Sailboat Tracing
Regatta Artwork
Reflection
This week we traced a sailboat in Illustrator. I started out using the pen tool and making a whole bunch of anchor points to stay with the curves until I heard the easier way I had forgotten about in a prior project using this boat. Then I colored the boat, using my favorite gradient color tool, and discovered a new 'setting' that I hadn't seen before. It took me a while to figure it out and wasn't finding tutorial help online, and the Professor came around and moved this every which way showing me it was possible. Although I like the coloring on the first sailboat better, I really like my dirty sail's in the 3rd one, which I had actually done last. That was the boat that I finally figured out how to move that edit tool around whichever way I wanted. Plus, I like realistic colors best.
The waves were made with the mesh tool. I could have just drawn some on like I had done before, but I wanted to learn something new. By researching and learning the mesh tool a little, I had got the multiple colors, in other places in the water, that I had wished I was able to get in the sailboats. The clouds didn't work out as they were supposed to, but I had to stop trying due to lack of time spending two full days on just this. And the reflection of the boat isn't the best, and it could be better if I research to remind myself how to link things between Illustrator and Photoshop, but again, time ran out on me!
The waves were made with the mesh tool. I could have just drawn some on like I had done before, but I wanted to learn something new. By researching and learning the mesh tool a little, I had got the multiple colors, in other places in the water, that I had wished I was able to get in the sailboats. The clouds didn't work out as they were supposed to, but I had to stop trying due to lack of time spending two full days on just this. And the reflection of the boat isn't the best, and it could be better if I research to remind myself how to link things between Illustrator and Photoshop, but again, time ran out on me!