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    This project will introduce Adobe Illustrator software. You will learn how to use the pen, rectangle, pathfinder, and direct selection tools. This assignment will help you define and use positive and negative space, you will understand the use and define a silhouette, pictograph and ideograph.

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    This project will introduce Adobe Illustrator software. You will learn how to use the pen, rectangle, pathfinder, and direct selection tools. This assignment will help you define and use positive and negative space, you will understand the use and define a silhouette, pictograph and ideograph.

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    Project #1 GD2313 Ideograph PDF

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    Jesus De La Rosa
    This project will introduce Adobe Illustrator software. You will learn how to use the pen, rectangle, pathfinder, and direct selection tools. This assignment will help you define and use positive and negative space, you will understand the use and define a silhouette, pictograph and ideograph.

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    Project #1: Silhouette/Pictograph to Ideograph

    This project will introduce Adobe Illustrator software. You will learn how to use the pen, rectangle, pathfinder, and direct selection tools. You will learn how to define a path, anchor point, direction handle,
    stroke, and fill. This assignment will help you define and use positive and negative space, you will understand the use and define a silhouette, pictograph and ideograph.

    What is a Pictograph? Early writing used simple drawings to represent objects called picto-

    graphs. Pictographs are the simplified drawings of objects. Early pictographs identified contents
    of vessels, indicate ownership by using a series of marks. These marks could represent people,
    places, and things, but are not effective for communicating complex and abstract ideas, emotions,
    concepts and actions. Modern examples of pictographs indicate gender separate facilities, eating
    areas, no parking or parking zones etc. These pictographs are vital in communicating important
    universal simple meaning in the absence of common language.

    The combination of two pictographs,


    an ox and a mountain range, results
    in an ideagraph meaning wild ox.

    Contemporary pictographs and ideographs


    communicate simple messages across multiple
    languages and cultures.

    From pictographs to ideographs. As Picto-

    graphs are assigned meaning that went beyond


    a simple visual representation they where transformed into ideographs. An ideograph is the
    combination of of two or more pictographs to
    represent an idea. For example, the pictograph of
    a hand can be changed to an ideograph when
    it is combined with other simples to convey the
    concepts of to give, to greet, to offer, or to
    take.

    Ideographs combine pictographs to communicate


    more complex concepts and messages

    What is a Silhouette? The dark shape and outline of someone or something visible against a

    lighter background. A representation of someone or something showing the shape and outline
    only, typically colored in solid black.
    Assignment: Using Adobe illustrator draw original silhouettes of two objects or pictographs. Then combine these two pictographs to create and ideograph with content, meaning and requiring interpretation.
    You may work from photographs you download from free images web-site or take your own photographs.

    DOCUMENT SIZE: Letter Size, 11x 8.5


    INK: Black
    Kara Walker is a contemporary artist who uses silhouettes and ideographs in her work. She
    is best known for exploring the raw intersection of race, gender, and sexuality through her
    iconic, silhouetted figures. Walker unleashes the traditionally proper Victorian medium of the
    silhouette directly onto the walls of the gallery, creating a theatrical space in which her unruly
    cut-paper characters fornicate and inflict violence on one another. In works like Darkytown
    Rebellion (2000), the artist uses overhead projectors to throw colored light onto the ceiling,
    walls, and floor of the exhibition space; the lights cast a shadow of the viewers body onto the
    walls, where it mingles with Walkers black-paper figures and landscapes. With one foot in the
    historical realism of slavery and the other in the fantastical space of the romance novel, Walkers nightmarish fictions simultaneously seduce and implicate the audience. Please research
    her work further.
    Examples of Silhouettes:

    Kara Walker

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