The first five chapters of the Adobe Illustrator Book were pretty basic but eye opening to the capabilities of Illustrator. One thing I greatly appreciate about the book was its showing of the keyboard shortcuts. It makes it a lot easier to do simple tasks like an undo just from pressing command and Z. Another thing that was nice to learn was to manipulate the different shapes and lines.
I very much enjoyed the tutorial for Illustrator that I chose. The tutorial went over the majority of what we learned from the book and it only took around a day and a half. And the end result was something that is very cool and that I’m enthusiastic about.
I did learn how to make a shadow for an object which was pretty cool to do. It’s a nice effect when used correctly. I mean most of the thing that we learned I have played around with before so it was more like extra practice but it did help to know more about the tools.
I didn’t enter into the state fair. I wanted to but I had a lot of make up work from my classes. By the time I finished it was too late. But what I was going to enter was pretty good in my opinion. It was a bit rough though. I also didn’t add any colors because I was more into the contrast.
I do want to enter some of the contests but I’m not sure if I will. The main reason I probably wouldn’t is I barely have time for much of anything except to do make up work and not fall behind.
I also finally presented my Prezi. I felt like it went pretty well. However I did stagger towards the beginning but improved further along. I just had to remember what i wanted to emphasis and speak on. The same thing also applies to my eye contact with the audience. It did feel awkward though because pretty much no one had any expression on their face.
So far I’ve been working on a drawing/ image thing whenever I can. And a lot of the tools we’ve been learning from the book has actually helped out a lot with the process of it.