Wednesday November 29 : Building Illustrations with Shapes santa

This unit, New Meaning, is all about creating new things. 

As an artist, photographer or designer you can create something from something else (tracing images with the pen tool, clipping masks, etc) or something from nothing. 

Target: I feel confident creating designs in Adobe Illustrator.

Yesterday you built a shape/icon with the pen tool. Today we are constructing illustrations using shapes in Illustrator.

Follow along!  Everything we are making with these tools were used to make the basic illustrations in Google Santa Tracker.

Wednesday November 20 : Designing your monogram PART ONE ROUGHS

Let's start creating your own logo!

Creating your logo is a process. We begin with lots of little ideas using the CARP Principles as a guide.

Thinking: Create many design choices before choosing your best option.

Identity: Personal Identity Logos
3 Step Process
1: Thumbnails- LOTS of ideas, good, bad and ugly (3-5 for each principle)

2: Roughs- take 3-4 of your best ideas and refine, add color for peer feedback

3: Comp- 1 logo shown in various ways in a professional format/layout

Step One:

Build a letter size doc in Illustrator and name it "Monograms step 1".
We will divide the paper into quarters and go over ways to create logos using
Contrast
Alignment
Repetition
Proximity

Follow along with me for techniques to try in each category.