D2 Tutorial #4 Turner

In this tutorial we will learn how to make a fish bowl. It's a relatively simple tutorial that ends with a really cool effect.

Step 1: Make a circle using the ellipse tool. You get a circle by holding down Shift. Change the fill to a pale blue and the stroke to none. Then make an oval that slightly overlaps your circle.

Step 2: With both the circle and the oval selected, go to the Pathfinder menu and choose the Divide button.
Step 3: Go to Object, and select Ungroup, giving you three separate shapes; the top and bottom of the circle and the oval.
Step 4: Select both the top section of your circle and the oval, and delete them. You end up with your outer shell for the bowl.Step 5: With the bowl shape still selected, choose Effect > Stylize > Inner Glow.

Step 6: In the Inner Glow options, select your color square and make it a medium blue. Set the Mode to Normal, the Opacity to 35%, and the Blur to .35 inches. Hit OK.
Step 7: Make another oval that will fit right on top of your main bowl shape. Change the fill and stroke to white.
Step 8: Again, select Effect > Stylize > Inner Glow, this time setting the Mode to normal, the Opacity to 20%, and the Blur to .14 inches. You can play around with this if you wish to get different shades.
Step 9: Create one more oval that will fit into the upper oval, to make the rim of your fish bowl. Use the same Inner Glow, with the Mode normal, the Opacity 35%, and the Blue .2 inches.
Step 10: With this new oval selected, you can hit Alt and drag to copy it and create another oval, which you can drag into the bottom of the bowl for the base. You can hold Shift down as you re-size it so that it will maintain the same shape.
Step 11: Now, you can use the Ellipse tool again to add shine to the outside of your bowl. Use Shift again for perfect circles of light being cast onto it, and make them white, with a stroke of white or no stroke.
Step 12: To add water in the bowl, I selected the main bowl shape and the first oval I added at the same time, and used Alt to make a copy of them, then I shrank them down and used the select tool to select certain anchor points, toying around with them until I got the contour and thickness of the bowl to be shown with the water inside. You can use Inner Glow again to change the color of the water so that it's a bit darker.

Step 13: After all this, I added some fish in my bowl by making ovals and stars using the Star tool, overlapping them, and distorting the stars to make tails. You can then re-size them for variety, or make them different colors if you wish.