The question of how to create this effect came up over in the Adobe forum for Illustrator. The “orange peel” example serves as a good introduction to using map art with the 3D Revolve Effect, so I decided I’d go ahead and do a step-by-step tutorial of how to create this effect. This tutorial is intended for intermediate Illustrator users and above.

Orange Peel Effect created in Adobe Illustrator

The following Adobe Illustrator tools/features will be used in this tutorial:

• Selection Tool
• Ellipse Tool
• Pen Tool
• Add Anchor Point Tool
• Delete Anchor Point Tool
• 3D Revolve
• Layers Palette

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