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Computer Graphic Design

Color Theory Week 1: Color Vocabulary

Welcome to our Color Theory unit!

For the next couple of weeks, we are going to explore the many ways that Illustrator allows you to enhance your artwork with color. We are also going to explore color theory and the different meanings colors have for different groups. With this knowledge, you will be able to more effectively communicate your desired message to everyone who looks at your artwork.

Objective:

Students will be able to identify and explain the concepts of Color Theory and Color Harmonies by using web resources to determine the meanings of color theory vocabulary terms so that they can gain expertise in communicating using correct color theory terminology.

Links:

Sensational Color: Color Theory

Sensational Color: Getting to Know the Color Wheel

Sensational Color: Color Harmonies

Sensational Color: Color Terminology Glossary

Topics Discussed:

  • Color Theory
  • Color Harmonies
  • Color Wheel
  • Primary Colors
  • Secondary Colors
  • Tertiary Colors
  • Triad
  • Complementary
  • Split Complementary
  • Analogous
  • Monochromatic
  • Shade
  • Tint
  • Swatches Panel

Instructions:

Use the information linked below from Color Expert Kate Smith’s outstanding Sensational Color website to read about Color Theory concepts and terminology:

Sensational Color – Color Theory Explained:  https://www.sensationalcolor.com/category/understanding-color/theory

Sensational Color – The Color Wheel and Color Relationships:  https://www.sensationalcolor.com/understanding-color/color-theory/know-color-wheel-806#.Uup6bPZgMQU

Sensational Color – Color Harmonies:  https://www.sensationalcolor.com/color-theory/creating-color-harmony/

Sensational Color – Color Terminology Glossary: https://www.sensationalcolor.com/color-theory/color-terminology-glossary/

After you have visited the websites, create a new Illustrator Web document with four default-sized artboards, on the first (upper left) artboard, use a headline and a subhead (large font, then smaller font) to write the following vocabulary words along with their definitions:

  1. Color Harmony
  2. Hue
  3. Primary Colors (Hues)
  4. Secondary Colors (Hues)
  5. Tertiary Colors (Hues)
  6. Warm Colors
  7. Cool Colors
  8. Triad
  9. Primary Triad
  10. Secondary Triad
  11. Tetrad
  12. Complementary
  13. Split Complementary
  14. Analogous
  15. Monochromatic
  16. Tint
  17. Tone
  18. Shade

When you have found and written all your definitions, save your document. We will continue to work with this document on Friday.

Assigned: February 9th, 2022
Due Date: February 11th, 2022

Computer Graphic Design

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR WEEK 4: SUB BATTLE PROJECT

Objective:

Students will be able to use the drawing tools in Illustrator to produce a submarine battle image so that they can demonstrate their knowledge of the appropriate use of the tools and techniques studied in class.

Video Link:

Review the video links in the Illustrator Week 1 and 3 lessons to refresh your memory on the use of the Shape tools, the Brush and Blob Brush tools and the Pen tool.

Topics Discussed:

  • Select Tool (Black Arrow)
  • Direct Select Tool (White Arrow)
  • Shape Tool
  • Line Tool
  • Brush Tool
  • Blob Brush Tool
  • Pen Tool
  • Anchor Points
  • Convert Anchor Point Tool
  • Pathfinder
  • Shape Builder Tool
  • Layers Palette
  • Symbols Palette
  • Arrange Documents

Assignment:

Create a new Illustrator Art & Illustration Letter-sized, landscape-oriented document with all the default settings and one artboard. Call it “YOUR NAME – Sub Battle”. Using the two-up Arrange Documents method we first learned in Photoshop (it works here, too), copy the yellow submarine you drew in the previous assignment to the new artboard. Then, using the tools and techniques demonstrated in the videos and discussed in class, draw an underwater battle scene that contains all of the following elements:

  • A Hero Sub (your original sub drawing)
  • Three “Bad Guy” subs (you may alter the original sub’s symbol to create these, but they must look different from the Hero!)
  • One Animal (any kind of undersea life: a fish, a starfish, a shark, a whale, a squirrel in a diving suit…)
  • One Vegetable (any kind of undersea plant: seaweed, kelp, coral (which is actually dead animal matter, but this is Graphic Design, not Marine Biology), a pineapple under the sea…)
  • One Mineral (any kind of underwater rock or rock formation: a boulder, a mountain, an undersea volcano, a mysterious cave, a stone Moai head statue…)
  • One Symbol Set, created using the Symbol Sprayer Tool. (spray some bubbles, or fish, or jellyfish?)
  • At least one gradient fill applied to a shape (gradient fills make lovely undersea backgrounds…)

All of the above mentioned elements must be hand-drawn (no professionally-drawn symbols or any art that you did not draw yourself). Use the Shape Tools with the Pathfinder palette and Shape Builder tool to draw your elements, and use the Live Paint Bucket tool to color them in! Each element must be converted to symbols and I would recommend you put each item on a separate named layer. Good luck and happy drawing!

Assigned: February 2nd, 2022
Due Date: February 4th, 2022