I was introduced the pen tool on Illustrator which is used for making interesting custom shapes and drawing around images or other shapes. I took a image off of Google which was a cat with wings from a anime and I drew around him to practice using this tool. At first I found using the pen tool hard because of the way you have to click and hold the mouse then move the mouse to change the lines curve, but after some practice I got the hang of it and ended up with the image above. I feel the pen tool now I know how to use it will become incredibly helpful for me in the future.
Next I was tasked to receive a image of a sport where the image trace tool would be used. The point of this task was to create something similar to a advertisement that features a sport and the word on the right 'Enforcer' was going to be advertised. The text however used to be a different font and nicely fitted within the image but I had a problem with syncing my fonts so I couldn't use the intentional font. The image trace tool creates another layer and copies the image into tiny little sections of pixels where the user can then edit these pixels and change the style of the image but keeping the image the same from the point people can still tell what it is. The task lead us to make the image looked like someone has drawn and coloured it with crayon which gave it a nice effect to be advertised. A helpful tool to manipulate images but I don't think I will need it a lot in the future but if I do I am confident in how to go about this technique.
Overall I learnt the various tools on Adobe Illustrator and I am definitely more familiar with the software. If I wanted to improve anything in this session I would try and get the font for the word 'Enforcer' that I used to have and redo the image of the cat to see if I can have smoother lines.
