Line Effects

Due Date: February 23

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One of Illustrator's great capabilities is it's basic line illustration and creation. However, it can do so much more with just simple lines.

So...so much more.

Create a new folder in your Graphic Design folder and name it "Line FX"

Create a new Adobe Illustrator document (Print, 8.5 x 11)
Use the Pen Tool to create a line like the one you see here
Give it a 2pt black stroke
Copy the line and Paste In Front four times (this should give you a total of five lines
Drag the top line down about an inch.
Select all the lines (the bottom line and the four top lines that are stacked on top of each other).
Open your “Align” panel
Select Vertical Distribute Center from the Distribute Objects part of the panel.
What you should see is this:
Select the Width Tool from your Tool Bar
Click and Drag upwards on your top line, about an inch from the left side.
What you should see is this:
Do the same thing to the bottom line, about an inch from the right side.
What you should see is this:
Select the Pucker tool. You can find this by holding down the Width Tool on the toolbar...more tools will pop up.
Drag your mouse anywhere in the white area (somewhere away form your lines) you will notice a circle. This circle is the Area of Effect. While holding the Alt key, drag your mouse and you will see the Area of Effect change size and shape. Make the circle form into a vertical oval shape.
Now (without your finger on the Alt key) click dead center of your lines. They should pucker inwards like this:
Select the Scallop tool
With the Area of Effect still a vertical oval, click and drag a sort of zig-zag pattern through your lines (it doesn’t have to be perfect).
This is what mine appears as:
Select all of your lines
Open your Gradient (under Window)
Select the Yellow/Orange gradient
What you should see is something like this:

Create 5 more designs on this page using

The creation of at least five lines (using the Pen Tool).
The Vertical Distribute Center option in the Align panel.
Any combination of the tools (Warp, Scallop, Twirl, Bloat, Pucker, Width, Crystalize, Wrinkle)
An application of a gradient to each and every design you made.

Save your document as "Line FX.pdf"

Criteria	No	Yes
Does the Line FX artifact have five lines and vertically distributed evenly?	0	1
Are the lines modified using the "Width" tool so that there is a variance in thinness and thickness?	0	1
Was the "Pucker" tool used to pinch the lines together?	0	1
Was the "Scallop" tool used to create an erratic design with the lines?	0	1
Was the gradient applied?	0	1
6 Line designs x 5 Criteria = 30 points potentially