Illustration & Visual Narrative- Project 1: Exercise

7.4.2023- 5.5.2023 (Week 1- Week 5)
Kelly Lau Jie Ning (0354839)
Illustration and Visual Narrative
Bachelor of Design (Honors) in Creative Media
Project 1: Exercises 1 &2


Exercise 1: Vormator character
We need to design and create one unique character by using the given sets of shapes with Adobe Illustrator (AI).

The challenges are:
1. Can rotate, flip and duplicate the shapes
2. Not obliged to use all the shapes
3. Can scale size, but only proportionally
4.No skewing or free transform
5. No altering the original shapes
6. Can add, subtract, intersect and group elements as you see fit
7. Unlimited colour use
8. Can use gradients and texture
9. NO OUTLINE STROKES!
10. No background

Progress
Created each shape using pen tool













Try to create monster using the eigth shape
























Final outcome
Character's outline view














Character final design

























Exercise 2: Illustrated typography
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.php 

The challenges are:
1. The illustrations and words complement each other
2. The design makes sense
3. Use non-decorative fonts as the base of the design

Progress
The two word I got are campfire maze










Sketches and development of design 
-I doing sketches in Procreate
-I sketches the ‘campfire’ on the top and make it look like fire to express the ‘campfire’.
-I put the word ‘maze’ at the below of the word campfire to make it look like the wood which are -burning by the fire.
-I also drew routes inside the word “maze” to make it more like a maze.
















Progress in Adobe Illustrator





















Final outcome
typography's outline view in Adobe Illustrator 





















Final typography design
























Reflection
I learnt a lot while doing Project 1. I generate a lot of ideas. When I did exercise 1, I tried to make my imaginary monster out of the eight required shapes. I tried many combinations of shapes in order to make my monster have more possibilities. For exercise 2, I tried to combine two completely different words and make it into one illustrated typography. This gave me a lot of inspiration.

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