Art At Sxu

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Introduction to Adobe 2-3

Once Upon A Light 4-5

Pot on Stove 6-7

Variations of Illustrations 8-17

Image to Ilustration Intro ;Trucks 18-19

Nates Intro 20-21

Horses 22-31

Classmates Art

*Duck- Yadira Serna

*Cars-Walters

*Tombstones-Rachel Rodriguez

*Budda-

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Table Of Contents


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Learning how to use new tools to create art can bevery exciting! The fact that our name is basically engraved in our

minds and we know it very well, can be useful while experiment-

ing new tools. While guring out and learning how to use Adobe

Illustrator, drawing your name various times can be easy for you

because your not thinking of what to draw next. drawing your

name over and over again gives more condence in what you are

drawing simply because it is kind of second nature to you and

you start drawing like if you have been using it for a very long

time.At rst drawing in black with the drawing pen was honestly

difcult at rst because I was using a drawing pad with the uten-

sil it comes along with and your basically drawing on something

and not seeing your drawing on a piece of paper but on the mac

computer in front of you. Once the professor tells us to choose

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Direction of LineUsing the ll icon, I chose grey because it is a neutral color and it is

somewhat completely opposite of pink.

another color similar in the red family, I chose a dark pink, red

color and it started to stand out even more. Using the ll icon,

I chose grey because it is a neutral color and it is somewhat

completely opposite of pink, so it makes your eyes focus more

on the name in pink, once I sent the grey lling behind the

drawing.

Experimenting with the paintbrush tool, the wand the

rectangle tool, at rst was kind of difcult because I was

afraid to mess up and not knowing how to x it. Once I

learned around it I was drawing more carefree because thatwas mainly the whole point of this drawing, to just be familiar

with the tools. Making the paintbrush icon thicker made those

specic names drawn stand out even more and created a whole

different perception on the drawing. Overall getting familiar

with the new tools in Adobe Illustrator became easier once you

have done it for various amount of times.


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Reflection upon light

For this assignmentwe rst started off by paint-

ing the whole screen pitch black.

Ofcourse not literally the screen

on our mac but the one on our

illustrator. We werent allowed toerase therefore if I created a mark

that I didnt like I would have to

try to x it with another shade of

the same color, in this case it is

from the range white to black,

white being the reection, and grey

being the color that blends every-

thing together. Dark grey being the

darkest part of your illustration and

white being the brightest part. This

was one of our warm ups so that we

could start learning about lights and

shades. For one assignment we had

to come on out own time with our

own props and do the same. Obvi-

ously this is a teapot above. The canon the following page is Coca Cola

can that I had drank and nished

just to do my homework ofcourse.

The can being alluminum was in

particular most difcult because the

lamps light reected all over the

can. Other than that I actually liked

how it turned out.

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OnceUpon

A Light


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By Lizet Alvarez


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Steaming Pot onStove

This steaming pot was originally sitting in space. It had no rmsetting so I decided to draw a stove under it. I added steam through

its sprout so that the pot actually serves its purpose. By simply

making the stroke thicker , you can add more detail to the pot itself.

Even using different shades pf the color brown makes it seem as ifthe pot as lighting, creating shadows as well. I increased the stroke

and style on the ames so that the stove looks like its actually on,

and warming up the pot. You can never stop adding details to your

original illustration. The great part about experimenting with Adobe

and the Mac Desktop is that you can always experiment, mess up

and simply delete it using, Command Z. 7


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Variations


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Would You would ofguess this was a tea-pot?

Making variations from an original

art can be very fun. Sometimes you

wont even guess what was the ac-

tual prop used to make the drawing.

In class cristics we were allowed the

opportunity to see how crazy others

art pieces were. Some classmates

had some artwork that we had no

idea what they could have possibly

been. One classmate had one that

no one could guess what it was and

it turned out to be a water bottle.

Simple as that huh? Not really. We

had to rate everyones variations

from most obvious, to what in the

world could that be. It was pretty

interesting!

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Lizet Alvarez


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Crazy Vase

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Its amazing to see what adobe illustrator can do only

one of your art drawing and convert it two many

other versions of your drawing. Many of my draw-

ings variation looked completely different from the

original. Changing the colors as to making a shade

kind of fade away later affected how the different

variation you chose looked like. The rst part into

this assignments is creating an art version of an object

and composing it into looking as detailed as the actual

object. The lighting hitting the object is the goal I was

trying to make realistic.

With my pink teacup the rst variations are complete-ly wild. It looks like the teacup is in a rock and roll

concert with a guitar. Many people who may view the

different variations may catch on right away what it

is suppose to be or other might not. I mainly used the

stroke to change to a watercolor or charcoal in order

is in a rock and roll concert with a

guitar

to really cause a dramatic change to my draw-

ings. I also used the ower stem for many of

my drawings.

I rst drew the main drawing which was later

created into copies. I wanted to keep my

original, and use the copies to change into

different variations. Every single copy looks

very distinct from the others in its own way.

