Project 1 Noel Javier

For this project I wanted to do something with stars so I went from doing a space theme to being on the moon to doing a midnight sky. I wanted to make it minimal and simple so I just played with shapes and colors then an Antarctic landscape at night came to mind.



First, I created a rectangle the exact size of the canvas from the rectangle tool as an object drawing. Then I created a gradient fill. The gradient features were fun to play around with. I started dragging sliders on the color tab and pulling them on and off to create new shades of color. I also made this a radial gradient because I didn’t want the sky to be so linear. This is very similar to other adobe gradients in AI and Photoshop.




Next I created another object drawing rectangle and created a linear gradient and chose colors from kuler to mimic Antarctic icy landscapes at night.




For the igloos I created them by using merge objects. First I created an oval then used the pen tool to delete anchor points and manipulated the bezier curves. I then duplicated this object and transformed it into a smaller object. From there I “cut it out” from the first object to create the hole in the igloo. I used individual gradients per shape and adjusted them by using the gradient transform tool. For the shadows, I used the brush tool with the “paint behind” option to paint in the shadow. Afterwards, I used the pen tool to manipulate the anchor points to created the shadow form that I wanted.




Then the spray tool. I chose random scaling and changed the % scale to get different sized “stars”. If you look closely I did a few different colors of dots to make it a little more 3 dimensional. There are bright white stars, medium gray blues and darker gray stars for added effect.



Lastly, I created text to title the image. I didn’t want to use a gradient here so I duplicated it and changed its fill color to dark blue and then went to modify>arrange>send to back and that placed the dark blue text behind the white text to make it look like a drop shadow.