Week One - Holly

Work Area and Basic Drawing Tools

This is my first doodle

First Doodle

My first signature made by myself with the holly tube. I didn't read the instructions carefully and this tool was not in the lesson.First Sig File

Another signature, this time all my own

Another Signature

My kitty seemed to be looking at something so I tried to put a bluebird in

kitty

I made another attempt at the bluebird, so thought I'd put it here for comparison.

kitty and bluebird

This doodle looked like some warm, fuzzy critter.

critter doodle

Another doodle

doodle

Learning buttonizing, etc.

 buttonizing, etc.

The lesson name tag or signature.

lesson button

This made me think of a birthday party

Party Signature

I am happy to be back in school. I made a big mistake on this one. I forgot to save it before I put in the text and then when I added the bubbles it obscured the text and I couldn't remove the bubbles. I can't remember how I made it. That's how we learn, I guess. The second is another try. Much more simple but I like it too.

School

school

Well, I thought I was finished but I learned so much from this simple landscape attempt that I wanted to include it here. The major thing I learned was why you have layers. I should have made the background first and then added the foregrounds. It was fun though but I think I could have done better by hand.

primitive landscape

I don't think this will count as extra credit but my friends took this picture of their pups, sitting in their beds and I thought it would be a nice sig. I used the erase tool to eliminate the background and then the paintbrush with the wallpaper texture to add the wall. Then I used the woodgrain tool for the floor. Again, I can see how the layers are going to make this so much easier. I used select to eliminate a lot of the background and then added the blue text in CaslonNo540SwaD 26 size. Aren't they cute?

Best Pals

I also made a button to go back to the course page. It appears with the new buttons I made to navigate to all the pages in this group of lessons.



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