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ADOBEILLUSTRATOR

Adobe Illustrator...I have heard of it before but I’ve never used it. So didn’t know what to expect coming in to this class. I thought it would be my hardest class, but its actually easy. Well there is a lot that you need to know and there are time when I had to go to the lab over the weekend to work and fin-ish a project. When I first opened up Illustrator, my professr told us to familiarize our selves with the tools we would be using over the course of the semseter. Our first warmup was to write the number five in various ways. First with tick marks, then the actual number, then the word “five”. We kept doing that continuously until we were comfortable with Il-lustrator. For those of you who don’t know what it is or have never used, I suggest that you give it a try. Who, knows, it might be a fun experience for you, just like it was for me.

“I really enjoyed using Illustrator, it was really fun!” DIFFERENT TYPES OF FIVE’STICK MARKS, THE NUMBER, AND THE WORD.

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“5” TEAPOTS

Amy Duffy

Roxy Wasiunec

Text by Christian RosalesImages by Amy Duffy and Roxy Wasiunec

Here are pictures of some of the students drawing teapots out of the number “5”. Sounds wierd right? It was pretty hard to do. But as you can see, they eventually got it. I think Amy did a really good job(top). Both of her’s really capture the shape of the teapot. . Roxy did a good job also(bottom right).

TEAPOTS OUT OF THE NUMBER “5”??????

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DRAWINGWITH LINES

Text by Christian RosalesImages by: Allison Horn, Amy Duffy, Giovanni Diaz, Jordan Juarez, and Nico Krajecki

These are differnt lines drawings that were done in class. As you can see, the students used lots of lines to draw these objects out. This method is called carving out the object. I will talk more about this method when I talk about my teapot drawings. The darker lines in the pictures indicate what area of the object is darker then the rest. This is showing that the object has value. I will also talk about this more in my “Value Drawings” Article.

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VALUEDRAWINGS

TEAPOTS

the darker areas. I wanted you guys to be able to see the volume of the object and to see a shadow on the object. Basically, you should see the light and dark areas of the pictures.

CONCEPT: Pretty much just to see the that the pictures have volume, well if they were real.

CRAFT: I drew various item you can drink out of and captured the vol-ume by shading it in. I used paper, pencil, and my desk lamp. I used a medium gray to fill the whole picture, then where ever it was dark, I made that area darker. Where ever the light hit the object, I just left it white.

COMPOSITION: Again like the last post, I show contrast. However, this time your eyes are drawn more to

With these teapots, I decided to start out by first getting a basic outline of the teapot. As I got fimilar with that, then I went on to draw the teapotsby using a number of lines that go in various directions. Us-ing a number of lines to draw an object is called carving out the object. By carving out the object using lines, I am show-ing the value of the obeject, much like the pictures on page 8.This was all done in Adobe Illustrator. I know some do look like crap and I apologize. I was getting used to using some-thing I have never used before.

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CUPS !

“Reminds me of Christmas!”

Much like the value drawings, I drew these cups by carv-ing them out by using a various number of lines that go in different directions. Then I went into adding darker colors like red for instance. Yes, I know this does look Christmasesque but it does kind of look like the cups could be life like. But the look I was going for was that they look man-made.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

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GOINGGREEN

Allison Horn Giovanni Diaz

Lovette FernandezNico Karjeci

Robert Furlan Tom Zwarycz

Text by: Christian Rosales

These are some of my classmate’s shape drawings. We all had to take our pictures and play with the color green. As you can see we all had our different versions. Take Allison’s picture for example (top left), she played around with the gradient pattern and it turned out great. It almost gives a 3D effect to the picture. With Nico’s (middle right), he made the background dark and the objects brighter. I like it because the objects, like the shoe, stand out. And Tom’s (bottom right) he used the different hues of green ( dark to light) he even went as far as using yellow in the mix. Above all, these all look really cool.

“LOOK AT WHAT OTHERS DID WITH THEIR PICTURES”

“CHECK OUT THE NEXT PAGE!”

