Spent a little more time with my example to clean up the shadow figure (removed a lot of shapes so that I had a single object to work with). Used a gradient fill, then applied some transparency, and finally I used the clone tool to bend it. Comes a little closer to what you did and I hope all of these examples show DaveC that there are ways to bend a shadow. Just not as straight forward as using the shadow tool by itself.

I am not the artist that some of you are but I have fun trying to accomplish some of the challenges you all set forward. IMO that is how I learn so when I want to do something for myself, I at least have better starting points.

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