No matter what color my drawing was the wa-

tercolor effect always gave it a blue grey color

as it fades throughout the drawing. In conclu-

sions the fact that adobe illustrator can createsuch effects on one drawing is amazing. You

use the paintbrush tool and draw away and

later you can create different version of that

one drawing, and it created a whole different

perspective of your art.


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100 Lines


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In my computer graphics classwe were given a task of creat-ing illustraion based on stil lifeobjects. These three displayedare some in which I had created.The task was to create theseillustration to make them look asmuch as you can to the actualitem, but there was a trick to it. Inorder to complete this you only

had one hundred lines to com-plete. Trust me if you had oneextra stroke my Professor Natewould notice!

Trust me if

you had oneextra stroke

my Professor

Nate would

notice!


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Using the flower stem tool, it created a different variation of the sunglasses I had

originally drawn in Adobe Illustrator. To be honest sometimes I didnt know what I wasdoing and I would end up loving the effect. For some reason when I would use the sametool for other variations the backgrund would mix with black and white and I liked it andthought it was pretty cool.


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It is amazing to see what variations can make thesimplest thing to convert into!

Wild Variations

As you can see in the screen shot on the right page of the original illustration of the bluewater bottle, there are red lines all over. This simply means that I had selected certain points.While playing around with the different variations of my illustrations you can select usig theblack pointer tool to only change certain parts and points of your illustration. For most con-venience while making this particular assignment it is handy to have the color box on theside of your illustrator so you can pick the same color but in dfferent shades. If you pay closeattention to all three teapots on this page they are all different. The top right cornered one isa variation. The centered is the one original I kept. And the bottom right cornered is the one Ihad originally started working with.


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ExperimentingWith


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Adobe

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Truck Owned By:Ivan Campos


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Which One would you pick?

Country Side

Images taken By:Professor Nathan Peck


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For Professor Nates class we weregiven the option to pick from two images

taken by himself. Which one would you

pick? I personally wanted the country-

side, farm looking image, but then again

it looked like it would have been a very

difcult task to do. The tree itself would

have been hard to create using shapes,

and illustrator. This was his way of

introducing the next task/ assignment.

Both of the images have layers ontop

of layers and the basic task was to

learn how to bring images onto adobe

illustrator and transforming the image

as an Adobe Illustrator le. Majority

of the class chose to experiment with

the remen, which were actual re-

men that Nate, my Computer Graph-ics professor knew.

VS. Firemen

New Project Introduction!

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FIRST

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ARIATIO

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Horse Illustra-

tion and varia-

tion taken by:

Lizet Alvarez


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Variations

Learning to change variations on an ow

Composition: Using the Adobe Illustratorat the mac lab, we have been introducedinto bringing in an actual photo into theIllustrator and form a differet version of thephoto. This new form of art is composed

based on different shapes and using theeye drop tool it allows us to change the fillof the shapes so that the color is almostprecise to the actual color in the photo.Using, Al_Gaussian Blur_4, under the svgfilters option, allows to blur out anythingthat you chose with the black pointer tool.This allows you to bluw out the back-ground in whicj I did so that the horsesstand out more and become the main fo-cus of the picture. Many others might getattracted to other items of the art but mu

There is just so much detail to choose from that I had to basically pick thosethat I thought would make the picture more realistic. By Lizet Alvarez

focus was based on the horses mainlythe white horse.

Craft: Creating different forms of shapesto replace while tracing the actual illus-

traion, can be later altered by the whitepointer tool because you can movethe shape around and the points as ellso that the shape is perfectly how ouwanted it to be. I used the feather adthe gaussian bluw options so that I couldmke the art look more realistic and asclose as possible to the actual photo.

Concept The main point into recreatingthe ilustration that I personally took wasso that the art is almost as realistic as


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My horses in a 2009

image by Lizet Alva

image.

the actual photo. Using all thesetool and the pen tool gives thepower to pick and choose themain focused. Mine happened tobe the whire horse. The idea of

recreating all the characteristicspossible to recontruct this imageis very fascinating. There is justso much detail to choose fromthat I had to basically pick thosethat I thought would make thepicture more realistic.


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Halloween-Horse

Creating our rst illustration based on our im-

age we had to use shapes to make the illustration as real-

istic as possible. My photo actually are horses we have atpur ranch at Beecher Illinois. It was taken a couple weeksafter the mare gave birth to her baby. At rst I thought itwould be difcult to create an Adobe versionof this im-age but it wasnt that bad. The concept is to nd the mostimportant details in the actual image and work with it .

The new adober version is built based on shapes. Andwith these shapes that are created can be lled with theexact similar color related to that of the actual photo. OnceI had the regular illustration created I started to play withthe effect. In this particular one it looks like it has a hallow-een theme with it simply because I changed the surround-

By Lizet Alvarez

all it is missing is more detail on the ceiling and the ground

ing colors to darker theme. It kind of even lookslike it is night time. For some reason one of the

effects I used gave the gravel a weird glow almostas if some magic glow is coming out of the oor.

