The Process.

1. First of all, I open my sketches (.bmp) in illustrator and resize it to a suitable size like below.













2. The next step will be using pen tool to draw the out line of the sketches. This takes me a lot of time and patient but I am happy with the outcome (the right side one). Also, I make the out line a bit thicker to make it clearer.

























3. Next is to group them up and fill in the colour using live paint bucket. As some parts can't be filled in with colour, I have to edit the parts with pen tool (2nd picture).

























4. After done coloring, it looks like this:













5. Its time to draw the leaves in 2nd layer. By using brush tool, the leaves are drawn dot by dot to make it looks more realistic.













6. Now I have to draw the background. As I said before, it is a forest. To start with, I create a new layer and move out the tree and move in the sketches (using selection tool) to draw the out line using pen tool.

























7. After rearrange the layers and groups, it is time to colour again. Below is the out come. Tools used are brush tool, gradient and live paint bucket. [ (@0@) It is really not easy... ]













8. Almost there. I have enhanced the background and added outline to the leaves.













9. Finally, move in the tree and paste in my previous symbol.













10. So, the next post will be the final product of assigment 2.

Testing

I draw these during the computer graphic tutorial class. Surely I will not summit these as my assigment 2, but just try out with pen tool, brush tool and layer. I don't want to waste them also, so I post them here.

I like the first tree as it is better.

Sketches

Belows are my sketches that I may illustrated for the assigment.

References for assigment 2

Phew, finally I can concentrate on Computer Graphic's 2nd assigment. Here are some of the references that I will use for this assigment:

Getting ready for Assigment 2. (Add in ideation on 30th/7)

It is time to say 'sayonara' to assigment 1 and fowards to assigment 2 which I will have to illustrate a realistic/cartoon-style subject related to my topic of global warming. Since my topic is deforestation, I will illustrate a tree.

So my ideation for this assigment will be a tree with forest as background. There will be grass and a river to indicate a healthy and clean unpoluted senario.

(Previous research was not posted.)

I did a simple research on global warming and de-forestation before working on it. But failed to post it... Anyway, here are the new one which have some similarities to the research I did before:

1. ATMOSPHERIC ROLE OF FORESTS

• Rainforests play the important role of locking up atmospheric carbon in their vegetation via photosynthesis.
• The vegetation and soils of the world's forests contain about 125 percent of the carbon found in the atmosphere.
  
• When forests are burned, degraded, or cleared, large amounts of carbon are released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide along with other greenhouse gases (nitrous oxide, methane, and other nitrogen oxides).
  
• The burning of forests releases about two billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, or about 22 percent of anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide. (http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0907.htm)
  

2. Deforestation: The hidden cause of global warming

• In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York.
• Stopping the loggers is the fastest and cheapest solution to climate change.
• According to the latest audited figures from 2003, two billion tons of CO2 enters the atmosphere every year from deforestation.
  
• The remaining standing forest is calculated to contain 1,000 billion tons of carbon, or double what is already in the atmosphere. (http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/deforestation-the-hidden-cause-of-global-warming-448734.html)
  

3. Deforestation causes global warming

• Between 25 and 30 percent of the greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere each year – 1.6 billion tonnes – is caused by deforestation.
  
• Trees are 50 percent carbon, when they are felled or burned, the C02 they store escapes back into the air.
  
• According to FAO figures, some 13 million ha of forests worldwide are lost every year, almost entirely in the tropics. (http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000385/index.html)

♠Äbôut me♠ ▼

Hi, I'm Lee Jian Siang. First of all, I apologise for not introducing myself at the 1st place, anyway I've not much to say about myself.
I'm a Malaysian from Selangor. My hobbies are drawing(30%), reading(20%), playing favourite games(30%), listen to music(15%) and others(5%). I do not talk much, usually I listen to people only...
8June2008 is the first day I came to a university named Multimedia University (MMU), and I am taking foundation of creative multimedia (FCM). (There are lots of works to do in this faculty....T^T)

Whatever, this is my 1st blog. Thought I have not much experiences, I will do the best.

The process of making the symbol.

The symbol is design via Adobe Illustrator CS 2.












The steps:
1. I draw 2 circles using elipise tool.












2. Then using paintbrush tool, I draw the shape of the tree.












3. I combine the tree and circles together, using selection tool.But the lines seem to overlap each other at the center of the tree. So, I use scissors tool to cut out the line.












4.Using pencil tool, I draw the land of the earth. Also, I group them up so that it will be easier for me to select layer later.












5.The next step will be filling up the color using live paint bucket and eye dropper tool to pick up the color.












6. And it is done!












Total tools used:
1. Elipise tool : Used to created selected shape such as star, circle and rectangle.
2. Paintbrush tool : Used to draw line.
3. Selection tool : Used to select the part/parts of the drawing for editing or copy propose.
4. Scissors tool : Used to cut out the part which is not necessary in the drawing.
5. Pencil tool : Used to draw simple line.
6. Live paint bucket : Used to fill up the space in the drawing with colours.
7. Eye dropper tool : Used to pick up colour from the drawing.

My symbol for deforestation.

Phew, finally I find the correct way to upload picture from illustrator.

Anyway, this is a symblo idicating the important of trees in reducing the effect of global warming.

Ok, now I'll describe it in more details:











1. The shape:
This symbol is made up of 3 main shapes.

• The tree means trees on this earth.

• The earth means Earth, nothing else.

• The outer circle means atmosphere.

2. The arrangement:

• The tree on the top of Earth means tree is actually very important to Earth. After all, it cover almost 30% of the land. (http://www.earth-policy.org/Indicators/Forest/2006.htm)

• The root of the tree covering part of the Earth mean trees are protecting the earth as its can reduce the rate of global warming, however, human's activities are causing the area of trees to be reduced. "Though extensive, the world’s forests have shrunk by some 40 percent since agriculture began 11,000 years ago. " (http://www.earth-policy.org/Indicators/Forest/2006.htm)

• The atmosphere means the present of trees can purify the air and reduce the effect of global warming.
  

3. The colors:

• Green tree = Trees as a part of nature which has its own duty on Earth.

• Red Earth = The growth of global warming on Earth is going fast, the Earth is hot.

• Orange land = The soil dries up and shows no sign of livings.

• Prediot atmosphere = The changes of climate due to global warming.