Text To Crown with envelope distort

[jasong67810382]

I am trying to make a crown out of words. I have been through different video's and posts and my image still gets warped inside my object in a weird way.

This is my starting image

I filled it in with the shape builder tool to create a solid object.

This is the text that I want to go inside the crown. 

however I get this instead

I don't know what I am doing wrong, or is there an easier way of doing what I want to do? 

Thank you

[Kurt Gold]

Probably you are overestimating the "intelligence" of envelopes in Illustrator.

Also, it is not known how exactly you want to arrange the springer inside the crown.

Can you clarify a bit? Perhaps with a sketch that shows at least your general idea?

[jasong67810382]

I am thinking something like this fish image. I want springer to fill like the word fish

[Kurt Gold]

I'm afraid you won't be able to that with a "one-whack-effect" like creating an envelope distort.

Careful consideration and manual work are required here.

[キィィ─!!! · Accepted solution]

First, remove the protruding part from the target of deformation.

Divide the rest into the number of characters.

For example, I divided the left and right width equally.

Then, perform envelope deformation one character at a time.