Welcome to Ms Borgersen's digital art class

Learn about different tool and techniques in Adobe Illustrator

On this page students can access projects and tutorials to help them reference and improve their skills in vexatious tools and techniques in illustrator.  These projects can be done and handed in on at any point to get extra credit on any project up to 10 points.  

Learning to Love the PEn Tool!!

Fun Pen Tool Game
For this Fun Challenge you will try the following two pen tool games to see if you learn anything new about pen tool and increase your mastery of the tool. When you finish the game take a screen shot (command+shift+3) to place in your portfolio for credit and brag about your high score to show that you completed today's challenge.

Game 1 -https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/games/pen-tool-game/

 Game 2 - ​http://bezier.method.ac_

Loving the Pen Tool Part 2

​Open one of the  following " tutorials" in illustrator and use the pen tool to "connect the dots"
pentool-exercise.ai.zip
File Size: 1155 kb
File Type: zip
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pentool-exercise-cs3.ai
File Size: 1326 kb
File Type: ai
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go to the following website and follow the steps to create at least 3  basic shapes

http://www.vectordiary.com/illustrator/drawing-with-pen-tool/

Pen out more complicated shapes.

open one of the following documents and trace the shapes with your pen tool.  Consintrate on creating curves.  * remember to create curves you have to click and drag to get hands
card_symbols.ai
File Size: 1122 kb
File Type: ai
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letters.ait
File Size: 252 kb
File Type: ait
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Create a simple "face" playing card

Complete the shapes above and use them in the card project
using the template bellow copy and paste a silhouette and trace it. to create a playing card
card_template.ai
File Size: 1609 kb
File Type: ai
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Learn to "Shape" Shapes

play this game and practice shaping letters with the pen tool and handles.

http://shape.method.ac/

Using the Pen tool to create TYpography

Open the following document in  illustrator and use the pen tool to trace the outline of the letters. once the outline is complete use the Direct Selection tool to alter it's shape into a unique typography
pen_tool_the_exercise.ai
File Size: 800 kb
File Type: ai
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Use the link below and follow the tutorial to create a Monocromatic Portriat using meshes, pen tool etc.

https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/create-a-monochrome-portrait-in-illustrator--vector-3881

Holiday Snowflakes

using the template and tutorial below along with your Mandala Project knowledge create three different unique snowflakes

​Take there snowflakes and arrange them into a graphic or card.  

Holiday Sillouttes

using the tutorial bellow. create two or more silhouettes to combine together to create a positive and negative graphic
here is a card template that we can print double sided and fold.  Make sure when pasting your images to place the image the right side up... hint look at the words