Class Info

  • Date: September 6

Topic

Editing Vectors and using the Pen Tool, Appearance Palette

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Today, we will explore Adobe Illustrator’s powerful Pen Tool and the Appearance Palette. We will practice adding multiple strokes and fills to a single shape.

http://shape.method.ac/

Jessica Hische: Plotting Vector Points

Objectives

What you can expect to learn

  • Pen tool – creating and editing vector points
  • Appearance Palette
    • Adding additional fills
    • Adding additional Strokes
    • Creating Multiple Strokes
    • Creating Multiple Stroke Effects
    • Transforming Fills and Strokes – Dynamic Effects
  • Applying Fills and Strokes to Patterns
    • Follow the demonstration in class (02 Appearance Patterns – Notes) to practice
  • Artboards and their arrangement – adding and editing artboards
  • Views for artwork

Critique

Each week we will review homework assignments from the previous class. Students will participate in reviewing material and offering suggestions for improvement for their cohort.

LAB

  1. Grab this pen tool exercise 
  2. Please download these files and follow along with the professor’s in-class demo

Homework Due Next Class: Contour Sketches 

Each file should be saved according to the following naming convention. i.e., 02_LastName.ai (Illustrator). 

Dropbox link for uploading homework:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/widzp0eohyi2qjxurekb7/h?rlkey=dh6j3q9rzhciejp6vijil0vam&dl=0

  • Please come to class next class meeting with at least nine (9) sketches in pencil or pen. You will share your sketches. Draw with as much or as little detail as you like.
  • Contour drawing, is an artistic technique used in the field of art in which the artist sketches the contour of a subject by drawing lines that result in a drawing that is essentially an outline; the French word contour meaning, “outline.” (definition via google)
  • 3 sketches of a food
  • 3 sketches of an animal
  • 3 sketches of an inanimate object
  • These should be contour drawings NOT blind contour drawings. Just try to capture the form and volume of your subjects and don’t worry about any shading or anything like that.
  • Pick one of each of the sketches to scan or photograph and trace in illustrator. The illustrator version should emphasize using closed objects, not just stray line segments to create the finished illustration.

Vocabulary

Appearance, fill, stroke, dynamic effects

Resources

Here are some notes that you should read to educate yourself in the topic area described above.

02_AppearDownload
02_AppearPatternsNotesDownload