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WHO LIKES SHOES???

Roxy Wasiunec

Allison Horn

Text by Christian RosalesImages by Roxy Wasiunec, Alli-son Horn.

These three decided to do their Illustrator proj-ects on shoes that they have:Roxy: she did her’s on Nike running shoesAllison: her’s is on the Converse that she wears

I personally like Allison’s because of the color she chose. She did a great job with the gradient pat-terns so that the picture looks life-like.

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SKYSCRAPPERS

Images and text from Shawnita Montgomery

Craft: Adobe Illustrator, the brush tool, color and color gradients were used in these images.

Composition: I want the viewers eyes to focus on the dif-ferent colors and the different strokes being used in each im-age. I also want the to see how thick the lines are compared to the others.

Concept: Buildings of different colors and different strokes.

Craft: In each photo I use an image of buildings (taken downtown, Chicago) and Adobe Photoshop. Specifically the pen tool was used.

Composition: I want to viewers eyes to fall on the shapes being added with in the images. I want them to see both the colors and the shapes of each image as they change and increase in details.

Concept: The concept is multiple building and the sky.

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HOME SWEET HOME!

Images and text from Tom Zwarycz

In this work, I imported an image taken from my phone (Nexus One) into Adobe Illustrator. The original image can be seen above. After importing, I traced over the image creating boxes and other shapes that represented parts of the original image. I used the line and rectangle tools in order to create these shapes. I then used the eyedropper tool capture the cor-rect color and used the gradient tool to add depth and shade where needed. Actual screen shots of the progress of this work can be seen below. Each day’s work is separated into different layers in the Illustrator file in order to easily locate a specific shape if needed. This project took a combined total of about 9 hours from start to finish.

COLOR:Craft: To variate the colors of the objects, I used the pointer tool to select certain objects. I then used the color swatches and different color pallets to change the color and feel of the work. Again, this is still using the same program, Adobe Illustrator. I also used gradients where needed to show depth and shade.Composition: In some works that use color, I use light tints of each color to make objects stand out more, such as windows and bricks. This trick emphasizes more on the center object or point of interest and less on the background.Concept: The whole idea with adding lighter colors allows me to control what the viewer will see first and where the viewer’s eye will go next. If I make a certain object stand out by giving it a high contrast, the viewer will look at that object int the work first. I also used color to change the whole mood of the picture, for example, when I made the photo look like it was taken in the dark or on the scorching sun.

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ALLABOUT

ME

What’s up!I’m Christian Rosales and a Freshman and Saint Xavier University. My major is undeclared,

but I’m leaning towards Psychology. “From middle to high school to present day, I’ve always been a good student.” I get mostly A’s. I always do my homework and am very studious. Many of my past teachers have said that I’m respectful and a pleasure to have in the class. Although, I don’t really partici-pate in class and sometimes turn in incomplete work or nothing at all. However, I’ve changed that and I make sure that my work is complete and turned in on time. I pay attention in class, but will occasionally start falling asleep. Other than that, I’m sure that I will be a positive ad-dition to your class. I help my classmates when they need it and will make that class enjoyable not only for me but everyone. This will be a fun semester!

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DOWNTOWNPROJECT

So from here on out, things are going to get interesting!

CRAFT: First, I create folder for an image then I open Adobe Illustrator, create a new document. Now I make sure the image and document are in the same folder. Next, I place the image into the document and make sure that I can see the whole image. I do this by using the magnify-ing glass to zoom in or out, then using the black pointer tool to re-size the whole image. After all that, I use the pen tool to trace the image. However, I start from the background to the foreground. I try to be careful on the edges, but where ever I can see layers, I’ll be sloppy. After all that fun stuff, I put the layers in order, and now i have created my work of art.

COMPOSITION: Since I am drawing from the back-ground to the foreground, of course, the foreground is what to u see first. But what I really want you to focus on is the picture itself. Basically notice that how something layers another thing.

