Project 5 - due Friday 1/12/07 5:00 PM in my Dropbox

The 5th Project is a creative résumé. At a minimum this résumé must contain a stylized image of yourself and the usual and expected information that an employer would want to see on a résumé. The starting image must be a photorealistic image of yourself of your choosing. This image must be Live Traced, posterized, or somehow altered by tools in Illustrator. The final result should not be photorealistic. It should be well designed and something that you would include in a real résumé. Think about your font choices and your layout options. The image can be placed in a variety of positions, it can for example, hold a clipboard or a briefcase. It could be kneeling on one knee or leaning in from the edge of the paper. Other elements not specified such as background images, text boxes, text on a path, can be included in this project as well. Use your creativity.

Export a jpg of your finished work and include that and your original ai file in a labelled folder that you put in my dropbox by 5:00 PM friday 1/12/07.

Graphic Novel related articles and tutorials

Project 4 for this semester was a four panel strip for a Graphic Novella. The theme for this was "the Burgermeister". This style of illustration has been around for quite a while and lends itself quite well to Adobe Illustrator. Have a try at it and enjoy the below resources if this type of illustration interests you.

Blazed Entertainment looks to have several decent tutorials on drawing that fit the Graphic Novel mode.

How Not to Run a Comic also offers up a list of tutorial sources.

Joel Fagin has a list of comic-centric tutorials as well.