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Illustrator Tutorials

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5jOg2iDPeM In this 3 minute tutorial, this man goes over the basics of Adobe Illustrator to create vector graphics. . A vector is an object that has both a magnitude and a direction. Geometrically, we can picture a  vector  as a directed line segment, whose length is the magnitude of the  vector  and with an arrow indicating the direction. A vector can be scaled to any size without a loss in quality. He goes over on how to start a new file and mentions how RGB Color mode is suitable for graphics on screens while CMYK is suitable for graphics on print. He goes over the basics for tools and I thought this would be a good tutorial to start with so It can peak my interest on specific tools. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cik1Ed9gzLE Assuming that we will be creating graphics similar to what we accomplished in Adobe Dreamweaver, I thought it would be a good idea to learn more about the pen tool. In this tutorial, they mention how the pen tool needs to be

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  This work was designed in Adobe Dreamweaver using HTML Canvas to create digital art out of code. For this design , you can see that the cat is made from several shapes and curves. There are even more shapes that are hidden to fill certain gaps that showed up throughout my project. I started this project with something more complicated and decided to create something more simple after seeing other student projects. Over the course of creating my image, I came to a point where I had to stop coding and come back later because I was having a difficult time lining up my points correctly. I learned that editing in Adobe Dreamweaver is a very long, complicated, process that takes lots of time and patience.   The design itself is very personal to me because I got the inspiration to create this image from my pet cat. The title is named after her and I’ve attached a picture below of her for comparison.   Overall, I am very happy with my image and how it came out. Symmetry is what I aimed for w