Tip: If you want to align your lines further to a specific value after that, say 20px, select all of your Z axis lines and in the Align panel select align to selection, click on the first line you made, and enter “20px” in Distribute Spacing. To set it, hit the horizontal distribute button.ĭuplicate your freshly made Z lines–copy, paste basically. I’m not going to give you the shortcuts for that. Keep it clean, so Group them, Ctrl or ⌘-G. Once you have your first copy you can ⌘-D to repeat that until you get as many verticals as you need to cover your artboard. Now with a simple Option-Shift-D you can drag to duplicate it. Draw a line and, using transform, align it to a full pixel value on the X and Y. Note that even if the object is hollow or has no top you might be dealing with an object that has 4 to 5 sides partially visible. What this means is that whatever you choose to sketch will have at least two sides visible in addition to the top face. Anything drawn on your isometric grid, which is at 60 degree angles to itself, will not really have a front face or bottom face. If you didn’t know it already, to really get into the isometric sketching you will have to deal with the X, Y, and Z axis. Be able to make kick ass isometric cubes.Be able to set up an isomeric grid on art boards.Know some fundamentals about isometric drawing.The goal of this tutorial is to introduce you to the basics of isometric sketching in Illustrator CC (without the fancy 3D extrusion features). In this case we will study the methods behind the all-demanding Isometric icon. To celebrate all of your support for our first Kickstarter, to , we’ve decided to share with you some of the techniques behind the icons.

Isometric grid illustrator