Thursday October 17

Mr. Brautigam will be out today. You will have a substitute teacher. This blog post is your instructions for today. You have two tasks:

1. Earthquake drill
2. Send me your Mission College ID number. (see below)
3. Finish the apple if possible (see below)
4. Start the poster project (see below)

Earthquake drill

1. Hide under desks
2. Evacuate to the bus parking lot
3. Take the red backpack. Jason's row, you are responsible. Hold up the green tag if everyone is there, the red tag if someone is missing.
4. Help the substitute teacher.

Mission College ID

Only a few of you sent me your Mission College ID.  (Ben, V. Nguyen, V. Tran.) I can't sign you up at the meeting today if I don't have your ID.

Apple

 To finish the apple, you need to be careful. Before you can use the pathfinder to make the apple stripes, you must finish these two tasks:

1. Draw the outline of the apple (and leaf) as accurately as possible.
2. Draw the rectangles so the four internal rectangles have the same height. (Make four rectangles of the same height, and resize them together to fill the area.) The top and bottom stripes can and should be bigger than the internal stripes.

Once this is done, you'll have a problem. You'll use the "intersect" pathfinder to create the stripes. However, after you make the first operation, your apple outline will be gone. So when you try to create the second stripe, there will be no outline to work with. So the best strategy is to make six copies of the apple outline, so you'll have one available for each stripe.

After you've finished creating the apple outline and the six rectangles, but before using the pathfinder, I suggest you make a backup copy of your file just in case you make a mistake and have to go back. In the Finder, use Cmd-D to duplicate your file.

Poster

Your next project is to create a poster for an event such as a concert, play, or exhibition. Our school is going to have a haunted house and you could make a poster for that,. (The event can be a made-up event.)

Take a look around the classroom at the various posters students have made in the past. Note that some of them are not very good! Try to make something really good. Don't imitate the bad ones that got a bad grade.

Also take a look at the posters on the wall for examples of good concert and art exhibition posters.

Here are some of the basic requirements for your poster:

• Size should be 11 x 17 inches. This is small poster size. 
• Color mode should be CMYK and it should be "print" mode. 
• You won't finish this today. The quantity and quality of your work should demonstrate that you spent several hours of concerted effort doing this.
• This is one of two final projects you will finish for the Adobe Illustrator module.

Here are some guidelines:

• You may use other posters and illustrations online as "inspiration" for your artwork.
• You may bring objects such as animals, plants, people, logos, or other objects into your Adobe drawing to "trace" them.
• However, you may not trace a whole poster from another source. The artwork and design should be your own.