Illustrator offers some very powerful tools for doing damage to your designs. In this tutorial, I want to show you how to quickly create a grassy hill using the Crystallize tool.
1) Start with a new document (Cmd/Ctrl + N), and give it a name. In a fit of originality, I called mine ‘Quick Grassy Hill’. Set the dimensions to 600px wide and 400px high.
We’ll be building the shape in Illustrator using the 3D Revolve tool before going into Photoshop to texture it all up using clipping masks and blend modes and layer styles and all that modern doohickory.
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