809 Shading your star pattern in Illustrator

- [Instructor] In this movie, … we're going to take that seamlessly repeating hex pattern … with its 24-sided stars, … complete with its solid colored fills, … and we're going to add some shading … so that it looks spiffier. … All right, so the first thing I'm going to do … is turn off this pattern layer … so that I'm revealing my drawing layer … in the background there, … and then I'm going to select this guy, … the shape up here at the top, … and I'm going to fill it with a gradient … by going up to the Window menu … and choosing the Gradient command … to bring up the gradient panel right here. … And you want to make sure that it's expanded, … so you may have to click on that double arrow head … in the gradient tab. … And then make sure your fill is active … and that your swatches panel is available, … and go ahead and drag that shade of orange … that begins R equals 251. … Drag it and drop it … onto the beginning of the gradient, like so, … and then grab this shade of yellow … that begins with R equals 252 …