

Select the top oval and copy it (Ctrl-C). You can do this by right clicking on the oval, scrolling down to arrange, and clicking on bring to front. Rearrange the cup by moving the oval so it is on top of the cup base. In order for this to work, the pen tool has to be selected and you have to hold down alt. Take the bottom two lines of the triangle and one at a time, pull them out. Holding down alt while pulling out lines with the pen tool will cause the lines to curve. With smart guides turned on, when your pen tool lines up with the center of the circle a pink line will appear. You can turn smart guides on by going to view and clicking on smart guides. Make sure smart guides is turned on so you can center the point in the middle of the circle. The point of the triangle should be pointing down. Use the pen tool to draw a triangle from the two anchors downward. With the oval, we just drew we are going to focus on the two side anchors. Draw a Triangle Halfway Down the Oval Using the Side Anchors as GuidesĮach shape made with the ellipse tool starts out with 4 anchors: one on each side of the circle and one on the top and bottom of the circle. Start out by drawing an oval with the ellipse tool.Ģ. You can then go in and fill it with color but for now, everything you draw should have a black stroke and no fill. The first step in making a coffee cup is drawing the outline of the cup. This tutorial requires some knowledge of basic Adobe Illustrator functions, however, I have provided links to relevant articles that explain certain Illustrator tools in depth so you might be able to get by if you are a true beginner to Illustrator.
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For this week’s blog post I wanted to teach you how to actually make something, in this case, a coffee cup.
