Illustrator: Pencil and Character

The two posts above were made on Adobe Illustrator. In class we first leaned how to use the basic tools on Illustrator by making the pencil. We mostly used the shape tool and color gradient to construct it. We also used the white arrow tool to move and re-shape the bottom of the pencil. I used the tools and skills that I learned from the pencil to make the Mickey Mouse. I used a lot of circles and ovals to create this character. I used the white arrow to make the shape of Mickey’s tan face. To make the color on the nose I made a small white circle within the large black one and blended them together. To make some of his smile I used the paint tool.

Photo Shop Final

This is my Photo Shop final. I decided to do a movie poster for the movie, The Great Gatsby. The photo includes a combination of selections, layer masks and text. The three actors and the Gatsby banner are all selections. The background of the mansion and the picture of the fireworks are both blended together using layer masks. The green light house is also a layer mask. The actor’s names are made by using the text tool with a background behind them. The two actors on the right and left are faded out by lowering the opacity.

Retouching

       

        

        

These are my before and after photos of my retouching assignment. In class we learned how to use the patch tool, the stamp tool and the eraser tool. The tools that I found the most useful were the patch and the stamp. The patch tool allows you to circle a specific section and move the patch to the texture or piece of the picture that you want. The stamp tool allows you to select the piece of the picture you want and then cover another selection of the picture with the original spot that you selected. In each picture I cleaned up up some blemishes and added some selections to the photos.

Copy Selections

This is what we used in class to to learn how to do selections. As mentioned in my previous post about selections we learned how to use the magic pen tool, the quick selection tool and also how to used the paint tool to meticulously retrieve your selection. We also learned how to change the color of the markers along with flipping the number 5.