First of all we opened a new document.

Go onto windows and click swatches

Can change the colour of your shape.

Always go back to the black arrow, click on your shape and hold ‘alt’, then you can replicate your shape. Which is a lot quicker than copy and pasting.

This is how to create basic shapes and change the colour of them.

By going into swatches and swatch library, we went into patterns and there was a wide range of patterns.

By going onto window and pathfinder this is how you make your own shapes.

Select all of the shapes together and click the unite button, it merges all of the shapes together.

We then used the minus front button to create a crescent moon.

To create a starry night sky we put a rectangle in front of our moon. We had to send it to the back, using object, arrange and then send to back.

We then added in the stars using the shape tool. And I finished it off by going back to my black arrow told and clicking on my different shapes to change the colour.

If you select your shape, then click on any white space, then select the white arrow tool, you can change any shape by playing around with the anchor points. Which are the points along the edge of the shape.

Celia set us the task to create a character using the skills we had learnt today. I created a lion as I have been thinking about having a lion as my main character for my story book. For a first try I am happy with it, but with more practise I know I can create some good characters.