9: Swatches Color Printing 5/1

YOU MUST HAND IN PRINTED WORK FOR GRADING!
(Midcycles are Friday 5/4)

Double check your work against the goals listed on the evaluation form.
Make sure you have cear 1/4 " margins.
Drag your closed file to the color printing folder
Print and staple your evaluation form to the back of your color print
Place your printed work into the submit folder for your class.

8: Swatches Evaluation Form 4/30

Please open and save the evaluation form for your swatches project.
Group Folder > Eval Swatches
Save as "EvalSwatches_______________(first name)"
Start completing the evaluation form.
Ask questions if there's anything on the form that you do not understand.
Check your work and make any needed adjustements

7: Pattern Swatches - Basics 4/27

STRIPED PATTERN SWATCH

* Draw a rectangle/square WITHOUT a stroke
* Copy it and fill each shape with the desired colors
* make sure they are perfectly aligned - window > align
* Scale them down to the size you would like them to be in your art
* Drag them into the swatches palette

Now you can fill any shape with your new pattern swatch

You can make your stripes horizontal or vertical depending on how you arrange the rectangles/squares

CHECKERS


If you used squares to make your stripes you can copy and paste the two squares and rotate the copies 180 degrees with the rotate tool. Double click on the rotate tool and enter in the degrees for a perfect rotation. You can select "copy" in the rotate window if you didn't copy and paste yet. Line evrything up perfectly and drag it into your swatches palette.
Don't forget NO STROKE!

POLKA DOTS


Draw a square and then a circle. Use the Align Palette to align them perfectly both horizontally and vertically. Add some detail like strokes or layered circles if you want.

POLKA DOT with DIAGONAL REPEAT


You can use the same swatch that you used for the simple polka dot. You just need to add another circle that you must first divide into quarters.

* Hold shift and use the line tool to draw 2 lines as shown

* Select all thre objects and align them vertically and horizontally
* Window > Pathfinder - Click on the first icon on bottom right (divide)
The lines will disappear!

* Object > Ungroup
* Now position each quarter into each corner of the pattern swatch. See Above!
Remember - NO STROKE
Try something creative with the patterns described above

6: Pattern Swatches Intro 4/26

Pattern swatches! Imagine that you have to design a kitchen floor tile that creates a polka dot repeating on a diagonal with perfectly consistent spacing when all of the tiles are laid out together. How could you use Adobe Illustrator to create such a tile?

5: Swatches and the Color Wheel 4/25

Try to finish up all of your swatches today except for the patterns.
Review yesterdays instructions.
Need help with choosing the right colors?
Copy and paste the color wheel from the group shared folder onto your swatches file.
You can use the eye dropper tool to pick colors from the wheel.

4: Gradients Swatches 4/24

Now that you have established what color schemes you are going to use, you can start making your own gradients to go with the color schemes.
1. Go to the window menu and open the following palettes:Swatches, Gradients, & Colors
2. Make sure that your swatches palette is showing gradient swatches (Click 3rd from icon at bottom of palette)
3. Fill one of your shapes with a rainbow gradient
4. Edit the rainbow gradient in the Gradient palette:
* click and drag sliders away to delete colors
* click and drag slider left and right to change sliders
* click on slider bar to create new sliders
* click on slider to select it and then edit the slider color in the color palette
* choose radial or linear for type of gradient