Garden

Pen Tool in Illustrator

Since there are so many objects in this design, I will simply list out a few of the main tools I used to complete this garden scene.

1. To create objects that look more true to form, I used to the ellipse tool, then used the Direct Selection tool to drag anchor points to manipulate the corners of the objects (carrot, shovel, garden gloves).
2. The pencil tool was used to create lines (fill removed, black stroke, adjusted size of stroke) on the carrots.
3. To manipulate rectangles (carrot box, watering can, pots), I used to bulge tool (under effects –> warp), and made them concave or convex.
4. To make the flowers, I used the polygon tool and then added the effects of “distort and transform” and “pucker and bloat.”
5. The rectangle tool was used for many of the objects, either manipulated with the Direct Selection tool to make points (fence).
6. To make the bird, I started with the ellipse tool and the convert anchor point tool to make it look like an eye shape. The distort and transform “twist” effect made it into a bird shape.
7. In order to make sure colors were consistent, I used the eyedropper tool to select previously used colors and fill new shaped with them.