How to draw a volume icon in Adobe Illustrator
Making the Speaker
- Select the rectangle tool
- Create a black ‘vertical rectangle’
- Copy & Paste the rectangle and drag to the right – Edit>Copy, Edit>Paste in Place. Then hold down shift and drag to the right
- Colour the right rectangle red (Just to distinguish the two)
- Use the Direct Selection tool and select the two corners of the red rectangle that are furthest to the right:
- Use the Scale Tool (See toolbar above – the scale tool is on the right, near the top, usually) – drag the two corners up and down:
- Select the two right-hand-side corners again
- This time drag them to the right slightly, to make the red shape thicker
- Colour both rectangles black when you are happy with the shape:
Drawing the SoundWaves
- Using the elipse tool (found under the rectangle tool) and holding shift – drag out a circle
- Using the Direct Selection tool – drag out a ‘selection field’ to select a point on the left:
- Hit delete to remove the left hand side of the circle
- Select the new, semi circle
- Switch the stroke and fill so the stroke is black
- Increase the thickness of the stroke until it looks like this:
- Change the stroke cap to be circular
- Copy and paste in place the semi circle and tap the left arrow key to move to the left of it
- Unite the 2 parts of the icon with the Pathfinder – Unite tool
Lesson taken from this free course on Udemy – https://www.udemy.com/course/useful-tricks-and-tips-in-adobe-illustrator/learn/lecture/2988468#overview
