Project: Pen

Project
Use the pen tool to trace an image and then redo the illustration four times with different color schemes. Examples of color schemes: warm, cool, monocromatic, analogous, complementary.

Mechanics
Holy cow! The pen tool is an… interesting thing to use. But it can be powerful. She stressed that when you click down to drag even if a little bit because the handlebars are easier to use when they’re there and hard to put in later. After spending what seemed an age and a half on the cat, I was at a loss for a background. She suggested a branch. Then I drew a fish and she said an aquarium. So there we have it.

I grouped the different ‘pieces’ and ungrouped to do color changes. I, of course, named the different layers and groups to help with organization. In the end, I had 4 folders in this Illustrator file for the different color schemes.

And then..
I was disappointed in the printing process. The cat is black and yet I couldn’t get the pieces to have enough contrast to print well and still be black. It looked fine on my monitor and then would print out all one big black piece. I missed the critique on this one since I was with flu but I did get to see a few of the other students’ pieces and was quite impressed! I wish I could post them.

Neat thing about vector is that I can make this as big as I want…