Charley Harper

Charley Harper was a Cincinnati-based American Modernist artist. He was best known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters and book illustrations. In a style he called "minimal realism", Charley Harper captured the essence of his subjects with the fewest possible visual elements. The results are bold, colorful, and often whimsical. While Harper created a lot of his artwork through more traditional mediums, his style perfectly translates to digital techniques we use today. This is where you come in.

As a way to honor Charley Harper's amazing art, and in order to use and understand the tools in Adobe Illustrator. You will create a digital homage of one of Harper's wonderful works focusing mainly on wildlife.

Project Requirements:

• Create a new document in Adobe Illustrator that is 11in x 8.5 in.. Name it the correct project number.
• Search Google for a piece by Charley Harper that you will attempt to digitize.
• Place the artwork in adobe illustrator and begin breaking down the piece into its most simple shapes. You may bring down the opacity and lock the original so you can trace over it.
• Try to identify circles, triangles, squares, polygons, etc.
• Convert these simple shapes into more complex shapes by using the Pathfinder functions in Illustrator. You can also use the Shapebuilder tool.