Last night we began experimenting with pen and lines. After some warm up exercises we were instructed to begin to draw the photo we brought in for that purpose. I had several as I was not sure what I wanted to draw. I had photos of a lion, a meerkat, a cicada, a beetle and […]
Tonight the diploma was a ‘get to know’ illustrator lesson. We were handed manuals and let loose on illustrator in a very basic but time consuming click here, do this, move this, show this, hide that, change workspace, zoom here, custom view that. More of it to come next week. I am thinking of dragging […]
Ok, looks like I’m crappy at hand writing typography and my perspective drawing of a pretty simple female head if a bit on the cluless side, but here’s what I’ve done so far. I still thinking about redoing them (again for about the 4th time) to get the type looking better. Save
Tonight’s class was a return to my old days of graphics class. The topics were single and two point perspective. The task was to draw a matchbox three times, on, above and below eye level in a single point perspective. Following that, we had to draw the matchbox logo on one of the boxes. Task […]
Man oh man. Tonight we got to use a program called Adobe Illustrator. Rather than doodle away using rasters, like in a paint program, the illustration proggy makes the user draw lines called vectors. The straight lines are easy, some curves are easy, but the wiggly curves such as those used to make umbrellas or […]