Comments on: Deke’s Techniques: Drawing a heart in Illustrator

By: TCarroll

TCarroll — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:30:11 +0000

I tried to do that and got the exact same message as Eric. However I can’t just select the top portion with that white tool… when I try the entire heart gets selected and I get that annoying error message. Please help! I need to learn this for my Basic Graphics Design class!

By: Colleen Wheeler

Colleen Wheeler — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:27:40 +0000

Hi, @Eric! Yes, paths got much easier to join in CS5. But I’ve consulted Deke for a CS4-friendly alternative:

–Get the white arrow (direct selection tool).

–Marquee the overlapping points at which the tops of the heart halves meet up.

–Press Ctrl+J (PC) or Cmd-J (Mac).

–Now marquee the two overlapping points at the bottom of the heart.

–Press Ctrl+J (PC) or Cmd-J (Mac) again.

That should do it. –Deke

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:11:02 +0000

Using CS4 due to financial reasons. Trying to join the paths is not easy. I fluked the path join on half of the heart but find it impossible to fluke the join of the path for the hole heart.
The message I get is
to join, you must select two open endpints, If they are not on the same path, they cannot be on text paths nor inside graphs, and if both of them are grouped, they must be in the same group.

Any clues