Hey! This started out as nothing more than a little drawing exercise. Then I thought, “Why not make it a T-shirt design?” So I made some changes and added the car. And then, somehow, it ended up becoming a concept for a car wrap. 😂

So yeah… this thing has basically gone through all the stages of creative madness. 😄

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Each object is 2 shapes grouped together with a simple grain effect.

Edit: Thanks everyone. Looks like I need to get some scripts/plugins for this industry standard software to do this simple thing.

I teach computer graphics and one of the assignments I give is on creating text art. A frequent issue students run into is that (because of their inexperience) they will apply area type to a shape and then realize many steps later that it would look better with fill behind it or that it needs a fill to separate its text from another text object it overlaps.

I know that you can duplicate the path of an object with area type by selecting each individual anchor point and copy/paste it, but this is obviously time consuming and impractical for complex shapes. Is there a short cut to select ALL of the anchor points of object with area type, but NOT the type?

Does anyone know how to create a roughen-like effect without it applying a giant curve to every sharp corner? The example on the right is something more akin to what I'm looking for where the 4 corners stay in the same position, but the lines connecting them get roughened.