Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop are industry-standard tools for designers and visual artists.
This class offers a few vital tutorials and assignments designed to teach the fundamentals of both programs. However, these Adobe products are deep programs with a rich feature-set. They can be used by fine artists, Concept artists, Web designers, Illustrtors, Photographers, Animators, Videographers and many more.
For this assignment, students are to search for on-line tutorials (for Adobe Illustrator CS1) and successfully complete a sample project based on the selected tutorial.
Some real basic how-to-use-Illustrator tutorials can be found here:
http://www.developingwebs.net/illustrator/
Good project examples can be found at:
www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/02/03/adobe-illustrator-tutorials/
And still more good project tutorials can be found here: (but check to make sure they're Illustrator 10 or CS tutorials, not CS2 or CS5.)
http://designertoday.com/Tutorials/Illustrator.aspx
Grades are based on how well the student followed the tutorial, the professionalism of the finished work, and the degree of difficulty.
Evaluation:
3 points -- Followed Tutorial Correctly
3 points -- Professionalism of the Finished product
3 points -- Degree of difficulty
(maybe ask instructor to review your proposed tutorial before starting)
1 point -- Saved in a folder with the students name on it and the ".Webloc" file for the tutorial included as well.
10 points total
