Creating vector shapes & color palettes

This week lecture class we create a RGB color palette on a piece of white A4 paper.

Yes , this is it.

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF DOING THIS?

we have been informed that we are using this to create our own colors palette in adobe illustrator.

REMEMBER THE PREVIOUS POST : SHAPES?

YES, we are doing those shapes and applying the colors that taken from this paper into those shapes in this week tutorial class.

At first , i thought that we will be doing the shapes that we cut by ourselves.

but madam ling just randomly gave us the work without following the name.

But it is ok , not a big deal.

Is just quite feeling sorry for those who pick my shapes work 

because i cut a lot of small pieces shapes and paste it quite complicated.

It must be very time consuming for them to do this work.

OK,

so i have been given this shapes that done by the others.

This is what i have done.

Here's the step.

Set the image into template. Create new layer and name it.

Click on the rectangle tool *don't release* to get the extra optional shapes tool as shown above.

Start to choose among the shapes tool to create shapes according to the template.

To create the 4 pointed star shape, you have to choose the star tool.

You might get the 5 pointed star as shown below. In order to get 4 pointed star , you have to pick the star tool and double click on anywhere of the area to change the points.

And now you got that four pointed star shape!

This apply on other shapes that you want to create too!For those non-geometric shapes you can create a lot of geometric shapes and combine them using pathfinder or shape builder tool.

The video below will guide you on how to use pathfinder & shape builder tool.

But since this image is having the same shapes in both side, you can use another tool in order to save your time and effort doing the same things for four times!

It is called 'REFLECT'.

Just did one quarter of the part and you can get the other three part in less than 1 minute!

*To get the guideline that shown on the picture , Ctrl+R to view the ruler.Click on the ruler and pull it all the way down or to the right* 

When have you done this , select all , right click go to Transform and pick Reflect.

 Just reflect it and this is what you get!

To create your own color palettes , place your color image into AI.

Next, Create new swatch.

Use Eyedropper tool (I) pick the color from the image.Drag the colors to the new swatch.

Here's come your own color palette.

And this is mine.

P/S : i used gradient for the color on the shapes .If you want to apply but didn't know the way .Please refer to the video below.