Project 3: Vector Portrait

Illustrator Project #1: Reductive Portrait

Illustrator Project —1.1

OVERVIEW:

as ranging from street art and graffiti to presidential campaigns. We will be using his work as a base of inspiration for this assignment. Pulling from his background in skateboarding graphics, Shepard Fairey is a modern master of reductive design-based art. Using a similar process throughout his body of work, he has managed to create an impactful and recognizable style that has found a home in areas ranging from street art and graffiti to presidentintial campaigns. We will be using his work as a base of inspiration for this assignment.

Your first task is to seek out a relatively high resolution photograph of a faMmONou—s10p.2e8r-son to use as reference. You will be working on an 11”x17” layout (portrait, not land-scape), so plan to crop your image to fit. Much like Fairey’s famous Obama poster (the HOPE poster), you will reduce your image to four color planes. Each color plane should exist on its own layer in the file. Place the photo on the bottom layer, so you can see it as you trace over it. For an added challenge, you can incorporate a small amount of text into your final portrait.

You will be turning in TWO final files. The first is the original drawing. The second is the original drawing with textures and effects applied to it. We’ll look critically at both.

NO LIVE TRACING

I can spot livetracing a mile away. Just don’t do it. For the intents and purposes of this class and department, it is considered Academic Dishonesty. It has its place in the world-this is not it.

FINAL IMAGE

PART ONE: Vector Portrait-PDF file, 11″x17″ Portrait

PART TWO, Added Texture-PDF or AI file with applied texture(s), to be discussed in class

IMAGE PROCESS

Work in layers. Since you are using only 4 color fields, make sure each color field is on its own layer. Remove the original image from the file for turn-in, but be sure to turn it in together (just not as a flattened layer).