Illustrator Tutorial: Starry night

1. Create background
Select the Rectangle Tool, and draw out the background. Go to layers to lock it to prevent
selecting it.

2. Add some stars

Add a new layer above the background.Using the Star Tool, draw a few stars and fill it with

different shades of grey.

3. Create a row of stars

Select all the stars and hold Alt/Option to drag a new copy beside it. Repeat it by pressing
Ctrl+D/Command+D until you get a row of stars.

4. Fill the background with stars

Select the row of stars. Using the same method above we repeat it downwards until our
background is filled with stars.

5. Create random stars

Go Object>Transform>Transform Each. Check the random option. Set both Scale (Horizontal
and Vertical) the same value to make it proportion. Make sure the Scale is smaller to 50% to
make it smaller. Select a random figure for move to make the stars offset its current position.
Finally, Set Rotate to 360 to give it a random rotation. Now we have the image below.

6. Final touchup
Select all the stars and and Transform Again (Ctrl/Command+D) to repeat the random stars
transformation until we achieve the effect we like.