Development sheets and Automobile Poster

Building my images has turned into a VERY time consuming process. I have also had quite a few problems. I found that copying and pasting all my vectors time over to place them was making the file size become MASSIVE. It was slowing down my computer (Which is a pro with LOADS of free space) and causing Illustrator to force quite. I spose to one of our technicians at college and he told me a very valuable lesson...

- One you have created your vector illustrations and have filled them etc exactly how you want them to look save them all individually as symbols in your symbols palette. This means that you can literally drag as many of your vectors out and repeat them over and over, but it keeps the file size down and doesn't confuse your mac! You are still able to scale the symbols how you want as small or large as you want and they won't pixelate. However, one thing you can't do once you have saved them as symbols is go back and edit them. For example give them a different colour fill. But for me and the sake of what I am trying to do in this project it worked a treat, saved time and frustration. Cheers Mike! :)









Below you can see screen grabs of how I have built my images out of my vectors. (When I was producing the car, wheel and plane out of the transport category I hadn't realised that I could make the vectors into symbols and it was very much a pain staking process and time waster.) It is quite a slow process to make these images, especially if you are fussy with how much detail you want the images to contain. Or how dense you want it to look. I quite like it being dense so that when you look into it further you can see more detail. This may or may not be a good thing, especially as it is taking all my time to do these and I'm having to neglect my other briefs........