Working with slender, bending shapes

In this movie, I'll show you how to work with the gradient mesh inside of a …slender, bending shape. Because here's the deal, gradient mesh …works beautifully inside of a circle. It also works really well inside these …gently curving sort of blobby forms that make up the red pepper shapes. …But once we have a path outline that curves around onto itself like this That …presents special challenges. After all, we have to prepared for what …begins as a column line going up the stem is going to have to curve around to …become a roll line that has column lines tracing across it.…

And that's the point at which things get pretty weird. …So, what you want is a high degree of patience and a willingness to modify the …mass using the light arrow tool. So, I'm going to go ahead and zoom in on …the stem and twirl open the mesh (UNKNOWN) layer go ahead and lock that …top red mesh, unlock the stem and then lock the other three red shapes as well, …just to keep them out of the way. And then I'll click on the stem to select …