545 Drawing a bacterium with Gradient Mesh

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland,…welcome to Deke's Techniques.…This week I'm gonna show you how to draw a bacterium,…that is a single bacteria inside Adobe Illustrator.…Now I know at first that sounds like a fragile concept,…as in, why in the world would I wanna do that?…But here's the story.…Right at the outset of chapter three…of my Illustrator CC One-on-One Fundamentals course…I show how to zoom in on a document.…You are looking at the bacterium right now,…it's right next door to that orange ornament,…but you can't see it, because it's microscopic.…And so as we zoom in at first it looks like a dust speck,…and then it looks like kind of fuzzy blog or something,…and then finally at Illustrator's maximum zoom level,…which is 64,000%…we can see the bacterium in all of its glory.…

Now we're gonna be drawing it much larger than this,…complete by the way with this gradient mesh.…Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…Alright, so the reason I created this bacterium,…because after all you might think…it's a little bit of a strange project,…