 Hello everybody welcome back to another Adobe Illustrator 2022 tutorial. In this one I'm going to show you how to make basically perfect patterns or basically repeating shapes at set perfect intervals just like this. So this is sort of like a pattern but really all it is is a circle and then it's increased in size and then circle around it. So how do we do this? Let me show you exactly what we do. First you want to go up and create your own little project. So file new and let's just go ahead and create a new thing. Let's create a new one and art and illustration thousand by a thousand pixels works just fine. We're going to do this one a little differently than that one so we're going to go ahead here and we're going to use the tool but we're going to select a rectangle for this one. So let's create a rectangle and then I'm just going to draw out a rectangle just like that. Now if you're just starting the chances are it just defaults with a one point stroke. For this tutorial I'm going to increase the stroke over here in the properties panel to let's say let's go with seven points. This is just a demonstration of the technique so again any size that you want to work with is totally cool with me. All right there we go. We've got our square but now or a rectangle and but now I want to create a rectangle around this rectangle so that we're creating a little bit of a symbol or a pattern but I don't want to do it manually by using the tool. All you got to do is go up here you want to go up to object and then you want to go to path and then here it is you basically want to go ahead and click on offset path. Using offset path allows you to create a shape around the original shape at a fixed interval so in this case it's selected 31 pixels but if you want it to be tighter then you can go to 20 and then click on 20 and then if you have this preview check mark click you'll see it there so I'm going to go ahead and left click on okay and now I've got a rectangle with a rectangle around it and here you go I'm going to give you a hint if you want to keep on going you can keep going to object path and then just go back to offset path 20 pixels click on it okay keep going object path and I think you see where this is going of course this is enough for me but if you want it to be a little different like maybe this one you want it 70 pixels hey I don't know I don't know what you're going for but this is how you create little shapes unique shapes symbols your own little style but using just one technique called offset path that's how you do it inside Adobe Illustrator thank you for watching I've got a ton more tutorials coming up stay tuned