Classes of three beautiful friends

What is an illustration? An illustration is a picture or an image that gives a story to the image to life. like an being an illustrator (artist) that brings all his/her drawing real by using this applications.

In Design class, we were asked to create an illustration using Adobe Illustrator to create a composition that symbolically represents an aspect of us using imagery from our Personal Essay but before the essay we created an English Media piece that helps deepen the understanding of your Personal Essay. The purpose of the assignment all relates to the question "Who am I" that is shown in our work in so many different ways. The difference in an illustration and a photo is that Illustrator an illustration application is that it allows all of your creatively and a touch of your personality to a beautiful picture using the pen tool to trace the a photo to make it yours while a photo uses camera and Photoshop to make the photo more beautiful that it already is. Both results are great as long as you’re using these tools properly.

A girly background shows a happy, bright, and colorful person. The colors on my background include a light blue color, the color I’ve liked the most recently, and a pink color that I have loved since I was a child. The white shows simplicity, but also the complexity of all creations starting out, and it helps separate the two colors. Since this is my Self Portrait I wanted this to be the fullest portrayal of who I am. The symbols I used for my illustration are an ancient scroll and my P.E. clothes to represent the classes I have with my friends. In English class, I developed my personal statement, “ Friendship just need faith to be seen,” which became the focus of all my Self Portrait work. The symbols I chose are so important to me because even though I don’t really like running that much I am happy to have a class with my friends. P.E. class is where I can make new friends and create lasting memories that I will remember forever. The ancient scroll represents history. History class is where I learn about history of the world and also make my own each and every time I have History with my friends. When one of my friends moved away, I found comfort in the memories in the history we created together.

The program I used to create my composition was Adobe Illustrator. My illustration was a 17x11 landscape style. I also have trace my original pictures of the P.E clothes and the ancient scroll with the pen tool provided in Illustrator. I have used gradient, mesh, and shadows to make my artwork beautiful and stand out. The challenges I faced included trying to cooperate with the pen tool and getting the trace just right. Also putting them on the right layer was also a challenge. The mesh tool is a big struggle for me because I know the highlights are lighter than the color that is picked and the shadow is darker but I’m still trying to learn how to properly use it. Lastly, the gradient tool is also as hard as the mesh tool because picking the right color for the scroll is so hard since there are so many different versions of the same color just to get the effect of it. To add on to that putting the right effects to it look like an actual ancient scroll is a hard thing to do since you have to make modern paper look old part of it at least. I overcame them by practicing a lot, dealing with it, asking for people’s point of view, and asking for help a lot because I really need it.