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Open illustrator and create a new A4 landscape document. Choose the Rectangle tool and make a box the size of your art board. This is going to be our background. Now with your rectangle selected head over to the fill on your tool bar, and fill with #91B35B.
Now for the tennis ball, choose the Ellipse tool and click on your art board. The Height and width box will appear, add 62 mm for both Height and Width. Fill the first circle. Select the circle hold alt and shift and drag a new circle to the side of your first one, and fill it.
Next, choose the second ball and drag it over the first ball, hold cmd and T to select your ball and pick the bottom left corner and whilst holding shift drag your ball in until you see the dark layer behind.
1. Form a new circle with a stroke of 8px, choose the circle and navigate to Object > Expand. Click OK.
2. Choose the rectangle tool and draw a rectangle over half of your circle, choose both and open your pathfinder tool (Window > Pathfinder if not already open) and hit crop.
3. Now you have one half of your pattern for your ball , with your half selected press alt and shift and drag a second half to the side and then using your reflect tool flip that half around and nudge it out a bit.
4. Choose the tennis ball pattern and drag it over the top of your ball. Rotate it so that it is at a 45 degree angle. If your pattern is overlapping your ball we will fix it now. Select your original ball and make a copy cmd C and then cmd F, then bring to the front (Object > Arrange > Bring to front). With your ball outline selected hold shift and select your balls pattern, with both selected go Object > Clipping Mask > Make.
Now for your shadow, simply select the Ellipse tool and roughly draw a stretched circle. Fill the circle black and change the transparency to 40%, Go Object > Arrange > Send backward until it is behind your ball.
For the netting choose Rectangle Tool and draw a bar across your art board towards the top, rotate your bar to 45 degree’s and knock the transparency down to 40%. To add the cross netting, grab the Pen tool and give it a stroke of 8px, then draw a curved line from your large bar to the corner of your page. Grab the line and navigate to Object > Expand, hold alt shift and drag the netting across so that there is a bit of spacing in between. Now press cmd and D to duplicate the netting across. Repeat this process for the vertical cross netting. Once all your netting is done select it all and Unite it (this is on your pathfinder window).
For the marking line pick the Rectangle tool and draw a white rectangle across your art board. You can send this behind your netting so that it gives a cast shadow effect onto your design.
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