How can I make a template Icon in Adobe illustrator?

Question

I created the attached icon for my client. Now my client wants to have the original AI file and he asked me to make a template so that he can change the flag in shades anytime he wants.

I was wondering if there's an easy way to do it? so that even a person having a little knowledge of AI can do that.

Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

By using Clipping Masks and locking your layers, that's how I would do it.

Here is a sunglasses(ish) shape that I just made.

Copy the two circular paths that make up the lenses and past them in place. I have hidden the frames, so you can better see the lens circles.

Place the design that you wish to have fill your lenses below everything else (doesn't really need to be below everything else, just the lenses).

Now, with the lens circles and the lens design both selected (make sure that the circles are on top of whatever you want on your lenses).

Create a clipping mask

Giving you this

Then, just lock the layers that you don't want mistakenly altered.