Design Practice 1 – Illustrator Tutorials – Creating a halftone effect

Here I have included screenshots of my creation of a half tone effect in illustrator. To create the half tone pattern I firstly used the pen tool to draw a grey shape over the top of the image. I then created a gradient mesh by using the gradient mesh tool. Once I had used this tool I then added various points in the tool, more points in the darker areas and less in the lighter areas. I then used the fill tool to colour the darker and the lighter areas (second picture). I then went to Effects>pixxelate>colour halftone to create the halftone dot effect (third image).