practitioners
52 video classes1,276 episodes
We build software, BIM models, games and AI automations for clients every day, and turn that hands-on work into step-by-step classes: every step is shown on screen and comes with a PDF guide you can keep.
