Illustration and Visual Narrative - Task 1 : Exercises

27/09/23 - 30/10/23 (Week 1 - Week 7)
Andrea Choo Qin Hui (0366959)

Illustration & Visual Narrative / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media

Task 1

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Instructions

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LECTURES

Week 1

            In week 1, Mr. Hafiz introduced the module and provided an overview of upcoming 

            tasks. He also assigned an exercise involving the use of the pen tool to help us 

            familiarise ourselves in Adobe Illustrator through a game called "The Bezier Game". 

            As I was tracing this without a mouse, it took me several tries to trace it correctly; but 

            eventually, I succeeded tracing it within 13 nodes. 

Figure 1 "The Bezier Game"

Week 2

            In week 2, we were told by Mr. Hafiz to trace out some shapes with Adobe Illustrator; 

            the Zerk, the Drop, the Badge, the Chevron, the Bar, the Wurst, the Cobra and finally    

            the Tentacle. 

Figure 2 The Shapes

Figure 2.1 Shapes Tracing

Week 3

           In Week 3, Mr. Hafiz taught us what Chiaroscuro was: using shapes establishing light 

           and dark to give it weight.  

Figure 3 Chiaroscuro

Week 4

           Week 4 was just a continuation from Week 3, where we learnt more about 

           Chiaroscuro.

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Instructions

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Exercises 

Week 2

Examples for the Vormetor Challenge: 

Figure 1.1 First Example for the Vormetor Challenge

Figure 1.2 Second Example for the Vormetor Challenge

 

            For this exercise, we have to use Adobe Illustrator to design a character for the 

            challenge but as I did not have access to my Taylor's Adobe account at that time, I had 

            to use my old Photoshop account to do this exercise. 

Figure 1.3 Original Character (Mr Meow)

            The design above; Mr Meow takes inspiration from one of my favourites collectable 

            figurines "Sonny Angels: Cat Life Series" as shown below. 

Figure 1.4 Sonny Angel Cat Life Series

Week 3

Examples for the first Chiaroscuro Task:

Figure 2.1 First Example of Fruit Task

Figure 2.2 Second Example of Fruit Task

            For this exercise, we had to trace the picture given by Mr. Hafiz, which was a pear. 

Figure 2.3 Image of Pear

Figure 2.4 Traced Image of Pear

            The tracing was quite easy to follow but the hardest part for me was to draw the string 

            that's carrying the pear. It took me few attempts to finally get it to look the way I 

            wanted.

Figure 2.5 Traced Vin Diesel 

Figure 2.6 Traced Vin Diesel PDF

Figure 2.7 Outline of Vin Diesel

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Task 2

            For the final vormetor challenge, I recoloured Mr. Meow from what I learnt 

              in previous classes: added gradient and shadows.  

Figure 3.1 Outline and Coloured Vormetor PNG

 

Figure 3.2 Final Vormator JPEG 'Mr Meow' 

Figure 3.2 Final Vormator PDF 'Mr Meow'

Figure 3.3 Outline of Background

Figure 3.4 Pokemon card of Mr. Meow