CONCEPT: The picture is taken from the day I went to the Art Institute of Chicago.This right outside the entrance.

“A NIGHT DOWNTOWN IN FRONT OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO!”

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DOWNTOWNCONTINUED

CRAFT: Using the pen tool, I traced the outlines of the build-ings and the sky. then moving from background to foreground, I traced a taxi, the street, and a person walking. I did all on Adobe Illustrator. Each outline was a different layer with a dif-ferent color to represent what it was in the actual picture.

COMPOSITION: The first thing that want you to see is either the taxi because it is yellow and it stands out. However, it could be the second thing you see because it is on the far left. The next closest thing that you would see is the person walk-ing. But in the future i will make the colors darker to match the actual picture

CONCEPT: A Night Downtown

DOWNTOWN REVISION

CRAFT: So as you can see, there is a big difference between this week and last week. I used the ellipse tool in order to get the roundness of the lights. I’m slowly getting the depth of the picture by showing the lights on the right fading in to the middle and by showing the side of the building on the right. I even moved the night sky and the building in the middle up more to show that they are in the distance. I also added an orange tint to the whole picture so that it looks more like it is at night. How did I do this you ask? Well, I made a new layer that covered the whole picture, gave it an orange fill, and set the transparency to around 15 to 20 percent.

COMPOSITION: I took out the taxi on the left and added the bus. Now that the bus is there, it has become the focal point of the picture. I still have to finish the street and more details here and there, but the bus is my new focal point out of the whole thing it is the lightest in color.

CONCEPT: My concept is still the same, A Night Downtown. Overtime, you will begin to see what it is. Don’t worry, it’s getting there!

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PLAYING WITH

COLOR

“THE COLOR BLUE!” “I HAVE GONE GREEN !”

One of the pictures had be all about the color green. I chose the objects that would get a certain shade of green. I got the green colors from the swatches window. The colors vary from yellow green to dark green. I even changed the color of the stroke to green as well and used the same color options.

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MORE COLORS

Here is just different ways to use color and how dull or bright you can make your art work look. I played around with vari-ous color combinations. I really like the picture to the left bacause of the bright colors. It reminds me of a rainbow.

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PLAYING WITH

STROKE

These are just three dif-

ferent versions of using stroke in my art work. How did I this? Well, it is simple. All I did was open up the brushes library. In the brushes library, they have many styles to choose from. I chose the grunge pack. Then I chose which objects I want-ed to put a stroke on. After that I put a stroke on them and change to stroke’s color.

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WILDCARDS!!!! “SHAPES GONE WILD!!!!!”

These are “wildcard” variations about my downtown project. I decided to think outside of the box with these. I played with both color and stroke to create these crazy looking pictures. I personally like the bottom one on the next page because the buiding outlines go outside of the picture and in the background it looks like the sun is setting .

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by: Christian Rosales

DRAWING WITH

SHAPES

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SHAPEVARIATIONS

by. Christian Rosales

CRAFT: So, using Adobe Illustrator, I took my original picture and went crazy with it. As you can see with version 1, I changed all the colors. I did this by using the swatches window and opening up the swatches library. I picked color combinations and went to town. In version 2, I play with both color and stroke. For the stroke, I opened up the brushes window and chose arrows. I did the same with version 3, I just added more , like the back-ground is a gradient color.

COMPOSITION: In ver-sion 1, I chose colors that were very bright so that the picture pops out at you and just draws your attention to all the vari-ous color combinations. For me, my eyes go directly to the building on the left because of the three colors that were used. For version 2, the arrow gives this cool outline and shows where the line starts and ends. When I look at the picture, I eyes go to the middle building. The white arrow outline stands out more than the others. With version 3, the first thing i see is the white circle in the background. It kinda of seems like a the sun setting in the evening.

CONCEPT: This week, for me, is going to be called: Cre-ative Freedom.

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THE WONDER-FUL CLASS OF

COMPUTER GRAPHICS

These are pictures of my classmates and me. Follow out blogs:

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