Finishing your Shape Animal Illustrator

Once you have completed tracing your owl, dog, cat... Then

Personalize your Critter:

1. Personalize your critter with swatches, colours, and creative adaptations. [in the swatch panel, there is a hidden menu to the top right of the window- click on the tiny arrow and select Swatch Library> Patterns...] experiment with different pattern and colour swatches.
2. FILE>SAVE AS your Critter Drawing as a .ai [Adobe Illustrator] file.
3. FILE>EXPORT> your image as a PNG
4. Post to your blog. Remember to Title YOUR POST! Critter Drawing or"Owl Drawing".
5. Write a brief reflection about your illustration.

Background: Next find a simple, but fitting background to place your critter into via Google. Approximately 2000-3500 pixels.

• Save it to your file.
• Start a new Illustrator document
• File >Place your background image into the document.
• Then right click on the layer and turn it into a 'Template'
• Add a new layer
• Consider the different shapes and areas you can trace in a full circle or full square. Visualize your image into layers of basic elements.
• Title your layers by the items or areas you will section.
• Draw the background.
• We will add your creature to the background later.

Have fun, be creative with your fill, and adapt in meaningful ways that work with the image