3rd Quarter - Illustration

We’re now in our 3rd quarter Contemporary Media class and we will be learning about a new program called Adobe Illustrator. 

Adobe Illustrator is a program used by both artists and graphic designers to create vector images. These images will then be used for company logos, promotional uses or even personal work, both in print and digital form. It is typically used to create illustrations, charts, graphs, logos, diagrams, cartoons of real photographs, and more.While the program may be difficult to understand initially, the final product will be well worth the learning curve. Both graphic designers and illustrators do visual work, but the essential difference is that a graphic designer works on design structures and an illustrator does more drawing.

When considering the two careers, assess your skills and interests. If you like making websites, coding and detail oriented work, graphic design might suit you. If you prefer drawing, illustrating concepts and creating logos, illustration is a better fit. Adobe Illustrator is a sophisticated graphics application that helps you to create complex and attractive designs with type effects. You can create logos, advertisements, and other illustrations with ease using this software. However, creating complex designs can be overwhelming if you are not familiar with the tools present in Adobe Illustrator and their features. In this course, 

Vector Images - Creating vector images allows you to create clean, beautiful works of art that can be scaled up and down infinitely without ever losing quality. Have you ever created an image in Adobe Photoshop, and then realized that you should have created it three times larger than you did? You go into Image Adjustments, increase the size, an the image is now pixelated and looks horrible. If the image was too small to begin with, you’ll need to start all over again. The same does not remain true for Adobe Illustrator. Unlike the familiar gif, jpeg, tiff, etc images known as raster images vector images are not made up of a grid of pixels. They are instead created by paths a combination of a starting point and an ending point with a combination of shapes, angles and lines in-between.

I will be using Adobe Illustrator to create illustrations such as logos and advertisements that include drawing, manipulating simple shapes, create logos, and combining text and graphics to create advertisements.We also will be making and understanding Vector Images and using Vector images skills.