Crit

Project 1

Celebrity Portraits

Post to Moler
Review objectives & requirements

Project 2

Color Schemes

Alberty	PANTONE® solid coated 527 C
Anderson	PANTONE® solid coated 341 C
Au	PANTONE® solid coated 194 C
Bennett-Jackson	PANTONE® solid coated 411 C
Chiang	PANTONE® solid coated 263 C
Ferrante	PANTONE® solid coated 414 C
Ho	PANTONE® solid coated 653 C
Holbert	PANTONE® solid coated 561 C
Holt	PANTONE® solid coated 236 C
Jiang	PANTONE® solid coated 586 C
Lam	PANTONE® solid coated 245 C
Leung	PANTONE® solid coated 265 C
Lewis	PANTONE® solid coated 676 C
Lo	PANTONE® solid coated 644 C
Nawabi	PANTONE® solid coated 125 C
Rosas	PANTONE® solid coated 531 C
Truong	PANTONE® solid coated 103 C
Urquico	PANTONE® solid coated 307 C
White	PANTONE® solid coated 468 C
Wong	PANTONE® solid coated 417 C

Here's your layout grid

When creating your piece, open in Illustrator with "New from Template"

Vector Images: Illustrator Overview

A Quick Tour Around Illustrator

The Artboard metaphor

Panel Docks & Panels

Gestures

Panel Group Docks

Expand/Collapse
Re-arrange
Tear off

Panel Groups

Expand/Collapse/Close
Re-arrange
Tear off

Panels

Expand/Collapse/Close

Panel menu icon

The Options Bar

The Tools Panel

Selecting Objects

Direct select
Drag select

When the Selection tool is over an unselected object or group, it changes to:

When it is over a selected object or group, the tool changes to:

When it is over an anchor point on an unselected object, a hollow square appears next to the arrow:

Fills & Strokes

Drag swatches
Use the Appearance panel
Use the tool panel's color squares
Use the tool panel's color/gradient/none squares

Vector Images: Creating Vectors

Straight Lines

Rubber bands
Shift-constrain
Stroke panel options

Curved Lines

Arcs

Limited, just a 1/4 segment of an ellipse

Pen tool for bèzier curves

Unlimited!

Stroke panel

Same as for Line

Appearance panel

Change colors
Create a fill, even with an unclosed object

Shapes

Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Star

Up/Down keys add and subtract sides with Polygon, and points with Stars

Make your own shape with Paths!

The only way to make a triangle that isn't equilateral

Adobe Help System

Drawing Tool Gallery

Break

Grids

Using Grids

A grid is a network of lines
Grids…

"…help the designer align elements in relation to each other. Consistent margins and columns create an underlying structure that unifies the pates of a document and makes the layout process more efficient." Graphic Design the New Basics, Lupton and Philips. Page 175.
"A well made grid encourages the designer to vary the scale and placement of elements without relying wholly on arbitrary or whimsical judgments. The grid offers a rationale and a starting point for each composition, converting a blank area into a structured field." Ibid.

Take this site as an example
Grids at designbygrid.com
It's all about things lining up with other things
Grids by artists

The Bauhaus
Piet Mondrian
Joseph Albers
Chuck Close
David Hockney, Leonardo da Vinci…

Grids in Illustrator

Show/Hide grid
Setup grids and guides in Illustrator:Preferences…
Rectangular Grid tool

Tricky UI, draw then click for dialog

Guides

Hide/View
Lock
Make
Release
Clear

Alignment Tools

Smart Guides
Snap to Grid
Snap to Point
Aligning groups relative to one another

Horizontal left, horizontal center, horizontal right
Vertical top, vertical center, vertical bottom

Distribute

Horizontal lefts, horizontal centers, horizontal rights
Vertical tops, vertical centers, vertical bottoms

You can also align to the artboard

Color in Illustrator

How to find your color

Open the Swatches panel
Choose from panel menu: Open Swatch Library: Color Books: PANTONE Solid Coated
When Swatch Library panel opens, choose from panel menu: Small (or Large) List View

Choosing & Saving Colors

It's all about gestures