CE08: Anchor Point Placement with Pen Tool

Description:

We were given an assignment to test out our skills in the PenTool. There are four difficult exercises ranked from Easy to Insane. You had to choose one photo out of the many for each difficulty trace around them using the PenTool. We also learned a new tool called Pathfinder which make cut outs in solid PenTool shapes. We would all have to use both tools for all the images chosen as I have done below.

PenTool: Easy

PenTool: Moderate

PenTool: Difficult

PenToll: Insane

CE07: Pen Tool Beginner’s Guide with Mighty

Description:

We were tasked with working on a tutorial guide for the pen tool to further expand our knowledge on the tool. There’s a website link below that takes you to the document for the exercise, as well as the guide video that goes over the exercise. There are 5 different problems that needed to be done which involved specific techniques with pen tool, all of this shown below.

Guide Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=104&v=j69a3-shkGE&feature=emb_logo

Exercise Document Link: https://www.madebymighty.space/s/Mighty_Pen_Tool_Beginners_Guide.zip

Pen Tool Exercises

1 – Straight Paths

2 – Bézier curves

3 – Breaking Paths

4 – Complex Shapes

5 – Lettering

CE06: Pen Tool Basics

Description

We were tasked with an exercise to further grow our knowledge with the pen tool. There are 6 exercises that we had to work on which helped us improve our skill with this tool.

Zig Zag

The simple line forming a zig-zag pattern

Curves

How to make the simple curve

Reversed Curves

Tricks to making curves in multiple ways

Ellipses and Triangles

Ovals and triangles of different styles and designs

Heart

A simple heart design

Clover

Using all the knowledge and practice for the previous exercises I had to make a 4 leaf clove from scratch from the outline with the pen tool.

CE03: Drawing Shapes, Grouping, Clipping Mask, and Box Pattern Designs

Description:

We were tasked with creating 10 different box designs using the new tools we learned during class. We have to make 5 pattern designs using linework and 5 pattern designs using shapes. These are the few designs that I made posted below.

Shape Patterning

Linework Patterning

Workspace Images

Shape Layers

Linework Layers

CE01: About Myself

About Me and What I Like.

5 Favorite Genre, Music, or Food:

  • I like adventures, mysteries, and action packed genres
  • All sorts of music, but mostly the stuff from radio and Japanese
  • I’m pretty picky but I like all sorts of food, pasta, pizza, salads, etc.

Influences/Samples: