As a first time user of illustrator, at first I found this brief extremely frustrating. I found it fascinating being shown what you are able to achieve on illustrator, but as soon as we began working independently, I found it unbelievably frustrating at how long it takes to construct something so simple. I realise that once you become more accomplished at using the program, it wont take quite so long. When I draw by hand, I make quick pen movements, with what feels like less thought. I also found it frustrating that so many people around me seemed to be so comfortable with illustrator and were churning out all these designs in the time it took me to create my first letter. I felt how I imagine my computer illiterate mum feels when she tries to send and email. However, I soon realised that the brief was all about experimentation, so I literally just played with tools I didn't understand to find out for myself what they each did. I think that my letters don't look that visually appealing as a set, but as individual experiments, I'm really pleased with most of them. I particularly liked the ones where I played with the opacity to create layers, and the ones in which I used the dotted line from the original design in a more elaborate way. I tried not to use the effects, but I felt that my design actually worked really interestingly with some of them. I think that this is because if the repetition within the letter form. As a compromise, I tried to only use effects on letters that I had already manipulated manually, to add to the design, rather than make it. I'm really intrigued as to all the things that can be achieved with illustrator, and in the end I really enjoyed this brief.
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