LAST WEEK

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.TUESDAY...Mar. 26

.Read (online)   Sketch to Vector: Illustrating w/Depth and Drawing in Vector: 5-Value Process

.Work on Final Vector Illustration Project (A6)

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.THURSDAY...Mar. 28

Complete Asmt 6-Depth Illustration (10 points) in class for critique April 2.

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.TUESDAY...April 2: Begin InDesign

.Due. Asmt 6-Depth Illustration (10 points)
Read Chapter 10: Layout and (online) Page Layout & Design
.Watch the video, "What is InDesign?" in class

Begin Mod3 training (in class) at AdobeTV
.Complete all InDesign Tutorials listed in training tab in class

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.THURSDAY...April 4

.Read Chapter 13 (Repetition & Rhythm); Introducing Grids; and assigned pages from the Adobe InDesign Manual (grids and guide lines and creating pages and spreads)
.Review Chapter 18 on Typography 

.Watch the video Why Design Matters on your own

.Work on Practice Exercise P6…Adding Text to Image in class (due end of class)

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  Assignment #6
  Vector Depth Illustration

  

  DeNiro in Taxi by Susan Baxter

  
  
  Working with Texture & 
  Depth in Vector Format 
  (10 points)
  For this final Illustrator assignment, you will create a vector image of your own by drawing an object designed with background (or a scene) in Adobe Illustrator using the pen and brush tools with line (stroke), fill, and contour to indicate form, depth, and texture. You may either “trace” or replicate a photographic image for this assignment or draw an image from your imagination (you are also free to use one of your Practice exercises as a starting point). The crucial point is to use color and gradients with varied line width to give your illustration a sense of depth and perspective, and to place it in a setting.
  
  Manipulate the illustration using the pen tool, brushes, pencil, shapes, and paths but go beyond a simple contour line drawing to create pattern, depth, value, and texture with fills, strokes, brushes patterns and/or gradient. (You might for instance use a stylized technique like “hatching,” stipilism, varied line width, or other traditional pen and ink techniques by adapting your tools in Illustrator.) Also consider basic drawing strategies such as linear perspective, shadow, and reflection. Chapters 4 and 5 provide several examples of appropriate vector illustrations. Your work will be evaluated in these criteria
  
  •    Subject Matter/Choice of Object(s)
  •    Design & Composition Choices
  •    Overall Aesthetics
  •    Fulfillment of Assignment Requirements/Use of Depth & Texture
  •    Contrast/Value/Color Choices
  •    Appropriate Complexity of Work/Demonstration of Software Skill
  •    Clarity/Skill with vector paths    
  •    Use of Pen Tool and Brush
  •    Use of Other Illustrator Tools    
  •    Attention to Detail /Finesse
  •    Written component                                
  
  Email the finished file to me as a PDF (put your name in the file, dammit!) and load the ai file on the server. A written component is  required with this assignment--a description telling me how the image was created and why you chose to go in the direction and with the style you did. Explain the process undertaken to come up with your initial idea, how it evolved over the execution, what challenges you faced, and how you think the final design appropriately reflects the subject you chose to depict.
  
  RESOURCES
  Examples, Previous Semesters
  
  Quick Ref/How-To Articles:
  • Duey's Drawing Tutorials 
  • Using Live Paint vs. pen/fill/stroke
  • Using the Blob Brush to merge paths into one color 
  • Applying Pattern Fills
  • From Sketch to Vector: Illustrating with Depth 
  • Drawing People in Vector: 5-Value Process 
  • Make Vector People from Photos
  • Step by Step Illustrations
  • Basic Illustrations
  
  Videos: 
  • "Inking" & Using the Blob Brush  
  • Sketching
  • Sketching Tutorial with Deke
  • Making Swirls
  • Draw in Perspective
  • Prepping a Photo for Image Trace
  • Live Paint Bucket (Advanced) 
  • Using Gradient Meshes