sumopaint

odosketch

harmony

art rage

Pen shaps

lines with brush stroke

Lines

J2

1. Relate 3 to 5 different ways to find Adobe Illustrator
The alias and /or 'Flower' Icon

the actual listing or icon

under the apple menu

you would search for it in the spotlight

2. What version of illustrator are you working with?
CS4
3. What are vector graphics?
vector graphics uses points lines and curves in the image instead of pixels
4. What are bit-mapped graphics?
graphics made of pixels
5. What do we mean when we say a program is “raster based”
it is based on pixels / grid with each block is assigned a color
6. What do we mean when you say a program is “object-oriented”?
it is a prograqmming paradigm using objects data structures consisting of data fields.
7. What are the differences between Illustrator and Photoshop?
Illustrator is vector based and photoshop is raster based
8. What is a stroke?
it is a line of color
9. What is A fill?
It is an inclosed area filled with color
10. What is a pixel?
it is a block of color
11. What does a “command R” do?
shows and hides the ruler
12. What are the keyboard commands for:


zoom in
command +
zoom out
command -
fit in window

command 0
actual size

command 1
13. How else can you get to these commands?
The view menu
14. What is the navigator and how do you find it?
You find it in the window drop menu
15. Where else can you find palettes if they are not up (or available or visible)?
also in the window menu
16. What is the color palette and...
it is a menu of color were you can choose color and you can type in color code to get a specific color
17. ...how do you find it?
window menu and press color palette
18. What is the swatches palette and how do you find it?
it is a menu of color and it gives example of color and you can get it for the window menu under color swatches
19. What is the brushes palette and how do you find it?
it is a menu of different brush styles and sizes and you can get it in the window menu
20. What is the selection tool and how does this work?
it is an arrow and it allows you to manipulate an object.
21. What is the pen tool?
the pen tool draws lines and leaves anchor points to manipulate the line and curved lines.
22. What is the direct selection tool what does this do?
it is also an arrow and it selects what ever you click
24. How do you properly close a shape?
where a line ends were it started
25. Find the rectangle tool…what does this do? Where is the ellipse tool?
it draws rectangles it can draw square if you hold shift and the ellipse draws ellipse and if you hold shift it draws a circle
26. When you move the pen tool around, what does a tiny “X” to the bottom right of the pen icon tell you?
when you click it will end the like.
27. How about a (-)?
it subtracts an anchor point
28. How about a (+)?
it adds an anchor point
29. How do you turn a letter into an object or outline?
type the letter and select create outline
30. Did you do the blocks and circles exercises outlined in the handout? Show me a page of these exercises please.

yes

J2 Tattoo art

Tattoo art has been becoming more and more popular over the last ten years. It has given people a way to express them selves. Piercing and Gaging has also been very popular in american culture. I believe that tattoos will keep on expanding in popularity and become a major part of art history.

J2 Food Art

When thinking about art it does not have to be paint on canvas it can be metal in a building clay in a pot or food in a meal. I think that food art is one of the most popular art form in america today. My girl friends favorite show is the cake challenge on food network and make sculptures out of cake. Besides cake challenge there is also Cake Boss and also Ace of Cakes.

J2 Art in media

New media is also a form of art. One of my favorite bands Arcade Fire (which won best album of the year for The Suburbs album) made a online music video that incorporates multimedia with adds more art to the already music art. They incorporated google maps and a type effect that makes the video really unique.

http://thewildernessdowntown.com/

J2 Chicago

Chicago is my favorite city to visit. I love the art in Millennium park like the Bean, the Millennium park fountain, the architecture of the Burnham Pavilion, and Wrigley Field. There is something about walking into Wrigley Field on game day and looking out at the ivy covered wall and think that the man who designed this place was an artist.

J2 album art

I love album art. It gives visual art to the art of music. It does not matter if it is in a drawing, painting, computer generated image, photography, or all mixed genre piece. Some album art just represents the artist, yet some put art on the album to represent the music as a whole.

I love the drawing of the album revolver by The Beatles. One of my favorite photographed album covers is a modest mouse cover It is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about. The album art represents the music in side the album great.

J2 shading

I am a big fan of shading in art. I love to do shading work my self. I hope to expand my shading technic in class. I found a great example of good shading on the internet. I hope that my skill will improve to the skill level of the shading in the example picture.

J2 Travis A. Louie

I stumbled upon, Travis A. Louie while looking at one of my favorite bands album cover, Les Claypool of Fungi and Foe.

Travis A. Louie does classic style portraits of rude looking men and monsters in suits. I hope to incorporate the same feeling of awkwardness in my work.

J2 Black and White

I am a fan of newer black and white movies. I like Frank Miller films such as Sin City and The Spirit. I also like the movie rumble fish. When they do present color in the movies it makes for a great effect. I also love this effect in photography. I have seen a lot of the work done for senior pictures. IO hope to do some of the computer graphic project like this and also some shading work as well.

J2 Pointillism

Pointillism has always been one of my favorite forms of art. Pointillism is the technique of painting in which small distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image. The one painting that got me interested in pointillism was Seurat's Grande Jatte and Circus. The painting reminds me of a LCD tv. all of the pixels coming together to make an image. I hope that I will be able to work with pointillism in class this year.