Before you go to the next one, open up this link. Go ahead, I'll wait.
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| BAM. |
Yes. YES. Props to Strauss and his ridiculously named Also Sprach Zarathustra.
New skills: I guess pen tool, though I absolutely hate it. Pathfinder, shapes, fills, pencil and gradient too, but mostly, I learned to abhor the pen tool. Seriously, can I just go back to Photoshop? Illustrator isn't my cup of tea.
Self reflection: Well. for one, everything was just hard. The key took forever until I just did an okay curve with the pen tool and copy/pasted like crazy to get it over with. The pencil tool is alright, the hands took me a while, and the four leaf clover was easy thanks to the ever handy ctrl+c and ctrl+v. PC ftw, I'm pretty sure 30% of my time was wasted since my control functions didn't work and I had to turn to the dark side (command, ugh). Some of the functions in the tutorial just didn't translate whatsoever... rage. Well, I spent one or two days on the whole intro so I could go do the spaceship, which looks infinitely better than some random shapes on an artboard that I did without trace. The ship turned out well, but the introduction days (a) frustrated me and (b) are saved in a low quality JPEG, but eh.
Participation/Product: 9/9; I didn't know about trace at the time. Que sera sera. (Kind of) freehanded it.
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