2.10.2011

2011.02.10.tad: happy rabbit chinese new year! revisited

i have been telling myself for years that i should learn illustrator. i used it before, but it was forever ago. i decided to sign up for a class on illustrator concentrating specifically in fashion design. it started this week. so far, so good, i'm liking it a lot. today was the first day we worked in illustrator. we learned how to trace images and learned how to use the pen tool. i decided to redo my day 03 tad that i had done in photoshop because i wasn't happy with the line quality. i like it much better in illustrator:

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also, here is the class exercise that we worked on today:

illustrator class exercise

our intructor hand drew it and gave it to us to practice with. i traced and colored it in illustrator. the colors i chose were a little different than what was exported. i'll look into fixing that later...

2 comments:

Joanna Chopard said...

What an excellent idea to take the class on Illustrator. That's definitely on my list of things to do also! Looking forward to seeing some of your exercises.

cignoh said...

yeah, i'm liking it so far, i think the class will be really useful and fun. you can definitely pick it up easily, i'm sure. i had been telling myself that i should learn it for years so finally just decided to take a class to force myself. really though, you could pick up on the basics in a couple of hours...