First off, I've been getting my teeth into Illustrator following the workshops we've had in the past couple of weeks. I'd always been boggled by the pen tool before, given that I've never really had any proper lessons in Illustrator - before I just used it to manipulate type and add stroke effects. Anyway, in one of the lessons we were shown how to trace a Fiat with the pen tool, and before I'd learned this I always assumed that the pen tool was by default a flat colour tool, so I couldn't just trace lines. Now I know I can. So I went home and started playing around with it, and in the end I traced an F-22 Raptor - not because I'm some sort of plane freak, but because it's mostly straight lines... [Hey, everyone's gotta start somewhere, right?]
It's not particularly amazing, but I'm happy with it and I know that now I know how to do this, it's really gonna affect my work, for example one of the briefs we were given was to create 10 150x150mm 2d pieces based on a colour we were assigned, I got orange, so to represent it I went with 'Orange is... fluorescent.' - I created images of people wearing fluorescent jackets in different jobs, ie; lumberjack, builder, footballer, etc. [I'll upload some examples when I get the files...] And now that I know how to trace and use live paint, I intend to go over what I've already done in Illustrator to give it a more polished and professional feel. Sick.
Much Love.
