Illustrator Check-In

So it has been a few days of me watching Illustrator tutorials, and already, I have learned soooo much cool things about Illustrator I wasn't even aware of I could do, and I feel like I have only scratched the surface so far. I have learned about things such as LivePaint and LiveTrace, the important aspects within them, such as grouping and expanding and releasing and objects vs. paths and fills vs. strokes and how those effect the look of your vector work. I have also started to learn how to incorporate other programs such as Adobe Bridge and Photoshop to better enhance your Illustrator experience (Photoshop makes tweaking livetrace so much easier and precise). Right now I am almost done with learning about the 3-D effect in Illustrator. It has been a bit confusing understanding how to think about 3-D work within a 2-D based program but it has been making a little more sense with each following tutorial.

I cannot wait to see what else I can learn about Illustrator! I am completely fascinated just because I had such a narrow view of what I thought Illustrator could be used for and now I am realizing the application of it has many limitless possibilities!