- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland. … Welcome to Deke's Techniques. … This week I'm going to show you how to create a simple sphere … as a 2D object inside Illustrator. … We'll start with a perfect circle, … fill it with a radial gradient, … offset that gradient … with the help of Illustrator's Gradient Annotator, … switch out the colors for shades of ivory, … and add a super-smooth drop shadow … set against a green cloth background. … Okay so 2D sphere, simple trick, … but you got to know how to do it, … especially if you're designing the perfect vector-based … pool hall clock, which we are. … Here, let me show you exactly how it works. … All right so here we are looking at the final version … of the pool hall clock open inside Adobe Illustrator. … I'm going to go ahead and switch over … to the starter document here … which contains a couple of center guides, … one vertical and one horizontal. … Both of which exist on the Guides layer, … which we can see here inside the Layers panel. …
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3/30/2021Released
1/13/2011Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.
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