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It might be a good idea to make copies of the hand shapes in advance (and paste them in front, Ctrl+F and lock and/or hide them) so you have spare copies of the same shape. …

Draw your hexagon; Open the Attributes palette (Windows > Attributes) and click the Show Center button--a square with a dot in the middle. This will cause your hexagon's center to be shown as an anch …

This is most effectively achieved by offsetting the path of the front shape, and subtracting the resulting shape from all the shapes in the back, using the Pathfinder. …

This way, you can create multiple different shapes in a jiffy. You can experiment with all the other settings to make the most amazing art this way. …

Shapes will blend into each other in top to bottom order, as seen in the Layers palette. If you drag them around there to change the order, the blend will update. … For the situation you desire, I'd imagine having a few circles of different sizes (much like your right image) as shapes and a smooth color blend between them. …

It's hard to see how this was achieved exactly dus to the low resolution of the image, but there is a couple ways to get a similar effect. With a brush Less exact control, more natural-looking effec …

There's multiple ways you could achieve this, but most of them are taking a couple steps back: redraw the entire graphic, starting with image 1 and editing that into image 2. An example: draw a cir …

I'm going out on a limb and suppose you've created the wireframe using the Effect > 3D > Extrude & Bevel effect. In that case: Unfortunately, there is no way of doing this and keep the 3D effect edit …

Do it by hand. As far as I know, there is no function beyond Taxedo (named in the question you referenced, and it's where your third example comes from) that will fully automatically create word-cloud …

You might want to separate the stroke and the fill here, in order to edit the fill. Duplicate the shape, and have one be a strokeless fill and the other a fill-less stroke. Edit the fill object so it …

First, you might want to deactivate all snapping (also to pixel grids and all, see this question). Then: activate the Smart Guides (View > Smart Guides or Ctrl / Option+U); select the move tool (V) …

Using the layers palette, order the shapes from bottom to top: starting shape - ending shape - copy of ending shape. …

Sometimes a shape's negative is easier to make than the shape itself. Draw a white cirle; Draw a white, vertical line with its midpoint on the circle's; make it extend both its ends beyond the edge …

You can get a somewhat decent effect by using a pattern brush and the width tool. Draw a unit cell, and draw a no-fill-no-stroke rectangle around it: Select all of this and drag it into the Brushes …

One way is to find a typeface that has the shape you want as a character. Type it on its own in a text box, then choose Type > Create Outlines (Shift+Ctrl+O or Shift+Option+O) to turn it into a vector …