Hi, everyone, and welcome back to the simple vector Knights tutorial. In this lesson, we'll learn how to create the details for our Knight character's armor. So let's start by creating the visor for our helmet. So I'm just going to zoom in here by pressing Ctrl and the plus key on the keyboard. Let's create the visor we're going to use the pencil. So let's go ahead and create a visor by clicking points here like so.

And then once you're happy with that shape, we're going to change this from a fill shape to a stroke by clicking these arrows here. And now what we're going to do from here is we're going to change the stroke. So let's make the stroke thicker so let's click on Stroke button here, make the weight of the stroke thicker. And let's change the profile of the stroke into with profile one like so. And with that, we can now start adjusting the visor. Let's go ahead and bring this down slightly adjusted so that it's a little bit more a little bit longer.

Cool. And once you're happy with the way that it looks, select the stroke and what we're going to do is we're going to make this into a shape and to do this, make sure that the stroke is selected, go to Object, Expand Appearance, and this will turn the stroke into a shape As you can see, next bill wants to control C and then Ctrl V to copy it. And I want to make this visor white. And then place this visor on top of it like so, just to give it a little bit of depth. And we can even zoom in a little bit here and select certain points and align it to the top, just so that these points Connect. That's by using the Direct Selection tool.

Cool. So now we've got our visor here, let's zoom out. Next thing we want to do is we want to create the top of our helmet. Let's do that. Let's go ahead and set the rounded rectangle tool creates a top here like so. Let's go ahead and choose the right colors.

Just going to create one here. And let's make this a little bit bigger. Now if I wanted to make this bigger, again, let's bring a shape in, make it bigger. And I want to make a smaller shape here like so. And let's make this a lighter color. And now I'm going to align this to the center is too big.

So in order to make this smaller, I need to bring that shape back in, make it smaller. Now can make it a little bit longer. Again, we've got some space between the left and the right of that Got a little bit down. Cool. So now we've got a top here. In fact, we can now use this shape.

Let's make this bigger. And I'm going to color this in red. And let's bring it over here. Like so. Cool. Now we've got a top here.

Now we want to add some details like the hair coming up from the top here. And let's do this. We'll use the pencil. And now let's select the right color first, and we can create some claims. So let's create one here. So click and then click and drag to create a copy.

Create a point here, click and drag to create a curve. And then let's go ahead and create a point here, point here and a point there. So there we have a simple hair shape that we can adjust, like so. And if we wanted that corner to be curved, just use the Direct Selection tool and then carve that out. I'm just going to copy that. paste that in.

And I'm going to arrange this to the back or since the back, see this, arrange, Send to Back to place, one here and a smaller one. Hear like so arrange, sent back. And now I'm going to select the same one. So copy and paste. And I'm going to make this one bigger. And let's go to arrange center back again.

Zoom out slightly. I'm just going to use the selection tool here to adjust the shape of the hair, like so. Cool. Just one more small one here. Excellent. So now that we've got the top of our night The next thing we want to do is we wants to create the sorts of flares for the shoulder of the cape, the top of the cape is let's use the same thing.

So in fact, let's go ahead and choose a circle first wants to sort of cover the shoulder here. And using In fact, let's send this to the back. place this in the correct area. And then using the sorts of shapes that we've created here, we can now just want to place this as we want to, like so. We've got one here. Okay, let's turn this around.

So we've got one here. And let's copy that. And let's place another one here, slightly smaller. And let's make sure that these are sent to the back as well. So arrange, Send to Back and just move that slightly down. Right.

Slight adjustments to the shape. And we'll want to create a nother one at the front here. Just to show that the cape is also going across the chest. So let's go and flip this so reflects Vertical and you'll see now we can create a sort of overlap here like so. Cool. Just going to make this slightly bigger and we can also use direct selection tool to adjust the way that this looks cool.

We're so happy with that. We can go ahead and select all of this Ctrl G to group that and don't worry about this overlapping the show that for now we can fix that later and paste this. So copy the group, paste it and let's go ahead flip this reflects vertical and we're going to put this in roughly the same place. align this horizontally. And now using let's ungroup the arms ungroup the arm so that we can select the shoulder pads again and select the shoulder pads, we can arrange and bring those to the front. Excellent.

So the next thing we want to do is we want to create the sort of neck guard here. So let's go ahead and select the eclipse tool. Create a perfect circle and want to create two circles. So one, which is dark here like so. And copy and paste place this one on top and this one will be that color. Just make this make this close together.

And we want to, in fact, let's go ahead and select all the objects for the heads, including the visor, so all the objects for the head and group that so that when we place this one place both of these shapes, top of the head. So we should be able to select the group, arrange and bring that to the front. Excellent. So it's the same with the shoulder pads that's like the shoulder pads and the cape here and the range and bring those to the front as well. Excellent. So the last thing we wants to create now is the cape for character.

So to do this, let's go ahead and select The red color. And I'm going to use the pencil for this again. And in fact, before we do that, let's go ahead and move these closer together and bring the head to the front. Just going to use the pencil now. And, in fact, let's choose a different layer. So let's lock this layer here.

Select a different layer and bring this led to the bottom. And now because this layer is locked, we can't actually affect our character. So making sure that layer two is selected. Let's go ahead and draw our cape. So I'm just going to draw a cape here. So just one point here.

Stick on the anchor point. draw another curve here, click on the anchor point just so that we can create a nice sharp corner which is going to create a curve here, like so. And then the cape coming back up, like so. Cool. Now we can use the Direct Selection tool here to adjust the points, just the just the point slightly moving the handles just to create a better curve. And now what I want to do is I want to duplicate this case, so Ctrl C, and then Ctrl V, in fact, Ctrl Shift v to place to place it in place.

And then we're going to press buy on the keyboard. Select the dark color here. And now what we're going to do is we're just going to create a another sheet So in fact using another color, let's go ahead and choose this bright color for now. Just going to create another shape on top here like so. And using this shape, select both the new shape and the dark shape we want to go to in fact it's not here, let's go to Windows. And we want to find Pathfinder.

Now with Pathfinder selected, we can actually add this here. So using Pathfinder, let's go ahead and select Minus Front By mind seeing the front you'll see that we've got our cake behind, and our cake in front. Cool. So there we have it, our final night character design, feel free to try out different color combinations and different designs. There's a lot of potential for experimentation with these type of characters. Now you can see how I've used this first concept as a base for a whole set of different character designs based on characters on the chessboard.

I hope you've learned a lot in this demo, and that you can apply these skills to your own workflows. I hope that you've learned some new things in Illustrator that you haven't been able to use before, and that you can use them to create your own future character designs. I had another fun creating this course. So thanks for watching. Good luck creating your own simple night characters, and I'll see you next time.