The sides of the hexagon should be four cells tall. Now we begin by drawing a hexagon with the triangular points on the top and bottom. Our fill/stroke settings should still be black stroke and no fill. Lock this layer in the layers panel containing all of our grid.Ĭreate a new layer and grab the Pen tool. With this grid of squares now selected, go View>Guides>Make GuidesĪlso, go View>Smart Guides and make sure they are turned on (there should be a checkmark indicating that they’re on.) Turn on Preview to see what is happening here. We’re going to give this grid 50x columns and 50x rows with 0px gutter. Select the square we just made and go Object>Path>Split Into Grid (It’s going to disappear in just a moment.) I am setting my stroke color to black, but it can be any color you want.

Select the shape and ensure that it has a 1pt stroke and no fill. You’re going to love this technique for isometric artwork and for all kinds of grid-based artwork and logo design.Ĭreate a perfectly square shape by using the Rectangle tool and holding down the Shift key while dragging out a shape.Īlign this shape to the center of the document because neatness is nice.

Play with sketches and build grids in Adobe Illustrator that makes it easy and fun to build out 3D shapes and isometric artwork.

Isometric illustrator