Illustrator Year 1

What I was supposed to do	What I got done
Christmas Decoration Project  1. Image masked  2. 6x6 circle  3. 8 pt. stroke  4. 2 Lines of text, 1 is warped  5. Cutline stroke at .072 pt  6. Save as “Name_HolidayBall.JPEG” in   Illustrator/HolidayBall” shared folder  7. Print and get approval before cutting	After using the ellipse tool to create the surrounding circle I drew the character Lancer in photoshop. I warped the text and made some normal text as well. Tools Used: Ellipse Tool, Photoshop, and Warp Tool.
Ornament Project 1. Have a hole to make it a keychain. 2. Use complex shapes.	I created the text by combining rectangles and other shapes. The hole in the corner was made by creating by using the hole shape. Tools Used: Tinkerkat.
Infographic Project 1. Images traced, drawn or created neatly 2. Image effects applied (extrude/bevel, textures,etc.) 3.What effect did you apply?_____________ 4. Background has a gradient or texture applied 5. Pie-Chart, Bar-Graph used to compare data	Making this project I image traced all of the images and ungrouped the shapes so that I could change their color. I added the background from an image I used and put an effect on the title. Tools Used: Image Trace, Warp Tool, and Drop Shadow.
Word-Art Project 1. Use WordArt.com to create a word cloud. 2. Containing 7 or 8 nouns, verbs, and 10 adjectives. 3.Must be unity between words and shape.	I used many more words than I needed and used the image of a city for the word art. The overall theme was 'city'. Tools Used: WordArt.com and Invert Color.
Cityscape Project 1. Find or sketch a cityscape. 2. Create buildings with simple and complex shapes. 3. Write a paragraph explaining how you will accomplish this all.	This was one of the first projects I made. In this project, I sketched my own cityscape, made a few buildings with complex shapes, and posted my paragraph on google docs. Tools Used: Rectangle Tool, Perspective Grid Tool, and the Pen Tool.
Portrait Project Basic Shapes (the major areas including face, hair, clothing, neck) Line-Art: (eyes, nose, mouth, ears) Shading (There is shadow and highlight areas) Hair: (eyebrows, eyelashes, facial hair) Color: basic shapes have fill color	This was my favorite project to make out of them all. I traced the original image, added all of the previous shadings, redrew the hair, and filled all the shapes with their proper color. Tools Used: Pen Tool and Feather Effect.