Blog #3 Illustrator Tools

 

Blog #3 Illustrator Tools


The tools I looked at for this assignment were the Pen Tool, Direct Selection Tool, and the Paint Bucket Tool. The pen tool seems easy enough but I feel like it will become super tedious for certain projects that require modifying the line. I like the tool and from practicing it in class a little it doesn't seem that bad. However, I feel like it will become tedious and slow me down at certain times for huge projects that require a lot of curves or special curves and lines. I had one question while watching this video. Can you copy and paste curves? I know you can probably do it with shapes and so I'm assuming you can do it with lines as well. This would make it super easy for those projects with duplicates of the same shape. Something that I found interesting or really helpful is that by pressing shift, the lines maintain a perfect 45 degree angle. The paint bucket tool seems easy enough. This type of tool has been in countless other programs that are usually directed at a younger audience. I do wish that for this video, he used more than the colors that were already there and showed how to use other colors and or make our own. I feel that this type of tool will be very helpful in situations that require more of a block coloring. It could be interesting to use for an image with lots of tiny spaces that need to be filled. The direct selection tool was actually really interesting and cool to see being used. I think that tool will be the most easy to manage and the most fun. I can see myself creating my own custom fonts with it and I'm sure there are more uses for the direct selection tool, which would have been interesting to see in this video. The other tools she uses are also very interesting but I mostly focused on the direct selection tool.



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