progress on assignment 1

hii...

i used my knowladge of illustrator to create this symbol.

the tools that i used in oder to create this symbol are:

~pen tool

~direct selection tool

~magic wand

~rectangle tool

~circle tool

~paintbrush tool

~gradient tool

~flare tool

~gaussian blur tool

~drop shadow effect

~show grid

~outer glow effect

~live paint bucket

~eye droper

~zoom tool

The procedure:~

~before i start, i opened the grid to help me with my symbol.

~first, i create the shield symbol as the base. i overlaping the outer and inner part of the shield. after that, i colour the outer part using eye droper.

~i draw the sword using pen tool, I've overlapped the sword and the handle together. to create the diamond on the handle, i used the circle tool and paint it using radiel gradient 2. i also used drop shadow on the sword to make the sword look more realistic. for the circle, i used just the circle tool.

~to draw the wings, i trace it using my early skatch on the wings. the inner side of the wing, i used pen tool and add a drop shadow effect to make the wings look alive. after that, i duplicate and revert it to make the other half of the wings.

~on the background, i used the gaussian blur effect to make up the colour. i also used the gradient tool create the gradient colour.

~to make the fire, i draw 2 fire and overlapped it together. i also add the drop shadow effect to make the fire look alive.

~after i have done all of the item that i required, i managed to arranged them using arrange tool to become my symbol. after that, i add the flare tool to make the sword and the shield look shining.

personal symbol

After some sketches, I maybe want to do this symbol because I think it describe myself. At first sight, people will only see a sword and a shield with some fancy pair of wing. Actually, the sword represent that I will do anything to stop what I think is bad. If I cannot do anything about it, I will just defend my self. That is why I place the sword in front of the shield. I rather prevent than cure.
The circle on the shield is actually come with the sword. If u look closely, you can see that it is the symbol of male. The wings represent my ambition to go higher. The wings also represent freedom.
The fire on the bottom of the shield represent my anger. It means that I am a patient man. I can controlled my anger very well ( I think).
Thats all for now...