Class:MFA Illustration 2020/Week 10

Last Week

• Review the 2nd Ps Animation Project
• Everything you need to know about optimizing and sharing files
• Intro to Adobe Illustrator

This Week

• Check-in conversation on how things are going and how the group is feeling.
• Review the Illustrator Still Life Project and share tips
• Re-do on Adobe Capture Shapes and converting line work to vectors in Adobe Illustrator
• New assignment and some additional Adobe Illustrator tips

Notes

Some vector based Illustrators

Joshua Smith aka Hydro74

http://hydro74.com/

https://www.behance.net/Hydro74

Check out timelapse stuff on Instagram here

Jeremy Packer aka Zombie Yeti

http://www.zombieyeti.com/

https://www.behance.net/zombieyeti

https://create.adobe.com/2014/12/18/zombies_yetis_pinball.html

Orlando Arocena

https://www.behance.net/orlandoarocena

https://create.adobe.com/2015/11/3/the_force_is_strong_with_orlando_arocena.html

James White aka signalnoise

http://signalnoise.com/

https://www.behance.net/signalnoise

Tom Whalen

http://www.strongstuff.net/

https://design.tutsplus.com/articles/interview-with-tom-whalen-of-strongstuff--vector-3169

Some Fun Podcast Links

Great Podcasts

Radiolab stories and science, one of the most beloved podcasts and public radio shows in the world.

99% Invisible is about all the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about — the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world.

The Daily This is how the news should sound. Twenty minutes a day, five days a week, powered by New York Times.

The Moth Radio Hour plus additional stories from our vast archive recorded over the past two decades.

invisibilia Unseeable forces control human behavior and shape our ideas, beliefs, and assumptions.

Favorite & fun episodes for drawing

Radiolab: Laughter You can tickle mice!

This American Life: Fine Print The part about Van Halen & brown M&M's, Stories where the fine print changes everything, whether you read it or not.

Radiolab: War of the Worlds Could It Happen Again? (And Again?)

99% Invisible: Higher and Higher Empire State vs. Chrysler Building

Video Notes

• Illustrator Still Life Project Review & tips part A
• Adobe Capture Shapes and converting line work to vectors in Illustrator
• Illustrator Still Life Project Review & tips part B
• Zoom recording from class on November 23th, 2020

Assignment

Fantastic work last week. I appreciate that everybody jumped into Adobe Illustrator with both feet.

Your assignment for next week is another fun vector-based illustration, the twist however is in the style and subject matter:

1. Identify a visual style or technique that is attainable/inspirational to emulate within Adobe Illustrator. Can be another illustrator, something from a history book or classmate. Abobe there is a list of vector illustrators if you need some starting points.
2. Select and listen to a podcast, your illustration should be a reflection of the story or a moment in this podcast. The topic is up to you. I have a shortlist of fun podcast episodes above if you need them.

Your deliverable is one NEW square format 100% vector illustration a .ai file.

For next week I expect you to upload:

• Your new vector project.ai file in RGB color space, not CMYK.
• The image or illustration you were inspired by.
• A web link to the podcast episode you were inspired by.
• Any related assets/sketches/process files.

Goggle Drive folder: svaMFAI_20201130-Ai-podcast-vector-drawings

You will all present your projects next week in class

• "This is my illustration, I was inspired by this image/illustration, and then tell us about the story you listened to.