As the semester winds down, two weeks of classes and one week of finals, each class is starting the last and final projects. For Studio it's a 2x4 wood project, in Drawing it will be two drawings of anything we want and with any medium which I am still pondering, inCore is an art book.
As prep for the art book, we spent the last week working on Mind Maps. My mind maps were: Art Deco, Leonardo Da Vinci, and The Voyages (age) of Exploration & Discovery which you can see in the first picture below.
This week we had to select one and make it "pretty" in what's called an Aesthetic Map. After confirming my idea which was to make it in PhotoShop, I went to Adobe Stock photo and found some images of an old sailing ship, a world map, and old parchment paper. This was my base layer which I then imported in to Adobe Illustrator. Using Adobe Fonts, I located an old-timey font that one might find on old parchments and from there I added all the text and colored squares to build out the legend along with arrows showing where the major routes were; this is the second picture below.
Next week I will start my "art book" which will actually be a website; which I have the teacher's permission to do. I will use the Art Deco mind map as the starting place for it. I will write it in plain HTML with some javascript so it will be portable and run locally on any computer with out deploying it to a hosting provider.
As prep for the art book, we spent the last week working on Mind Maps. My mind maps were: Art Deco, Leonardo Da Vinci, and The Voyages (age) of Exploration & Discovery which you can see in the first picture below.
This week we had to select one and make it "pretty" in what's called an Aesthetic Map. After confirming my idea which was to make it in PhotoShop, I went to Adobe Stock photo and found some images of an old sailing ship, a world map, and old parchment paper. This was my base layer which I then imported in to Adobe Illustrator. Using Adobe Fonts, I located an old-timey font that one might find on old parchments and from there I added all the text and colored squares to build out the legend along with arrows showing where the major routes were; this is the second picture below.
Next week I will start my "art book" which will actually be a website; which I have the teacher's permission to do. I will use the Art Deco mind map as the starting place for it. I will write it in plain HTML with some javascript so it will be portable and run locally on any computer with out deploying it to a hosting provider.
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