Special effect

Fireworks to Water Painitng

Creating fireworks from simple lines.
Using this method you can create wheels to snowflakes.

We can even use Illustrator to create work that is similar to owns we do by hand on paper, such as the one above where we created the effect of water painting. Through this we have entered a new generation where we can create art just on the computer rather than learning to paint in real. 

Poster Creater

Using a tool to transform lines into words and filling in a shape with words aligned perfectly to the shape, we created a poster to promote coffee, which was using words to form our cups and the rich coffee steam that came out the cup. Created two, one for day another for night, telling everyone that coffee is for anytime of the day, enjoy it. 

An greeting/invitation card to an art gallery.
It seems professional with an artistic touch, it was created by expanding a photo (creating paths), then creating a contrast between each object(hence the white) then just filling in gradient color.




A new tool we learnt was to create the wheel. It's simply rotating a line until you create a circle.

The poster may seem complicated but its fairly simple, all you need is patience. I admit it could of been better if i took more of my time.

Fancy Words

This week we learnt about the Text tool, simple right? But how about designing these texts, to create an effect. The first one (below) was fairly simple, we basically found a pattern we like and filled the text with it after we expanded the text (creating paths). 

Next we had to create a reflection of a word. A bit harder as we had to create our own paths, fill in each area with colors to create a 3D feel, after that reflecting the word and making the one below almost transparent. Pretty cool right. 

This one was an eye opener, who would of knew that these logos and symbols were that easily created, all you need was the word and the shape, and after one click of a button, WALA there we have it. 

Creating Logos

Using the pen tool (creating paths/outlines) we took a picture and selected the part in which we would want to create our logo from (a logo about tea, and one about dogs).

I extracted the four leaves which seemed like a star to me, which i proceeded to create a star boarder around it, thus the name Star Leaf was created. A tea drink from a galaxy far away~

The dog logo I extracted the dogs head and placed in behind a bubble (which i extracted from another picture) and decided to make this a dog salon logo. Come to Bubble dog, we will make your dog squeaky clean!

First Time

Learning the basics of using Adobe Illustrator.

The first lesson was to learn how to use the pen tool to make a path (an outline) over each object (from fruits to cutlery) the filling in each with a different color. My attempt was fairly successful, although some of the object was not perfectly covered, revealing some parts.