ARTG 125 Digintal Media Pen Project

Digital Media
What can I say?   I love it, I tolerate it, I need it. Success and not so much success.
We have been working exclusively in Adobe Illustrator AI
We learned the difference between Raster and Vector.  How to Zip and Archive and Compress files. How to save, export, and download, files and images.  
The difference between images that are imbedded and tag along. 
Julie Warren, professor of Digital Media and Current Event Maven, is great. Her enthusiasm, her excitement, and her humor makes this class with all the dry information fun.. 
She even turned me on to Google News.. Trivia!!!!!

Here are a few of our past projects...
Draw 1:  We learned about Illustrator. How to fill, shapes, symbols, How to click the up and down arrow to make the star symbol explode into a multi-pointed starburst! GPU setting makes a black and white coloring page! Command G makes a GROUP, like the house. and you can drag your house over to the SYMBOLS and create your own!  FUN FUN FUN!!  casa Lisa

Pen Tutorial: Not much to say.. still practicing, practicing, practicing, and practicing to perfect and master.. 

Did I say practice enough?  probably not.. 

Mask Draw:  We learned to draw a "hole" this mask has functioning eyeholes. The tassel was too exciting to make. I used strokes and brushes and made stars and shrunk them down. The gradient color was a pre-made, pre-set swatch, and the stars are a symbol. The cat print is made by ME. This is my version of an Italian Carnivale mask. The type you hold in front of your face. The yellow circles are beads that sway and click musically as you move and dance.  Meow.. 

Pepper Draw:  This project was designed to help us draw a Vector image realistically. We used Blend, Burst, Gradient, and the Eye dropper tools. We traced an embedded image on a template layer with the pen tool, and worked with layers.  This was NOT my favorite project.. yet everything we used was my favorite. I think that I will embed another inspiring image and work with the tools on my own... 

I am still a Student of Design.. and trying to follow the directions!

Lisa

TYPE PROTOTYPE Stumpy Line

E_1 Bitmap Type Prototype

This is my tabloid:

A B C P Q    E M L R V X Z

I enjoyed this project so much that I completed my 
Type Prototype   Bitmap  
I will call this Stumpy Line 

This is it.. Enjoying being a Student of Design... Lisa

ArtG 106 TYPOGRAPHY Monday and Wednesday

ArtG 106 Typography   Monday and Wednesday  2:30-5:30
Amy Becraft

We are up and running now. Using InDesign for most of our projects..
Lots to learn, but its is fun and exciting.
I like to explain it like this:
It is like solving a puzzle. Problem solving, yet, creative and new.
The first project E1_ Eddo  
We were given the task of creating a prototype for 
a new bitmap typeface. 
In class, we made a 3" 10 x10 unit square using InDesign.
Next.. squares with a dark fill. Amy explained that when printing, Printer Black sometimes prints more gray and recommended that we make our own CYMK color.. 
which I did and named it Rich Black.
I took my creating to graph paper and pencil and pen.
I doodled out several and enjoyed the process.  Then on to the computer with confidence this time. We made a Master and pages and pages of our Bitmap typeface.. A B C P and Q. After creating the the typeface I Grouped [Command G] Copy [Command C] opened the Tabloid handout and Pasted [File and paste] it and sized-to-fit into the Tabloid.  Amy had downloaded a Tabloid template for us to use after showing us a class demonstration,
One day the class printed out our tabloids, pinned them up, and we critiqued our work. 
It always amazes me when my work is critiqued by my peers. Often the critiques point out what I cannot see and gives me inspiration and ideas to change, tweak, and if necessary, to start again.

This is my second attempt. My first attempt had "heart" as the opening and it did not convey.. so this is my second attempt.
Still.. A Student of Design.. alphabet style  :)    lisa