Hi Everyone!

Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

We’ll spend the first half of class working on and discussing your logos. When you are finished please upload them to your folders which your should have received from me.

I thought I would create Slack work place for our class. Here is the invitation:

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Design concepts: composition, negative and positive space, design with a message.

Here are some of the tools we will be looking at.

Continuing with Adobe Illustrator: thinking vector, creating scalable objects, combining and subtracting from shapes, brushes, direct select, fills, strokes, text as object, reflecting, rotating, aligning objects, ordering of objects, exporting.

Moving on to the pen tool and beyond!

Ok! Lets’s move on to the pen tool! The pen tool is the backbone of vector drawing. It’s a bit tricky at first but once you get it you’ll have it forever. We’ll practice vector drawing with the pen tool (anchors, curves and angles)

Illustrator DEMOs:

Pen Tool

If we have time …

We will also look at color information, RGB, CMYK, swatches, libraries, gradient, transparencies, work with layers and a peek at generative colors.

Project – Vector Silhouettes

specs:

  • CMYK
  • 8.5 x 11 inches
  • export as PNG

For this assignment you will be using layers and the pen tool please to trace a dynamic image of an athlete, gymnast, dancer etc. Your workflow should include at a minimum of 3 layers.

  • Choose an image to trace carefully. The body should have clear negative and positive areas.
  • Create at least three layers and “place” your downloaded image into your 2nd layer and lock it.
  • Begin tracing with the pen tool in the 3rd layer. You need to trace the whole form with one path and join it at the end.
  • Once you are happy with the results add at least two other layers for additional vector drawing such as a ball, the court and any other stylistic markings.