Thursday, February 15, 2018

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Pen Tool tutorial and practice templates



Once you have successfully gone through the video complete the following pen tool templates. Make sure to read the instructions carefully. They are .PDFs but will need to be opened in Adobe Illustrator.
Pen Tool Practice sheets

Project 2 Creature (Toxic Cat)

Animals and objects used: House cat, tree frog (eyes), lizard (mouth), human (teeth), goldfish (top of head and back), grey seal (back foot), coiled garden hose (tail), and hand gun (front paw).

Back story: A common house cat wandered into the toxic waste dump and fell into a vat of nuclear sludge. Its body combined with other animals corpses and objects that fell into the vat. It now haunts the dump like a large furry ghost, looking for pets and scratches under its terrifying chin.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Recap class 01-24

Topics covered in Adobe Photoshop

Students should be able to do the following:
-Setting up a new document
-Using the brush tool as well as customizing tool settings
-Opacity, brush size, brush shape and keyboard shortcuts
-Creating your own custom brush
-Downloading and loading brushes into photoshop
-Introduction to layers