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Design Points n PixelS


infographic series - curved ribbons

12/28/2015

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Creating curved ribbons in Illustrator is not one of those things that makes a lot of sense when you think about how to curve them and make them look real.

But this makes it easy for both a curved ribbon and a ribbon turn as well.
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Start with a rectangle, set it to no fill, but with a stroke. 
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Select just the upper left corner with the Direct Selection tool and activate the Live Corner Widget.
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Drag the corner widget into the center as far as it will go to form a rounded corner.
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Select the lower right corner point with the Direct Selection Tool and delete. This will remove the right and bottom line.

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Duplicate the line.
Select both line and Join them together.  Object>Path Join. Join twice to close both open ends. (COMMAND + J)
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Switch the fill with the stroke. 

Chose the Reflect Tool and reflect the ribbon, click COPY to get a duplicate.
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Change the color of the second ribbon to a darker color.

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Send the darker ribbon to the back to make it look like it wraps around.
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Create another rectangle, keep the same width as the height of the existing ribbon. Fill with the darker green.
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Select the upper right of the light green ribbon with the Direct Selection tool and move it to the right side of the dark green rectangle.

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Duplicate the ribbons and move them to the upper part of the vertical rectangle.
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Select the lower right corner of the upper ribbon with the Direct Selection Tool and move it to the outside edge of the vertical rectangle to create the fold-over.
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Upper and lower sections with curved ribbons with the center section with the fold-over.

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Final ribbon with curves and roll-overs.
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Some added elements to create more of an infographic!
1 Comment
Martin Davidson link
3/19/2018 01:18:12 am

Great info!

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