Illustrator rocks perspective!

Congrats to those in costume today!

We got started on time! There were some You Tube videos about perspective drawing running on the screen when everyone was coming in to the room and then everyone took a Learn @ UW quiz. The first question was what the difference was between vector vs. rastor art. (What? The students couldn't give the answer immediately? We definitely need to review that concept a bit more!)

Then we looked at a lot of different things: images, videos and a powerpoint that showed perspective drawing. Everyone took a few minutes to make a simple perspective drawing on a sheet of paper.

After we took a break, we learned about The Rule of Odds.

The Rule of Odds is that the human eye is more attracted to an odd number of shapes than to an even number. After talking about why, we guessed that maybe it was because of the human face and the fact that we feel at home looking at two eyes and a mouth (an odd number of shapes). We aren't sure why, really. We looked at some examples of Paul Cezanne's art because he used the Rule of Odds in a lot of his paintings.

Chou showed us an AWESOME demo of how he creates a design with Illustrator. Everyone (even if we were all feeling a bit like we won't ever be able to do it like Chou) worked on making a t-shirt design. The students were working on some great stuff and everyone seemed to enjoy the activity as well. Way to go us!

Then, after our second break, we got serious and took a permit test. How did we do? We'll have to wait and see!

We had some blog time and some time to keep working on our t-shirt or web designs, then it was off to lunch (Potbelly's! Yum!).

Overall, it was a pretty darn good day: We learned some stuff, we had some fun, we used technology and we made some cool designs.