Digital Diary #6: Video Tutorials (February 26, 2016)

Before class today, I watched more video tutorials about using Adobe Illustrator. Watching these videos helped me understand more tools that can be used in Illustrator. I also learned more about working with color in Illustrator as well as more tools that I can use for my project that is due next Friday.

In the first video, "Working with Color," obviously, I learned how I can use color in Illustrator. Even though Rani had shown us already how to use color for multiple things, it was nice to have a more detailed refresher about how to get the colors you want, whether it would be to fill, or for stroke.

In the second video, "Pen and Pencil Tools," I learned, in more detail, how I can use the pen and pencil tools to my own advantage. I learned that the pen tool can make straight lines, as well as curved lines. I also learned that if you hold down the shift key, you can create perfect rectangles with the pen tool. With the pencil tool, I learned that you can redraw the line if you don't like how you drew that line, without totally deleting the line and starting over. With the pen tool, to make a closed shape, you have to hold down the alt key.

The last two videos involved using the brush tool, blob brush tool, and the eraser tool. I learned the most in the last video that talked about the blob brush tool and the eraser tool, because that had more new information than the brush tool video.

Watching all of these videos helped me strengthen my knowledge of how to use Illustrator, and I think that I am ready to complete my Illustrator project with the knowledge from these videos, as well as what Rani has taught us in class.