Illustration and Visual Narrative - Project 1: Exercise
3/4/2023-19/5/2023 Week 1- Week 7
Ng Jia Ern 0363033
Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media
Project 1: Exercises
Tutorial:
Inspiration:
Colouring Metalic Effect
Final Vormator Design (Coloured):
For the vormator character design, I enjoy designing various kinds of
silhouettes, and I did many research to visualize my ideas. However,
when I wanted to use the given 8 shapes to build the shapes that I want, I was hit a lot constraints, so I spent some time studying those
shapes, discovering interesting shapes by overlapping different shapes,
resizing, mirroring and flipping, etc. But there are still some more
complicated shapes, such as the shape of bat wings, which cannot be
spelled out, which is a pity.
Ng Jia Ern 0363033
Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media
Project 1: Exercises
TECHNICAL RECAPS
【Week 1: Exercise】
The Pen Tool
We played The Bézier Game to learn using the pen tool.
【Week 2: Vormator】
Exercise: tracing Vormator shapes using the Pen tool
Character design basic:
-Shapes
-Colour
-Emphasis + Contrast
-Harmony
-Expressions, Poses
Tutorial:
-Curvature tool
-Shape builder
-Blob brush
-Pathfinder
to build shapes that we want
【Week 3: Vormator Color】
Helpful tool to create colour palate:
Adobe Color
【Week 4: Illustrated Type】
Tutorial:
-Type (outlined)
-Pencil Tool and Smooth Tool
-Shaper tool
-Joining Paths
-Width Tool
Pencil tool options
Using pencil tool to draw a sail
Using pencil tool to draw letters
Using pencil tool to draw flowers and duplicate the petal by
changing the anchor point to rotate
Experiments with different kinds of brush strokes
Fill in Colours and build shadows with shape builder tool
【Week 5: 3D】
Tutorial:
Practice:
adobe illustrator 3d inflate effect
ASSIGNMENT PROCESSES
【Exercise 1: Vormator character 】
Instruction:
Design and create ONE unique character by using the given sets of
shapes with Adobe Illustrator (Ai).
The challenges are:
- Can rotate, flip and duplicate the shapes
- Not obliged to use all the shapes
- Can scale size, but only proportionally
- No skewing or free transform
- No altering the original shapes
- Can add, subtract, intersect and group elements as you see fit
- Unlimited colour use
- Can use gradients and texture
- NO OUTLINE STROKES!
- No background
Submission format:
Technical file: Final *.ai
Design file: Final *.png
600px x 600px
Sketch:
I sketch out any ideas in my head
Process of building eyes (Although it was not used in the end)
Use vormator shapes to build characters from my sketch
Choose this cat silhouette to elaborate
Elaboration
Inspiration:
Final Vormator Design (Silhouette):
Final Vormator Design (Coloured):
【Exercise 2: Illustrated typography】
Instruction:
Continuing your Ai tools mastery, design and create an aesthetically
pleasing illustrated typography by using words generated from the
Pictionary Generator: https://randomwordgenerator.com/pictionary.php
The pictionary rules are:
- The illustrations and words complement each other
- The design makes sense
- Use non-decorative fonts as the base of the design
Generate two random words with Pictionary Generator:
Moodboard:
Sketch:
Illustrated in Adobe Illustrator
Feel very simple, so I decided to add a background for it.
corn plants illustrated process
Design Concept: A fox tries to pretend into corn to steal
corn from corn field
Still too simple, so I try to make it into 3D that I learn in
class.
3D Corn Fox
Turn corn field into 3D too.
adjust some details...
Final Illustrated Typography:
Outline view
FINAL REFLECTION
Then, on the illustrated typography front, I ran into a whole new set
of problems. My laptop was a total drag, seriously lacking in RAM.
Rendering 3D stuff took a very long time, and the AI software crashed
numerous times, leading me to the brink of giving up on my aspiration
to incorporate 3D elements in my illustrated typography. Faced with
this obstacle, I decided to take action and visited a computer store
to upgrade my RAM to get my illustrated typography work done.
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