Assignment 1: Pattern Studies
1. Set up a new document in Adobe Illustrator that is 20 inches wide by 14 inches tall.
2. Using RECTANGLES, ELIPSES, POLYGONS, AND STARS ONLY, create 6 pattern studies.
3. Your pattern studies should be 4 inches by 4 inches using only Black and White Stroke and Fills.
4. Keep an even 2 inch border around each pattern study.
5. Make 6 BLACK AND WHITE pattern studies based on the following concepts:
6. Before you start, make a simple "super unit" form to build into a pattern using repetition:
Units and Super-Unit forms
Wucious Wong defines a Super-Unit form as a complex form composed of a group of simple geometric figures. These figures are called “units”.
- #1 experiment with GRID STRUCTURES to create patterns (NO use of Illustrator's Repeat Cmd.)
Reference reading - #2 experiment with ROTATION to create patterns (NO use of Illustrator's Repeat Cmd.)
- #3 experiment with SCALE CHANGES to create patterns (NO use of Illustrator's Repeat Cmd.T)
- #4 experiment with GRID STRUCTURES to create patterns (WITH use of Illustrator's Repeat Cmd.)
- #5 experiment with QUANTITY(WITH OR WITHOUT Illustrator's Repeat Cmd.)
- #6 experiment with EXPERIMENT WITH YOUR OWN PATTERN (No restrictions)
6. You can use White Rectangles to create borders around your patterns.
7. Save your file named firstname_lastname_shapes.ai
*see example below for some ideas
** all 6 pattern studies will be on the same document (20 x 14 inches)
Parameters:
No Effects, Transparency, Filters, Brushes, Variable Stroke Widths, Gradients, Color etc.
Keep shapes as primitive geometric shapes (ellipses, squares, stars, polygons)
No shapes other than primitive shapes
Objectives: Adobe Illustrator
A. Document Set Up, Guides, Grids, Workspace
1. Select tool
2. Primitive Shape tools
3. Rotate tool
4. Transform tool, Transform panel
5. Stroke and Fill
6. Stroke and Fill color
7. Constraints
8. Repeating
9. Align tool
Criteria For Grading and Evaluation:
Basic Includes |
art board size |
| 4 inch square areas for pattern studies | |
| 2 inch borders | |
| black and white stroke and fill colors | |
| primitive shapes used for pattern studies | |
Idea |
pattern investigations listed above (grids, rotations, scale, repeat command) |
| repetition of "super-units" using scale, rotation, position, translation (applied to grids, rotations, scale, line, quantity, and individual) | |
Effort(visual production) |
Ambition with production - ambition with what you set out to do Ambition with effort - how much you put into your idea and how much time you spent Ambition to delivery - how much attention to detail and level of development and finish |
10 pts |
Total |
What to Turn in:
1. name your AI file:
firstname_lastname_shapes.ai
2. Submit your file to SIU Desire to Learn > HERE
-Log into your D2L Account (Click on the Drop Boxes Module and follow the instructions)