The document provides instructions for completing Step 3 of a tribal mask tattoo design lesson in Adobe Illustrator: 1. Describe how to use the distort tools to alter a design in an unusual way by focusing on thin lines and avoiding dense black areas. 2. Explain how to use the Reflect tool or Reflect command to flip an image horizontally, vertically, or at an angle. 3. Instruct the reader to clean up their design, select and delete large areas, and ensure changes are made on both sides in order to make the black line work into a compound path that can be filled with a gradient.

1. The Adobe Illustrator:
Tools of the Day!
Lesson 1:
TRIBAL MASK TATTOO DESIGN
Step 3:
Distort, Reflect, Merge, and Gradient

2. 1) The Distort Tools
• There are 7 different distort tools underneath the Warp Tool
• The Warp Tool Molds objects with the movement of the cursor (smudge)
• Twirl: Swirling Distortions Within An Object
• Pucker: Deflates an Object: Moves Anchor Points Towards Cursor
• Bloat: Inflates Object: Moves Anchor Points Towards Cursor
• Scallop: Adds Random Curved Detail To Outline of Object
• Crystallize: Adds Random Spiked Detail to Outine of Object
• Wrinkle: Adds Wrinkle Like Detail to Outline of Object

4. Your Goal Using The Distort Tools
• Alter Your Design In An Unusual Way
• Important to focus on Thin Lines
• Avoid Lots of Dense Black Areas
• Distort Outward/Break Circular Patterns

5. 2) Reflecting
• Reflect = Flip Image (Horizontal, Vertical, Free Transform)
• 2 Ways To Reflect An Object:
STOP: Independent Work
• The Reflect Tool
• Underneath the Rotate Tool
• The Reflect Command:
• Object Menu > Transform Menu > Reflect
• For this Assignment We Will Use the Reflect Command

6. Copy: Copies Reflection
Horizontal Axis: Wide Axis: X
Vertical Axis: Tall Axis:Y
Angle: Type In An Angle
Preview: Shows Future Reflection

7. Now You Should Have This:
STOP: Independent Work
...And Now You’ve Got To Get Creative

8. Find A Face Or Design
• Clean Up What You Have Get Rid of Dense Areas
• Use the Selection Tool (Black Arrow)
• Select Large Areas and Delete
• Whatever You Do on One Side: Do to the Other

9. 3) Make Compound Path
• Since We Want Our Black Line WorkHave Gradient Fill We
STOP: Independent
To
Need To Make It All One Path: Turn Many Shapes Into One
Big Shape
• Object Menu>Compound Path Menu>Make
• When You Define Objects as a Compound Path
They Take On The Same Style Attributes
• Sub Layer Paths Merge

10. 4) Gradient