An Intro to Mesh Tool

Creating the Shape
1. Smart Guides and w/ ellipse tool and created a circle.

2. I Created the Mesh by Selecting the mesh tool and clicking exactly in the center of the circle.

3. Division of the shaded areas Similarly click and divided the right side and the left side of the circle with clicking on the line running horizontally.
4. Switched tool to direct selection tool and selected all the nodes on the outer anchor points of the circle
5. Shaded w/ color palette and dragged it to a light blue

6. Selected the middle anchor points, and picked up a shade of pink.
7. Creating the face create and easily selected any anchor point and using its handles changed the direction of the color blending.

8. Using similar technique i drew now eyes.

i think i will end this one. i love animation so much that i could go on forever w/ this!!!

pretty awesome! very informative. this was the first time i got to experience the mesh tool in this type of application.
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