This throwing star was made in adobe illustrator using the pathfinder tool. Pathfinder allows you to combine shapes together in many ways so that you can make many new shapes. It was a lot of fun trying to figure out the many great ways to make a brand new shape. Lots of trial and error was involved to make everything just right. This is the final product which took a lot of time but looks great and worth all the hard work.

We stared our project learning about all of the different parts of type anatomy and how to identify the different parts of type. Next we took a online test to see what font fits us the best (shown left). My font was Architype Von Doesburg which came from the answers Emotional, assertive, progressive and disciplined. Next we used our font to type our name and label the parts of the font (show above). We found that you can identify a font by the parts and how the letters look. It was really cool to see how much goes into type and why people pick some fonts over another font. When most people look at a font they just think of it as a font not of all the work that went into making the font look good or why the font is there. Some fonts have a purpose such as many simple fonts have no fancy parts so they can be read from a long way away.

creative color wheel

This amazing color wheel was made from a blank slate by me on adobe illustrator. The program lets you do amazing things and is great for creating your own art work. This color wheel starts with the traditional color wheel colors around the outside but with a new twist on how they are displayed. then we have a layer of black whit and gray that are need if you want to darken or lighten a pure color. finally we get to the center circle which displays all of the color wheel colors with black white and gray.

This project stared out with just a boring normal color wheel then we thought about how we could improve it and make it more appealing to look at. Then we edited it to make sure we had it just the way that wanted and had classmates give there opinions on the final project.

I learned so much during this project  like how to rotate shapes and change there sides to make new shapes. Another great thing i learned is how to use the live paint bucket tool to color in individual shapes. I also got to experiment with the different features offered by adobe illustrator and found how much great ways to edit your work there is.

If i were to do this project again i would edit the shapes first because the editing can mess up some of the colors making it to where you have to redo them. What I would keep the same is how the color wheel is laid out with it's different layers.

In conclusion this was a super fun project and an awesome way to learn how adobe illustrator works. I had a lot of points where things got confusing but in the end it was all worth it to make this color wheel and it will help me on future projects.