Homework #6: Emotive Eye & Illustrated Environment due 3/17 for Monday, 3/19 for Wednesday and 3/20 for Thursday
Required Viewing: From LinkedIn Learning “Illustrator 2024 Essential Training” ch. 6 Color
Using 2 shapes, 2 complimentary colors and up to 2 line styles create an eye that expresses an emotion such as fear or surprise or sadness or anger. It may be life-like, cartoon-like, or fantastic, but it must convey an emotion. Make it large - use the majority of the Artboard. Name your layers and name the shape sub-layers in a way that is easy for you to identify the various shapes or lines. Try viewing the Grid, Rulers & Guides and Smart Guides to help you along. Save this image as a png file and post it to your website on a new page.
Using Adobe Illustrator import a raster image of an environment, this may be a photograph from a city block, a natural environment, an interior – any setting that you wish. Use the photograph as a template in its own layer to create an illustrated version of the setting (be sure to lock the photo layer). Use a combination of all the tools that Illustrator offers to transform the environment; do not merely use Image Trace. Make use of layers to separate foreground, middle ground and background. You may only use three colors in this assignment. Use the Adobe Color CC website - https://color.adobe.com/ to create a Triad color theme for the illustrated environment. This should be a 1920 x 1080 Artboard. Use Export > Export for Screens... to save for the web as a png. Create a new page to present the initial photograph of an environment and the exported Illustrator environment. Write a paragraph about the environment describing why you chose it and how you transformed it.
Required Reading: Graphic Novel: Motherhood in crisis https://bit.ly/3sIwxgR
Choose one of the motherhood stories and write a paragraph considering why illustration was used. Each story combines text, illustration, photography and video. Visually how do the illustrations vary from the photographs? What advantage may they present in comparison to text only or photography? Add this reflection to your “readings.html” page.