Illustration and Visual Narrative Task 1 - Exercises

04/04/2023 - 19/05/2023 / Week 1 - Week 7

Amelia Intan Cahyani/ 0355211

Illustration & Visual Narrative/ Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media

Task 1 - Exercises

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Lectures - Week 1

The Bezier Game was introduced to us by Mr. Hafiz in the first week to help us get comfortable with Adobe Illustrator's pen tool after he briefed us on our assignments.

fig 1 Bezier Game

Lectures - Week 2

The Bezier Game was introduced to us by Mr. Hafiz in the first week to help us get comfortable with Adobe Illustrator's pen tool after he briefed us on our assignments.

fig 2 Vormator shapes

Lectures - Week 3

During this week's lecture, Mr. Hafiz taught us how to use Illustrator's gradient tool, blob brush for shading, and recolor option.

fig 3 Vormator Exercise

Lectures - Week 4

In week four, we covered how to manipulate type using the pencil tool, shaper tool, width tool, and other previously learned tools. Prior to the tutorial section, Ms. Anis briefed us on the illustrated type and the MyTIGER poster challenge.

fig 4 Week 4's practice

Lectures - Week 5

We learned about creating 3D objects and intertwining shapes this week.

fig 5 One of Week 5's practice

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Instructions

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Task 1 - Exercise

Rules:

- You can rotate, flip, duplicate, and scale shapes proportionally

- You are not required to use all the shapes

- No skewing or free transform is allowed

- The original shapes cannot be altered

- You can add, subtract, intersect, and group elements as you see fit

- Unlimited color use is allowed

- You can use gradients and texture

- No background is allowed.

1. Shapes

fig 6 Vormator shapes

2. Idea Exploration and Sketches

I was inspired to create this design by the cartoon character mike wazowski from Monster Inc., and here is the sketch result.

fig 7 Character Inspo

fig 8 Sketch

3. Final Outcome

I created this character by giving it a triangular shape and incorporating a single eye, inspired by my source. Furthermore, I added a pair of horns to its head, and this is the final outcome.

fig 9 Final Outcome

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Illustrated Type

1. Generating Words

fig 10 Words Generator

2. Sketches

In this sketching, I'm trying to make the word "box" appear inside a box, and the word "pop" should either be a whole word that pops or the letter O, that highlights the word pop.

fig 11 Sketches

3. Final Outcome

fig 12 Box

fig 13 Pop

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Feedback

Week 6: Create a sketch to further explore the idea.

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Reflection

Experience:  I've learned lots about Illustrator because of this assignment. The vormator's character design challenged me to come up with a character with the little elements and shapes that were offered. also, for whatever reason, my laptop kept restarting and restoring the design after the 3D design lesson. I find it much simpler to work on the illustrated typography assignment because we were allowed to apply as many graphical elements as we wanted.  Overall, I found the exercises to be entertaining.  

Obseravtion: I've found that watching the lecture videos again helps me learn more. I can take notes, practise, and develop my Illustrator ability by watching the lecture again and finding additional tutorials online.

Findings: On top of all the rules that needed to be followed, I discovered that making a character with limited shapes is pretty challenging. Illustrator also contains a lot of subject matter and hidden tools that I'm still learning about. With all the tools I have to work with, I hope to improve my Adobe Illustrator skills in the future.