Adobe Illustrator - Day 4

I didn't plan to put more than one evening into this little illustration, but it was so much fun shaping these guys that I just had to finish them appropriately. During editing I learned how to combine different paths and individual shapes to one single shape, what made it a lot easier to fill the background color with shades. It was also very helpful that the application makes your cursor "latch on" when being close to another edge. - A function I already appreciate in Photoshop. I figured out that a correct order in the pile of layers makes it simpler to work with them. Also something you might remember from PS, of course, but in Illustrator this method pays off more significantly.

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Inspired by the little game "Undertale" by Toby Fox, I had the idea of creating these incarnated flowers with a good and an evil side. This theme helped me a lot with getting started with the basic tools in Illustrator. I wanted to spend more time and effort on it, but this would have prevented me from working through the next steps.

Adobe Illustrator - Day 2

In the next few days, I will be totally busy with testing the standard tools and finding out how to work with them correctly. It is already obvious to me that there is not "one single solution" to achieve something. In this case, Illustrator and Photoshop do not differ at all. But of course I try to use the most efficient way from the beginning, so I don't have to deal with questions like these in the long term. It is easier to adjust contours and repair mistakes than in Photoshop. - Even if you don't back up layers after some editing, which seems to make Illustrator much more suitable for projects where regular and numerous concept changes are normal. 

Compared to Day 1, it was a little more tricky to create abstract and geometric shapes like rectangles with rounded corners, linked circles or spirals. Nevertheless I was already able to find out much more efficient and accurate ways to work with shapes like these compared to Photoshop.