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I saw a post on /r/adobeillustrator asking how to make something like this. It’s pretty easy.
- Draw a shape in dark grey.
- Opacity: 20% screen.
- Effect>pixelate>mezzotint. I used “grainy dots” for the setting.
- Duplicate the shape. Move some points around so it’s smaller, leave some points unchanged, or very close to the original locations.
- Make it a much lighter grey. Maybe change the opacity level to something like 70%. Keep it on Screen mode though.
- Select both shapes. Object>blend>make.
- window>transparency, double-click its title bar until it opens all the way, uncheck “knockout group”. Setting the checkbox to – is fine too.
- Play with blend settings until it looks smooth.
- effect>document raster effect settings may be useful here, I usually keep the effect resolution at 150dpi but in this case 300 seemed to work better. You could also help avoid the tendency for the repeated mezzotint shapes to develop repeating patterns by adding effect>rasterize to both shapes in the blend before the mezzotint effect, and having different DPIs on the two shapes; I did this in the file attached here.
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Please pardon the shitty point placement, there really should be at least one more point in the curves but I was doing this on the trackpad and just wanted to finish it. :)
