343 Creating a 3D doughnut in Illustrator

- Hey, gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques!…This week is an idea…that was suggested to me by…one-time Lynda.com author,…and now essentially my boss, Mordy Golding,…and the idea is that we're going to create…three D doughnuts in Adobe Illustrator.…But see these two characters, here?…Notice their heads...…Their heads actually make up the doughnuts!…That's right! (voice quivers)…It was people!…Listen to me, Hatcher!…Ya gotta tell'em, three D doughnuts is people!…Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…

Alright, here's the final version…of those wonderful three D vector-based doughnuts,…here, inside of Illustrator.…Just so you have a chance to see them onscreen,…I'm going to go ahead and switch over…to the starter document, which contains the two heads.…Which are also going to serve as the shapes…that make up the three D doughnuts.…Now, I drew them, of course, as circles.…You can see we have a couple of base circles…that I drew with the ellipse tool,…and then we have these lumpy shapes in the background,…