Spring Break

For this I used image tracing and used the 3-color option. Next I expanded the image and ungrouped it twice. I then went to select, same, and then fill color and clicked on the sky then filled it with this blue color. Next I held down command and clicked on the 3 letters you see on our friends shirt that spells ORO. I then went to window, graphic style libraries, neon effects, and chose the thin red neon.

Bond…James Bond

For this all I did was use image tracing and used the black and white logo option.

Vase & Flower

For this I started off with the pen tool and drew half of the vase. I then used the reflect tool, copied, and dragged it to the other side to create the full vase. I then added the light blue fill and made the vase transparent. Next I used the pen tool to create the stems and leaves coming off the stems, placed the leaves where I wanted them, and grouped them together. I added the dark green fill to the stem and leaves then made the flowers using the pen tool. I right clicked the stems, clicked arrange, and send to back. Then I placed the flowers over the stem and added fills to each flower. I arranged the flowers by right clicking moving the order around. Then I grouped the flowers with the stem to create one piece. I then copied the entire flower and stem, rearranged the flowers, and placed them where I saw fit. I also changed the sizes of some of the stems so they didn’t all look the same.

Exercise 1

I started by making all of the basic shapes: the rounded square, which I rounded by holding down the mouse and pressing the down arrow, the circle, the star, which I added points to by holding down the mouse and pressing the up arrow, the triangle, and the square. I selected my colors for all of the shapes then copied and pasted four more of them. Then I selected the shapes that matched each other and clicked the “horizontal distribute center” button and then the “vertical align center” button. I did this to each of the shapes, then selected each of the rows and put them under each other. Then I selected each column and press the “horizontal align center” button. Then I selected the rectangular grid tool and made 4 columns and 4 rows by holding down the mouse and pressing the up, down, left, and right arrow keys until I had what I wanted. I then changed the stroke to white and made it bigger. I then selected the polar grid tool to create the bulls-eye and used the up, down, left, and right arrow keys to make the number of rings. Next I used the direct select tool and clicked on each ring individually and selected it’s color. To create the moon I just used two different ellipses and made on yellow and the other white and laid them over each other. To create the football I made two perfect circles and put them on top of each other, in a very similar way to the two circles on the end of that row, then used pathfinder and the pressed the intersect button. For the snowman I just laid two circles with no stroke on top of each other. For the last image on that row I did the same thing I did with the football, except this time I clicked exclude instead. For the bottom left star I made a black rectangle and a black star and lined up the rectangle exactly at the half-way point with the star and used the exclude button. The last star was a little bit tricky, but I started by making the black perfect square then making the 18-point white star and I aligned the centers. I then made one white circle and a slightly smaller black circle and laid them down over the square. Next I brought the star to the front and then selected all of it and clicked divide in the pathfinder window. I then used the direct select tool and Shift clicked all of the little sections of the star that were between the two circles and made them black.

Olympic Rings

I started out creating the rings by using the shape tool and holding shift to create perfect circles. I made one circle then a slightly smaller circle and placed the smaller circle inside the larger one to create a ring. Then I selected both of them, copied, then pasted four more circles. I then pasted a picture of the actual rings onto the document and used the eyedropper tool to get the exact same colors as the real rings. I then pulled up the pathfinder window and clicked divide so that I could select each section of the rings. I then went through each section where the rings connected and changed the colors of certain sections of the rings to match the real rings. Next I selected all of the rings, went to the effect tab, 3D, extrude and bevel, and rotated it to the left. Then I went back to the effect tab, stylize, drop shadow, and clicked okay.

Floor Plan

For this all I did was create some shapes using the shape tool and then used the type tool to add labels to each of the shapes. I used the stroke tool to increase the size of the lines on the two beds. I right clicked on the shapes and went to arrange then sent them to the back. On all of the drawers and the TCU chair I used the shape tool while holding down shift to create perfect squares and a perfect circle.