Create a Living Room

Objective:  The student will successfully demonstrate the ability to create an illustrated living room design, which includes furniture and accessories in a vector software program.

Key Concepts Utilized:  The students will demonstrate the ability to use lines and shapes, the direct selection tool,  stroke style and color, fills, gradients or textures, stacking order, the pathfinder, and warp effects.  The students will also utilize the Principles of Design when creating this project.

Use your vector software program to design a living room in which each item in the room is created by using available tools. 

Some ideas for items for your room could be:

Sofa

Chair

Lamps or Ceiling Lights

Coffee Table

Flat Screen TV

Windows

Curtains or blinds 

Vases

Flowers or plants

Book shelves with books

Mirror

Artwork on walls

Clock

Candles

Or anything else you want.

You are required to make at least eight different items, but you can put as many more as you want.  Check out 123RF for some inspiration.

Include the following:

1.  Blend mode

2. Gradient Fill

3. Style-Effects

4. Graphic Style

5. Opacity of 60% on any item (curtains??)

When you are finished with your project, save the illustration as [LastName}LivingRoom.ai (or other available format).  Once you have saved the illustration Export the file as a JPG called [LastName]LivingRoom.jpg.