Tech for Graphix

Chapter 10 Using the pencil tool. Chapter 11 Painting and Erasing. Chapter 12 Using the Curvature Tool. Chapter 13 Using the pen tool.

Chapter 7 Strokes, Dashes, and Arrows. Chapter 8 Creating and Formatting Type. Chapter 9 Building Custom Paths.

Today we turned in Project Four which had us create three vector icons and then two additional sets of the icons in a different style, I did Art icons of Landscape (home), Portrait, and Object (ship) of a Modern style, Medieval Fantasy style, and a Sci Fi style.

 Chapter Four involved using lines to create a factory: Chapter Five involved creating, merging, and working with shapes:       Chapter Six went into more detail relating to the different modes of color (CMYK which is better for commercial print, RGB for digital, inkjet, etc), swatches, loading swatches, hue, saturation, brightness, the eyedropper tool and how to load swatches from another document including how to create your own swatches of colors.

Chapters One, Two, and Three. Chapter One covered how to open documents, alter and set document settings including opening and saving them including many of the file types that Illustrator has the ability to work with. The tutorial also went over many general settings and how to change them (not all of them were still available in the current updated version). It explored the various types of templates, artboards, the best use of pixels, points, and picas, the difference between CMYK and RGB color options and the rastering setting. Chapter Two covers the concept and use of art boards, how to manipulate, move, alter their sizes and the difference between undo and revert. It then covered placing art boards inside other art boards and how to change the order priority of art boards, including using the rulers with art boards. Chapter Three covers the multiple zoom features, abilities, and methods including options that changed the methods available. It also went over the scroll/hand

Required turning ten photos: Into one Matte Painting: