Thursday November 29 : Let's start to illustrate

Today:
We are going to move on with the Pen Tool... because you see vector illustration everywhere.
Like here... December means it's time to track Santa on Google

Target: I feel confident creating designs in adobe illustrator.
Target: I can effectively use digital tools to make art that communicates my ideas to an audience.

In order to create an illustration, one has to really be able to use all the shape tools in Illustrator.

Can you: 
Use the shape tool?
Use the shape builder tool?
Use the Direct Selection Arrow?
Use the Transform tool?
Use Fill/Stroke colors?
Use the pen tool?

Then you can illustrate!!

Today's practice:





Make the ghost your own!

Holiday ghost anyone?


Need more practice more PEN TOOL?!!! Want a refresher of the basics?
Pen Tool practice video by a designer and her practice sheet
Pen tool practice explanations and a very detailed practice sheet (download the AI file and then click on it in the download bar below to open in Illustrator)

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.