The past few days have been mainly focused on learning to color in Illustrator. Skills learned this week utilize basic skills from previous lessons including grouping, live tracing, gradients, and much more. With these basic skills, as a class, we all learned that coloring is a skill with many complexities when it comes to Illustrator.
Furthermore, a project was presented to the class allowing us to take matters into our own hands concerning our personal creativity. The Chicago City Sticker contest happens every year where highschool students from all over the city can complete their own design of the new city sticker based off a theme. This year the theme is Daniel Burnham's Chicago. So far it has been alot of research accompanied by a delightful field trip to the Chicago Architectural Foundation where we were able to analyze a miniature model of the city! (pictured below) The winners of the contest can get up to a $1000 savings bond and not to mention their winning design on over 2 million vehicles in chicago starting in 2010!
Hope everyone had a great week!
Compton & Erica
