Illustrator Project. Assigned 4/15, due 4/20 (at the beginning of the period) - MAJOR

Using Illustrator

You will need to do any of these tutorials and post your efforts on your Google Site for credit on this assignment. Please remember that the object of this is to help you learn how to create art for the newspaper, so try to find tutorials that help with that task. I hope your training using GMetrix and having passed the certification test in InDesign which should help you with these creations. I know we did InDesign, but Illustrator has the same kinds of buttons, tools, and more. It isn't a hard step to use Illustrator.

Open Illustrator:

Once you open Illustrator, click the button on the far left that says CREATE NEW and select the A4 option. You can choose the "Orientation" button on the middle right to decide if you want a vertical or horizontal page.

I believe that Illustrator is a very intuitive program, but it does take practice. One of the best ways to get better is to watch tutorials. Below I have linked a bunch of them. You have two days for this assignment, so you have time to watch a few and learn how to do basics.

Here are some links and both have clickable links to other tutorials and sites so click away!!:

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/tutorials.html

http://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/articles/20-basic-illustrator-tutorials-every-beginner-should-see

http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorials/illustrator/basics

You can also just Google Adobe Illustrator tutorials and you will find lots of links.

For your assignment, I would like you to create THREE graphics that could be used in the newspaper. You can do any of the following for these three graphics, but you must do at LEAST 1 political cartoon and 1 infographic. I will give you instructions next class on how to turn in these three graphics:

1. Create an infographic with data and art.

2. Create a political cartoon with a clear opinion/message, that includes symbols & labels, one of the persuasive techniques you learned about last class, and that is factual based. Consider exaggerations that you might utilize with this piece. 

3. A art piece that could be used with a review of some sort (this could be a review of a movie, book, music, restaurant, etc). OR you can create another Infographic or Political Cartoon

Here are some ideas if you need help coming up with something, but feel free to come up with your own ideas and plans:

Examples: