Finals are fast approaching for me and I notice that I've only posted one post on my college experience.  So, here's the rest of the stuff I've been doing in Adobe Illustrator: 1. Varga. You'll have to trust me that the symbol didn't start out purple.  The goal here was that I'd use the Pen Tool to "trace" the odd now-purple symbol by a man named Arnold Varga, the trick being that it had to be achieved with 25 anchors (clicks) or less. The pen tool uses Bezier Curves, a kind of curve that makes curves that are always in a 180 degree relationship.  In other words, if I click and drag and draw 3 vertical lines identical in height exactly .3 inches away from each other, they look like this: Actually, I don't know quite how else to describe Bezier Curves mostly because I don't know how they work myself.  Either way, though, you get better at it when you practice. 2. The Crash Course. This experiments with just about everything else in...