Hey folks, first post so please go easy on me!
I've been trying to replicate a blend?morph pattern in Illustrator for some time now and have had no luck.
Could someone please give some advice on how I need to do it? Better yet, if someone could replicate it and provide the AI or EPS file I'd be willing to pay for it using paypal.
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Always hard to tell exactly how I would do something like this, but what I see as the repeated patterns are the stars that are reduced in size... the background colours can always be added separately so I'd start by focussing on the stars pattern.
E.g. start by drawing one star (using the Polygon tool), and duplicate that across the page, to have the ability to adjust the distance, size etc, use the Appearance panel:
- Select the shape.
- Click the fx button at the bottom of the Appearance panel and select Distort & Transform > Transform.
- In the Transform Effect panel, set the Horizontal Move setting and the number of copies you want.
- You can copy this shape, and move it below the previously added row and reduce the size a little by Shift-dragging one of the corner handles of the bounding box for the shape. Then click on 'Transform' in the Appearance panel again, to adjust the Transform Effect settings for the second row and set it back to the same amount you used for the first row.
- Repeat these steps till you get the first lot of stars to build the pattern. You can then use that block and duplicate it to build the other half of the pattern.
Once you've got all the star patterns done:
- Apply black, light blue and dark blue colour to the star blocks (top to bottom),
- then add dark blue background and light blue background.
That won't give you the exact pattern yet, you'd need to add one final lot of repetitive shapes (I've added ellipse here by way of example), and ensure these overlap the light blue background (and have the dark blue stars above that).
You'd get something like this:
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