Intro to Illustrator

 Today we started using Illustrator and it's so much more fun than Photoshop. Photoshop sucks lowkey. Obviously, it'll take some time to get used to, but Illustrator is already so much easier to understand, although there were some tools that were just not working for me. For example, I literally couldn't get the blend shape tool to work,  OR the curvy text tool, so I'm going to have to play around with that. I can't paste what I made in class, but it felt very Minecraft inspired. Just very simple shapes. I am excited to work on our assignments for next week, though I do think the portrait might be a bit of a challenge. 


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