1. Animal created with simple shapes

I choose a panda!

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And here it is with some shadows created with the Shape Builder tool:

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2. Shape Builder Swan

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3. Impossible Shapes

Here's the triangle I made following Dan's project

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Also decided to make this heart for extra practice:

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4. Curvature Tool vs Pen Tool

I think the drawings made with the Curvature Tool came out smoother but it required more "getting used" to it than the Pen Tool. I use the Pen Tool in Photoshop to make selections so I'm more familiar with how it works.

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5. Drawing with Pencil Tool

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6. Width Tool

This one was a tough one! I kept getting weird distortions with some of the letters but I pushed trough.

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7. Typing on a path

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8. Compound Paths

This one project was pretty fun. An easy way to make very pretty designs.

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9. Distortion Tools

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10. Repeating Shapes

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11. Patterns

Don't know why I kept getting a line on some of the clouds after exporting it but oh well

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12. Image Tracing

Played around with the colors and added a dot pattern

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13. Remaking Logos

This was fun. Tried to see if I could remake these myself before watching Dan do it. It went pretty well except for the last one. I had to follow along for that one.

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14. My own "Final Project"

Wanted to create an actual project instead of only following along and practicing the tools so I went with this Alice in Wonderland poster thing, heavily following the paper cut style Dan showed us. Also lots of shape builder tool and width tool. Tried to incorporate most of what I learned :)

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This was an amazing class. I am looking forward to following along with the Advanced one.

Jessica Cortes

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