Drawn Together, Pen Tool Exercise Part 3

Learning to use the pen tool, eye dropper and layers palette to create a fully drawn recreation of a cartoon character.

 

Assignment

• For this project you will:

• Download a cartoon character of your choosing

• In Adobe Illustrator or Gravit Pro

  • The Pen Tool (P)

    • To create a series of shapes that will, when fully completed will be a redrawing of the character

      • These shapes should be

        • One continuous line around the whole part that you are drawing

          • except in the case for small hairs that protrude out from the object

          • Use a red outline to see where you are tracing

            • When you finish the tracing use the eye dropper tool to sample the color of the shape

              • refer to your tool bar cheat sheet to locate the eye dropper tool and it's keyboard short cut (the letter after it's name)

  • The Layer Palette

    • Lock the layer with the Cartoon Character

    • Create a new layer for each part of the character you are drawing

      • For example, the part of the drawing that is below everything will be the first thing you draw. For the picture of Dexter I would start with the arm and glove on the right side of the drawing since it is below his head and lab coat. Then I would create a new layer for the legs, then coat, then the other glove, then head, etc.​

  • After completing the exercise

    • To the point you are confident that you have done the best you can without reservation

    • Create 1 PDF of the Illustrator file

      • File>Save as...

      • Use "PDF" as the file format

        • Turn in this file through Jupiter Grades​

Requirements

• Your file must be a PDF to be graded.

• Turn in your PDF to Jupiter Grades, make sure that the PDF preview is enabled

• Make sure you are confident that your work is done before you upload the file

  • The work uploaded should be the best you can do

    • If you have questions or can't figure something out ask me

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Examples of Cel Shaded drawings

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