Tonight’s Illustrator how-to: drawing symmetrically.

1. Draw a big rectangle, centered where you want the center of rotation to be. Far bigger than you anticipate ever drawing in. Like ‘3x as wide as the entire canvas’ big. Give it no stroke and no fill; it’ll become invisible when it’s not selected.
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Over on the Illustrator subreddit, someone posted a link to this image, asking “is it possible to make something like this in Illustrator”:


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