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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] Now let's take a look at how we can recreate this UFO icon here. We'll start out by choosing the ellipse tool and we'll just drag out a simple ellipse, something like this here, and we'll give this this swatch here from the Swatches panel. Now I need a way to recreate the lower body part of the same UFO, and this is actually pretty similar to what we've done with the very first exercise when we were drawing a soda cup. So what I can do is I can just duplicate this ellipse and I can choose the direct selection tool, and I can select the top point, I can delete that point for now, and I can then choose the rectangle tool to add an extra shape on top of this here, and now I can select both and I can merge them together. Now merging together, you can do this by using the Pathfinder, or of course if you're a bigger fan of the Shape Builder Tool, knock yourself out. Now I'm just going to move…

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