NorthernLights For this project I decided to create a graphic of how the northern lights are created, and a scale to show what causes the different colored lights.

I’ve taken a few astronomy classes so I was familiar with the creation of the northern lights. I traced the countries on the earth from a picture taken from google, and I knew what solar flares looked like so i drew them from memory.

I used the gradient mesh tool on the sun to get the effect of the sun being on fire, for the rest I used the pen tool. The scale of the colors I created with the square shape and the gradient tool.

I think I did a good job of clearly showing the process of how the northern lights are created for those who aren’t familiar with the sciences. This graphic was created with a textbook in mind which is why it has more of an educational tone to it.