There are a number of amazing tutorials out there that teach you how to create some really awesome futuristic light wispy effects. I’ve always found this type of design very interesting, but everything you see is almost completely created in Photoshop. I recently had a project where I wanted this effect, but had to use only vector graphics.
The following is the technique I used to get that nifty effect using Illustrator.
I began by setting up an artboard (8 inches wide by 4 inches tall). Choose the rectangle tool and fill the artboard with a plain black background.
Select your object and make a gradient mesh out of it (Object > Create Gradient Mesh). Put in 1 for rows and columns with ‘Flat’ as the appearance. We’ll add our own mesh lines in the next step.
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