Another week gone by. I keep finding myself wishing the weeks would go by faster, and then being shocked when they’re over.
Let’s review.
For the most part, we’ve still been going over the book we’ve been given for illustrator. The tutorials can be a little confusing, as they don’t give you much context for things you probably know very little about, but that’s okay. All it takes is a little bit of focus.
We’ve been getting more into drawing territory, which I’m excited about. I’ve been able to create simple doodles from the work I’ve been doing. My favorite thing to draw is people, and I like simplistic, cartoon-y styles, so I think I can find a way to suit Illustrator to my style. I think my favorite is a little doodle of a man, which I might add shading to later. I made him during the live painting section we were going over.
Speaking of which, the live paint tool has definitely been my favorite. It was a little confusing at first, but it’s what I was looking for. Art is definitely going to be a lot easier now.
Aside from the live paint function, we’ve learned about gradients, which was by far the most difficult thing to fathom thus far in my humble opinion just for the reason that I could not find the menu they were talking about in the book. I didn’t even notice they were talking about a menu until I saw the capitalization on the name of it – I know this is probably really vague without in depth explanation, so… It was difficult, let’s just say that. Once I found what I was looking for, though, it was definitely easier.
It’s a fun tool to play around with when you’re making landscapes. It brings a more polished aspect to the final piece that I like, but I do sometimes feel like it’s kind of missing something? So I think I’ll play around with it later until I figure out how I personally like to make gradients. They seem like they’d be good for sunsets. It also seems like a good opportunity to delve into color theory, which I kind of already wanted to do for my own personal art pieces.
I guess I’ll just see where it all takes me.
Catch you guys on the flip side.