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http://www.noupe.com...eting-card.html

If you are a bit leery of the mesh tool like myself this is a great structured way of working through an example of using it.

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Today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial will walk you through creating a nice greeting card for the upcoming Christmas holiday. In order to create nice, colorful presents to stuff a Christmas sock we will combine different kinds of tools, such as; the Pen Tool, Mesh Tool, Ellipse Tool and the Rectangle Tool.