Class hours: 10:05 – 2:45
Mr. Bohmann | wbohmann@ewsd.org
10:05 Today’s Notes & Attendance
Today is a Wacky Wednesday
- Monday is Labor Day – no school!
- ESRB ratings – let’s see what is good for CAWD
- Our Manifesto from yesterday
- Early Release today – 1:50pm
- CCV Lists
- Intro to Drawing
- Scotty
- Isaac
- Mia
- Tobi
- Zander
- JavaScript
- Peyton
- Aidan
- Phoenix
- Elizabeth
- Braden
- Gabi
10:10 Adobe Illustrator
Essentials or Essential Classic workspace
Art boards / Customizing Art boards
Selection tools, shape tools and pen tools practice
Alignment Practice
Colors, lines and text basics
LayersTransform: Scale & Rotate | transform each | advance rotation
Also: Width Tool and Scissors tools.
Pen Tool allows you to make flowing Bezier curves. The longer the handle, the more power in the curve
Using the modifier key ALT will break the path. Begin by pressing and pulling when using the pen tool.
Use the Curvature Pen Tool to Draw straight lines and smooth curves with precision and ease instead of drawing and modifying paths using Bezier curves.
Lines and Curves Practice
We’ll also look at color.adobe.com for interesting color palettes and look the Extract Theme feature for getting access to your favorite color palettes.
10:50 Break
11:00 Contract, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity,
C.R.A.P stands for contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity. These are the four principles of design used by graphic designers, web designers and digital learning experts. Good UX (stands for User Experience) and Good UI (User Interaction) include these principles.
C.R.A.P. Cheat Sheet
Activity – C.R.A.P Scavenger Hunt and Illustrator Tool Blitz
Smart Guides and Rulers
Working in Adobe Illustrator
- Set up a new document 640 x 480 pixels (create 4 art boards), RGB
- Identify a design principle for each art board, add text to identify
- Find a good example of each principle (could be from a video game, movie poster, app, book cover, website and place on the correct art board
- Test out effects and tools as you create your document
- As you add items to your art board, keep CRAP in mind for your whole document
- 11:45 we’ll do a gallery walk of your work.
Save as PDF: Filename: CRAP_Lastname and drop in the dropbox in Google Classroom.
11:55 Lunch
12:25 Independent Reading
12:50 Break
1:00 Production Time and Guided Support
Our First Assignment
“Vermont Opens First Zoo, locals go bananas!”
Vermont just opened a Zoo! (no not really). But, Let’s imagine that you are the creative designer for a piece of printable art that will be featured for the zoo’s new postering campaign.
Goal: Create a Colorful Polygonal Animal by selecting an image of animal online and then using polygonal shapes and triangles to design a colorful animal shape recreation. Demonstrate the principles of contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity in your poster.
If you are up for added challenge, include gradients, feathering or transparency.
The fine details / deliverables:
Artboard set up: 8.5 x 11
Color Profile: CMYK (as we are going to print these)
Headline: Visit the New Vermont Zoo
Tagline: Go Wild!
Typography: A playful, rustic font for the headline and a more modern font for the tagline.
Animal: You choose – just make in Polygonal
Demonstrate good principles of Design – Remember C.R.A.P
Save your .ai file in your Google Drive as well as a .png.
Organize your Drive now so you will have an easier time later!
Filename: first initial.lastname_animal name.png
Place finished .png file in the Google Classroom Dropbox.
This project will be due on Wednesday, September 4th (one week)
1:45 Dailies
Dailies can be placed in the CAWD2 Dailies Folder on the CAWD2 Public Folders drive