Almost Halloween!

Being that Halloween is quickly approaching, I drew the great pumpkin from Charlie Brown today in class. I used the pencil tool, pen tool, and fill tool to make it. The fact that to select points to use the fill tool was a bit annoying, but i suppose it is better that way for different projects.

Adobe Illustrator

Project Description: To create the shapes on this practice sheet I used victordiary.com 's learn AI in 30 days tutorials 1-7. It took me two classes to figure out how everything used works and finish up the shapes.

New Skills, Processes & Tools Learned: 
Shape tools: Rectangle, ellipse, star.
Drawing tools: Pen, Pencil & Change anchor Point tool.
Fill tools: fill tool & Gradient tool

Self Reflection: The shape tool and pencil tool both came easy. I had no problem creating the shapes and moving and redrawing with the pencil tool. The pen tool, on the other hand, quickly made me frustrated. It took me a while to pick up how to drag the lines to get the desired curve. However, after a fair amount of practicing and experimenting, I started liking it. 
Part/Proj: 10/9

Illusions

The other day I was browsing the Internet when i came across this link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/08/25/129429199/overhead
What this guy does is he sets up a background on the ground, stands on a ladder and takes what looks like action shots from above. While there are a few that I don't particularly find impressive, the entire concept of these photos is incredible. Maybe I found something to experiment with next summer! regardless, I think they are fun to look at.