Adobe Illustrator 2024 Tutorial: Make a Scientific Color Wheel with Pie Slices

Color is fascinating! 🎨 Learn how to create Scientific Color Wheels in Adobe Illustrator in this step-by-step tutorial. In this video, I'll show you how to: - Use the Ellipse tool to draw a perfect circle - Split the circle into 12 even pie slices - Fill each slice with colors from Adobe's Scientific color palette using the Live Paint tool - Organize primary, secondary, and complementary colors accurately - Rotate and adjust your wheel to highlight your preferred color orientation Whether you're a designer, illustrator, or love exploring color theory, this tutorial makes building a scientific color wheel easy and fun. TIME STAMPS 👉Assuming you already have a pie shape and changing the colors from HSB to Scientific 00:00 Introduction - Update HSB color wheel to Scientific 00:15 Using Adobe Illustrator for Scientific Colors 00:32 Opening Swatches Panel 00:42 Open Swatch Library, Scientific 00:51 Analogous Scientific Color Groupings 01:15 Choosing Colors for Your Wheel 02:33 Applying Adobe Scientific Colors 02:59 Identifying Primary and Complementary Colors 03:19 Rotating the Color Wheel 👉Starting from Scratch, making a Scientific Color Wheel 03:48 Creating the Pie with 12 Slices 04:13 Drawing the Circle 04:43 Using the Align Tool 05:01 Aligning Line and Circle 05:53 Rotating Lines to Create Pie Slices 06:55 Filling All 12 Pie Slices 07:13 Using Pathfinder to Divide 07:36 Using Live Paint Bucket 08:07 Filling Colors in Each Slice 08:31 Starting with Red-Orange 08:48 Continuing Around the Wheel 09:08 Adding a Black Background 09:41 Adjusting Rectangle to Artboard Size 10:01 Centering and Sending Background Back 10:26 Rotating Color Wheel to Desired Orientation 10:49 Wrap-Up & Final Tips 11:03 Subscribe & Share For additional resources, including animated gifs of this Scientific Color Wheel (made with pie slices in Adobe Illustrator), check out the blog: https://designertofullstack.com/how-to-create-a-color-wheel-in-illustrator/