Each week you will need to respond to two questions posted. Your response should be a minimum of 300 words for both questions. You should also include at least one response to your fellow students. The responses are a requirement for participation part of your grade.
Question 01 –
If you fill type that overlaps the same patterned background, how do you keep it in alignment when you move it?
Question 02 –
When making a ring shape that creates and overlapping crescent what makes the technique look like an Escher drawing?
Q1: If you fill type that overlaps the same patterned background, you keep it in alignment when you move it by using the Align palette. The Align palette perfectly aligns objects to things, such as the artboard, or even other objects themselves. It can align things flush left, flush right, flush to the top, flush to the bottom, and horizontally and vertically centered. If you want to align an object to another object, you must have both selected, then just click the object that will be used as the main alignment object once. This gives that object a thicker outline when selected, meaning that the other object will be aligned to it. If you’re moving both objects and want them to stay together in that specific configuration, you can group them and move them freely.
Q2: When making a ring shape that creates an overlapping crescent, what makes the technique look like an Escher drawing is the blending mode. When the two rings overlap and no blending mode is selected, they might just look like a circle. However, if you make the blending mode of both circles Multiply, then they look like their intersections are transparent, and the two objects become one. This creates a sort of optical illusion, and each crescent can be seen clearly. It looks like an Escher drawing because each crescent flows into each other, and the intersections create a flow, or cycle into one another. Because each crescent has a gradient, it makes it even more visually interesting because it adds dimension to the shape, or shapes, depending on how you look at it.
Q1: If you fill type that overlaps the same patterned background, an option to keep the alignment when moving is to group the object. Clicking and dragging can use it to be unaligned. However, using the alignment tool can also keep the object a whole. The align tool on Adobe Illustrator gives you the option to align the shape and object on the artboard itself. A reason why it is effective is because it is an alternative option when you need to center and/or align a shape vertically/horizontally on your spread (artboard.)
Q2: The technique that allows the overlapping of the crescents to look like an Escher drawing is the gradient tool and color choice. Escher drawings are seen as drawings that overlap one another. It creates a nice illusion and natural effect. It also has to do with perspective. Rotating the overlapping crescents to a 45-degree angle made the shape more pleasing to the eye and have movement. Adding all of the three: (gradient effect, color, and rotation) will make the technique look like an Escher drawing. I don’t think shape matters, the more abstract, the better…?
Q1: If you fill type that overlaps the same patterned background, an option to keep the alignment when moving is to group the object. Clicking and dragging can use it to be unaligned. However, using the alignment tool can also keep the object a whole. The align tool on Adobe Illustrator gives you the option to align the shape and object on the artboard itself. A reason why it is effective is because it is an alternative option when you need to center and/or align a shape vertically/horizontally on your spread (artboard.)
Q2: The technique that allows the overlapping of the crescents to look like an Escher drawing is the gradient tool and color choice. Escher drawings are seen as drawings that overlap one another. It creates a nice illusion and natural effect. It also has to do with perspective. Rotating the overlapping crescents to a 45-degree angle made the shape more pleasing to the eye and have movement. Adding all of the three: (gradient effect, color, and rotation) will make the technique look like an Escher drawing. I don’t think shape matters, the more abstract, the better…?