Class:MFA Illustration 2021/Week 10
Contents
Last Week
- InkJet Print Assignment Review
This Week
- Adobe InDesign overview
- Printing Booklet feature within Adobe InDesign
- Introduction to Adobe Illustrator
- New Adobe Illustrator assignment
Open Questions
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
Learning Links
- Science Machine Ai Time Lapse
- Adobe Illustrator Desktop & iPad Tutorials
- The Complete Beginners Guide To Adobe Illustrator
- Process and Global colors
Video Notes
- Adobe InDesign Intro & Basics
- Adobe InDesign Printing Booklets & Zines Layout
- Adobe Illustrator Intro Overview & Assignment
Assignment
As you have seen in this week's class Adobe Illustrator is quite different than Photoshop. Regardless of your preferred method of working digitally, Illustrator is a large part of an illustrator’s and designer‘s workflow.
Your assignment for next week is a short, fun (albeit different) one. We are going to do one of the hardest things you could do in Adobe Illustrator – I want you to draw from real life.
For next week, find two objects and draw them with Adobe Illustrator on the desktop or Ai on iPad in color, (WHILE you are sitting and looking at the objects, with the mouse or tablet!). I don’t want traced images or scans, I expect you to use the pencil tool, brush tool, etc...
Create two new square compositions, each featuring a different object.
- One object should be man-made (not a phone), one should be organic (not an apple or banana). Both objects should be smaller than a breadbox. Since it's Thanksgiving week, one of your illustrations can be from something bigger than a breadbox if it's inspired by the Thanksgiving day parade!
- Both drawings should be in color.
Upload TWO square format color ***Adobe Illustrator files*** to the Google Drive folder:
I will not accept jpegs, psd or png files this week.
