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INFOGRAPHIC SERIES - Tasty Tacos

11/4/2018

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Create a Tasty Taco, complete with a crispy shell, lettuce, shredded beef, tomatoes, cheese and even a guacamole on top. Give it some texture and its ready to go. 
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Create a circle. No fill, heavy stoke (the example uses a 10 pt stroke).
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Use the Direct Selection Tool to select the top point of the circle and delete it to create a half circle. 
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Draw a larger circle, delete the lower half.

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Place the half circles as shown. Use the Outline Mode (COMMAND + Y) to line up the ends of the lines perfectly.
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Duplicate the small half circle and move it over to the right side. Line up the end points. 
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Use the Direct Selection Tool to select the small circles left most point and delete it. 

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Draw a line front the right point to the left the half circle. 
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Duplicate the large half circle and move it over to the left point of the left half circle. Line up the ends exactly. 
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Select shapes 1, 2 and 3. Join them together under Object>Path>Join (COMMAND + J). Select shapes 4 and 5 and join them together.

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Select both joined shapes and use the Pathfinder Divide function to divide the shapes. Ungroup the shapes and deselect. Use the Direct Select Tool to remove the overlapping arc.
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Fill the shapes with a color. Darker in back. Lighter in front. 
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Copy the front shape. Remove the stroke on the shape then choose the Paste In Place Command. Remove the fill on the shape you just pasted.

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Repeat the process with the shape in back. This will leave 2 shapes with fills, no strokes and in front, two shapes with stroke, no fills.
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Use the Scissor Tool (C) to cut section of the front stroked objects and remove the cut sections. Add circles to the cut sections.
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For the internal taco parts, draw a line, add rounded end caps (hot dog the lines). Apply a Zig Zag Effect (Effect> Distort and Transform>Zig Zag) to the line to create the lettuce wiggles. 

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Create different colors of lettuce. 
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Duplicate the lines and make them darker for shredded beef wiggles. Make the lines thicker.
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Create some tomato bits using squares, round the corners, rotate them at a 45° angle

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Copy the wiggles, make them thinner and make them orange for the cheese. Copy the wiggle for guacamole, shorten the line to make the wiggles closer together. 
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To create a window for the internal taco bits, duplicate the back shape of the taco shell. 
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Add a rectangle to the side of the copied shape lining up the shape with the bottom of the copied shape. 

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Select the two shapes, use the Pathfinder Unite Mode to join the shapes together. 
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Remove the fill and stroke from the shape. Click the Draw Inside button at the bottom of the Tool Bar. 
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Select all the taco bits, group them and copy them. 

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Paste them inside the shape and position and scale them so they fit. Click on the Draw Normal Mode at the bottom of the Tool Bar. 
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Place the shape with the taco internals pasted inside, on the taco. Send the shape backward until it appears behind the front shell. Object>Arrange>Send Backward. 
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Use the Arc Tool to create 1/4 circles for texture on the taco shell. Place them on the shell using different stroke colors to create the shell texture. Enjoy!

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