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Project Description: For this project, we used the tutorial http://www.vectordiary.com/illustrator/learn-illustrator-cs3-in-30-days/. I used the Week 2, Days 8-12 for this project. It was basically all about the brush tool and how to use it using different brush types. It also taught me how to work with colors and strokes. The letter "A" that you can see on the top of the page was made with the brush tool, not the typing tool. Also the heart and circle was stars was made with the brush tool.


New Skills, Processes & Tools Learned: I learned how to use the brush tool and gradient tool with this tutorial. 
Shape Tools: circle, stars, rectangle
Drawing tools: Brush tool


Self Reflection: I think I did a good job with this part of the tutorial. It was much simpler than the other projects that we had to do. It took me about two days to finish.


Part/Proj: 8/9

Spaceship

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Project Description- For this project, we had to make a spaceship using Adobe Illustrator CS3. We learned how to make it using a tutorial guide, http://www.denisdesigns.com/blog/2009/03/create-a-simple-spaceship-in-illustrator/. I made this by simply using the pathfinder tool and I made the colors look cool with the gradient tool. I also used the shapes tool to make the body of the spaceship and the stars.


New Skills/Processes/ Tools Learned- The new skills and tools I learned from this project was how to use the pathfinder tool. It was pretty confusing how to use it at first, but then I got the hang of it after awhile.

Shape Tools used- Circle, rectangle, stars

Self Refection- I think I did a fairly good job with this project. It was hard to do because the tutorial wasn't clear, but I was able to figure everything out with some help from the teacher and my classmates. 

Part/Proj- 10/9

Illustrator Project

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Projects Description: For this project, we used Adobe Illustrator CS3. We used the tutorial, http://www.vectordiary.com/illustrator/learn-illustrator-cS3-in-30-days/. The tools that I used to make these objects were the shapes tool, pencil, tool, and pen tool. All of the tools were simple to use, but the pen was the most difficult. The shapes that I made with the shapes tool was a square, rectangle and star. With the pencil tool, I made the triangle diamond, the curves on the top left. I made everything else by tracing an image with the pen tool. I made the key freehand with the pen tool, that took me awhile to do because it was hard.

New skills, Processes & Tools Learned:


New skills/Processes- I learned how make different shapes using the shapes tool, make shapes and curves using the pen tool, and how to copy and paste shapes. 


Shapes- Star, square, rectangle
Drawing tools- pencil, pen, change anchor point tool.
Self reflection- I think I did a good job with this project. It was simply easy, but I had some difficulties. I think making the shapes were really easy, but the pen tool was confusing. It took me a long time to make the key, but from what you can see, I did it the best I could =]
Part/Proj- 10/8