Notes on Exercise 2

On Friday I introduced and demoed the next exercise from our text, based on symmetry. It's relatively simple and Illustrator-based using some of the tools and techniques you've already learned, so you should be able to finish it quickly.

Some notes about the way it's set up in the textbook/wiki: the authors divide what I am calling one exercise into seven different exercises. Assured, go to chapter 3 and do ALL of them, which adds up to the ONE exercise I am calling Exercise 2. (See left sidebar for a direct link to the wiki page.)

To put it another, simpler way, read the whole chapter and do everything contained within. :)

I'd like to emphasize the READ part of that – yes, of course performing the exercise is the main thing, but the text that accompanies it is of equal importance, reviewing the many ways that symmetry, balance, and focal point works in the parts of the composition (within each square) and within the whole composition (the six squares together on the page).

Please pay careful attention to the way you space things inside each square and on the page!

You'll submit the native file (.ai) to Blackboard. Please label it YourLastNameE2.ai, i.e. SmithE2.ai, etc.