In my new adventure called college, I’m learning Graphic Design. After having many years in mechanical design & detailing using AutoCAD I thought the transition would take little effort. Let me say that I was wrong, no really, wrong big time. Learning new software, Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator on the fly as they say, has not been easy. You can get to the same destination but you take different roads. AutoCAD (because I know it) was like taking the interstate highway, fast, efficient, easy. Adobe (because I don’t know it) is like taking a back road pig trail. Difficult & time consuming.
For example; in AutoCAD, to create a artboard or page area I would draw a circle, mark the center & use tangent points. In Adobe Illustrator apparently drawing a circle is doable, but trying to use it for reference is not doable. The handles & grips are different, and editing is stressful. I’m not saying one program is better than the other, just different. It’s hard to forget what you’ve done for 20 years & learn something new, but it can be done. But it takes the effort.
The Larger the Island of Knowledge, the longer the Shoreline of Wonder. Ralph W. Sockman
Below are 2 Typography projects we had to do. These were design to go in a Library, painted on the wall in a reading area. I’m sharing these because they are the first things that I’ve had to do in my 1st semester of college. Lets hope that by the end of 2 years, I’ll be a lot better.
GPeppers-Project Library Quote-1B-Final-3
GPeppers-Project Library Quote-2C-Final-2
GPeppers Graphics 
I don’t even know how to insert a graphic (are those stock graphics?) into the type window, so you are ahead of me! Or else the graphic is already there, and you are using more than one type window to arrange the lettering? I’d just make it work, but I wouldn’t necessarily be doing it the *right* way….. Those look great, though!
I drew the graphics in Illustrator using the pencil tool. I’ve tried using the pen tool but have a hard time managing what it does. I may change my mind in time, but for now I don’t like drawing with the pen tool. Thanks for the encouragement!