The day started off with a foot in color theory... which most of the students already had previous knowledge about. As the class went through The Basics of Color Theory slides, it was pointed out that the "complementary" colors mean they are compatible with each other, like green and red whereas "complimentary" colors mean... you're liking something, and that something is... color? -- Just a little spell check in case the students decide to use this in their blog today ;)
Anyways, to get back to the main lesson in class, the color theory went -for the most part- pretty okay. The students were lost when it was time to talk about RGB -- which isn't exactly the primary colors that we had told them just earlier in the slide -- RYB. But with physics, light's primary colors and CYMK were explained... but left the students a little confused. But rest assure! Chou informed the students that "it will get easier as we keep doing this" which led to the next portion of the day: Spiderman! Nah, it's live paint and live trace =)
As Chou began his lesson plan, he explained the difference between rastor and vector images... Which led to Chou bringing an image into Illustrator to live trace it (bitmaps into vectors) and taking it back old school, Chou explained how live paint is just like the programs that they used in elementary school...
After Live Trace and Paint was over and done with, Chou grabbed the pen tool and started tracing... which looked pretty easy, but from my experience, it's not! Nevertheless, now the students know how to bring bitmaps into Illustrator and vectorize it! And if not vectorization... They now know how to manually trace things.
After the lecture, the students were let loose to trace and paint their own cartoon images.
But... wait! What about colored bitmaps?!
Rest assure, tracing options are now explained: Simple trace is just for black and white. Color 6 limits the number of colors Illustrator can produce when "tracing."
Ok. Now back to the student's projects.
As the students spent time on their seasons, they focused on the background a lot more so than the last year's group did. The quickness of finding the symbols and making backgrounds seemed to be easier for the students now. No one had questions about how to add symbols and live trace and paint came easy for them so everything seems to be on the right path!
The rest of the class consisted of the students saved their work, discovered the wall, did their own thing, and headed out to lunch.
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