TYPE QUOTE WRITE UP

1. What quote did you choose, and why?

2. Name all the typefaces used in your design, and which category they fall into (serif, sans serif, decorative, script).

3. Name which type adjustments were incorporated into your design (Leading, Kerning, Tracking, Vertical Scale, Horizontal Scale) and where they can be seen,

4. Name which of the following type tools were used in your design (Area Type Tool / Type on a Path Tool / Vertical Type Tool / Adding Gradient to Text / Overlapping Objects / Creating a Drop Shadow via Copy & Paste in Back) and where they can be seen.

FRIDAY 5/7

Work on the following, in order:
1. Finish Dingbat Portrait, mat & do write up
If you are having trouble with CLIPPING MASKS, see pages 4-30 thru 4-35 in your Illustrator textbook.
If you are having trouble with COMPOUND PATHS, see pages 4-16 thru 4-19 in your Illustrator textbook.

2. Chapter 2 Illustrator assignment & vocabulary

3. If you finish:
*Make a Mother's day card for that special matriarch in your life;
*Make a Summer Fest flyer (Mr. Schink has the info, you can also check out the copies in the hall);
*Make whatever you would want to be making if I wasn't telling you what to make.
*Search for a Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, or other media tutorial online. (www.good-tutorials.com, www.photoshopcafe.com, Google search Photoshop Tutorials, etc). Students should complete the tutorial, print a copy of it and turn it in.

Additionally, you must write a brief summary of:
(a) The steps involved,
(b) What you learned,
(c) How you would use the skill in another project.

CHAPTER 2 ILLUSTRATOR ASSIGNMENT

Complete the tutorials on pages 1 thru 33 in Chapter 2 of your Illustrator text.

Define the following vocabulary terms:
Baseline
Leading
Tracking
Kerning
Gradient
Stops
Midpoint

State, in your own words, what the following tools/effects are:
Area Type Tool
Type on a Path Tool
Drop Shadow
Outlining Type

Dingbat Portrait Write-Up
Answer the following questions. Respond in bullet point, complete sentences OR paragraph format.

1. What Illustrator tools did you use to create four values in your portrait?
Describe the steps you took, in chronological order.

2. What dingbat fonts did you use?
How did you manipulate them to fit the shapes of your face?

3. Where do you use negative space to define parts of your face?

4. What was the easiest or most difficult part of the project?

5. What makes your design different from others?

6. What would you do differently next time?

POSITIVE and NEGATIVE SPACE

The success of your portrait depends on your utilizing positive AND negative space in an effective manner. But what are these two things? POSITIVE space is the 'actual stuff' in a picture, NEGATIVE space is the 'white' or inactive space with 'nothing' in it. Sometimes less is more, and you can say a lot with 'nothing.' Such is the case here.

Another way to think about positive and negative space is in terms of 'FIGURE/GROUND RELATIONSHIP', one of the components of Gestalt theory listed on pages 126-127 in Basics of Design. Our dingbat project touches on other components of this theory as well: PROXIMITY and SIMILARITY, which both essentially say that if you group stuff together, people will see it as a whole object--ie, like the DINGBATS we are using in the positive space areas of your portraits.

Here are some links to check out:
http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/watch_space_positive.cfm
http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/create_space_positive.cfm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_space


POSITIVE--NEGATIVE SPACE / FIGURE-GROUND RELATIONSHIP


PROXIMITY AND SIMILARITY

When you finish tracing the paths of your face, start looking for dingbat fonts here!
http://www.dafont.com/

STARTING YOUR DINGBAT PORTRAIT

Check out this website for some examples of dingbat portraits:
http://www.walyou.com/blog/2009/01/05/creative-singers-ad-bose-sound-system-designs/

***Make sure you have completed and turned in pages 3-18/3-35 and 3-36/3-51 in your Illustrator textbook before beginning this assignment.***

1. Take a picture of yourself using the Photo Booth application on the Macs.
2. Save the photo in your server folder.
3. Start a new Illustrator document. Letter sized, Portrait orientation.
4. Place guides .25" around the outside of your document, so you remember your print margins.
5. Go to File > Place. PLACE your photo file into the Illustrator document.
6. Experiment with the SCALE tool in Illustrator until your portrait fills the PICTURE PLANE of your document.
7. Make sure the photo is selected. Go to WINDOW > TRANSPARENCY. Dim your photo to about 50%
8. Name your layer with the picture in it TEMPLATE.
9. Select your picture and apply the CUTOUT FILTER to your picture. (Effect > Photoshop Effects > Artistic > Cutout.) Adjust the settings until you get the desired effect. You can tweak the effect after the filter is applied by selecting the picture and double clicking on 'cutout' in the Appearance panel. (Window > Appearance)
10. Create a rectangle the same size as your artboard. Select the rectangle and your photo and apply a CLIPPING MASK to the picture to hide the parts of it that go off the artboard into the scratch area. (Object > Clipping Mask > Make) Learn more on pages 4-30 thru 4-35 of your Ai book.
11. LOCK the TEMPLATE layer.
12. Start a new layer called PATHS or DRAWINGS or anything other than LAYER 2.
13. When done, poke TEMPLATE layer in eye and just print your PATHS. Verify there are 4 clear areas of value.
14. If good, proceed to downloading dingbat fonts that represent you in some school appropriate manner.