Week 7- Final Gameboard

This is my final copy of my game board. I first started by changing the colors of the spaces from gradient to a normal light green because it contrasts the shamrocks and gold coins very well. Next I deleted many of my spaces to make more room for the graphics that I had in mind. I used the ellipse tool to create the golden coins and used the pen tool to create the pot of gold. I then used a photo of a leprechaun to trace a hat. I colored that green and places a buckle on top. At first I didn't even have the leprechaun in there because tracing a human leprechaun wasn't working out in my favor, so after multiple failures I decided to try and create one myself with the pen tool. I did this by first creating the face and adding the orange hair using the pen tool, I then made one eye and just copy and pasted it to create the other. I created the Irish flag by making a rectangle and separating it up into 3 pieces, then colored each spot using the eyedropper tool. Lastly, I took Nathan's advice and created my rainbow so that it can be part of the game. When someone lands on a shamrock or gold coin, they chose a card and within those cards there will be directions telling the people playing to either ride a certain color forward or ride it all the way back to square 10. This game was very interesting but very challenging for me to make, however I am very happy with my final product.

Week 6- Gameboard Second Draft

In this game board I started to add color. I used a green gradient fill for my spaces because I decided I wanted to make my game board an Irish theme. I then used just a regular color fill for the spaces that I wanted to put the shamrocks on. For the shamrocks, I used the pencil tool to draw them. This took me a while because using the pencil tool on the computer can be very challenging because you are using a mouse, not your hands. I should have elaborated more on my theme because it is not truly clear what I was trying to go for which is why I decided to make some changes in my final copy.

Week 4-Gameboard First Draft

This is my first draft of the game board that we were creating in class. This is a very plain colored piece because this is when we were first learning how to create the spaces on the game board, repeat the spaces and add numbers. At first we needed to create 63 spaces so it was difficult to make room for so many spaces and make it look halfway decent, but I tried to do a traditional board game type where the spaces move slowly inward to the finish line. Learning this was a little bit difficult because it was something new, which is why there is no color. Overall this project became easier as you got the hang of it

Week 5- Goose

This is the goose that we worked on in class Monday and Wednesday. Although this was a challenging item to make, I actually started to get the hang of how to trace items! I did not know how to use the pen tool to make edges and curves before and now I can very easily trace small indents. To color each section you would have to split each shape into layers which was challenging but after you got the hang of it, it started working out very easily. I think from here on out tracing real life objects will be something that comes as second nature and hopefully I can expand on my knowledge on this and make things look even more realistic!