• Illustrator

• Windows computer

• 1/4" wood

• Keychain ring

• Sticker paper

On the first day of class, I began the keychain project by choosing this photo for my keychain. I chose it because it's a good photo of me and Kanoe. I then expanded to photo to make me and Kanoe 2.5 inches tall on the page.

On the second day of class, I outlined Kanoe and I using the curvature tool and then moved that outline onto another layer. Then, still using the curvature tool, I traced out different parts of us like our eyes, mouths, and dresses and moved those onto the same layer as the outline.

On day 3, I continued tracing and filling my image using the curvature tool. I added a small circle in the upper right corner of my keychain using the ellipses tool. The circle will be cut out as a hole to put my image on a keychain. I also changed the thickness of my lines, the ones meant to be cut out to 0.001 and the ones to be engraved were 0.5. Then, I changed all the srokes and fills to black.

On day 4, I worked on my sticker by copy and pasting my keychain's silhouette into a new document and using a clipping mask on it. Then I mirrored it and and changed the stroke Ito the cut color from Versaworks. I chose pickles for my picture because the keychain features Kanoe and I and we both love pickles. Then, I laser-cutted out my keychain, which was a fail at first. Some of my lines weren't bigger than 0.001, so the laser-cutter printer cut out pieces I wanted engraved. So, I had to edit the stroke thickness.