Introduction to Adobe Illustrator

Pen Tool Exercises

Today we will begin the Pen Tool exercises. You can find these in the folder: Shared > Students > Fine Art > Pen Tool Practice. We will work on exercises 5.1, 5.2, 5.3. Remember: Complete each exercise 2-3 times (on separate layers) until you have mastered it. Tips: Press “P” to deselect, Edit > Undo if you made a mistake, and Ctrl + to zoom in and Ctrl – to zoom out.

Complete these steps when starting the exercises: 

1. Set Fill to None.

2. Select a Stroke color

3. Set your Stroke Weight to 3 pt.

4. Click the Layer icon on the bottom right panel  

5. Click Add New Layer icon 

6. Name the new Layer “Practice 1 or 2”

7. Click the Eye icon to hide “Work on this Layer” and make sure the top layer is highlighted before you start working.

Please Remember: these are graded so save to your Home Folder > Graphic Design.

Good Morning!

Today we will be finishing our first project that we started on Friday: 01 Webquest .

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When you are finished, start browsing different graphic artists to see the ride range of different artistic styles. You can Copy and Paste (Ctrl C, Ctrl V) the name of these graphic artists into google and save at least 10 images that are interesting and beautiful to you. Follow this link and browse through different projects. Right click and save your favorites as the artist’s name who created them:

https://rooseveltgraphicarts.wordpress.com/projects/graphic-artist-presentation/graphic-designer-presentation/

https://www.behance.net/galleries/Illustration?tracking_source=title

Mattis Kun:

Viscera Vicarious:

Chloe Choa:

Ben the Illustrator:

Marcelo Oliveira:

Ivan Filipov:

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If you are finished creating your online portfolio and have searched artists saved your favorite work to your Webquest folder in your Graphics folder, you can log into your blog and experiment with different themes and explore the layout of wordpress:  https://wordpress.com/. Remember your login is your email address and your password is Capital first initial, lower case last name and your ID # (example: Bgaster23482)

Day 2!

Good Morning! Today we are going to create our online portfolios and start our first project

1. Follow these steps to create yours: https://rooseveltgraphicarts.wordpress.com/your-blog/creating-your-blog/. Make sure to log in to the email that you used and confirm the email from WordPress.

2. When you are finished, you will begin our first project today. You can find the outline under the tab: Projects  >  01 Graphic Design Webquest. Save only images that you like are find interesting. You can also click this link: https://rooseveltgraphicarts.wordpress.com/projects/graphic-design-webquest/

While searching for the various images, use the adjectives: cleaver, awesome, wonderful, beautiful, vintage, inspirational, retro, modern, whimsical, bold, interesting, etc. 

Good Morning!

Welcome to Graphics!

Find a computer and Login.

Go to: http://www.rooseveltgraphicarts.wordpress.com

Here are some student examples of class projects we will be working on this year:

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Learning Goal: By the end of class today, you will know where to save your projects to, how to save images correctly, and get more of a sense of how design dominates the world we live in.

1. Open shortcuts folder from your desktop
2. Click your Home folder
3. Click New Folder
4. Type ‘Graphics’
5. Click Enter
6. Open the ‘Graphics’ Folder
7. Create another folder called: ‘Design Webquest’
8. Inside this folder, you will save images (right click > Save As) of the following:

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“Currently I’m . . .”  Design Search 

Brainstorm and list some of your current interests.

For example: what you’re currently. . .eating, drinking, apps you’re using, reading, listening to, cheering on, watching, college goals, wearing, driving . . . or just list some of your favorite things. 

Then search logos, text, and/or brand designs and save these images to your Webquest folder in your Graphics folder.

These are my examples:

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