All right everybody, it’s time to play… Guess That Fairytale!
Today’s fairytale features a rosebush, a cathedral, and a duckpond. Anybody know it?
Maybe you Wikipedia-ed it. Very good, but that’s cheating. Today’s rather grimm tale is… Foundling-Bird!
Not cut out for this gameshow, you say? That’s ok. I hadn’t heard of Foundling-bird either. But it’s such a great little story that I feel compelled to give it publicity!
The background to this assignment: it puts into practice another feature of Illustrator called Live Trace. It looks at a raster image, like this sketch I scanned in, then turns what it sees into vector shapes. It can be really helpful sometimes, but shouldn’t be overused. Sometime, I’ll have to try Live Trace on my Switzerland poster project, and compare it with the hand-traced results.
One last thing. When the piece was being critiqued, one thing my teacher suggested was adding some white to the letters. That way, the visual path defined by the white outlines will include the title. I agree – I just don’t have time to go back and do it!