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Comic Book Actions!

Your challenge is to create a comic book inspired action illustration (like the examples below).
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Use the shape building and pen tools to create a dynamic comic book action title like these or an original one of your own with a word of your choosing!

Helpful Steps

1) Create a New Project in Illustrator with these settings

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2) Use the Rectangle shape tool to create a rectangle box that borders the width of your canvas
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3) Select your color from the Color Palette
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4) Use the Star shape tool to make a star. Double click on the star to bring up the Star dialog box and change the number of points to 20

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5) With your Direct Selection tool, you can manipulate the borders of the star, transforming the shape.
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6) Once you have your shape transformed and picked the color that you like, you can use the Type tool to add your text. 
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7) Go to Effect-->Distort & Transform-->Free Distort.
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8) A dialogue menu will appear and then you can grab the handles in the corner to distort your text to your desired effect.
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9) Again, use the Direct Selection tool to resize and transform your text to a desired size and aspect for your star shape.
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