wP5- Editorial Illustration & Layout

You will choose a famous person and create an editorial illustration for a magazine spread article on that individual.

Specs: Using Image Trace & Live Color, create an image with the individual featured prominently in the front of a relevant background.  Tweak the settings to get a visually appealing look.  Make up a headline and a paragraph of text (quote, lyrics, news story, etc.) and any additional text. Study magazine spreads and mimic the text hierarchy. Create at 17x11 inches.

Keys: Think about it a bit before jumping on the first thing that comes to mind.  Refer to this Adobe Help site for info on this technique as well as the excellent videos below.  It is real easy to just let the technique do everything for you, but there are a lot of settings that if used in a design sense, can really impact the strength of the focal point and the story telling of the piece.  Try doing a black & white line tracing and combine with a color fill trace.  Color handling is important too!!