deke.com posts about Blend tool

Blending Line Textures in Adobe Illustrator

Deke uses Adobe Illustrator's Blend tool in order to make striped surfaces on his imaginary object.

Creating Letters with Accordion Extrusions in Adobe Illustrator

Deke uses Illustrator's Blend tool to extrude letters accordion-style (think snakes-in-a-can or classic Electric Company graphics).

Drawing Precise Bézier Curve Time and Tangent Lines in Illustrator

Deke demonstrates how to create precise points and lines for a technical drawing featuring Bézier curves in Adobe Illustrator.

Deke's Techniques 199: Creating a Pattern of Size-Changing Circles in Illustrator

This week, I show you how to create a free-form pattern of size- and color-changing circles in Illustrator. Which I do by blending between groups and blended groups.