Discussion
- Critique Project #2 : Shape Relations
- Review: Understanding paths, path components
- Idea suggestions for midterm project.
Lab
Modifying, Combining, and Splitting Paths
- Building Houses exercise (PDF)
- Scissors tool, knife tool
- The Path menu commands: joining paths, averaging paths, offsetting paths, simplifying paths, outline stroke, adding anchor points, divide objects below, clean up, split into grid
- Transform Tools: Scale, Shear, Rotate and Reflect
- Pathfinder: Add to Shape and compound paths
- Name Translation exercise (not completely accurate — but fun!)
- Open the Template file (name_exercise_TEMPLATE > template_name.ai)
- Use the following translation tools to translate your name (or a name close to yours).
- Right-click on the image(s) and save them to the name_exercise_TEMPLATE folder. In some cases you will need to download each letter individually.
- Select the template layer in the AI file and choose File > Place
- Locate your image(s) and place your translated names on the template layer. Do this for each image.
- Lock the Template layer and choose the unique Working layer for each language.
- Set your view to Outline and your fill/stroke to fill of black and a stroke of none.
- Recreate each name using the pen tool using a minimum number of anchor points and lines.
- When you are finished hide the Template layer and save.
- example: jsmith_name.ai
- Extra Credit (week04.zip):
- Recreate the logo using basic shapes, modifier tools, outline path, outline stroke and add to shape. No stroke.
- Create the car using the pen tool and a combination of closed and open paths.
Homework
- Finish Name Project started in class and any Extra Credit.
- example: jsmith_name.ai
- example: jsmith_car.ai
- example: jsmith_logo.ai
- RE-work Bezier Pen Tool Homework
- Based on corrections and discussion in class, improve your pen tool homework from last week.
- example: jsmith_bezier_v2.ai