Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

Transforming with Respect

to Independent Origins

Allow me to introduce Uzz, cloying corporate mascot extraordi-

naire. Based on another found petroglyph (seen in Figure 5-57),

Uzz will plead with, guilt, or cajole his audience into brand loy-

alty—or at least that’s the hope. Over the course of the next exer-

cise, you’ll recreate Uzz’s trademark cyclops eye-head using some

of the techniques demonstrated earlier in the lesson as well as

some new transformations. You’ll also learn about saving selec-

tions and how to use saved selections to speed up future work.

1.

Open the Uzz artwork and examine the layers. Nav-

igate to the Lesson 05 subfolder, inside the Lesson

Files-AIcs5 1on1 folder. Open the fi le called

Uzz.ai, where you’ll fi nd our corporate mascot (sans eye-

lashes), waiting for the fi nal touches before being set loose

on the public.

Bring up the Layers panel if it isn’t open already. The Wuv

Uzz.ai fi le has fi ve layers, three of which are locked and can

be safely ignored for the time being. In this exercise, you’ll

be focusing primarily on the Circle Eye layer.

2. Hide the Primitives layer. For now, the Primitives layer is

going to be distracting to the work needed on the Circle Eye

layer. Click the icon next to the Primitives layer to hide it.

3. Turn on the Circle Eye layer. Click the leftmost column of

the Circle Eye layer to make it visible. You should see a per-

fect ...