ARTDM117: illustration

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Patterns

Making Patterns

*Before beginning, as posted on September 29, make sure you have looked over the instructions.

If you are using the Illustrator Quick Start Guide, read: 135-142

If you are using the Illustrator Reference Guide in scratch, read: 217-221

*We will begin patterns on Tuesday the 11th.

*Before beginning to make patterns do the following:

1. Scan each of the inked, themed homework drawing projects at 72 dpi. for simple drawings and 150 dpi. for complex ones. do not add color.

Drawing topics include:

Cats #6

Birds #6

Bugs #6

Kitchen Tools #12

Stick Figure Fruit creatures #3

2. Create one ai. file for each theme. In them should be the vectorized, cleaned up drawings. Since we had 6 topics, you should have 6 ai. files, please label them according to theme.

3. in class we will watch the video shown below.

4. Lets make patterns.

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Homework Project

Narrative Project

For this project, you will be designing and illustrating characters based on the story, The 3 Little Pigs.

Here are are the steps for this project:

1. Read the story, as you do, think about how you can carve the story into 8 parts. You may want to make some notes.

2. Search the Internet and create a folder with source images that can be used as inspiration for your designs. Look for characters, backgrounds and colors.

3. In your sketchbook, create 2-3 sample sketches of each character per page, (4 Characters=4pages). Look back at the images you collected from the internet. Your goal with character design is to keep them simple and try to create a character that is inspired by the images, not copied.

NO INK, only pencil

4. Work on drawing/developing the story in the blank booklet. Draw loosely and sketch your characters in, add dialog.

NO INK, only pencil

5. On Tuesday we will look at your progress. Once the story has been drafted, the drawings can be inked, scanned and brought into Illustrator.

NOTE:The final text will be added in the illustrator program.

The Story

Once upon a time there were three little pigs. One pig built a house of straw while the second pig built his house with sticks. They built their houses very quickly and then sang and danced all day because they were lazy. The third little pig worked hard all day and built his house with bricks.

A big bad wolf saw the two little pigs while they danced and played and thought, “What juicy tender meals they will make!” He chased the two pigs and they ran and hid in their houses. The big bad wolf went to the first house and huffed and puffed and blew the house down in minutes. The frightened little pig ran to the second pig’s house that was made of sticks. The big bad wolf now came to this house and huffed and puffed and blew the house down in hardly any time. Now, the two little pigs were terrified and ran to the third pig’s house that was made of bricks.

The big bad wolf tried to huff and puff and blow the house down, but he could not. He kept trying for hours but the house was very strong and the little pigs were safe inside. He tried to enter through the chimney but the third little pig boiled a big pot of water and kept it below the chimney. The wolf fell into it and died.

The two little pigs now felt sorry for having been so lazy. They too built their houses with bricks and lived happily ever after.

Here are some sample drawings to get you thinking