{"id":780,"date":"2007-07-31T12:28:20","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T20:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=780"},"modified":"2007-09-06T01:40:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T09:40:45","slug":"adobe-illustrator-very-simple-tutorial-drawing-3d-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Illustrator Very Simple Tutorial: Drawing 3D Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Adobe Illustrator\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/graphics\/icons\/illustrator.gif\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nLast Memorial Day, my wife said she wanted to eat an apple.  So I went to buy some in the middle of an evening.  What can I say?  It was her birthday.  But stores were all closed.  I didn&#8217;t want to go home empty-handed.  No, I wasn&#8217;t afraid she would throw me out of the house.  It was her special day.  So I went to my study while she was watching TV.  Then I launched Adobe Illustrator CS2.  And in a matter of 5 minutes or so, I designed a red apple, hoping I could fool her somehow.<\/p>\n<p>The following tutorial shows simple steps to design a 3D apple with Adobe Illustrator CS2.  <!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Using Elliptical Tool, draw a vertically long ellipse.<\/li>\n<li>Choose a fill color.  The RGB color we picked, for example, is 189, 0, 0.<\/li>\n<li>While the ellipse is selected, choose 3D > Revolve under Effect.<\/li>\n<li>Depending on the size of the ellipse, adjust the number of blend steps to get smooth gradation.<\/li>\n<li>Press Command + Shift + Option + A a couple of times to add anchor points.  Then use Direct Selection Tool to move them and adjust the shape of the image.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"440\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/tutorials\/illustrator_apple\/illustrator_apple_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/tutorials\/illustrator_apple\/illustrator_apple_01.jpg\" \"140\" height=\"105\" alt=\"Adobe Illustrator tutorial\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/tutorials\/illustrator_apple\/illustrator_apple_02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/tutorials\/illustrator_apple\/illustrator_apple_02.jpg\" \"140\" height=\"105\" alt=\"Adobe Illustrator tutorial\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/tutorials\/illustrator_apple\/illustrator_apple_03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/tutorials\/illustrator_apple\/illustrator_apple_03.jpg\" \"140\" height=\"105\" alt=\"Adobe Illustrator tutorial\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br>Illustrator CS2 is a product of Adobe Systems Incorporated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Memorial Day, my wife said she wanted to eat an apple. So I went to buy some in the middle of an evening. What can I say? It was her birthday. But stores were all closed. I didn&#8217;t want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=780\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}