: How to draw a beehive in illustrator I've been trying to draw a beehive graphic in illustrator. My approach has been to draw an ellipse in yellow and change it's perspective. Then on top of

@Chiappetta793

For the basic shape you could try this:


Create the top ellipse, and the black "shadow" ellipse under it
Select both, and Group them (Ctrl-G)
Make sure the ellipse group is still selected
Go to menu Effect -> Distort & Transform -> Transform
Select Preview on, set Copies to 5, add proper amounts of Vertical Move, and Horizontal & Vertical Scale.


This produces a stacked pyramid of ellipses, which still needs some little tweaking to make it a bit more rounded. At this point you can still adjust the original ellipse pair, and changes will be repeated on the clones.

To edit the individual ellipse groups, and add roundness:


Select the ellipse group, go to menu Object -> Expand Appearance makes all the groups editable
Double-click the group to go to Isolation mode
Click the desired ellipse pair to edit it. By Alt-dragging the handles you can keep the symmetry intact. I widened the middle pairs with the side handle, while keeping Alt pressed.
You can get back to normal editing mode by double-clicking outside the drawing area.




This is a quick one, it could be better, but it's just for demonstration. :-)

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