You’re sticking with the Rectangle tool here. To make the stroke thicker or heavier change the stroke weight.Ĥ From the “Stroke” weight pop-up menu, choose 5 pt. You might find that the stroke is not visible, this is because the stroke is only 1pt thick by default, and when the shape is selected the stroke colour you’ve applied is hidden by the selection boundary box. The stroke or border around the shape changes to that colour. Your shape fill colour changes.ģ While the rectangle is still selected, click the Stroke Color pop-up menu in the Control panel (right beside the Fill Color), then choose a color from the swatches panel that opens. Pick a colour from the swatches panel that opens. Click on the rectangle (or any other shape you’ve drawn) to select it.Ģ Choose a Fill Color by clicking on the Fill Color pop-up menu in the Control panel at the top of the screen. Voila! How to apply fill and stroke colours to the shapeġ Click on the black Selection Tool (V) in the toolbar. Release the mouse after you create a horizontal rectangle. How to draw a rectangleġ Select the Rectangle tool from the Tools panel (or press M on the keyboard). Let’s take a quick look at each of these tools in turn. Take a look at most logos and you will see they consist of simple shapes joined together. While at first glance these tools may seem basic and rudimentary, these shapes can be used as the building blocks to all sorts of complex compositions.
This set of tools include the following Rectangle Tool (M), Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse (L), Polygon, Star and Flare Tools. Our focus here is how to use Illustrator’s Shape Drawing tools. In this lesson we finally get to do some drawing! Yay. In previous lessons, you learned about what Adobe Illustrator is and how to find your way around the interface.
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