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Creating a basic gradient mesh

Creating a basic gradient mesh - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating a basic gradient mesh

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll create a basic gradient mesh. Specifically, we're going to draw the body of this bacteria. And to get a sense for what that looks like, I'll go up to the View menu and choose Diagram to switch to that view that I saved in advance. And I'll go ahead and turn off the diagram layers so that you can see that it's a kind of lozenge shape that has some shading over here on the left and right hand sides, as well as through the middle in order to indicate a light source up above, as well as some reflected light down here at the bottom. And this is the kind of stuff you can really only pull off inside Illustrator using a gradient mesh. All right, so I've got this layer right here called "you draw", I'll turn it on, and click on that layer to make it active. And then I'll go ahead and select my Ellipse Tool from the shape tool fly-out menu, and I'll click right about there, let's say, and I'm…

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