(Week IV) Illustrator: The pen tool

Today we played around with the pen tool. We basically did color the dot thing with it. Tracing the outlines of a very simple drawing. Here's what we did:


After doing the above we had to do a prettier more colorful version. Which is here:


I had fun.

Week 3

Well... suffice to say I missed class this week. And despite the fact that my project won't be graded this time I did one anyways. Simply because it'll ruin the flow of the blogs if I skipped a week. Now wouldn't it?



Here's a quick over-view of how I did it.
1. Get a random eye picture from google.
2. make a copy of the image with ctrl+v (apple+v for macs)
3. make the copied layer grey by pressing ctrl+u and pulling the saturation bar all the way to the left. Never adjust the background layer.
4. make a copy of the layer again. (ctrl+v)
5. Adjust the curves of your image (ctrl+m) curves adjest the brightness and darkness of your image by making darker colors brighter and brighter colors darker.
6. When you're happy with what you've done go to filter>other>high pass. Click okay if it's at 10.0
7. At this point your image should be very grey and probably not something very appealing to the eyes. If so you're doing good.

Next you have to blend this layer with your grey eye image. To do this look for the dialog box that says "Normal" under your layer window. It's right next to opacity.
Click on it and change it from "Normal" to "Vivid light"

Doing all of this will make your image very crisp. Useful if your image was very blurry to begin with.

All the above work was just making your image pretty. Now comes the easy part. Making the pupil a different color.

Changing the pupils color:
1. Make a circle around the eye, make sure you make the circle the same color you want the pupil to be in the end. Try to match it up with eye as much as possible. The better you do it the less work you have to do. If you can't match it perfectly, make it larger than the pupil rather than smaller.

2. Once your circle is in place you'll notice it covers up your entire image. If it's bigger than the pupil trim it with your eraser. You won't have to guess if you lower the opacity of the circle.

3. Once done, go under the layers dialog box in your layer window and change it from "Normal" to "Color"

That should do it.

Oh, and if you want use the same image I did here it is:

Week 2 & Project 1

So far the class has been going on rather smoothly. She taught some basic photoshop, did a quick over-view of the different tools and what each one does. It was a very nice intro for someone who knows nothing of the program. Much like my first photoshop document we played around with image manipulation for our first project. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. So I did two projects. Here's what I came up with:

Original City image:


Original Godzilla image:


My try at a "inspirational" poster:



That was my first project. I finished it too quickly so I did another.

Original Image:


My Manipulation:


You like?

But, I did make this in class as well: (click to start)

It's an animation.

My first class with Carmen

Hi, Blah blah blah. My name is Kel Goodrich, I'm studying graphic design at Art Institute of Tampa. Carmen is making me do this.

Majority of the things we're are going over I already know. Including photoshop, illustrator, and indesign. I have a little experience in animation, but I'm interested in learning more from this class.

I've had little experience in my field of work. I've designed one business card for a small t.v. repair shop. I've won awards in SkillsUSA for Bulletin board, and I've won a Silver ADDY last year for a logo design.