Keyboard Input

• 1). Click the Tool Palette icon shaped like a spiral to run the tool that allows you to draw a spiral, which is one type of swirl. Click the place on the canvas where you want to place the spiral. Illustrator will prompt you with a dialog box requesting parameters that shape the spiral.
  
  
• 2). Type a number that is at least "500" in the Radius text box, to specify a wide radius, which the spiral's other parameters will shrink down to create smaller swirls.
  
  
• 3). Type an "80" or greater in the Decay text box to indicate how gradually the larger spirals appear to turn into smaller spirals. The greater this number, the more rapidly this change will occur.
  
  
• 4). Type a number of "100" or greater in the Segments text box to indicate the number of arcs that will form the spiral. The greater this number, the smaller the spiral's smallest swirls will be.
  
  
• 5). Click "OK" to insert the spiral on the canvas.
  
  

Extrude

• 1). Click the Tool Palette icon shaped like a paintbrush to enter Painting mode, and then drag on the canvas to paint a wavy line. This line will form small swirls when you wrap it around a cylinder. Drag the line to the Symbols panel, and then type "swirl" in the dialog box that appears. This action enables the Extrude tool to access the line so it can wrap it around the cylinder.
  
  
• 2). Click the Ellipse icon from the Tool Palette to run the tool for drawing ellipses and circles, and then drag on the canvas to create an ellipse.
  
  
• 3). Click the "Effects" menu, and then "3-D" and then the "Extrude" command, which pushes 2-D shapes such as the ellipse into 3-D space.
  
  
• 4). Click the "Preview" checkbox, and then drag the Extrude dialog box's cube icon so that it appears you're above the cylinder looking down at it.
  
  
• 5). Drag the Perspective slider to the right until the cylinder end farthest from you appears much smaller than the end closest to you.
  
  
• 6). Click the "Map art" button, which displays controls allowing you to wrap 2-D graphics around the cylinder.
  
  
• 7). Click the ">" button until the cylinder's curved face appears in the window. Click the "Swirl" item from the Symbol drop-down menu. Illustrator will wrap your wavy line around the cylinder to form swirls that grow increasingly smaller the further down they go on the cylinder. Click "OK" to complete the set of swirls.