Symbol Project

The purpose of the symbol project was to create a magazine cover. The whole project was made in Illustrator. This assignment required the use of scale tool, rotation tool, selection tool, spiral tool, and action pallet to make the flowers for the nature theme of the fashion magazine. This assignment also taught us how these tools can make shapes to form an object. The project also taught us about layers and how to use them. The first layer was the background, the second layer was the headline and subheading, the third layer was the flowers and model figure, and the last layer was the body copy. The last step was to mask the whole image. To mask an image, first group the whole image. Then, use the marquee tool to make a square that covers the image completely. Press command seven and masking is complete. Layers allowed us to change what was just in the layer as opposed to changing the whole illustration. The final product is a magazine article. The symbol project showed us how to use many of the Illustrator tools to create our own image, which was very convenient. In addition, the gradient tool provided the symbols to have a three-dimensional look.