Second Year Students: Project Idea
Project #2: The Digital Self Portrait
Inspirational Examples
Make Watercolor and Marker Style Portraits with Illustrator
Tracing a Vector Face From a Reference Photo
Create A Grisly Zombie Illustration With A Pen Tablet
Creating a Dramatic Portrait with Chunky Line Art
Create a Sparkly Female Portrait in Illustrator
25 Fantastic Vector Portraits
Video: How to create a self portrait using Adobe Illustrator CS6
Video: Adobe Illustrator Portraits Part One: The Setup
Video: Adobe Illustrator Portraits Part Two: The Eyes
Video: Adobe Illustrator Portraits Part Three: The Mouth
Video: Adobe Illustrator Portraits Part Four: The Face
Exercises
Video: Essentials of the Pen and Pencil Tools
Game: Play the Pen Tool game
14) An Introduction to Illustrator's Color Tools: Review the webpage, and fill out this form. Due Wednesday, October 5th, 2016
15) Painting Shapes with the Blob Brush: Create and turn in an Illustrator document that includes a simple illustration (drawing) created with the Blob Brush in Illustrator. Due Friday, October 7th, 2016
Video: Using the Blob Brush and Eraser
16) How to Cut a Shape: Create and turn in an Illustrator document that includes three objects; one that has been cut with the Eraser Tool, one that has been cut with the Scissors Tool, and one that has been cut with the Knife Tool. Due Friday, October 7th, 2016
Video: Eraser, Scissors, Knife tools
17) Transparency & Graphic Styles: Create and turn in an Illustrator document that includes examples of all 16 different blending modes. Label each example with the type of blending mode that is represented. Due Wednesday, October 12th, 2016
Video: Creating interactions with blend modes
18) Applying Live Paint: Create and turn in an Illustrator document that includes a star created with the Live Paint Bucket, similar to the one in the tutorial. Due Wednesday, October 12th, 2016
Video: Creating interactions with Live Paint, Using the Live Paint Bucket tool, and Using the Live Paint Selection tool
19) Creating and Saving Artwork to Be Used As a Web Graphic or For Print with Adobe Illustrator: Review the webpage, and fill out this form. Due Friday, October 14th, 2016
Videos: How to save a file for output, and Save artwork for the web
Vocabulary
Analogous Color Scheme: groups of colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel.
Complementary Color Scheme: colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel.
Split-Complementary Color Scheme: a variation of the complementary color scheme which uses the two analogous colors adjacent to a color whose complement is the third color of this color scheme (don't worry, we'll talk about this one in more detail).
Triadic Color Scheme: three colors equally spaced around the color wheel.
Tetradic Color Scheme: uses four colors arranged into two complementary color pairs.
Notes on Vocabulary
Video: ANALOGOUS COLORS - STANDARD COLOR SCHEME
Analogous Color Scheme Examples
Complementary Color Scheme:
Video: COMPLEMENTARY - STANDARD COLOR SCHEME
Complementary Color Scheme Examples