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

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 6 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 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 can create and or 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. You will need to export using the "open a copy in" option and send your image to Illustrator on the desktop. From here, you will need to combine them into one file.
• Illustrator on the iPad is an option, you will need to use the desktop to prepare the finished file.

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

• svaMFAI_20231211-adobe-Illustrator-three-panel-story

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