A Colorful Wheel

                This, my friends, is a color wheel. Feast your eyes on the beauty and essence that radiates off this masterpiece. Why did I make this color wheel? Well, this week in e9 graphic design, we learned about colors and the psychological effects they have on us. To start off this learning experience, each student in the graphic design department created their very own color wheel in Adobe Illustrator.

               Before we dove into this project, I already had prior knowledge as to what the color wheel is and why certain colors are in specific spots. However, I had no idea how complex the color wheel actually is. Of course, there are the primary colors, which then can be mixed and broken down into secondary colors. This then leads into the creation of tertiary colors, which I never knew the name of until this project. I also found out that you always call tertiary colors by their primary color first i.e Red-Purple, Yellow-Green, so on and so forth. Not only did I learn about the wonders of this wheel, but I also learned how to operate Adobe Illustrator and how to use keys to my advantage. I learned that the control and command keys are pretty much your best friend when you're working in this software. Especially if you want to make symmetrical shapes and text sizes.

              My color wheel went, what you could you say, the roughest version of smoothly? Of course, I completed it and it doesn't look too shabby, but it definitely didn't have to take as long as it did and it was totally possible for it to be more even and less asymmetrical. I tried to go out of my comfort zone and ask help from my fellow peers, which was a nice boost. Did I acquire the help I needed? Well, sometimes. If I really was in a pickle though, I'd ask my teacher and boom! I got great assistance and learned how to do better in the long run. Next time, I would like to think that I could easily do this and find the tools needed to do this project. Other than that, I'm pretty content with my results.