Melanie Carbajal  

1. To complete this project I first started by setting it up by clicking on "new file" and choosing the orientation that I wanted. From there I inserted a rectangle for my background and changed the color to a gradient. Then, I used the pen tool to draw out my mountains for my middleground and foreground. After that I inserted an ellipse and clicked on the fill with the orange yellow gradient, and to make the outer glow I clicked on (effect>Stylize>outer glow). I then created my clouds by inserting ellipses and overlapping them, changing the fill to white and turning off stroke, clicking on  (fx>blur>gaussian) and using the shape building tool to combine then together. Lastly, I created my trees and plants by image tracing them, I then use pen tool to draw my lake and swans. 

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2. Animators and color stylists might use Ai to create colorful and realistic/detail looking designs.

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3. My landscape is a sunrise at a lake view. I think my drawing did meet my expectations, it looks similar to my sketch and the idea that I was going for.

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4.Based on the learning target I think my project meets it. I think this is because I used most of the tools that were mentioned in the learning target and understood how they worked.