Aaargh!

[mountain_douche]

Ok, so while Illustrator is a totally kickass program, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do the most minor fucking tasks. I can't even crop a goddamn image. The only thing I could get to work was some kind of clipping mask, which I had zero control over, resulting in this:

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[muffins_of_god]

You know....you'd think that in a graphic arts program they'd teach you to use illustrator. But I find that program confusing as hell. I wish I could help you. I'll try and look into it though
~Ex

[panall]

when using the clipping mask you need to add an extra rectangle box around the desired cropped image. then select all of the image as a whole and then make the clipping mask. Make sure the cropped area box is the last thing you add before selecting the whole image. The box doesn't have to be seen either, it can be invisible just as long as you get it when you select the whole image. If it doesn't look the way you want after that then undo the mask and try again. If you have anymore questions about illustrator you can ask me. I have most of my graphic design knowledge about this program.

Panall

[panall]

the box just needs to be an outline. the interior of the rectangle needs to have no filler.

[mountain_douche]

You're the man! That totally worked. Here's what I don't understand, when you set up your work area, you have a bleed area, right? Well, my assumption then was that anything residing outside the bounding box would not show up in the final image when you saved it as a .gif, .jpg, whatever. Wrong! So then what is the bleed area for? Does that only apply to physically printing your images?

Thanks so much for your help. Now that you've established yourself as an authority on the program, expect me to hound your ass for tips quite frequently.

[alaric3]

that looks pretty sweet if you ask me. But I am a lowly writer, unschooled in the ways of supersweetartwork + +

[mountain_douche]

Thank you....

....and I am unschooled in the ways of supersweet poetry and mad writing skills of which you posess many. Together though, we would form a nigh unstoppable artistic juggernaught. We'd be like Tomax and Xamot, those freaky twins from G.I. Joe.

[snicks_chan]

*surfaces from Roman History long enough to wonder if you took the time to go hunt that picture down, or, perhaps more frightening, had it randomly lying around your harddrive*

[mountain_douche]

I keep it on my person at all times. That way, I can walk up to car salesmen and say "do you have any of these in stock? And if so, can I get it in cherry red with a white racing stripe?"

[dcdumbass]

I like the Star B in the background. This illustrator stuff is giving your work a different feel, it looks good. I'm gonna miss the standard black outline stuff though.

Finally officially switched my major today.
The Advisor was funny, she kept saying stuff like. "You are going to have to take life drawing," and other art classes. She made it sound like a chore, and I was like hell yeah, that's what I want. I'm excited.

[mountain_douche]

I swear to god, I just yelled "YES!!!" outloud.

[mountain_douche]

Ok, I meant to write more but I clicked submit for some reason...

All my shit's getting the Illustrator treatment right now just because it's new to me and it's a lot easier than Photoshop to make something look finished. I'll switch back to pencil and ink as soon as the gimmick wears off. Major or not, I just think it's awesome that you're going to take a life drawing class. It is hands down the most fun, rewarding art class I've taken. I guarantee you it will be frustrating though, because the emphasis is on continuous fluid lines and the angular line work you and I lean towards is usually not permitted. It also sucks when you're trying to make your drawing look like someone real and it's just not coming together. Blah blah blah, you'll find out. Man, I want to have them rescind the credit I got for that class so I can take it again.

[dcdumbass]

I'm just working towards my dream...not the princess Leia one, the one about having a creative career collaborating with my friends. I only hope that these classes force me to improve as much as they did you.

[muffins_of_god]

What's your email again man? I think the ideas are going to start surfacing...it's crazy. I start feeling creative, and then the ideas pop up!

[mountain_douche]

tdiamond@gmu.edu

I wish I had that feeling. I'm like "I feel creative I think I'm going to-HOLY SHIT THERE'S A LAW & ORDER MARATHON ON TV!!!"

[snicks_chan]

There is ALWAYS a L&O marathon on some channel somewhere. It's an unwritten rule of reality.

Help needed!

[anonymous]

Hey Toddy...I need your help (or your friends too) with something. A friend of mine is trying to come up with a design for a t-shirt of a co-ed soccer team named "Team Scoregasm". They've had a hard time thinking up something funny. They were going to try to make a play on "the O face" but can't really get a cool picture or anything for that idea. Any input? I figured since you and your friends are pretty creative when it comes to putting plays on words and things of that nature that you would be the one to hit up about it. Thanks! <3 D

Re: Help needed!

[mountain_douche]

I would help you out, but Kevin said he wanted to take a shot at it, and I'd like to see what he does myself, so he's your man. Let me know if it falls through or you need something else though.