Turning a Sphere into a Colorful Pool Ball in Adobe Illustrator

Deke makes progress on his pool hall clock in Adobe Illustrator this week, by turning the cue ball into a 6 by applying color and text.

Drawing a Gradient Sphere as a 2D Shape in Adobe Illustrator (aka "The Cue Ball)

Deke begins his imaginary pool hall–themed clock by drawing a cue ball for the center in Adobe Illustrator

Deke uses a text editor to fix some gotchas in the standard metadata template process in Adobe Bridge.

Deke draws an impossible interwoven 3D star in Adobe Illustrator which he then declares the flag of his own Antarctic nation.

Deke uses an older feature in Adobe Illustrator (Recolor Artwork) to change up colors from a new feature (Freeform Gradient).

Enjoy some free samples of Deke's latest Illustrator One-on-One: Fundamentals course, and learn about the Blob brush

A few free samples from Deke's newly updated course, Illustrator 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals while you're stuck inside your own bounding box.

Deke uses the new improved Simplify command in Adobe Illustrator to rid himself of excessive anchor points in a few simple clicks.

Deke explores the scalable, editable, colorable power of vector brushes in Adobe Fresco.

Deke not only creates an impossible shape, but turns it into something even more impossible. Hold on to your brain.

Deke makes his devil's tuning fork impossible object even more impossible with gradient effects.

Deke uses the impossible trident illusion to demonstrate the very real tracing and coloring possibilities in Adobe Illustrator.