Color Wheel

What was the project?

     This latest project was to create the color wheel in Adobe Illustrator. Creating the color wheel was very simple and easy due to the shortcuts the teacher taught us. If a student didn't use the shortcuts, the project would take longer, but it would still be easy. All we had to include was the primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. Some examples of tertiary colors are blue-green, red-violet, and yellow-green. 

What did I learn? 

     In Adobe Illustrator, projects are a lot easier if you know the shortcuts. Since I already used Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premier Pro, I was already familiar with how Adobe works. I learned a lot of new shortcuts that made this project more efficient. I also learned how reshape the project to what it is now. 

How did I do? 

This is another Color Wheel that I made. 

     I think I did pretty good. It was a fairly easy and simple project that reintroduced me to colors and their relationship with other colors. I was very picky on the blue-green section because I don't use blue-green that often when I color. If I do, I just take a green crayon or colored pencil, shade in the section I want, then take blue, and color over the green. I guess I have a hard time with blue green because I didn't get it to the shade I wanted. That's what I would do differently. 

What would I do differently? 

     To be honest, this project was simple and easy, but it defiantly got me thinking more about graphic design as a whole, and how color affects us in our daily life. If I did have to change one thing it would to ask students to include some introduction to color theory. For example, students can choose either primary or secondary colors and explain, in their own opinion, how these colors affect them or others when they see this color.