In this project, we were given tasked with designing a Hawaiian shirt that creating a pattern, buttons and an imagined shirt company tag. with an Adobe illustrator. It required skills of: Importing images as drawing references; Drawing with the Pen Tool; Creating Patterns using the PATTERN MAKE function and applying them to objects; Creating variable width strokes to imply 3D shadow and highlights; Using the WIDTH Tool; Layering of Objects; Adjusting Layer and Object Opacity and Blend Mode; Creating Clipping Masks to hide unwanted graphic material; Gradient Panel for creating 3D hi-lite and shadows on objects; Text Tool; Special Effects (fx) for Blurring and Drop Shadow creation; Blend Modes and Opacity settings.

Adobe Illustrator was mainly used to create all assets in this project, such as creating a pattern, designed button and tag. Also, inspirational images and the utilized texture image sample were all gathered by internet searches.

To be honest, it was sudden inspiration of the concept/idea that came up from Professor Jim Kinney's singing during his lecture. Around beginning class, somehow he was happily singing the opening theme song of Sponge Bob Square Pants. And in my head, there was little brain storming, that lead to the Jellyfish. A quick Google Image search for image of cartoonish jellyfish gave me confidence that it would be look wonderful to design pattern for Hawaiian shirt.

Step 1: Open the Adobe Illustrator. Go to File > New > Choose "Tabloid" size.

Step 2: Place the Hawaiian shirt template in the middle ( File > Place > Choose the folder that has your file. Double click on the image layer and choose the "Template".

Step 3: Choose the Pen Tool (P) and create the outline shape for your shirt. 

After done with the outline, try to fill the color of the shirt that layered in the correct order.

Step 4: Create the pattern for your shirt. Open the new document to design. 

Step 5: After deciding the design, turn it into a pattern using the pattern-making tool.

Step 6: Create the colours and textures for the shirt by using texture and gradient tool.

Step 7: Back to the shirt, make the clipping mask for the outline by Object > 

Clipping mask > Make. Choose the pattern and textures that just created for applying 

on the mask. And put it on each parts of layered shirt.

Step 8: Use the pen tool to draw shadow shapes under the shirt. Then use "multiply" mode along with the "Gaussian Blur" effect to create the look of a shadow.

Step 9: Create the buttons for the shirt with texture and gradient tool. 

Step 10: Create the tag with "multiply" mode along with the texture tool. 

After finished this assignment, I knew how to create the texture, pattern and compound it together. Overall, this was a great assignment to practice skills in Illustrator by using Pen tool, Clipping mask, Blend mode, Opacity and setting tool. Most of all, I enjoyed it.