Using Divide and Minus Back

In this movie, I'll show you how to create…the sleepy moon using a combination of static pathfinder operations,…including but not limited to the first and the last…in the second row here, divide and then minus back.…I'll go ahead and switch to my illustration in progress and I'll…turn on this layer here inside the layers panel called base objects.…And I'll go ahead and zoom into this…collection of six path outlines that we'll use…to create the moon.…Starting with these two circles, and this is classic stuff here.…

You can create a crescent by just subtracting one circle from another.…Now, if you click on any one of…these objects, you'll select all of them because,…they are grouped, as you can see on the far left side of the control panel.…The easiest way to modify them, is to enter the…group isolation mode, by double-clicking on any one of the objects.…Then, go ahead and click on the violet circle…to select it, and shift-click on the red circle to select it as well.…Now we want to subtract the violet circle from the red circle because the…