October Calendar

Our object was to create a desktop calendar for the month of october. I started off kind of lost with what I wanted to do and I eventually ended up with a basic, clean argyle themed calendar. I am happy with the way it turned out because I love basic, minimalist designs and I think my calendar portrays that.

Logo Pen Tool Exercize

What we had to do this week was take a group of popular logos and reproduce them using the pen tool. This was pretty easy and more of a review exercise but it did help brush up on the pen tool skills.

Week 1B

Today in class we used the circle tool in Illustrator to create a collage of over 100 different circles. Mine came out sort of resembling a face in a way

Class Week 2A

This week we had to watch video tutorial on using Illustrator CS6 and they went over the following things:

Understanding Vectors

-Adobe Illustrator creates vector type product

-Vectors can be scaled to whatever size and still look just as good

Touring the Interface

-This movie took us on a tour all around the layout of illustrator and showed us how to navigate our way through the program

Using Rulers Guides and Grids

Guides

-Indicate where the document is supposed to be in the document

-Smart guides are available as well that snap your art into predetermined places

Rulers

-Show the dimensions of the document and where your cursor is on the

page

Grid

-Allows you to align objects in your document

-Appearance can be changed in the preferences menu

Locking and Hiding Artwork

- Hiding can be achieved by going to object>hide>selection

-Locking can be achieved by going to the layers panel and clicking the lockbox

Creating using artboards

- Support for multipage layouts

- Completely customizable

Using the direct selection tool

-Modifies the shape or object that you click on individually

Grouping Objects

- Allows you to modify multiple objects at one time

Resizing artwork

-Shows the multiple different ways and the rules to resizing your artwork

Rotating Objects

-Shows the different ways you can go about rotation your artwork

Aligning and distributing artwork

-Shows how to utilize some of the alignment commands to evenly distribute your art across your artboard

-Can be done with the control panel or the align window