Poster

This project took two submissions to complete. This is the reflection for the first submission.

I created what I'm going to call a poster. I mostly had to use the line segment tool to make lines, shapes, and coloring. Grouping and copying and pasting also played a factor. Mostly the skills I learned involved how to make shapes interact with one another and creating straight lines.
I faced plenty of obstacles, particularly regarding sizes of shapes. I had many difficulties making the paper airplane. It took at least twenty minutes to get it right.
I went rogue a couple times because I liked my ideas better.

This is the reflection for the second submission.

I created a poster! I finished the VectTip I started last time. This time I mainly worked with shapes again. However, I also worked with strokes, patterns, warping, transparency. and gradients.

Last time I struggled a lot with the airplane. One of the first steps I completed this time was finishing the draft/airflow (or as I call it, "the swoosh") of the airplane. This required the pen tool. This was hard to get "right," because it never warped how I wanted it too. I also had to zoom in to use the tool properly, but this made it harder to see how it worked with the rest of the poster. In the end, I managed to get a result I was satisfied with.

In the tutorial, it wanted me to have stripes on the blue circle. I was not able to do this without it becoming black and white. Therefore, I copied the circle and applied the Sand pattern to it, then layered it on top of the original circle. I grouped them together.
Creating the little quidditch goal (the shape doesn't actually have a name, but that's what it looks like), at the end of the yellow circle was really easy. I just made a rectangle, two circles, and used the Shape Builder tool to take away the inter circle.
I did not think I would be able to do the flowers. I thought I was going to have to cheat and do daisies, since that's just a rectangle with circles around it. But I was actually able to do the tulips! I was very proud. This involved creating a rectangle for the stem, which was the easy part. The directions involved creating a circle and using the direct selection tool to warp the points upward. I couldn't do that, which was my fear. However, I did find a rogue way to do it. I created triangle and then used the Shape Builder Tool, who if you haven't noticed was my best friend in this project, to subtract the triangles from the tulip. Then I created rectangles and rotated them for the leaves. I grouped it all together and copied and pasted it throughout the project.
Next I did the rainbow! This was much easier than I thought. I just copied and pasted three identical rectangles, used the eyedropper tool to make them the assigned colors, and grouped them together. Then I went to the warp panel and clicked arc. I typed in 100%, and it was done! I did have one mess up, because I didn't group the first time.
The kite was harder than the rainbow. I had to align the 4 triangles just right so they fit like a square, which took a lot of tweaking. Eventually I got there. Then I had to make the tail. This was easier. I just made a bow out of two triangles and circle, and little circles between each bow.
The shadows in the back were considerably difficult. I had to figure out how to make the rectangles parallelograms. This took some clicking around. Then I had to figure out how to do gradient and transparency. Finding the panels was easy, and they gave me the numbers to enter. They looked slightly off to me, but I didn't bother playing around with them this time. I had to send the shadows to the back, or else it shadowed my designs. Once I did that I used the Shape Builder Tool to cut off the dangling shadows that went off the paper.