Adobe Illustrator projects

Tutorial

I started by doing the tutorial and finishing the basic pencil. This taught me how to use the polygon tool to create shapes and use the arrow keys to choose how many points they have. Once I was done I was able to group everything together and use the live paint bucket like a coloring book to color in each of the spots on the pencil and cup.

Customized Pencil

After I finished the basics of Adobe Illustrator I could move on and build my own mechanical pencil. The cup on the left also has the word "Pencil" on it that is stretched around the cup to make it look more realistic. Again I used my knowledge of the first pencil and was able to use the live paint bucket to finish my custom pencils colors.

The other pencil is the tutorial pencil stretched out to make it look more like a real pencil and not just a stub of one.

Creation

This was the final custom piece we had to make. The two parts of it are the flag and the flag pole. The American flag was easy to make except the stars because they are not on a perfect grid, to go around this I made two separate grids of stars and put them together to get the right look for the American flag. I made the grid using the vertical and horizontal align center tools. This was I only had to line up 8 stars (4 for each grid) and than I was able to just copy and center align the rest of them. I think it looks just like a real American flag.