Last week I needed a pie-chart for a drawing of the hair
cycle. Pie-charts couldn’t be easier in Ai and once you have worked out that you
need the white ‘direct selection’ tool rather than the black ‘selection’ tool
to select individual slices, colouring them and creating patterns is straight
forward too. The slices then behave like shapes. So here is a pie summarising my
work this year which probably isn’t entirely accurate but it is pretty.
I found the leaves and stripes in
the swatch library menu bottom left of the swatch panel. I have tried to find a
way to make the stripes a different colour but haven’t been able to work it out
yet. However, the spade, graduation cap and quill were easy; I dragged my
drawings into the swatch panel to create new patterns. These patterns are transparent
so I copied the pie segment and pasted in place first so that I could have a
coloured background. The rainbow effect is created using the gradient tool and
the holiday picture is created by copying the pie segment and placing it on top
of a holiday snap and then creating a clipping mask.
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