https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1P3r2EsAos
Design Practice
Archive your many images and clippings
• clipping software
• Blog
• sketch / scrap book
• paper folders…
Critique them within your collection
• Annotations
• narratives
• comparative images
Collecting Images and Clippings
• a continual activity
• develop your own collection and organization habits
• Use media(s) that works for you
Works if you
• gather, annotate and review your collection regularly
Read Book to pg199
To understand design principles, trace the artboards with the illustrator pen, pencil or brush tool in black or gray strokes. Keep sketches loose, so that the viewer understands that the idea is a design in progress. The goal here is to learn to sketch like a designer, not an artist. Express your meanings with annotations, transitions, words, variation of line weight (and pressure), types of lines (curve, horizontal, diagonal, vertical). There are 17 artboards. Each are on a different layer to find the layer you need to draw on, select the colored rectangle with the selection tool and delete it, then begin tracing for each. Have fun with this and don’t take this too seriously. It’s all about learning a designer’s process (book- pages 105 -199). For help with your tools, see: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-illustrator-cs6/essentials-of-the-pen-and-pencil-tools/
or do a google search on illustrator drawing tools. You do not need a (Wacom) tablet for this exercise. Here is the link to download the Adobe Illustrator File.
If you are working with Adobe Illustrator CC, turn off template layer once you have traced then save each artboard out for the web into a folder, compress it then upload it, otherwise,
Here's the separated artboards for Adobe Illustrator CS6 and under
After turning off the template layer, export each out as optimized .jpgs for web sharing (72ppi) into a folder then compress the folder and upload it to the assignment dropbox.
Here is a sample:
| Lab Rubric- Grade Value: 100pts |