Working in Adobe Illustrator was so interesting because in a lot of way it’s counterintuitive. We aren’t accustomed to thinking in terms of shapes an lassoing angles to try and create images. It’s a challenge. Try and\u00a0use the mouse like you would a pencil and you don’t end up with much. Try and\u00a0use your mouse to put down anchor-points and manipulate angles and… if it’s your first try, like it was mine, you still don’t end up with much, at least until you except you’re working towards a colorful, clean-edged abstraction. which is a lot of fun, and it made me think.<\/p>\n
This is what I thought. I think in the long run, if any of us were to keep after mastering this program, it would expand our creative capacity. It takes a skill most of us haven’t developed yet to think of, say, a drawing of a cow in the terms of the process we’d need to in order to build it out of these blocks. It\u00a0underlines the\u00a0problem-solving exercise inherent in all artwork, the execution half of the process, and that’s got to be pretty valuable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Working in Adobe Illustrator was so interesting because in a lot of way it’s counterintuitive. We aren’t accustomed to thinking in terms of shapes an lassoing angles to try and create images. It’s a challenge. Try and\u00a0use the mouse like you would a pencil and you don’t end up with much. Try and\u00a0use your mouse … <\/p>\n