Illustrator assignment 2

Using Illustrator with the shape and pencil tool

Sketch:

My sketch was of Spongebob, making this in illustrator was actually harder than it seems. The key elements I used in my sketch was making sure to place Spongebob's holes and eyes, nose, freckles etc.  in the right place so it would look more accurate. Also another key element was making sure the color's were accurate with his actual character. After my spongebob sketch I drew an angry bird. Then I decided to put it on an ice-cream cone. I have no idea why the idea just came to me because of the bird's shape.

New skills in illustrator:

Some new tools we learned about were the shape tool and the pencil tool. I think these tools are better than any other we have accommodated so far because of the outcome you get from using them. The first assignment we did was creating a Pac-Man like shape with the shaper tool and pencil tool. then after this assignment we used our challenge work and tried making that in Illustrator. I think since spongebob had more curves and harder features to make in illustrator the pencil tool and shaper tool really helped with this.

What I created: 

As I said I made spongebob, and a design with circles which mad a Pac-Man like shape. I think the most difficult for me was spongebob. Don't mind his arms because a friend was messing around with it and I didn't have time to draw his arms and shape him up a bit. Other wise the first assignment was not difficult. Starting with the first assignment before doing our challenge work really helped me since I had already been using the tools. Since I had done assignment before I was more used to the tools which really hoped me with drawing my challenge work. The angry bird assignment was also not that difficult since all of the shapes incorporated do not have difficult shapes to make in Illustrator. 

What i like about Graphic Design: 

I like how in graphic Design you start off with a sketch and then get to se what you first imagined in your head come alive. Also all the options you can make in illustrator.

(Don't mind the arms on the spongebob)

What is graphic design? (project based)

What is graphic design? 

At first I wasn't sure what I was going to draw. The drawings I had seen seemed to have a theme go along with it. At last i chose to incorporate a rain cloud into my drawing, and then somehow adding the logos in there. i did choose to put logos in my drawing because I feel like that is a very common and big part of graphic design that we see a lot everyday. I also did use typography and tried using different fonts in graphic design and using logos with letters that could be incorporated in the words graphic and design. I used typography because I thought it worked well with what I was dating. 

The 7 key elements in graphic design are texture, size, shape, space, line, color and value. i made sure to incorporate all of these into my drawing of graphic design. For example adding texture into the cloud, using different fonts and colors and sizes of my different fonts. Making sure there is enough space between the logos so its not to clumped. Making sure to find value in all the different parts of my drawings. 

I liked my work because of how I had the theme with a cloud and raindrops with all the logos. I also liked how it was mainly based off of logos. I also liked the sketching process because you had nothing to think off of and just had to go off your imagination. Staring off the sketching process I had no idea what I as going to do. I had to let the ideas come to me which was probably my favorite part.