Illustrator

The layers that were created for the fully made sharpener was; the top, the side, the front, the plastic front and the handle. For all of these there were plenty more sub layers inside these because every part has a separate sub layer. The main tool that was used to make this was the pen tool as this creates straight and accurate lines but there is also a choice to curve the line if you want to and this is helpful because in the sharpener there were a lot of curved edges. To make the screw part of the handle on the sharpener is different to the rest but it looks really good once done. The pen tool is really helpful and easy to use so it’s perfect for this type of work. For each part of the sharpener the way to get each separate defiant part you have to outline that with the pen tool. The reason for this is to make it the outline on sharpener because of the colour difference and obviously a different part of the object so you can tell what is what when looking at it. For the dismantled image of the sharpener, basically all the layers were the same but as there are a few more bits in this picture they were their own separate layer, as this makes it easier to change or make improvements if needs be without changing anything else on the project, so they were the silver ring, black plastic, metal handle and the ruler, and again these all had their own sub layers in the main layer. Finally the wood background retrieved from the internet was added to give it the same effect as the original image. 

There was not many issues had when drawing the fully made sharpener, but were more with the dismantled. The issues that occurred when drawing the put together sharpener were, the writing of ‘Swordfish’ was hard to get it placed properly so it looked like it was actually on the sharpener and at the same angle, the other issue with the built sharpener was on the handle getting the definition on the black plastic part and from the angle the picture was taken it has made it all really dark so it was hard to show that on the drawing. When it comes to the dismantled picture there were issues with the twister part, the metal ring and the plastic part of on the main part of the sharpener, the twister was hard to get all the groves in and it look good, where as the metal ring wasn’t allowing the background to show through hole in the middle of it. The plastic part was a bit tricky because as its see through it was hard to see what was part of the object and what was just shadow or the wooden table. 

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