I'm going to show you how to make this optical illusion in Adobe Illustrator in
quick and easy steps it's really rewarding and it's really simple to do
actually so follow along and let's get stuck into Adobe Illustrator so like I
said today's design is quite easy to make and the first thing that we need to
do is to make sure we've got a stroke selected with no fill in the color
palettes you can press shift and X to achieve Ladd's now for now it doesn't
matter what stroke weights you use the press error for the ellipse tool and
then hold down shift and click and drag to make a circle like you can see on
screen now now we need to make some adjustments to this circle and we're
going to do that in the transform window
so first and foremost change the height values to 75% and then hit enter next
we're going to change the width values to 115 percent and once again just hit
enter so now it's just a case of copying this circle with command or control C
and then paste a duplication right over the top with command or control F make
sure you click the new circle and then hold down the alt or the option key and
shift at the same time and then click and drag to scale down the circle into
the original one you don't need to be precise about this but just do something
along the lines of mine on screen now and of course if you haven't got the
stroke scale settings activated just make the strokes the same size but once
you have both circles with the same stroke size select them both and then
hold down the alt or the option key and then click and drag to duplicate them
and down below we need them perfectly in this position here
we're now going to make use of the shape of the other tool in Adobe Illustrator
you can find that over here or you can press the command of shift M which is a
shortcut so carefully watch where I move my icon and click this is going to unite
the sections of the shapes that I want to make into one single shape so here's
the first shape and then we need to do it one more time for this bottom part
here so that essentially is the shape for our design but when I'm going to add
the finishing touches to our optical illusion in Adobe Illustrator
also you can jack up the stroke weight here to your liking press L for the
ellipse tool once more and generate a circle here and then again use the
autopsying key to duplicate it and down below and make the new circle slightly
smaller than the original one we're not slightly here quite a bit
smaller than Chile with both circle selected head over to the blend tool
here or you can press W and then click on both circles to create your blend now
this is actually perfect for me and what I want to use but you can edit the way
the blend works by holding down the alt or the option key and then clicking the
blend here you basically want a collection of circles coming down the
page like you can see on screen
so once more using the alt or the option key duplicate the blend over and then
press command or ctrl + D to repeat the process multiple different times so
we're going to bring up the Pathfinder window now and you can click and drag to
rotate this selection and also hold down shift so you can fix it to a 90 degree
angle like you can see here then come up to object and also expand and expand the
shape design like so and finally unite it together in the Pathfinder window
which will make it to one vector shape we're gonna use this to act as shadow on
our design which is really gonna finish off the optical illusion but first use
the alt or the option key to duplicate this design so we have four components
to put into the optical illusion so I'm gonna show you how to do this once and
all you need to do is to make sure you have the Pathfinder window open I don't
know why it closed there but yet take one of your dot designs and then
transfer it over to one of the sections
what do you want to do is to click the dot design and also the optical illusion
shape by holding down shift and then use the divide function and then we need to
ungroup the selection now it's just a case of removing parts of the design
that we don't want and this might take a while and you can actually use masks to
do this but I'm just showing you this method today because it's not something
I've shown much on my channel and also you might notice that the
design doesn't look too neat at the top there but we're going to fix that soon
so as I mentioned when you actually make the design and before you expand the
appearance you might notice jagged edges like this
I forgot to mention but what you need to do is you need to come into the stroke
window I need to change the corner to a rounded join and that will change any
problems that you've got on your design in terms of it being jagged there's one
last thing I need to show you to make sure everything is neat and tidy and
that is once you've got the finished design you might notice that there are
bits hanging off the edge sort of vector shapes all over the place will come up
to trim and the Pathfinder window and then you can merge the design together
and this will clean things out
also notice that the dots are parallel and 90 degrees on the shadow areas of my
design and that's a final style that I went for if you were to keep learning
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