: How were the curls on this monogram done? Sorry if this is a bad question. I've just finished an adobe illustrator course so my skills are extremely limited. I'd like to make a monogram but

@Bethany839

To me it looks like this was just one shape, then flipped upside down and backwards.

Like this:



If you combine that with Rishab's technique, I suspect you'll be able to mimic this style.

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@Jamie315

You could redraw it and use Stroke. It would make drawing and aligning the lines a bit easier. This will not work for all situations, but for this specific one... maybe...


Use thin font as a guide to draw the N


I used Bariol - Thin.





Draw the orange line on top of it with the Pen tool

After this you can get rid of the original N.

Now you can easily draw a circle and snap move/snap it to the end point.


With Direct selection tool, click the bottom right of the circle and delete it.


Select the touching end points with Direct selection tool and join them Cmd+J
Use Pen tool to extend the circle inwards, if you want to


In Window > Stroke adjust the stroke weight and change Cap and Corner to rounded.




From then on it should be pretty straight forward to align stuff and round the corners even more, if necessary.

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@Holmes874

you don't need to use pen tool to create curls rather create the curls with the circle and delete the quater and make sure your stroke cap is set to Round

Here's a quick tutorial on this:



After creating your logo you can Expend your object and can use pathfinder to merge all shape in to one shape and then you can also apply some artistic effects from filter menu.

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