: Distort circle so it looks like it is on a 3D surface (Illustrator CC) Below is a diagram I have made in Illustrator CC: How can I skew the shaded circle so that it looks like it is

@Gloria351

I've used rotation and warpping. You go from imaging how it would look in 2D. Then find the relations of the circle to the surface(= the dashed shape) and afterwards just adjust your 3D view for the circle to have the same relations to the surface as it has in your 2D view. This way the circle will inherit the transformation of the surface. (By relations I especially mean parallelism)


Rotate the circle such that the bottom side of the circle is parallel to the bottom side of the surface.
Use warpping to make sure each side of the circle is parallel to each side of the surface


By "each side of the circle," etc. I mean each side of the wrapping mesh.

Note: 3D perspective might distort the length relations. The distortion is described by the configuration of the perspective itself.

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