Creating a Flower Logo

Let us create a stylish "flower" logo in Illustrator

Step 1

• Using the Ellipse Tool (L), draw a circle with no fill and a small stroke (about 1 pt)
• Keep Shift pressed while drawing, to create a circle an not an ellipse
• This simple circle is all we need to draw for this logo!

 

Step 2

• Make a copy of the circle by dragging it and holding the Alt- key pressed at the same time (note that the cursor changes into a double arrow when copying!)
• By also holding the Shift key pressed the circle is copied along a straight line and will be positioned exactly where we want.
• Use the live guides to position it as in the example on the right

 

 

 

 

 

Step 3

• Select both the two circles with the Selection Tool (V)
• Then double click on the Rotate Tool (R)
• Type in the settings in the window on the right and click on the Copy button
• The result will be the four overlapping circles below

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 4

• Select the Shapebuilder Tool (Shift-M)
• Press the Alt- key to make the Shapebuilder subtract shapes instead of joining shapes (note the small minus sign in the tool)
• ALT- click in the larger parts of the circles to remove them. The result is below on the left.
• Then select all the shapes and double-click on the Rotate Tool and type in 45 degrees and press Copy
• The result will be the flower below in the right

 

 

Step 5

• Select all elements (Control-A)
• Then select the Live Paintbucket Tool (K)
• Select a colour from the Swatches panel
• Click inside the larger parts of the flower
• Then change colour and fill the smaller parts of the flower
• Finish off by setting the stroke to a zero value

 

A result (with some drop shadow and some gradients)