Winter 2025/26, Periods A, B, C schedule

Week 12

Wed, Mar 4 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Mandala

Luminary

Tue, Mar 3 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Mon, Mar 2 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Week 11

Sat, Feb 28 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Sat, Feb 28 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Wed, Feb 25 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Wed, Feb 25 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Mon, Feb 23 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Mon, Feb 23 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Week 10

Thu, Feb 19 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Finished printing the second panel.

Thu, Feb 19 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Worked on the mandala

Tue, Feb 17 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Finished printing the first panel.

Tue, Feb 17 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Added more line work to the buildings.

Week 9

Fri, Feb 13 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Added more line work.

Fri, Feb 13 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Finished doing the line work for the cars.

Wed, Feb 11 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Done a test print and decided to add some line work.

Wed, Feb 11 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Waiting for test print

Mon, Feb 9 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Made some final adjustments for printing. Waiting for test print.

Mon, Feb 9 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Finished tracing negative space and added some details to the buildings.

Week 8

Fri, Feb 6 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Almost finished tracing negative space

Fri, Feb 6 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Continued working on negative space

Wed, Feb 4 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Finished tracing the negative space for the first panel and started tracing the negative space for the third panel.

Wed, Feb 4 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Week 7

Wed, Jan 28 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Completed tracing the negative space on the first panel.

Wed, Jan 28 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Started tracing negative space for the fourth panel.

Mon, Jan 26 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Mon, Jan 26 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Week 6

Thu, Jan 22 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Removed most elements in between the artboards, but with one exception being the car on artboard 1.

Thu, Jan 22 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Cleaned up the space between panels 2 and 3.

Tue, Jan 20 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Used the shape builder to clean out some parts.

Tue, Jan 20 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Added cars and planes to the scene. Planned the sun and moon placement.

Fri, Jan 16 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Able to generate a usable drawing. Planned the placements of more elements.

Fri, Jan 16 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Used shape builder to clean up the space between panels

Wed, Jan 14 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Used Shape builder to clean up the edges of the panel.

Wed, Jan 14 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Added a moon element and refined the quality of the generated cityscape with higher contrast.

Mon, Jan 12 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Decided to do a different approach, as generating and simplifying elements in the old design was nearly impossible given the amount of details that Adobe Firefly generated.

Mon, Jan 12 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Adobe Firefly finally worked and generated an element for my third panel.

Week 4

Thu, Jan 8 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Generated many elements but encountered issues with the generative feature, which produced different images even when using the same prompt.

Thu, Jan 8 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Added the major elements to three side panels.

Tue, Jan 6 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Finished the full size sketch and have started working on the digital version.

Tue, Jan 6 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Winter Break 12/19/25 – 1/5/26

Week 3

Wed, Dec 17 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Transferred the thumbnail sketch onto the full-size sketch paper for the moon and the sun, and added some subtle elements on both cards.

Wed, Dec 17 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Generated some key elements of the tarot cards with the vector generator tool in Adobe Illustrator.

Mon, Dec 15 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

In class today completed the rest of the two panels and tried another way to connect the panels with lines.

Mon, Dec 15 HW – Image and description of completed homework

For homework, I worked on the thumbnail sketch and decided to combine the two themes and incorporated cyberpunk inspired elements into the tarot card and swapped the key visual elements from the original tarot card to some alternatives.

Week 2

Thu, Dec 11 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

In class today, I experimented with Adobe Illustrator’s Vector Generator AI to create some custom elements for the tarot cards, then started my thumbnail sketches for a tarot series based on the Sun, the Moon, the World, and the Star with each on one side of the lamp.

Thu, Dec 11 HW – Image and description of completed homework

For homework, I brainstormed some themes that I might be able to use in my luminary project.
1. Tarot Cards
Tarot cards often comes with an illustration with multiple layers with a subject and an unique world behind the subject creating room for negative space. I can assign one one card to each panel. To connect the panels with lines, I can connect each panel with lines by reusing repeting symbols or motifs like sun and moon on the margin of each panel.

2. A Cyberpunk Inspired city scape design
Each panel of the city themed design will a feature an aspect of the city from polluted wastedland to the bustling streets and skyscrapers. I can connect the panels with a shooting star flying over each panel.

Tues, Dec 9 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Finished the laser cutting the project, and started the luminary project.

Tues, Dec 9 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Refined the negative space tracings and established the linework for the main firefly.

Week 1

Thu, Dec 6 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

In class I started tracing the negative spaces, adjusted the size of the second firefly, and rearranged the subjects.

Sat, Dec 6 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Thu, Dec 4 HW – Image and description of completed homework

For homework, I organized and renamed the layers, switched my subject to a firefly, added several elements to the frame, previewed how they looked together, and traced the panel cutout with the pen tool. I also traced.

Thu, Dec 4 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

Today, I explored the different effects that the vector generator can produce and attempted to outline the generated vector. However, I encountered an issue with sub layers as I was unable to create an outline for the dog.

Tue, Dec 2 HW – Image and description of completed homework

Tue, Dec 2 CW – Image and description of completed classwork

I outlined the vector image and highlighted the negative spaces with the pen tool in black lines.