How exploration helps Adam G find his creative bullseye.

Adam G of design studio TRÜF discovers new patterns, shapes, and styles with Generative Shape Fill in Adobe Illustrator.

“I like to find those happy accidents that happen along the way and exploit them. Generative Shape Fill…sent me down alleyways that I wouldn't have necessarily thought of.”

What you’ll need

Practice in the app

Open Illustrator

Adam is a brand designer who starts each concept with pen on paper. He likes to then redraw the basic shapes in Adobe Illustrator using the Shape and Pen tools — like he did to create this bull illustration.

To explore your concepts, choose Generative Shape Fill in the Contextual Task Bar. For this design, Adam filled the square with a variety of mid-century modern styles and patterns using Nano Banana.

Using that graphic as a style reference image in the Generative Shape Fill dialog box, he switched to the Firefly model and created several iterations until he landed on the right look and feel.

Finally, Adam tweaked the vector result by removing some elements he didn't need, cleaning up, reshaping, and drawing over parts to get to a final illustration that he felt truly represented his vision.