Week 2: Illustrator workshop

During this workshop I was given an image in which I would have to use the pen tool to trace and recreate the image/typography.

I started out by dotting the points on a piece of paper, which would be the points I would mark with the pen tool to create smooth curve.

I then traced over the letters with the pen tool, using the anchor point tool to create handles in order to adjust and smooth out the curves/line.

 

Outline of the shapes

To finalise the shapes I had drawn I decided to try and recreate the original image/typography as it appeared. I filled each shape with a slightly different tone of grey, I changed the opacity to the two shapes at the top; therefore you could see underneath the shapes and how they overlapped, just like in the original image.

Overall I was happy with my outcome as I felt my shapes had clean curves and lines, and resembled the original image closely. 

I enjoyed this workshop as even though I was already quite experienced using Adobe Illustrator I learnt a new skill, which was using the handles with the pen tool to adjust the shape of the line/curve. This will help me in future to create a more professional standard of work, as this improves the aesthetics and creates correct proportions with a shape.