Draw a circle (keyboard shortcut: L) over the lollipop making sure it is centered on the lollipop. Now we want to clean up the lollipop a little bit. Click and hold your tool for about 2 seconds over the lollipop to create the swirl. Hold your twirl tool over the lollipop making sure to cover the whole lollipop with the tool. The only rule you need to follow is your width and height dimensions have to be the same. You are going to have to mess with this to make sure your twirl tool is bigger than your lollipop. Change your width and height to something around 400 pts and press ok. We want our twirl tool to be bigger than our lollipop circle so double click on the twirl tool to show the twirl tool options box.īy default, the width and the height box will start out at 100 pts. Hold down your mouse on the width tool to show more options and click on the twirl tool. Unfortunately, the twirl tool does not have a keyboard shortcut so to find the twirl tool, select shift-W to select the width tool. Select the twirl tool in your left side toolbar. Now we are going to color the lollipop so if you want to follow along with the colors I have chosen I have included them above.Īlternate the colors until you reach the end of the circle. When you are done deleting the circle you can unlock the rectangle again so we can move on to coloring the rectangles. Now you can select the bottom circle more easily to delete it. If you are having trouble selecting the bottom circle, what I like to do is select one of the top rectangles and press control-2 to lock it into place. You no longer need that bottom circle we used as a guide for a shape builder tool so you can delete it now. I have included this picture with arrows to show you the two places where you should be dragging your shape builder tool. We want to delete all parts of the rectangle that are outside of the circle so to do this hold down alt and drag your shape builder tool across the outside of your circle. The way the shape builder tool works is if you hold down alt while using it you can delete sections of your artwork. Select your circle and rectangles and select your shape builder tool (keyboard shortcut: shift-M). Instead, grab all of your rectangles and stretch them to fit the circle. We don’t want to add another rectangle to cover the entire circle because then we will have one really small section. You will notice in the picture above that on the right side of the circle we haven’t quite reached the end of the circle. With the new rectangle selected, press control-d to duplicate the rectangle across the entire circle. Make sure the rectangle is selected and while holding down shift and alt, drag the rectangle to the right like in the picture above to duplicate it. With your rectangle tool (keyboard shortcut: M) selected, draw a rectangle about the size of the one featured above and align it with the edge of the circle. This will act as a guide for your lollipop head which we will delete later. If you don’t have Adobe Illustrator and you want to grab these lollipops they will be part of my Freebie Friday this week.ĭraw a circle with your ellipse tool (keyboard shortcut: L). I thought I would share with you the process I go through to make these lollipops so you can recreate them for your own designs. While I have been unsuccessful on multiple occasions, I have finally found a way to make lollipops that’s a slight variation of my original intended lollipop style, but it still looks pretty good. They are Made of 1/8" Baltic Birch Plywood, Laser Cut, and made in the USA in a smoke free environment.For a long time, I have been trying to make lollipops, you know the ones that look like candy canes wrapped in a circle. We do all this to ensure we provide you with premium quality, one-of-a-kind designs! Lastly we cut samples, check quality of the details at different sizes, and photograph the actual sample cuts so that you see exactly what you are going to get! Then we photograph our drawings and digitally trace them by hand to create files that are ready to cut. This design is completely unique to our shop! ***Larger sizes will be top heavy, and the stem can be slightly delicate, please handle with care*** ***Please note smaller sizes will have delicate points (the candy stick/stem)** They can be sanded or painted with acrylic paints, spray paints and wood stains without an issue.įull detail-all the swirl & stripes outlines They are great for decorating yourself, or leaving them a simple wood design. Makes for easy painting and to customize in your style. This design is perfect for any candy theme decor and crafts! Choose from to design detail options.
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