Due: November 4th
Assignment Name: 03_City_2019FA_YOUR NAME HERE
In this assignment, you will begin to learn the basics of Adobe’s Illustrator. In this assignment, you will create a city building using an isometric perspective in Illustrator. The building should be a business or home for something weird, fantastic or imagined. Like a unicorn dealership or Post Malone’s treehouse whatever would be fun for you to work on. Once the basic house is built we will add some landscaping if needed.
Download the isometric template for Illustrator here.
Next class: Choose up to 4 ideas and then sketch out 5 designs total on an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper for Your building design. You will also need to list what color scheme you’d like to use for each design.
Due Date: The final block design as an Adobe Illustrator file with all layers emailed to me before class.
Project requirements
While you will not get any additional points for doing the following, not doing them will result in a loss of points.
- The project should be properly named as indicated in the ‘Naming Convention’ section at the top of this page.
- The project should be turned in to me as an AI file before class on the due date.
- Major objects should be grouped and named (you do not need to name every single shape you create)
- The project must be in color.
Technical
- The building must use a color scheme picked by you from the beginning.
- The building should be in an isometric perspective.
- Your building’s major parts must be grouped into objects.
- Major objects must be named.
- You must use the shape builder tool on at least two shapes.
- The name of your building must be displayed on or somewhere in the design.
- At least one object needs to have a visible stroke with no fill; at least one object needs to have a visible fill with no stroke.
Theory
While you should always keep in mind how all the elements and principles apply to each composition for this assignment I’d like you to concentrate on:
- Shape,
- Color,
- Line
- Unity,
- Variety,
- Balance
Tips and Tricks
- Press the arrow keys to move an object one pixel.
- When using the Polygon or Star tool use the up and down arrow keys to add or subtract sides.
- Hold down the Shift key when creating a shape to keep it proportional.
- Holding down the Option key while dragging will duplicate that object.
Examples
These were created by Claudia Myer for her class as examples of isometric buildings.