On the following variation the horse becausealmost unreal. The more you play with effects themore distortion you create. The main effect thatmade my horses more realistic was the gauss-ian blur. It looks blend the colors to create certainspots of the horse almost realistic.


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you can create manypieces of art

Using the Macintosh computer and theAdobe Illustrator, you can create many pieces of arts

for several purposes. This assignment is completely

different, because we are bringing an actual picture to

Adobe so that we can use it to trace an art version of it.

First I created a new folder on the desktop so that the

original photo is saved within the Adobe le you willbe working on. When I opened the Adobe le the only

way you can bring the photo onto the le you have to,

place the photo and make it t into the screen. Using

the pen tool allows you to make different shapes, and

using the eyedropper tool allows you to ll in those

shapes you create with the exact color that best ts

your work. The black and white pointer tool allows you

to select, move and rearrange the points and shapes.

Feeling Grey Horse

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As you can see above on the previous page with the

original art pf the horse to can use it as a reference

while looking at this one and you can picture the

outline of the body of the horses while looking at this

one. The art version of my photo basically has all the

main parts created and all it is missing is more detail

on the ceiling and the ground. This variation greyed

out the whole horse and makes it look mean but i just

loved it!

The idea of this whole assignment is to recreate a

photo that was taken personally from yourself using

this concept of created shapes and colors that best

represents the photo. This photo means alot to me

because I own them and it is unbelievable to see what

you have created.

This variation greyed out the whole horse and makes it

look mean but i just loved it!


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Sunset

Created by Lizet Alvarez

When trying to create variations of an illustration

you start noticing many differences from your origi-

nal illustration. The smallest details in your original

can later make a difference if they are changed. For

example, on my original he window is so bright you

assume its daytime, but just by changing the color of

the window to yellow it makes the mood turn as if the

sun is setting creating colors in the outside sky o a

yelowish color.

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a

dawn.

----- Claude Debussy


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Illustrations and

and quote said

and done by: Yadira

Serna

The tools that black and white pointeoption and the Blur opstroke on the rocks.

I used the Blu

create a soothing effeccolors of the water to ba .25pt black line strokcreate a more rigid grorocks on the ground ye

Yadira Serna


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sing Adobe Illustrator I used several tools to change the colors of the scene of my original

ustration.on my image was thect tab with the featheran to use an the line

water in order to try to

r helps the differentanother. I began to use. I did this in order tothere arent as manye that feeling. I also

used the feather effect on the details of the duck on the right side.If you look at the difference between the ducks, the one on theright now has more texture and therefore more abstract. I believethe more detailed the ducks can be, the more your eye will focuson the ducks.

The concept of my image is ducks. Though, besides myintentional focus being the ducks, this image tends to shift youreye focus onto the ground. The reason being the random groundshadow has such a dark color which differs from everythingaround it. If I work on blurring it out, I can potentially shift the focusback to the ducks.


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Illustrations and variations created by :

Walter


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Credit to Rachel R.The image that I use for this layout is one that I made in photo digital photography class its a self por-trait collage. I chose this layout with the image being the main focus I followed the rules of text pts added pagenumbers and I began the rst page with the text introducing the image on the opposit page. On my layouts Iplayed around with the grid lines the image is in its entirety. I used the grid lines to break it up and zommedinto the image drawing attention to the sybolism of my image.Keeping visual unity was my aim. I created the second layout with the entire image in mind as the main focal


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A trip to the graveyardpoint, I also playe daround with the text breaking rules and adding my name around the upper left outside my grid-lines. This can not alway be done in some cases durring the printing process the images or texts that are to far out will

not print or get cut off during the proccess.Overall the consept was to beging the process of organizine images and play around with ideas for a layout that willhave the rules given to me create a consistancy and convey the message creating 3 different looks for the critique inclass balance all the elements of image and text.


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Illustration and Varia-tions given credit to Mr.Rivera

Once again craft, concept, and composition were used to explain theses object. Craft dealt with the following:the mini drawing pad, pen, paint brush (under brushes from the library), adobe illustrator, hand and eye coordination. Iused a miniature maroon/Reddish Buddha gure, and a lamp light. The composition dealt with adding something morethat would give the gure ground, instead of looking like it was oating in space. One such way was by adding a windowdoor. I decided on a nature setting while blending in a landscape in the picture. Finally, this picture went from identiab

to abstract. A total of 25 variations 5 sets per picture, but will only mention the variations for the Buddha picture set.


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Dedicated To My Grandfather : Juan

Rodriguez

My First Magazine ....Created by: Lizet Alvarez

My name is Lizet Alvarez and I am a sophmore at Saint Xavier University. I am a busi-

ness accounting major. I love creating art, and I denitely learned so much in my

Computer Graphics class. I turned one of my personal images into an Adobe versionand it almost looks as realistic. Although dealing with numbers is my rst priority, illus-

trations caught my attention this semester. :)

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