[Vincent Rosati]

Effect > Stylize > Drop Shadow
or
Effect > Stylize > Outer Glow

These are probably the easiest options.
For either of these, you might need to also mask the object and effect to clip the areas of casted shadow that you don’t want to appear.

Vince

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[Vincent Rosati]

Have you seen this…
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rosati_vincent/radial_patterns.php

You might also be able to record an action, depending on your exact situation.

Vince

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Please do, report back. I feel like I’m emotionally invested now! 🙂

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First, this is a fantastic redraw project/opportunity.

The ribbons give a sense of motion, so I’d use italic fonts, as in the original.
This motion is also in the black bars.
I’m not sure what the big font might be, presuming it originally was a font, but I might try something more geometric like Eurostile.
After setting the type, you can Object > Expand it to add the custom serifs, if that’s something that would help.
Looks like the small font could be Myriad, or some other humanist sans font. I’d try that.
The ribbons look like they should all be behind the bars.
I’d make no attempt to recreate the bevel effect. Generally, I’d say that effect dated.

For the ribbons, you should use a minimum of points.
I’d guess that the length of a ribbon can be achieved with 5 points, with a total of 9 points for each complete ribbon.
1 – At the left point.
1 – At the first bump, from the left.
1 – At the second bump, from the left.
1 – At the third bump, from the left.
1 – At the terminal at the right edge.

Once you create one path and make it as nice as you can, duplicate it 5 times so you have the upper and lower paths for each ribbon.

Create a temporary object to use as a size guide, to properly space the 2 paths of each ribbon.

Make sure to close these paths.
The point on the left can be closed by selecting both points with the Direct Select tool and Object > Path > Join.
The terminal in the right side can be closed simply with the pen tool.

Use a copy of one of the black vertical bars to align the right side of the ribbons.

Create a temporary object to use as a size guide, to evenly space each ribbon.

I’d make the white highlight in the ribbon a lot tighter around the black bars, it appears to spread out too far on the blue side.

Remove the stroke from the ribbons.

If, in the end, you decide that you do need to create depth or shading in the type or ribbons, or whatever, I’d use a flat-shading approach demonstrated here..
https://library.creativecow.net/rosati_vincent/ai_helix_3/1

Just some initial thoughts.

Vince

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[Vincent Rosati]

I can’t think of a solution that meets that exact requirement, to do two appearances in one command.
Though a Graphic Style can apply a fill, stroke, and other effects in one operation, but it sounds like you would need 2 Graphic Styles.
Create an object with the desired attributes, then drag it into the Graphic Styles palette, and name it.

Are you familiar with the Select > Same… commands? They might be useful.

• Select same fill color
• Select same stroke color
• Select same stroke weight
• etc..

Then possibly follow by using one of your custom Graphic Styles.

Vince

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You would just draw it, using the pen tool.
Possibly enable View > Show Grid, and View > Snap to Grid.
When drawing, it might help to hold Shift, to constrain the 45 deg. angles.

It would take maybe 20 mins to 1 hr. to recreate that artwork, depending on proficiency.

Do you have any experience using Illustrator?

As a sidenote, I actually used that artwork in a commercial product 🙂

Vince

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I’m not sure what the issue might be exactly. It sounds like the image is dithering, because the color your using isn’t sufficiently ‘black’. I’m not sure exactly how black it would need to be, at a minimum, but verify by setting all your color values for maximum black before export.

Vince

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You can just click the green thumb-up button, just below my answer. Thanks, it is helpful 🙂

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Use the scissor tool, and make only two cuts to the hoop, one just outside the chest on each side.
Then, select the part of the hoop that crosses the chest and Object > Arrange > Send to back.

This presumes that all objects are in the same layer.
Otherwise you would move chest-crossing part of the hoop to it’s own layer and move this layer below the others, in the Layers palette.

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You can Object > Expand your traced object. Then you can selectively delete the unwanted parts.
I would generally use the Group Select tool for this.

I’m not sure that flattening transparency will help, for this project.

Vince

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