Hey guys I'm Kent and you're watching Diographics. Today I want to show you how to create this awesome looking earth inside Illustrator. So the first thing you want to do is go to Google and download a world map. Then you want to go to File, go to Place, then find the world map on your computer, right here and place it in. Lock that layer and create a new one. Then go to Pen Tool and you want to trace in all these countries and continents. Like this depending on how detailed you want it. And you just do it all the way around. But for the sake of this video I have done it already. So I will just click on this layer. When you're done tracing you can just click off the background so there's a couple of ways you can go from here. The first one and the easiest way is just to go to Rectangle Tool, then draw a rectangle and put it back to the back like this. Then go to the Ellipse Tool, draw an ellipse like this. Hold down the shift to make it completely round. And click the border so you can see inside. Then you just want to select it all and make Klepping Magic. That's it. But as you can see it doesn't follow the curves around the earth. So to do this it gets a little more complicated. So delete this one and delete this one. And now you want to select the Lane map and go to Window, go to Symbols and create a symbol. Like this. As you can see I have done it a couple of times already. So now we can go to Layers, then click off the Lane, create a new layer, then select the Ellipse Tool, hold down the Shift key and draw a circle. And color it, the blue color you want it to be. So now I want to hold Ctrl C and Ctrl F to duplicate a circle just above this circle. You can see it right now because it's just above. So select the Pen Tool again, click off this Anger, then hold down the All Key and drag these handles to the Anger Point. So it's half a circle. Then you want to go to Effect, go to 3D and Revolve. Then you just go to Preview and No Shading and Map Art. So now you can select the symbol, the Lane map you made. You can just put this to a side so you can see a little better. And you can adjust it as you want. So I will put it right here. So now you can just group it and you're done. The reason why you should make the other circle is so you can get the background a uniform color. I will show you what happens if you don't do that. If we only make this one circle, Ellipse Tool, make this circle, go to the Pen Tool, click off the Anger Point and adjust these handles. Go to Effects, 3D, Revolve again and click off Preview and if you select this shading, you can see you will get the blue color but it's shaded. So now you can just put the map art on like this and then you will have an an earth that is more like 3D. So that's basically how we draw the earth. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up or subscribe to my channel. If you want to see more of these graphic design tutorials, thank you for watching. you