Using Blend Tool - Create Phasing Waves & Warps

In this tutorial, you can learn how to create Phasing Waves with the 'Blend' tool in Adobe Illustrator. It's a neat little trick that you can use for any of your graphic design projects. (Or... if you want to skip all the steps and just get this cool vector image for FREE, go to our website up240.com, register and download).

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1. Create a solid background, pick the 'Pen' tool and draw 2 overlapping wavy lines.


2. Go to the top menu, select 'Blend' and in the submenu 'Blend Options'. Select 'Specified Steps' and change the number to 26.


3. Select both of your lines. Go back to the 'Blend' menu at the top and choose 'Make'.



4. This is what the result should look like.


5. Now try a few other shapes. Draw irregular closed curves. Select 'Blend' and 'Make'.


6. Nice! Now try some rectilinear shapes.


7. Finished!
Tip: if you now want to change the shape of your objects, just pick the points along the curves with 'Direct Selection' tool and drag them around. The lines that filled when you created your blends will continue to fill in regular increments.