: Easy way to create depth I am creating a logo for which I need circles to create the illusion of depth. The attached image shows the sort of effect I am trying to replicate. What would be

@Steve758

You are looking for too quick a fix. Logo creation takes time. This effect can be achieved quite easily though. Draw a rectangle roughly the size of your final shape and fill it with overlapping circles up to the edge of the square. Make sure there are quite a few smaller circles near the edge to fake the perspective. Colour all the circles random colours. In the transparency panel change the opacity to about 90% and set the layer style to multiply. Select all these circles and click object...expand. Now over the top of these shapes draw the final shape of your logo (in this case an apple). Select everything. Now all you have to do is in the menus go Object...Envelope Distort...Make with top object.

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@Nimeshi706

Try Illustrators Bloat effect! Although, you will still need to draw the main aspects of the logo yourself ie the circles etc

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@Welton168

How much are you charging the client? Shouldn't you spend a bit of time considering they are paying you. I'd say the example was created manually - the ellipses are tilted and warped along fairly simple (not exact) contours - the larger spots are transparent and covering the smaller spots which indicate the back surface.

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@Merenda852

I'm not entirely sure, but it looks like the effect was based on the ellipses mapped onto the surface of an Illustrator 3D Revolve effect. The result was probably expanded, edited and given a clipping mask.

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