Art 141 May 11

More work day today...

Jocelyn went over the following today:

Illustrator

3d vector graphics in Illustrator

effect -> 3d

Art 141 May 6

Mostly a work day today.

Jocelyn went over the following:

Illustrator

grids

draw a rectangle

select the grid -> Object -> path -> split into grid

guides

View -> show rulers

click on ruler and drag onto canvas

alignment

Window -> Align

 linked text boxes

If the text within a text box exceeds the bounds of the text box a red plus symbol appear near the bottom left of the text box

To continue the text in a duplicate text box...

click on red plus sign -> click on any place on the canvas

To continue the text in an existing text box

click on red plus sign -> move cursor to existing text box -> wait for the cursor to changes shape to a link symbol -> click

clipping mask

place an image on the canvas

create a new path

make sure path is above the image

select both image and path

click Object -> clipping mask -> make

Art 141 May 4 pt 2

We got another assignment...

Pair up with another classmate and design 2 ads. Each ad to the client's specs + 2 alternates

Next week we gotta have all 3 large comps.

Large ad:

12 1/4" X 4 7/8"

Small ad:

2 7/8" X 4 7/8"

Here is my client's original ad:

art 141 May 4

I was supposed to do this a while ago but...Here are my playing cards.

Here are also my logos for 99designs...

Art 141 April 20

Critique time as we needed to go to other classmates blogs and comment on their Ed Fella posters.

Art 141 April 8

No Jocelyn today.

The ed fella poster was due today.  This was my poster.

Carlos showed us how to add a clipped mask: make a p

ath, place an image, select both and then go to object-> clipping mask -> make(open apple + 7)

He then showed us that objects can have multiple fills and multiple strokes.  Make an object then open the appearance panel, click on the triangle in the appearance panel and add a new fill or add a new stroke.  From there you can select the new fill/stroke and go to Effect -> Path -> offset path to offset any fill/stroke in relation to each other.

Art 141 April 6

No jocelyn in today.  Carlos taught us some stuff on illustrator: patterns, pathfinder, and gradients.  Our in class assigment was to make 4 6x6 inch patterns and merge them into one 12x12 inch image.  This we then needed to put on our blogs.  Here is mine.

Art 141 April 1 - Illustrator to Photoshop

Today we learned to use the pen tool to create curves.  I finally know how to make a frickin curved shape.  We also learned how to import illustrator vector shapes into photoshop.  We then went over making an animated gif using the vector shapes

Art 141 March 30 - Illustrator

We got to play with Illustrator, adding shapes and text.  We then changed the text into outlines.  Here is my initial document.

  If you can't tell the shapes try to spell out my name.  Funky.

Art 141 March 23

We went over making texture with text.  We went over using the character and paragraph windows, using the text tool to make text in a text box, and changing the leading/tracking of the text and alignment to create a texture.

I was starting to get sick so I left early.