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We could extrude the stem but the effect would not look that good. So we will create a blend along a curve instead. Create a vertical line with the Shape Editor Tool (F4) that is approximately 190 pixels tall. Drag the shape to create a gentle S-curve. Once you drag the shape into a curve, click either control point on the ends to enable the Bezier control handles. Drag the red end squares to make the S-curve. Create two very small ellipses to the sizes shown above. Zoom in on one of the ellipses (drag a rectangle around the ellipse with the Zoom Tool—the magnifying glass icon) then switch to the Fill Tool (F5). Click on the ellipse and drag from the left to the right side of the ellipse to apply an interactive Linear fill. Double click on the fill path arrow to create a new color. Repeat to add one more. Open the Color Editor (Ctrl e) and edit the colors to the RGB colors shown above. Click the Fill Tool on the left square on the fill path arrow, then edit that color in the RGB Color Model. Repeat this step for the other three colors. Copy the fill (Ctrl c). Select the other ellipse and Edit > Paste Attributes or press Shift Ctrl a. This copies the fill to the other ellipse. Position the two ellipses so the smaller one is at the top of the curved line and the larger is near the bottom. Switch to the Blend Tool (F7 or w). Drag from the bottom ellipse to the top ellipse to create a 5-step blend. Hold down the Shift key and click on the S -shaped line so that both the line and the blend are both selected. Click the Blend Along a Curve icon. Increase the number of Blend Steps to 70 and press Enter to increase the number of steps. From the Width drop down list on the Infobar, select None. This will be the stem.
Select the leaf ellipse and the stem. Apply a flat medium green fill. Set the outline to none. Switch to the Extrude Tool (e). Apply the Extrude settings shown above. Align the stem with the leaf shape as shown.
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