Class:MFA Illustration 2025/Week 12

Last Week

• InDesign Overview
• Intro to Vector illustration in Adobe Illustrator
• Illustrator Still Life Assignment

This Week

• We reviewed the Illustrator still life assignment, and I shared a few additional tips.
• New vector illustration assignment, we will discuss whats due next week.

Notes

Vector illustration tips & inspiration

Adobe Illustrator time-lapse

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1sqFd0ol93_Vm6foAmmvcmGnnLLAuTFw

Adobe Illustrator quick tips (good people to follow)

Pixel Shadow Effect

ollies_doodles

Adobe Illustrator for the iPad tips

Kaleb Gonyea

Video Notes

• Adobe Illustrator Still Life Drawings – Assignment Review
• Adobe Illustrator Tips for Multi-Panel Vector Illustrated Story Assignment
• Additional Adobe Illustrator Tips and Production Techniques

Assignment

Multi-panel Adobe Illustrator & raster/pixel comic

Building this week's vector (Adobe Illustrator) assignment and your previous pixel-based illustration techniques. Your next assignment is to create a 4 to 7 panel comic that illustrates one of your personal rituals or routines.

• You will assemble your final print-ready comic in an Adobe Illustrator file.
• You must use a mix of vector art and pixel-based parts to create your comic.
  • The panels/frames and any lettering should be vectors.
  • The artwork within each panel should be a mix of raster (pixel) and vector parts.
  • You must use the techniques shared in today's class to fit your artwork into the comic panels of your project.
• Any raster artwork in the Illustrator file should ideally be linked or embedded .psd files.
  • If you prefer to use Procreate, you might want to move the parts into .psd files and link them.

Dates & Timing

• Week 1: On December 1st you will upload sketches (analog or digital) and any initial illustrations or story explorations to Google Drive.
• Week 2: On December 8th you will upload your finished production-ready comic Adobe Illustrator file and any related production assets to the Google Drive.
  • Remember, Adobe Illustrator used for projects like this will most likely have linked files that you will need to include in the file upload.

Let's Confirm the Details

• Week one is just sketches and any optional illustration/design explorations.
• The finished project (week 2) must be one well-formed Adobe Illustrator document with ONE 6" x 6" inch Artboard containing FOUR to SEVEN comic panels of your illustrated story.
  • The comic panels can be in any arrangement or style that you prefer.
• All related sketches, assets, and working files should be uploaded to the Google Drive
• Since the assignment will require linking to pixel-based assets, you will need to upload those to the Google Drive folder as well.
  • I recommend that you leverage linked psd files so that you can make updates as needed and have those updates show up in the Illustrator files.

The Process

• You should create and assemble your illustrations directly in Adobe Illustrator. As shown in class, leveraging the layers and clipping masks in Illustrator.
• If you make parts in Fresco/Procreate/Photoshop. You will need to import those files into your production Illustrator file on the desktop.
  • Review the video from class (above) if you want to see an example.

Upload one Adobe Illustrator file, your sketch and your inspiration references to the Google Drive folder:

I will not accept jpegs, psd or png files this week.