Master the Isometric View in Illustrator Learn How to Create a Yummy Vector Cheese Slice

Hi everyone and welcome back to another Vector Twist tutorial. Today I would like to show you how to create an isometric cheese slice in Illustrator. It's really simple and really fast and we're going to focus on the eraser tool in Illustrator, one of the tools that's rarely used, and I would like to show you how useful it can be. So let's get right to it. On the artboard we're going to be working with a rectangle, so let's choose the rectangle tool and then choose a light yellow for the fill. Then just create a square on the artboard. I'm going to use my isometric actions again and select the isometric top. Once that's done I'm going to choose the eraser tool from the toolbar. Double click it once and then in the eraser tool options window we want to change the roundness. Let's bring the roundness down to 60% and the size we can leave as is. The angle we won't change either. Then press ok. With the open and close brackets on the keyboard you can increase and decrease the size of the So increase your eraser with the brackets and then you can cut out pieces from your cheese slice. Maybe shrink it down a little bit, add another one, increase the size and then just keep clicking just like that. Really simple and really fast. Once that's done we're going to create a copy to the back and then with the error keys on the toolbar we're going to nudge it down. Then we'll change the fill into a darker color and here's our cheese slice. All we have to do now is just close the corners. Now here's another trick. Instead of using the pen tool and then creating the shapes for the sides and to close everything off we can work much faster as well. Let's switch the fill to the stroke and then zoom in. We're going to be creating straight vertical lines. So one line over here and then we're going to just duplicate it and place it on the corners where we need to create shapes. We're going to create duplicates of this line and then align it with the openings. We just have to pay attention that it actually meets especially on the corners of the outside. So if it's a little bit too far away it won't cut properly. So make sure that it's just flush to one of the anchor points. Now once we've created all of the vertical lines let's select everything and then in the pathfinder we're going to hit divide. Now we've divided all the pieces but we have holes. We need to fill them with the color. So the easiest and fastest in this case actually is to use the live paint bucket. So go into your toolbar and underneath the shape builder select live paint bucket and then let's open up our swatches panel and let's select the darkest yellow that I have added to my swatches and then when we zoom in we can fill in those empty gaps where we have no color and at the same time also color the edges. So this is going to be a little bit darker. We're going to fill in this part and then so on. We're going to be creating this all the way around. When we go to the bottom of course we're going to switch to a slightly lighter color and then fill in those holes again as well. And then one more up here and then we'll deselect. And here's our isometric cheese slice. Really fast and really simple yet quite effective. And all we have to do now is expand our live paint. So select the shape, go to object, find live paint and select expand. Then in the pathfinder select merge. And that's it!