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tags: resources, Ai, victoria
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# Ai Beginner Guide: Making Peas
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This resource guide follows the Illustrator workshop held on 1/25/23 written by Victoria.
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## Goals
* Learning the basics of Ai
* Prototyping how students might find Ai useful
* Prototyping the process of making graphics (such as peas) to compliment student research papers (such as on genetics)


Clarissa made this beautiful pea plant!

## Setting Up Your Workspace
1. Open up Ai (Adobe Illustrator)
> protip: use cmd + space to open up the search bar
2. Select **letter**
> Since we are just practicing, the paper size isn't that important

## Orientation

**Left**: Toolkit
**Middle**: Workspace
**Right** Properties, Layers, etc

Familiarize yourself with your toolkit by hovering your mouse over each tool. Such as:

* Selection tool (V) selects entire objects
* Rectangle tool (M) creates squares and rectangles
> Click on tools with a corner arrow to view more subtools
* For example... Ellipse Tool (L)
* Gradient tool (G) creates gradual blends between colors

## Make a singular pea

### Step 1: Make a circle
Select the Ellipse Tool (L) to create a circle.
> there will be pink guidelines that will help you make a perfect circle


> You can use the mousepad to move around/zoom in.

1. Select Fill > Select a green shade of color
2. Select Stroke > Select 0 pt


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### Unfinished ~~~


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How does one make the shiny gradient thingy please advise
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