Class:MFA Illustration 2022/Week 11

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

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

• Impose a document for booklet printing
  • https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/printing-booklets.html

• Risograph Indesign Booklet Zine Layout Tutorial | olivia and pindot
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Oe_kcgQcs

• Science Machine Ai Time Lapse
  • https://vimeo.com/927062

• Adobe Illustrator Desktop & iPad Tutorials
  • https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/tutorials.html

• The Complete Beginners Guide To Adobe Illustrator
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBouhf4seWQ&vl=en

• Process and Global colors
  • https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/how-to/process-and-global-colors.html

Video Notes

• [httphttps://assets.choppingblock.com.s3.amazonaws.com/video/screencast/20221128_MFAI_01_AdobeInDesignOverview.mp4 Adobe InDesign Overview]
• [httphttps://assets.choppingblock.com.s3.amazonaws.com/video/screencast/20221128_MFAI_02_IntroToVectorWorkflowsAndAdobeIllustrator.mp4 Intro to vector workflows & Adobe Illustrator]

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. Some might use it for project creation, many will depend upon it for production and design.

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, 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...

If you want, you can use the vector tools within Fresco for ONE of the illustrations! This means you will have to send it to Illustrator on the desktop, I showed this in class.

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.
• Both drawings should be in color.

Upload TWO square format color ***Adobe Illustrator files*** to the Google Drive folder:

• svaMFAI_20221205-adobe-Illustrator-still-life-drawings

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