How to make disappearing circles

[kgibbs86]

How would one make circles like this:

[Monika Gause]

Spill some wine (I would recommend red wine for contrast reasons) and take a photo of the table cloth before you wash it. Then autotrace that.

[Ray Yorkshire · Accepted solution]

If you are out of real wine , like me,

maybe something along these lines:

eg

Draw a circle

give it a stroke, no fill

open the brushes panel

apply charcoal feather

Object > Expand Appearance.

With fill selected

Open the Swatches Panel and at the bottom

Swatch library menu > Gradients

find one you like, I used Fruit  and vegetables - Bannana

Then use the  Eraser Tool to remove and the Blob Brush to add.

[Jacob Bugge]

k,

Or turn on GPU.

[Myra Ferguson]

Similar to Monika's suggestion, you can capture the wine or coffee circle with Adobe Capture Learn how to create and edit brushes, colors, shapes, and patterns using Capture. Learn how to creat... as a shape and save it to a CC Library. It'll save the shape as vector that you can then bring into Illustrator from your Libraries panel. Navigate to the library where you saved it and drag it to your artboard.