Illustrations and Visual Narrative (Lectures)

Illustration and Visual Narrative

|| 23/09/2024 - 28/10/2024 (week 1 - week 6)
|| Leong Hui Xuan / 0365793 / Bachelor of design (Honours) in creative media
|| Illustration and Visual Narrative

|| Lectures / Tutorial / Practical

Table of Content:

1. Instruction

2. Lectures

INSTRUCTION

LETURES / TUTORIAL / PRACTICAL

Week 1:

We don't have classes this week, so we're just going through the information Sir gave us before class begins.

Week 2:

In the first lectures, Mr Hafiz was introduce Illustration and Visual Narrative to us. After that, we're given a exercise which is The Bezier Game to practise the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator and let us more familliar with it before we use the Adobe Illustrator for our task .

Figure 1.0, Bazier Game

Week 3:

In this exercise, Mr Hafiz was teaching us how to use pathfinder tool to create adidas logo, we can use this technique in our task 1 for the details and shadow. 

Figure 1.1, Adidias logo 

Week 4:

In this week's we explored blending modes, layer arrangement, clipping masks, and coloring techniques. We covered six blending modes—Normal, Darken, Lighten, Contrast, Inversion, and Component—that control how colors interact.  For coloring, we learnt shading techniques with the gradient and mesh tools. Lastly, we were introduced to Adobe Color, a resource for creating and accessing color palettes, which can be directly applied to projects for cohesive color schemes.

Figure 1.2, Adobe color website

Week 5 & 6 :

We continue doing our task 2 Compositions and having consultation through online with Sir Hafiz.

Week 7-10 :

Mr. Hafiz showed us how to apply Intertwine text tool and add gradients during the tutorial and practical. Additionally, he teaches us how to incorporate 3D elements and effects into our text.

Interwine is used to create overlapping or interlacing effects between objects or paths,  it allows us to customize the order in which elements appear to weave under and over each other, creating intricate designs.