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Use excels, microphages or TA N sells their shape. Looks quite complicated, but it doesn’t have to be complicated, Hello. Sanctus, welcome back to Joe Baum at the Tutorial Channel that helps you to create graphical abstract for your research so in the comment section. I receive requests, asking me how to draw some complicated cells like injecting cells, macrophages or GaN cells. Their shape looks quite complicated, but it doesn’t have to be complicated if you know how to use a climate tools. So in this tutorial, I will show you how to quickly. Create these irregular shape cells through Pathfinder tools. So without further ado, let’s start to draw out, man. This tutorial. We will focus on a tool called Pathfinder Tool. You can go to window and here. Pathfinder to call it out and it will be an icon over here on the left. That finder tool can help us to build up the irregular shapes very quickly, so I think we will mainly use a function called unite in the tool set, so I will very quickly show you how to create these dendritic cells and macrophages elves. So first I will create an ellipse as the cell body. That’s why I already have one over here, but I will draw it again And then the nucleus to get rid of the outline, use direct selection tool to push aside in like that, I will not draw exactly as the example because I don’t know if they have it copyright, so it’s actually a great thing to learn how to draw these images by yourself, so you can do some small automation and adjustments. Then you’ll be more comfortable using them. I know a lot of my scientist. Clients are quite concerned with copyrights. Then we can put on the processes on to the cell body so also use ellipse tool to draw a very flat ellipse, two men and do some minor adjustments with direct selection tool to make one tip rounder instead of pointy and the signs. I’ll make it a little bit inward, okay, then this will be the basic unit for our processes. Then you can start duplicating it and put it to the back of the cell, okay, then. I will add on some of these smaller ones here, okay. I’ll lock the nucleus and select all of these and go to your Pathfinder tool and click on unite. So you see that your processes are merged to create the cell body. So now we will only need to make these transitions around it, so let’s select them all and then click on these round handles. I’m zoom in so you can see it clearly select these and then drag on these rally handles that you can smooth and of the angles, so the rest of the process is really just the refinement of the shape of your cell and make it the way that you’d like it to be and you can always add more processes along the way with direct selection tool. Just make sure that you’ve put the new components at the back or your unite them, so it will apply the same gradient onto your new process that can save quite a lot of time, so that’s how you draw the end. RIT Excel and for macrophage. I will use it as review of Cat Finder Tool. It means that I just show you, so let’s grab that. It loops over there so, and then I’ll grab my rectangle tool to create these blockchain processes [Music]. Okay, when you’re ready, select them all and click on unite. Okay, then we will go through the same process of making these parts rounded. You see that they have a little rim over here a little rim of light, so I will implement that by overlaying another circle on top of it and effect Gaussian blur just to add a little bit of blurriness to it. Okay, and then that’s good lock these two and I will continue to do some adjustments and then I’ll speed this part up. So this is how you draw these complicated shape cells in a very quick manner, and I hope this helped you with your graphical abstract, and if you find this video helpful, welcome to give a thumbs up and subscribe to draw Bell, Matt and I look forward to seeing you in the next tutorial you.