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title: 'Ai Beginner Guide: Making Peas'
tags: [' victoria', resources, ' Ai']

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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)

![Pea Plant made by Clarissa](https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T0HTW3H0V-F04LD2GEQ9L/20220125-illustrator-clarissa.png?pub_secret=eaf3c90f0c)

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
![alt text](https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T0HTW3H0V-F04LQN95MFD/screenshot_2023-01-26_at_1.39.50_pm.png?pub_secret=b42e1ac925)

**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

![alt text](https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T0HTW3H0V-F04LQS3AC3D/image_1-26-23_at_2.00_pm.jpeg?pub_secret=54c07a8e72)

> 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

![alt text](https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T0HTW3H0V-F04MEML4GC8/image_1-26-23_at_2.06_pm.jpeg?pub_secret=7479d31b11)



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### Unfinished ~~~

![alt text](https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T0HTW3H0V-F04LR5PS0HY/image_1-26-23_at_2.31_pm.jpeg?pub_secret=76522a6ca5)


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How does one make the shiny gradient thingy please advise
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