 What's good YouTube, it's your boy Chihuahua back a child again with another art video man If you're new to this channel go ahead and hit that like button and come in and subscribe Make sure you click post notifications So you will be notified anytime your butt drops on heat in today's video I will be showing you guys how to create a symbol a custom symbol inside of adobe illustrator Pretty much a symbol is where you turn your art into like a sticker So you'll be able to reuse it later on down the line Without further ado, let's jump right into this video. The first thing you want to do is create an art that you want to turn into a symbol and the type of arts you want to create when you make a symbol just think of stuff that you use a lot For backgrounds, that's what I do when I'm making symbols like clouds Stars fire Just whatever you know, you draw a lot and you You want to reuse in different pictures, you know I'm saying so Right now, let's work on a little cloud. You feel and it's just for tutorial purposes Give y'all a great example. I utilize the symbol tools And it'll buy you a whole lot of time like when you create an artwork, you know So what I would do is I would spend my time really working on some custom symbols if I was you guys and just Make things that I can reuse Let's do like a money bag Symbols where you use and create a new layer color this the long way It's a quicker way to color this I just I don't know. I just decided What you want to do But your selection tool you see this cloud You want to drag this cloud Wait, why we got everything selected like this We can do we go to object Span appearance Click merge on our path finder and we can drag this entire cloud Drag this whole entire clouds symbol tool you just drop it in there And then you can name it whatever you want to name it You hit okay And it save a copy of your art as a symbol. Let's do the same thing with the dollars Don't just drag it just drag and drop and every time you drag and drop some art that you completed It adds it to your symbols, you know I'm saying so you can make you a whole collection of different pieces of art Save it as symbols so you can stay reusing Now Just to say say if I want to save all these symbols I created like in a playlist I call it play this but really it's just like a fire, you know gonna say symbols and you can create the The name for the symbols That you just created. You know I'm saying how you use how would I? use a symbol let's say if I was drawing a Dope picture Cartoon We got one right. I drew a picture already But I want to make my background creative But I don't want to spend too much time That's when your symbols will come in handy Go to our list simple list Drag and drop Pre-art we made And it ain't like it's cheating because you drew the art that you reuse You see I'm saying And by its time and that's why I said when you start creating symbols Take your time on the pieces that you're gonna reuse You know sense So if I was really going to use all these symbols I made I would really take my time on the clouds And what I would do is I make a whole list of categories of different things I'll make a whole folder full of 20 different clouds. I'll make a whole folder full of 20 different dollar signs and you know just make a Big old selection so you can just have a variety Choose from and it'll look more natural. You know I'm saying you got different Styles of different things to use use these symbols I Take this to the next level though I just wanted to show y'all a little basic video on how you use symbols Thank you guys for watching. Make sure you Like this video and you leave in the comments of video you would like for me to make nicks You know I'm saying I appreciate you guys for the love and support make sure you stay tuned Mohi coming soon