Illustrator Tutorial - The Basics of Isometric Design

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Illustrator Tutorial - The Basics of Isometric Design

Hey everyone! Today I've got another Adobe Illustrator tutorial for you. It's about the basics of isometric design. I'll explain how to create an isometric grid and how to create different isometric actions to make your workflow a whole lot faster. I will expand this illustration next week with some more techniques and Illustrator goodness. After that, I'll also show you how to save it for After Effects and how to animate it!

Here are the setting I use in the video:

Grid:
2500 px
2500 px

Grid segments:
70
70

Isometric actions:

iso left:

Scale:
82%
70,5%

Shear:
-30

Rotate:
-30

iso right:

Scale:
82%
70,5%

Shear:
30

Rotate:
30

iso top:

Scale:
82%
70,5%

Shear:
30

Rotate:
-30

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Thanks and enjoy :)
Bas

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Motion:

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Buttcapper:

[ahmadluayeleiwy]

How did I miss such amazing video for 4 years? I needed these actions since ages.

[michaelballinger]

This is awesome thank you, I made a reverse action to turn isometric back to flat – handy when you want to add detail but forgot to keep the untransformed original.

ISO to flat LEFT
Rotate 30
Shear 30
Scale H 121.95%
Scale V 141.84%

[ririsnest]

this saved my life! I am currently studying graphic design and currently working on an isometric 3D design narrative/illustration assignment. This helped me so much to get started. the guides and grids definitely helped, its so much easier to work with. ALL TIPS WERE SUPER HELPFUL. Thank You!

[stuartmarsh]

These actions are pure gold! One note is that they only work as is if you have your isometric grid at the angle you set it up at. I learned that the hard way and had to do some translation for the angles I'm using.

[Miraki]

Finally I will start isometric illustrations! Thank you so much. Keep adding new videos.

[TomYeeha]

I love this tutorial. Subscribed.


Isometric design is just the surface level of it. Under the hood it's packed with tips on clever ways to use illustrator such as actions, grids/guides, bounding boxes etc.

[ZeoZeonardo]

been through and watched every single one of your tutorials, now i feel pretty ready for animating, thank you

[maithibui]

Omg!! Amazing!! Thank you so much for this tutorial! I have been learning isometric for a while but i did not know that 'action' tool until now~~

[annisadyahtovanni]

This is the best free software Ive seen. Respect.

[sytsebakker]

wauw! what a helpful tutorial on isometric design. No flashy animations, just clear information and tips.

Thanks for that. Just discoverd your channel and can't wait to watch the other tutorials to experiment and create some isomeric designs.

[ELECTRHERMIT]

quite the pleasure to watch a video in crisp 1440p at 60 FPS, attention to detail is GREATLY appreciated.

[mohamadborna]

Just pomped the dopamine out of my veins! love this tool adobe illustrator 😍

[Steevee]

Best tutorial I saw this year! Gonna have so much fun with this..

[nordicdruid]

The custom action is quite clever. I am using Affinity Designer with its isometric grid features that also provide an option to transform a shape into the correct angle. I couldn't live without.

[hakusa]

Thank you so much for the tutorial! A lot of helpful tips in there that makes iso vectors a lot more fun to create. Thanks for your thoughtful sharing.

[LAUZERTV]

Dude bro u got the isometric alpha yo! I am needing this to make my typeface super pixel perfect! U are the G! <3

[veraw.]

I keep coming back to this tutorial. Great stuff! It's clear, to the point and fast.

[naliniinamdar]

Nice concept. Really I enjoyed it. Thanks for the video

[michaelbhoy]

Hi Bas
Your video has been incredibly useful. Maths and trigonometry not being a strong point, your action sets have made creation of isometric drawing much easier – only so much can be done by eye and guesswork so a big thanks.

[t.br.]

Thank you so much for sharing; that's exactly what I need for a project I'm starting. That will save me sooo much time (and nerves)! Great!