Illustration & Visual Narrative- Week 5 3D and Materials

 

Week 5

 Low Li Vern/ 0362678

Illustration and Visual Narrative / Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Creative Media

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Class Summary

Mr Hafiz let us watch a video about how to make 3D shape in illustrator. After the exercise we were briefed about our next project is to design a poster of the competition of My Tiger Value.

1. 3D Rainbow

From today's class I have learn on how to use 3D materials in Adobe Illustrator. It is a very new and interesting tool for me, it makes 2D arts turn into 3D with just a click. Besides, we can also change the materials looking by using the tool. The first practice is for us to draw out a rainbow and turn it into 3D shapes. First, we draw out the rainbow by using shapes and use pathfinder to make the shape similar to rainbow.

Fig 5.1 Rainbow 2D

Fig 5.2 Rainbow colours

After drawing out the rainbow I use the 3D Materials tool to change it from 2D shapes into 3D shapes. Before using the tool, must remember to group the shapes or not it will not turn into 3D. I also added the shadow to make it look more realistic. It is fun to play on the 3D shapes, I can turn the shapes by turning around the tool.

Fig 5.3 3D Rainbow

2.Flora practice

After the rainbow practice, Mr Hafiz let us have a try on turning the word FLORA. First, I turn the word into 3D. Next, I change the materials of the word into the wood material and also added some shadow. We also learn a new technique that is to make the leaves to look like getting through the word using the tool intertwine. 

Fig 5.4 Flora 2D

Fig 5.4 Flora 3D

3. Illustrated Type

Ideation✨

For the Project 2 of my assignment is Illustrated Type. I have done the sketch in week 4 and I decide to add on some details and turn it into 3D after learning new skills.

Fig 5.5 Sample of Illustrated Type

Fig 5.6 Sample of Illustrated Type

After research, I have get some ideas from photos from Internet. For the words I choose is "PALACE" and "SNAIL". I have plan to use magical design on the word palace as the sample of the Illustrated type. I the reason I use purple and yellow as the main colour of the design is yellow is the colour of the crown for all time in our storybook, and for purple is the contrasting colour with yellow. For the background I use pink to match with the bow tie colour.

Fig 5.7 Palace Final Design

Fig 5.8 Bow Tie

Fig 5.9 Palace Final Design outline

I turn the word Palace into 3D and added the bow tie flying through the word to make it looks more magical and pretty. I use the technique that is taught earlier and make the design better.

Fig 5.10 Snail Final Design

Fig 5.11 Snail Final Design outline

For the Design of the letter Snail, I use the letter I and l to be the feeler of the snail. and the letter s is the back shell of it. I use red colour as the shell design and beige colour as the body, for the background I use blue to be the sky colour. I love the creative of this design, it is interesting to let the words be more designed. I also added some leaves through the word as snails love to eat leaves.

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