Spray

[Maria Atelier]

Hello, I'm completely new here and unfortunately I'm not familiar with AI. I'm a painter and I'm trying to realize the image I've uploaded here in AI. Can anyone give me a tip on how to do this?

Alternatively, I would be happy if I could use a function I know from Photoshop here. I would like to spray these fog fields or "sand grain fields" on the surface like with a kind of spray and be able to spray sometimes darker, sometimes denser. I would be very grateful for any hint, no matter how small. Thank you!

[Ton Frederiks]

I would do this kind of work in Photoshop.

Trying to spray and layer thousands of tiny vector dots will blow up the filesize and slow down Illustrator.

[Maria Atelier]

Thanks, Tom, for the tip. The problem is that I then have to enlarge the drawing to 6 x 4 meters. And since Photoshop relies on pixels, that probably wouldn't look good. Or is there a way to solve this problem with Photoshop as well?

[Doug A Roberts]

That's 17,008 x 11,339 px at 72 PPI, which is big but might not be impossible to work with depending on your hardware. What sort of resolution do you need?

[Maria Atelier]

300 dpi per inch

[Doug A Roberts]

Have you been told you need this resolution or is it an assumption? 300 PPI is a very high resolution for such a large print.

[Maria Atelier]

Yes, indeed. I've told the procect under the topic of photoshop: how to brush a picture like this in photoshop? - Adobe Community - 14489320

[Ton Frederiks]

Hi Maria, that is an interesting technique, I wonder how the grey levels of pixels are translated into the depth/strenght of the sandblasted.

[packaging specialist]

AI is a different tool than PSD so the way of working should be different.
Draw a shape/fill with a solid color/make shades with the "gradient mesh" tool.
Finally, add noise.