901 Turning a sphere into a colorful pool ball

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland. … Welcome to Deke's Techniques. … The it's finally summer episodes. … Okay, so last week I showed you how to create a cue ball … as a perfect ivory sphere … using nothing more than a circle … filled with an offset radial gradient. … Well this week we're going to transform that pool ball … into a verdant green six ball … set against an infinite background … of continuous green cloth. … Modeled after, and this is true by the way, … the traditional surface … for outdoor stick and ball games, grass. … And what, I ask you, could be more summer than that? … All right so here's the final version of the six ball … inside Adobe Illustrator. … We're going to be starting off … with this lone cue ball right here. … And I'm going to zoom out by pressing Control + 0 … or Command + 0 on the Mac, … and then I'll go ahead and click on that ball to select it. … Now with the black arrow tool active … up here at the top of the tool box, … you'll want to press the Enter key …