Illustrator stuffs: Gradient tool.

Another tool that i found was great to use was the gradient tool. At first it was really difficult to get used to, but after a few practice runs, and adding gradient points to the paces i wanted, it became really simple, and gave a great looking effect, especially for this project, because a lot of old propaganda worked with hand drawn gradients, and a gradient and a texture effect really gave the hand drawn look. The most gradient i used in this project was in my stripes. I wanted to make the large stripes look as if they where popping out, but at the same time look flat enough to look hand drawn. I did this by making a dark gradient around the outside, and then adding lighter colours towards the middle. After that i added a texture using the effects pallet available to me on Illustrator.

The way i got to getting the stripes was by creating one, working with it till i got it how i wanted, then copied it, pasted it in front, and the used the rotate tool from the middle, and moved it where i wanted. I then copied both of them, pasted in front, and rotated from the middle. I did this until i was happy with the amount of stripes.