I created a Pop Art picture in Illustrator for the first time with this tutorial. I was following a tutorial in spoon graphics and learned a lot. I imported a picture from the internet which is the one i created. I recently did a tutorial on how to use the pen tool so this really tested my skills. I had always done pop arts in photoshop so this was very new to  me. I think i did very good even though i didn't have time to finish his hair. I did the outline of him with the pen tool and then filled it in with the bucket tool. It was a very simple piece of work since i had the template behind but it was still hard for me. I'm barely starting to get the hang of illustrator and starting to get good at it. I learned a lot with this tutorial and how to use the tools on illustrator. I think it came out very good, I liked how I shaded his shirt.

Illustrator Diamond

Coming in to this semester of independent studies I knew i was very bad at working with illustrator. I had never worked with it and made it a goal to get better at it. I worked with the Spoon graphics tutorials and created this diamond. I mainly used the pen tool and gradients to create it. I learned how to import a template and go over it. This was a very useful tutorial for me because it taught me to get more familiar with the tools. The pen tool was very difficult to get the hang of, but i learned how to make shapes, straight lines and even curve the lines. The diamond is just composed of triangles, simple but i learned a lot. This was very difficult for someone who honestly, sucked, with illustrator. I also worked a lot with the gradient tool. I learned how to move the colors back and forth, stretch them out and move the gradient around. It really helped me give the diamond depth make it look like it had shadows and reflections. I really learned a lot from this tutorial and I was able to make something very cool. I know its not a very big assignment but i honestly feel like i was horrible at illustrator and improved a great amount. I feel more comfortable with illustrator now that I went through this tutorial.

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Digital Arts 3

        I learned many new things in Digital arts 3 this semester. The things i learned were how to create a portrait by building the page up a lot of random things and taking away from it to create different characteristics of peoples faces. I always learned how to create vectors of images and make them look really cool. This helped me with the bully poster because i hand drew the super hero and scanned it to my computer. I then made it a Vector and changed the colors to make it an amazing super hero. I also learned a lot more about color from reading ms.ROBINSUN's big book about color and that helped me decide what colors i wanted to go on my super hero. Something that wasn't a big topic in the class but i thought is very useful is to save different versions of your art just incase you don't like how something turns out. Before this class the only time that i ever used corel painter was in DA1 to make a spacescape but we now downloaded his creativity workspace and it gave a whole new look at the program because i liked the new tools and made it a lot more fun. I also learned how make a picture better by choosing the correct type face. When we watched the movie about font it really made want to go back to my old work and change the font to make it look better. Overall i learned a lot and really enjoyed my time in digital arts 3 :)