I hope this sounds exciting and I hope you'll join my class, a guide to illustrator's pathfinder tool, drawing butterflies. Finally, we'll put everything together and design a digital illustration or repeatable pattern as the class project. After learning how to break a complex object into simple shapes and recreate those with simple illustrator shapes and tools, we'll dive in and create our motifs and embellishments using the Pathfinder tool. We'll continue by gathering inspiration and analyze the shape dynamics of a butterfly.

We will start by going through all the options of the Pathfinder tool and see how they work on simple examples. We'll work with the alignment Blend tool and the Reflect tool. We'll draw simple shapes and combine them with the Pathfinder tool to create complex digital drawings.

By going through the project and designing butterflies in Illustrator, you will learn how to use alternative tools to the pen tool, such as building shapes with the Pathfinder tool.

You'll learn how to simplify a complex object and construct it using only basic shapes and certain alterations. In this class, we'll turn our heads towards the animal world, and we will be drawing butterflies using illustrators, basic tools and shapes, such as the Pathfinder tool. I draw inspiration from nature, my travels, folklore, books, and I love designing patterns of fauna and flora. But my love for illustrating flowers and designing procure flora patterns is not. Whether I have the green thumb or not, is debatable. I am Daniella from, and I am a surface pattern designer from Bucharest, Romania.

Pathfinder tool illustrator