Week 15: December 1, 2011

[info to come]

Week 14: November 17, 2011

Illustrator for the web videos: |  web video 1 |  web video 2 |  web video 3 |  web video 4 |  web video 5 |

Week 13: November 10, 2011

Illustrator web lecture

Week 12: November 10, 2011

Let’s look at  COLORING BOOKS

lecture 11/10/2011; Intro to Using Illustrator to Design a Web Site
in tonight’s lecture we will switch from CMYK, 300 ppi, and inches, points, etc. to RGB, 72 ppi, and pixels as our units of measurement.
This will introduce a number of new Illustrator tools including:

1. Document Raster Settings
2. The grid preferences
3. Snap to grid
4. Making use of the TRANSFORM PANEL and the TRANSFORM entry fields on the OPTIONS BAR to override the snap constraints
5. Pulldown/pullout guides and custom guides
6. Using the guides to create SLICES
7. Saving for Web and Devices

Week 10: October 27, 2011

lecture 10/27/2011; messing around with type
in tonight’s lecture we will create some fancy type using various Illustrator tools, including; Outline Stroke, Offset Path, Divide Objects Below, the Pathfinder Panel. You can load this font: HelveticaNeue

CLUCK VIDEO 1  |  CLUCK VIDEO 2  |  CLUCK VIDEO 3  |

Here is a Stratocaster for those of you who wish to practice image building:  stratocaster3.psd
We may get to this image after the lecture.

assigned 10/20/2011;
due 11/03/2011 —— This will be the first image in the Coloring Book Project
continued

CAN THEY COLOR WITHIN THE LINES?
The Coloring Book Project: Bringing a visual idea to life for adults and/or children.

SERIOUS TRACING IN ILUSTRATOR
BASICS OF WORKING WITH STOCK IMAGERY
IF THIS WORKS OUT, WE WILL CREATE A BOOK CONTAINING ALL THE CLASS WORK WHICH YOU MAY (but won’t be required to) PURCHASE FOR YOURSELF – ABOUT $35.00

I hope most of you remember coloring books. Were you an “inside the lines” or “close enough is close enough” colorer? You will get to revisit your early triumphs or tragedies, and perhaps put your karma right.