The main inspiration for my Illustrator project was the beauty of coral reefs. During the brainstorming process, I tried to think of ways I could implement this idea into a fun sweatshirt design. So I went for a simplistic take on this and ended up with small, colorful gradient designs As I worked on this project, I grew to understand more about Adobe Illustrator while trying to create with the pen and brush tool. I learned more about how to use fill and strokes options to also include white outlines over my design. There were not any huge problems with this but I would say that color matching the different gradients and adding new gradients for each small design was the most difficult. However, I pushed through with thinking of new color schemes and was able to successfully create around 50!
I personally wouldn’t change anything about this project because I am quite proud of the result. I think that my designs were able to pull through exactly as I have imagined it and I was able to successfully print them on the sweatshirt with the iron. I think that sketching out this idea has come handy towards trying to create it in Illustrator especially since there are no specific sketching features within the application. This has helped me towards finding out exact measurements I wanted when the design was printed. The project itself has helped me realize that it takes a lot of effort to create these designs and made me feel more appreciative of the work others put into Adobe Illustrator designs.
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