How do I rotate and duplicate a line in Illustrator

Question

I am trying to recreate the line swirl in our compliment slip in Adobe Illustrator? I have been struggling for hours with transforming straight lines, creating waves, rotating, etc. but still can't get there?

If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated!

Anne

Answer 1

The tool you're looking for is called the Blend Tool.

Here's how you use it:

• Create two lines using the Pen Tool:

• Activate the Blend Tool W is the keyboard shortcut, or you can click it on the Tools palette:

• Click on the two lines you want to blend.

• While the blend on your artboard is active, double-click the Blend tool icon to change the properties, or go into Object > Blend > Blend Options....

That should do it! You can play with the stroke colors and positioning, but blending the lines together is the key to doing what you want.

Answer 2

If you want a custom point of rotation, you're best off with the rotate tool (option+click to set your point of rotation). Then you Transford again to repeat it.

If you can just use one of the 9 standard points, I prefer to do this with a Transform effect.

Answer 3

Arch tool with a stroke of maybe 1 or 2. Then Object -> Expand -> Expand Stroke

Now drop a gradient in

Now you'll want to do rotate by a small increment using the rotate command)

Now hit CTRL+D a bunch of times until you're happy with it.

Mirror across both axis. Or you could have made a more complex arc/pen to begin with.