Project #A6
Vector Illustration
Vector Illustration
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| 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.
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.
Email the finished file to me as a PDF (put your name in the file). A written component (just 1 paragraph) 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
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
- Gradients Tutorial
- From Sketch to Vector: Illustrating with Depth
- Drawing People in Vector: 5-Value Process
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