Illustrated Quote

What are the most significant words in your quote? What words are the most important?

Illustrated Quote Project

Good Morning & welcome back! Today we will start our next project: Illustrated quote poster. You can choose a quote, song lyrics, one word, or a phrase that is meaningful to you. Search for examples of Typography or handlettering. Here are some examples I have gathered:

https://rooseveltgraphicarts.wordpress.com/projects/04-hand-lettering/

You will need 2 posters. 1 poster that includes a photograph and one that includes an image drawn by you (either image trace or with the pen tool). You can create text with either writing it out ( File>Place your image into your document, go to Object > Image Trace > Make and Expand) or using the type tool in Illustrator. Spend some time today doodling and sketching, brainstorming words or quotes, imagery, and looking through your photographs. 

 

https://rooseveltgraphicarts.wordpress.com/tutorials/illustrate-your-favorite-quote-or-saying/

https://rooseveltgraphicarts.wordpress.com/tutorials/buffalo-typography-tutorial/

https://rooseveltgraphicarts.wordpress.com/tutorials/turn-your-handwriting-vector/

Inspiration for various fonts: https://www.dafont.com/

Emoji Project

Finish working on either your 2 emoji masterstudies or a tutorial of your choice. We will be posting these to our blogs. When you finish, you may begin gathering reference images for your own 2 created emojis. Your finished emojis should have a highlight and shadow area and/or a gradient and visually “fit” with existing emojis. Do not copy an existing icon/emoji.

Your Emojis might include a drop shadow (Effect > Stylize > Drop > Shadow) or a stroke color. You might use the ellipse/rectangle tool, gradient, pathfinder tool (Window > Pathfinder), Eraser tool, various effects (Effect > Warp, etc.), Reflect (Object > Transform > Reflect), eyedropper tool.

yellow autumn oak leaf over the white background

Vector illustration – butterfly icon set

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4762024/67-new-emoji-candidates-2018-revealed.html

Emoji Master Study

Good morning! Today we will finish working on your chosen tutorials & post the JPEG image to your blog (File>Export>JPEG). Then, start the first part of our Emoji project: an Emoji “master study”.

Master Study: Browse images of Emojis and pick one to try and create using shapes, gradients, lower opacities, Effect > Blur, Pathfinder tool (unit or minus front), gradient mesh, and any other tool you can think of:

These tutorials and master studies prepare us for when we create our own 2 emoji designs: