Line Choice

We are going to keep practicing our pen tool skills in Illustrator:

1. Please Finish exercises 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3. Make sure you are following the steps on the blog post below: (Set fill to none, choose stroke color, Stroke weight at 3pt., Create new layer, etc.). Please show me when you are finished.
2. When you are finished with the exercises, you may start another image of you choice in google classroom.

When setting up a new document, complete the following steps:

• Create new document.
• File > Place the image of you choice
• Resize holding down shift.
• Resize Art Board using art board tool if needed.
• Lock your photo layer.

Create new layer and start tracing lines as accurately as you can.

Here are some of the images in the pen practice folder:

Pen Tool

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.

WEBQUEST

1. Finish gathering images (at least 10-15) for “Currently I’m…” and turn in on Google Classroom.

2. Start the Webquest Project. Save only images that you like or find interesting. You can find the directions here:  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.

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When you are finished, start browsing different graphic artists to see the wide 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://www.behance.net/galleries/Illustration?tracking_source=title

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

Mattis Kun:

Viscera Vicarious:

Chloe Choa:

Ben the Illustrator:

Marcelo Oliveira:

Ivan Filipov:

Welcome!

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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Geometric Project

Complexity (details – small shapes)

Creativity (creative element -see below)

Craftsmanship (no unwanted spaces)

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Directions for project: https://rooseveltgraphicarts.wordpress.com/projects/create-a-geometric-animal/

Choose a reference image: landscape, portrait, animal, food, or something else that you’re interesting in. Your reference needs some complexity – a cartoon will not work.

You will need to incorporate a creative element into your images. This creative element could include:

Stroke color
Unfilled/unfinished pieces
Invented colors
Gradient Fill
Pieces Breaking off
Texture
Drop Shadow