Cool Adobe Illustrator trick
Illustrator is one of the best graphic design tools out there (well now that Adobe has killed Macromedia Freehand anyway). You can draw all sorts of shapes & lines with it.
Who doesn’t remember the Spirograph’s of their childhood, I know I do. Well I came across a cool trick that you can do in Illustrator to create a similar effect. Using one of the drawing tools - Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Star or Flare - you can create a multitude of shapes.
- Select a tool
- Hold down the ~ (tilde) key
- Click and drag to draw your shape
You can then click on each individual shape to add color. By default they’re all the same color.
I created this shape in about 5 seconds, it’s that easy.
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