May 2006
Start by drawing with the Pen tool with the beginning anchor point and dropping the second anchor point at the right hand side. Before letting go of the mouse, press the Control key and pull the direction line around to point to the direction you'll be completing the arc. Now complete the arc by closing the endpoint.
Alt+drag a copy of the arc and press the Shift key and begin reducing the arc.
Flip the little arc by rotating it.
Use the Blend tool and select the left point on the large and smaller arc.
Apply Feather to the selection at a radius of .381.
Create a narrow ellipse and rotate it. Place on the arc. Apply the SVG Filter AI_GaussianBlur_4.
Draw the points continuously that you see below.
Apply a Drop Shadow to the points.
Apply the Warp Options with a Arch style set to Vertical and -100%.
Create 0s and 1s and rotate. Use the Free Distort option to adjust the perspective. Make sure to Create Outlines of the numbers.
Duplicate the numbers. Move the top version upwards and select the bottom set. Use the same SVG Gaussian Blur as used previously. Move the top numbers down and pull the side in slightly to reduce the size a little.
Create 3 rectangles, 1 large in the center and two small for the outer parts. Use Pathfinder to merge them into one. Create 3 boxes and set them onto the piece. Use Pathfinder again to create punched out areas. Create a white to light blue gradient and use the Gradient tool to force the gradient to be white on the bottom and light blue on the top.
Finally, create an sphere and make it blue. Apply the SVG filter again but this time use the larger valued Gaussian version and apply to the sphere. Apply the Starry Sky pattern to it and set behind the rest of the artwork.
Copyright (c) 2006, Jacquelin Vanderwood, All Rights Reserved
