Illustrator: Shape Tool

Practice using the shape tool, pen tool, eye dropper tool (colour), direct selection tool, and layers.  Open one of the animal images from the share folder and then create a new drawing layer to start your own version. Try changing colours to make the animals your own. Add a title

Once you are finished, try drawing your own animal.
Here are a few tutorials to help you-
Shape Tutorial
Illustrator Tutorial

Grade 10s
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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