Illustration and Visual Narrative Project 1(Exercise 1& 2)

 April 05 2023

05/Apr/2023 - 16/Jul/2023 

Wang Zilong / 0361141

Illustration and Visual Narrative / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media / Taylor's University

Exercise 1

Design and create ONE unique character by using the given sets of shapes with Adobe Illustrator (Ai).

The challenges are:

Can rotate, flip and duplicate the shapes

Not obliged to use all the shapes

Can scale size, but only proportionally

No skewing or free transform

No altering the original shapes

Can add, subtract, intersect and group elements as you see fit

Unlimited colour use

Can use gradients and texture

NO OUTLINE STROKES!

No background

Creating process

Through the lecture, Mr Hafiz showed us how to make the vomator shapes using the pen tool.

figure 1.1 vormator shapes 

figure 1.2 outline of the character

figure 1.3 final work

Reflection

The process to creating the character is really fun and also the first time for me to create one on my own. The challenge is using the eight shapes not altering it and without any kind of free transforming of the shapes. I have learnt the basic skills like the gradient, shading and utilize the character to add more details.

Exercise 2

Continuing your Ai tools mastery, design and create an aesthetically pleasing illustrated typography by using words generated from the Pictionary Generator: https://randomwordgenerator.com/pictionary.phpThe challenges are:

The illustrations and words complement each other

The design makes sense

Use non-decorative fonts as the base of the design.

figure 2.1

As the screenshot showed that my word is going to be music and wall.

The challenge is the illustration complete the font.

Process

-Wall

I used the rectangles to create a background to make it feels like the wall made brick by brick

figure 2.2 the background of the wall

Then, it comes to the font, I used the 3D effect and add some texture to make it the font looks like it is made by cement.

figure 2.3 the main body of the wall

figure 2.4 the final work of the wall

-Music 

The music never separate with the notes, so the idea is to mixed the word music with the staff.

figure 2.5 the background of the music

The main body for the word music is to make every character looks like the notes on the staff for people who saw my work have better understanding.

figure 2.6 the main body of the music

figure 2.7 final work of the music 

Reflection 

After finishing the exercise 2, I have a deeper understanding of the functions in the AI. I think the challenged has been overcome and the design made sense with the word.