2nd Assignment [Illustration] - Finalization

Here is my final illustration:





















TITLE: SAVE THE TREES

THE ILLUSTRATION REPRESENTS A TREE WITH TWO HUMANS. EVENTHOUGH THE TITLE SAYS: 'SAVE THE TREES' AND IN THE ILLUSTRATION ITSELF ONLY SHOWS ONE TREE, IT STILL REMINDS US THAT WE ARE NOT ONLY CARE FOR A SINGLE TREE, BUT ALL OF IT. A BOY AND A GIRL ARE SHOWING THEIR EXPRESSIONS TOWARD THE TREE BEHIND THEM, MEANS THAT THEY CARE AND WANT TO SAVE THE TRESS FROM BEING DESTROYED. THE BACKGROUND IS JUST A PLAIN, BLUE SKY WITH SOME FLUFFY CLOUDS. IT REPRESENTS THE GREAT, WARM FEELING, GIVING A GREAT DAY FOR ANY OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES.

2nd Assignment [Illustration] - The Steps

Here are the steps of my illustration:











-First, I drew a tree trunk with pen tool












-Coloring the tree with a green color and added some shader effect by creating any uneven objects, blacken it and make it 20-43% of it opacity.














-To create the tree's leaves, I used Pen Tool. Colored it and added some shader (just like the previous step).

- To make a ground, I used 'Rectangle Tool' to create a rectangle and colored it green. Using a 'Warp Tool', I've created the grassy looking ground by moving the points into some kind of bumpy line.

- For a cartoony boy, I used 'Pen Tool' and 'Brush Tool' to draw him. If I want to fix a wavy outline, I can use 'Warp Tool' or by moving a point so it will look smooth. For the girl, I completely copied the entity of the boy and pasted her beside of him. Then, I just draw the girl's hair, replaced it with boy's hair and fix the line so it will look like a girl. For the shadows, I used 'Eclipse Tool' to create two circles and compressed it until its look flat. The shadows have been placed on the ground where the humans are standing and the opacity has been changed to 40% with black in color.

-For the background, I have created a blue sky with some clouds. I used 'Pen Tool' to make the clouds, applied the white color and changed the opacity around 42 - 60% on each of the cloud. I created it in a different layer and changed it to a back layer. Now, the subjects will be in front of the background layer.

- Finally, before I finished my work, I need to arrange the layers, so they are in the correct position. Also, I need to check the line, color or anything that I feel inappropriate, so I won't do any mistake.

2nd Assignment [Illustration] - Sketch

Here is my early illustration sketch:


















Actually, I want to make a boy and a girl are holding an earth with their hands with happy face at first. It shows that they are praising the earth and care about it. Since I have a better idea, I replace the old one with a new idea. My new idea is making a girl and a boy praising a tree behind them with a happy expression. I think that will be good for my illustration. So, that will be my final decision.

2nd Assignment [Illustration] - Research

Second assignment is an illustration. I need to illustrate it in Adobe Illustrator. Before that, I need to know what kind of illustration and what is a good title for that.

Illustration also must based on the personal symbol that has created before. My own personal symbol is just a simple symbol. It has an earth, with a crown on the top of it and two smiley faces at the center of the earth.

In my research, I need to find a good example for my illustration (not copying it).
I try to find a good image of tree because a main subject for my illustration is tree. Here are some examples:






















Also, in my previous symbol, there are two smiley faces. That will be presented as the humans, a boy and a girl. In my illustration, I will draw two human and behind them is a tree. It is kinda like a deforestation problem, so we must protect the trees. In my illustration later, I will draw one single tree only. Not to mention that the trees are so many and why I want to draw only one? That's because a single tree represents all of it. That's right, all of it.