Create a new Illustrator Web 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). They must be converted to symbols and I would recommend you put each item on a separate named layer. Good luck and happy drawing!

Assigned: January 14th, 2016
Due Date: January 19th, 2016

Video Links:

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

Assignment:

Create a new Illustrator Web landscape-oriented document with all the default settings and one artboard. Using the tools and techniques demonstrated in the videos and discussed in class, draw the yellow submarine in the picture above. A copy of the image is provided in the link below to use as a reference. Be sure to use closed shapes to make parts of the sub that need to be filled in with color, and use the Object -> Arrange menu to change whether objects are in front or in back of each other. Do your best to make your sub look like the one in the picture, but if you want to change the fill colors, you may do so. (for example, the sub doesn’t necessarily need to be yellow). Good luck and happy drawing!

Sample Image File Link:

Submarine.jpg

Assigned: January 12th, 2016
Due Date: January 15th, 2016