Illustration and Visual Narrative/ Task 01 Exercises

25/09/2023- 4/11/2023 (Week 01 — Week 06)

Wang Yifan/ 0368363

COM 61304/ Illustration and Visual Narrative/ Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylor's University

Task 1/ Exercises 

1. LECTURES 

Class summary 

Week 01 : As our batch has not gotten any Adobe access yet, Mr Hafiz introduced the module to us and taught us to play an online game that will aid to improve our skills of using the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator. Our challenge was to clear all the car stage in bezier.method and send a screenshot into Microsoft teams. 

The Car Stage in Bezier Game

Week 2 : We were briefed on how to do good character designs. Mr Hafiz highlighted 3 main points to draw an effective character design which is making it iconic, simple and unique. 

Iconic : We can recognize the character even by looking at their silhouttes 

Simplicity : Simple designs allow users to recognize the design of the character easily and understand the concept of the character. 

Unique: Memorable characters will leave a long lasting impression on the user's mind and simplicity tends to make it more unique.  

I understood the principals of making good character design too and below are the factors 

Shape : Will determine the outline of the character, used to distinguish one character from another, make it iconic and add weight to their personality.

Color : Will set the basis role of the character and ensure we use good color psychology to represent the character 

Contrast / Emphasize : Make the visual elements contrasting in order to be memorable 

Harmony : All elements should complement one another and ensure visual hierarchy

Expression : Express emotive expressions in your character

Week 2 : Lecture Slides on Character Design 

Vormator Challenge：

Fig 1.2 Vormator Shape Tracing, Week 02 (2/10/2023)

We were given an example of how the 8 different vectors of the vormator challege looks like. Mr Hafiz taught us new tools in illustrator which is mainly the curvature tool and direct selection to edit anchor points. Our task was to trace out the shapes using the tools we learnt .

Week 03: Light and Shadow—Chiaroscuro

Fig 1.5 Skull Exercise, Week 3 (9/10/2023) 

Week05:Blending Modes and Clipping Path:

Job screenshot，week4(18/10/2023)

This is what the  HAFIZ ZAMRI . about in class, and he asked us to watch the video and then take this figure and use the rendering to make a color puzzle that we like, first of all, specify its light and dark lines and its virtual and real changes.

homework1，week5(18/10/2023)

homework2，week5(18/10/2023)

homework3，week5(18/10/2023)

Introduction on Blending Modes in Illustrator:

Blending are useful for changing the objects’ colour by adding blending effects and colors to the chosen objects. Blending modes works depending on the position of the object on the layer or group. We will discuss in detail all the available blending modes in Adobe Illustrator. Before that, it would be easy to remember a few terminologies while trying to understand the various blending modes:

1. The original color of the selected object of all the group is known as the Blend Color.
2. The Base Color refers to the colors lying underneath the artwork book. 
3. The color resulted after applying the blend is known as the Resulting Color.

Week 06: Composition and Depth:

Vormator Character Design 

After we draw the shape under the guidance of the teacher, we copy the small shape we need, then flip, rotate, intersect, copy and scale the shape, and finally splice the shapes to get the pattern we want, which can be filled and combined with colors.

The full draft of my design:

Complete draft

 Select any character I designed and put it into the card:

The task is to bring the designed little monster into the panel given by the teacher.

Design your own background image and put the monster in it:

Final Character Design(week06)