How to draw a shield icon or logo in Adobe Illustrator

• Select the pen tool
• Left click on the art board and move your mouse over to the left to drag the ‘line’:
  

• Hold down the left mouse key as you drag upwards and to the left to create the top concave outline of the shield

• hold down the alt key and click the ‘anchor point’ to create a straight point

• Hold down shift and click below and to the left to make the next part of the shield’s outline:

• Left click – below and to the right slightly to start the left-hand-side of the outline, drag the handle down and left slightly to add the inward curve:

• Add two more curves by clicking and dragging the handles along the path of the line
• ALT click the final anchor point

• Make sure the top of the shape, lines up with the bottom anchor point – Go to the pen tool and the add anchor point tool
• Show Smart Guides – drag a vertical guide from the left to line up with the bottom of the shield

• Use the Add Anchor Point Tool (hidden under the Pen Tool) – to Add another point at the top of the shield, that is inline with the bottom
• Use the Direct Selection Tool – select the anchor point to the top right and hit delete to get rid of it:

• Finish the left hand side of the shield – select the pen tool – click at the top and pull down a line to the bottom and click to joint it all as one:

create the right hand side

• select the whole shape as it is
• Switch the stroke and fill, so the shield is coloured in
• Edit > copy – Edit> paste in place
• Object>Transform>Reflect – Vertical, 90 degrees
• Shift and drag the new shape to the right
• select both shapes, then Pathfinder>Unite

• Metalic styling – add a silver/grey colour to the fill
• Select the Gradient Window, and select the gradient slider
• Add a third slider/point and change the opacity

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