I have been seeing the circular buoys on various stock photo sites while I was trying to get some ideas on what to design, I finally tried making a stab at it and in the long run, it was not half bad. So lets get cracking, fire up Illustrator and set up a new document.
In this tutorial I will show you how to make a simple vector tree in Adobe Illustrator. Mainly using shapes and the pathfinder with some gradients, and wa la! You have a fully scalable tree in 8 simple steps.
1. Lets get started. First off, lets open up Illustrator and create a new document. Select the Eclipse Tool (m) and hold the SHIFT key and draw a circle. Fill it in with
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