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Adobe Illustrator is a software program used by artists and graphic designers to create graphics. It has digital drawing tools for creating illustrations, icons, and other artwork. Below are some tutorials I have found helpful in learning Adobe Illustrator. I spent at an hour and a half interacting with the various tutorials to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator. Tutorial: Illustrator CC Tutorials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAzoaP1N9ug\ The Illustrator CC Tutorial is very helpful in introducing Illustrator. The tutorial tells you how to set up everything and how to start. The tutorial explains how to use tools such as the line tool to create images. Overall I feel like this tutorial gave me a better understanding of Illustrator. From my perspective, the keyboard shortcuts for the various tools would be hard to remember. I would use Illustrator to create logos for stories and create character models. Tutorial: How to Use the Basic Tools in Adobe Illustrator https://www.youtube.com/

Blue Hued Car Blue Hued Car is an art graphic image containing various shapes (rectangles, circles, lines, and octagon) including three Bezier curves and two Quadratic curves. I used Dreamweaver and the HTML5 canvas component as the medium to create Blue Hued Car. Dreamweaver is a software tool and the canvas component provides an easy way to draw graphics on a web page. I wanted to learn how to use the HTML5 canvas component as a medium and create an abstract art piece. I am a fan of Dada; mostly because it had it's origins during World War I. Dada is an abstract art form where the premise is to create "anti-art"; meaning it is not considered art according to traditional standards. In the spirit of Dada, originally, I was going to create 10 simple shapes; see Sketch #1.  Sketch #1 However, I felt Sketch #1 would not be challenging enough for me to learn the canvas component. In a conversation I was having with my mom, a computer engineer where she was explaining to me &q

HTML <canvas> is an element used to draw graphics on a web page. The <canvas> element is a container for the graphics. All drawing on the canvas is done with JavaScript. For Homework #1, I modified an HTML file containing rectangles and lines. In the assignment, we needed to change the size, color, and location of 3 rectangles and all the lines in the HTML file. To prepare for completing the assignment, I reviewed some HTML tutorials available on the web. My 3 favorite tutorials are below. 1. Canvas Tutorial was my favorite because it was hands on. I found it more engaging because I am a visual learner. The tutorial was very intuitive.  https://www.w3schools.com/graphics/canvas_intro.asp 2. HTML5 Canvas Tutorial is similar to Canvas Tutorial. It is less interactive but, it provides a good reference for all the properties and methods needed for Canvas assignments. I can copy the code and paste it into my own HTML page.  http://www.html5canvastutorials.com/ 3. I like the YouT