Contents
Topic
Creating and Aligning Shapes
Today, we will begin our exploration of the shape tools Illustrator has to offer.
Objectives
What you can expect to learn
- Artwork Basics
- Paths and Appearance
- Selection and Direct Selection Tools
- Drawing Basic Shapes
- Drawing with Line Tool
- Stacking Order and Isolation Mode
- Grouping and Ungrouping items
- Working with Fills and Strokes
- Solid, Gradient and pattern fills
- Strokes – Endpoints, dashed lines, and variable-width strokes
- Drawing Basic Shapes
- Squares, circles, polygons, and stars
- Line Tools
- Selection Tools – Selection and Direct Selection
- Hiding/Locking Objects
- Color
- The Swatch Panel
- Global Swatches
- Spot Colors and Tints
- Color Groups
- Transforming Shapes
- Rotate and Skew
- Aligning Objects
- To each other
- To a Key Object
- Distributing Objects
- To Artboard and Selection
Vocabulary
swatches (global and regular), Ellipse, Square, Rectangular, Polygon, stars, stroke positions
Resources
Here are some notes that you should read to educate yourself in the topic area described above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxDyDUorQP0
• Go back into your homework files (3 traced drawings) and refine them. Try harder to get each line and point and object to be directly intentional and to look exactly how you want them to.
• Pick 1 (one) of your drawings to make a more stylized icon or logo from.
• Options:
- Add a frame or a background to the composition.
- Add details and decorative elements to create a context for your drawing.
- You may add text to your drawing.
- Simplify and stylize – experiment with stroke weight and rounded corners, instance.
• Make sure each of the files is saved properly:
- Delete the imported image
- Make sure the file name is “yourname_HW2_animal.ai” or similar
• Email the finished files to me before the next class so I can print them out for you.
https://www.behance.net/search?content=projects&sort=appreciations&time=week&search=icons
https://dribbble.com/search?q=icons
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