694 Creating shimmering cells in Illustrator

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland,…welcome to Deke's Techniques.…Now, over the past couple of weeks,…we've been having all kinds of fun…creating gradient molecules in the form…of random and regular Voronoi diagrams in Photoshop.…Well this week, we're going to have even more fun…in Illustrator, where our molecules become shimmering cells.…Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…Alright, here's that bright red cell pattern…open inside Illustrator.…We're going to be creating this guy absolutely from scratch,…so I'll go to the file menu and choose the new command,…or you can press that keyboard shortcut of control n,…or command n on the Mac.…

Now, you can work inside this galumphing dialog box…if you want to, but I'm going to click more settings,…in order to bring up the older streamlined version…of the dialog box, and then I'll set the profile…to art and illustration.…If you're working in an older version of Illustrator,…then that'll read basic RGB.…Notice the units are set to points,…and if you want to get the same results as me,…