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Learning Illustration: 4 : Colour Swatches and Gradient ( Adobe Illustrator )

Writing this down before I hit the bed. Just watched a movie with Winnie, "The Croods". I had already seen the movie years ago. But I wanted her to watch it. Anyway, I am getting off-topic, 

This would be a short and fast catch up on the illustration class as it's getting late. So much to do, so much to learn, so little time. In the class by EnvatoTuts+, Mr Dan taught us things about colour swatches. It was all about colours. The usage of colour swatches for faster colouring. Adding customised colours to the swatches. And the most interesting one was the colour theme which uses the adobe cloud and shows a variety of colour combinations for a vibrant and eye-catching result. The community's most picked and voted colour combinations and adding them to the colour swatches can bring life to a dull illustration. 

And for people who don't like adobe clouds, we were given websites where we can pick other good colour combinations as well. And we were asked to fill colour to the alphabets we made in the previous class. 






In the Homework, we were asked to fill colour to the alphabet that we made in the homework of the previous class. 


As I created D and A in the homework in past homework, I filled it up like this. The next day we were given the knowledge of the gradients and the tools related to it. Changing the colours, adding multiple colours, angles, switching from linear to radial etc.

This surely is one simple small powerful tool that will be used by me alone in the future especially while making logos. 
I have to start making logos again and add to my portfolios. When I start selling product on Fiverr, it might be beneficial. We are told the next class would be all about the fonts and texts. So another class to enhance my logo making skill.
I will call it a day. Night folks. Keep learning keep improving. Ciao!


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