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Apr 27, 2024
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Catalog 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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DSGN 121 Vector Illustration 1 with Illustrator4 credits
This course covers basic and intermediate illustration tools and techniques available in Adobe Illustrator. Students will learn skills to produce vector-based artwork for web, multimedia, and print graphics. Emphasis is placed on proficiency with Illustrator’s pen tool.
Prerequisites: ABED 040 (or placement into MATH 087 or higher) and ABED 046 (or placement into ENGL 093 or higher)
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Navigate the Illustrator environment and use appropriate tools and palettes for a given task
- Create basic and complex shapes using the pen tool
- Apply color using strokes, fills, and painting tools
- Use brushes and symbols
- Organize artwork efficiently using layers and object stacking
- Modify drawn objects by transforming and applying effects to them
- Transfer scanned artwork or digital image to a vector-based illustration
- Identify appropriate deliverable file formats for various media (web, print, handheld devices)
Program Outcomes
This course teaches to the following program outcomes:
- demonstrate superior technical skills in industry standard software
- create effective solutions to design challenges using the elements and principles of design
- apply drawing skills and principles of color theory to projects and exercises
- create, edit and integrate vector and raster graphics within a variety of layouts for web, mobile device, print and interactive projects
- describe the historical significance and current design standards for typographic design, and effectively use type in print and screen-based publications
- prepare project deliverables for commercially printed materials, interactive documents and ePublications
Total Hours: 60 Lecture Hours: 20 Lab or Clinical Hours: 40
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