Illustration and Visual Narrative

 Tan Ying Yi / 0362425
Illustration and Visual Narrative/ Design in Creative Media

Week 1
Mr Hafiz Zamri gave some introduction. Then, all of us were required to activate our Adobe Creative Cloud account with our student email and install the Adobe Illustrator.

We played The Bezier Game to become more familiar with the pen tools.

The Bezier Game

We could try to draw the outlines of the shape using Adobe Illlustrator. The shapes will be used to create some characters in future classes.

Shapes


Week 2
Mr Hafiz Zamri teaches us how to draw the shapes besides using the pen tools. He also introduced some shortcut key and function in Adobe Illustration. Then, we are asked to find the book " Force Character Design from Life Drawing" at library. 

M -- Rectangular
L --  Circle
Choose Essensial Classic before drawing
Adobe Illustrator 
Ctrl 2 -- Lock the shapes
Ctrl Alt 2 -- Unlock the shapes
Long press Alt Shift while drawing circle -- Draw circle from its middle
Long press Alt and pull the shapes out -- Copy the shape
Ctrl D -- Duplicate shapes ( When need more than 5 shapes )
Shift M -- Shortcut to Shape Builder Tool
  • Select the whole shape + Shift M -- Merge the shapes
  • Shift M + Click and Release every part of shape --  Click select tool and drag to separate them
  • Shift M + Click and Release every part of shape -- Long press Alt + click part of shapes then the chosen part will disappear when release
  • Window --> Pathfinder - Same function with the mentioned tool 
Curvature tool -- Spots the outline and adjust the curve/ Use pen tool to draw straight lines and adjust the curve ( Select the spot + backspace to delete)


Week 3
Its public holiday but we should followed the video which Mr Hafiz Zamri recorded to coloured the character we designed. When we completed, we should upload it in Microsoft Teams.

Outlines of the Character

Character with Colour


Week 4
We watched the tutorial video and practiced using pencil tool in class. We can stop while drawing and continue to draw at where we stop. We can adjust our drawings by drawing the part we want to adjust again. We are allowed to use the smooth tool and smoothen our lines. We can get straight line by holding up Alt and click the mouse.

Differences between smooth of pencil tool

Practice to use pencil tool

Highlight the alphabet at the back and we can make it ligature. Ctrl + 2 to lock the alphabet at the back. Select the alphabet with dotted line and right click to create outline. Then, use the pencil tool to draw the curve. We can get dash line and round corner by clicking 'stroke' on the top.

Practice

Select the petal we draw, press shortcut key R for rotate. Press Alt and click the center of the flower. Choose the angle we need and click copy. Then, we can get a copied petal. Shaper tool can make beautiful shapes.

Practice

Shift w is shortcut key for the width tool. We can adjust the width of the certain part by using it. We can change brushes using the toolbar on the top.

Width Tool

Week 5
Pathfinder ---- Shift + Ctrl + F9
Window ---> 3D and materials ---> Inflate

Susbtance3D.adobe.com to get materials

Lightning can make shadow



We can close the 3D and edit the pic.


Select the object we need and press 'object' -> intertwine -> make.


Then, we can let part of leaves in front.

Week 6 / Week 7
We put our progression in Google Slides and share the link in Microsoft Teams. Mr Hafiz gave feedback based on our My TIGER poster progression. He said that its better to be simple illustrated typeface.

Google Slides

Week 9
We can make depth through knife tool/ shape builder/ pathfinder/ curvature tool/ pen tool. We can use google to search for watercolour texture and use clipping mask to fill the picture. 


We should download the picture below and trace the people on the right in Adobe Illustrator. Our final product should be something like picture on the right.


Select the image we need and choose image trace to get the object. We can use eraser tool to edit the background.

Human

Week 10
Image Trace -> 3 Colours
Image Trace ( 3 Colours )
Edit -> Edit Colour -> Convert To Greyscale (For better detail)
Expand-> Eraser -> Magic Wand ( Delete White Space / Copy Black Space)  

Using Magic Wand 




Skull Pear

Select The Objects -> Compound Path -> Make -> Select The Texture and Objects -> Clipping Mask

Human With Watercolour Texture

Week 11
Blob brush tool will automatically have the fill, not only strokes.


We can use the width tool to adjust the thickness of the stroke.

Swatches -> library -> patterns -> nature 


Shift D --> Blob Brush Tool to draw inside the circle.


Object --> Expand appearance to get outline stroke


Object --> Expand appearance --> Shift D --> Blob Brush tool to draw shadow
Week 12 & 13
Triptych



Week 14

Progress


Final Project



Animated Panel


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