Exercises with text, orientation, opacity, and path.

Part 1: text

Begin by making a picture that looks like this (hint: letters may have fills and strokes, so if you find yourself drawing a "W" as a path, please just see if you can find a font that is at least somewhat similar):

Part 2: orientation and reuse

See next if you can do this, with a rectangle around the result:

Red and Green Letters 'W' tilting toward one another

Part 3: opacity and path (with multiple segments)

Now give this a try:

Tilted W's with O having a triangular hole through which dashed lines are visible underneath

Part 4: gradients

Now give this a try:

Letters WoW filled with gradient

(you may want to start with this example for this last part)