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.

Project 2

Here are the fruits of my labor. Another Sunday full of fun. Again I am amazed at how unartistic I really am. Oh well.




Of course this is the web version and does not do me any justice. The full image is very detailed. The photoshop file was over 1GB.

Art 141 March 18

Today the 3d project was due.

I did a model of my TV remote.

We all gathered together and showed everyone our pr

ojects.  I felt better that I was not the only one to spend a day working on my project.  We then went over examining the projects and discussed how we made our project.

Afterwards we went over how to make animated gifs.  Here is my example I made during class.

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Art 141 March 11

Quiz day

This time it was a practical quiz.  We had to replicate an image Jocelyn made earlier using the techniques that we learned thus far.  She provided four images to base the final on.  Here was my finished image.  Notice the glow from the tv screen.

We also had time in class to work on our projects(3d and mandala).

Art 141 March 11 Assignment

Make TWO playing cards. Each card's theme need use a different principle and elements of design.