Notes on Exercise 3

The next exercise from our text is based on color interaction. The exercise is actually comprised of four activities, and I have some adjustments to the way I want you to put them together. You'll follow the instructions on how to do each of the four activities, but please set it up like this: One .ai file, with four artboards. So, when you open up the new file, simply enter "4" for number of artboards. Everything else can stay the same except for your page orientation, which should be landscape. 

Some notes about the way it's set up in the textbook/wiki: the authors divide what I am calling one exercise into four different exercises. Assured, go to chapter 5 and do ALL of them, which adds up to the ONE exercise I am calling Exercise 3. (See left sidebar for a direct link to the wiki page.)

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 how color (and value) is perceived according to its context. 

>>>NOTE!<<<

There is an error in the last part of the exercise, Interaction of Colors. They seem to have reversed out the order of creating a complementary color and an analagous color – doesn't match up with the images they show coordinating with the text. I will highlight this point in the demo, so keep this in mind when you go to try it yourself! Remember, complementary colors are those that lie directly across from each other on the color wheel (i.e. red and green, yellow and violet, blue and orange). Analagous colors are neighbors on the color wheel, like blue and green, or red and orange, etc. So, if the center squares are green, one of the larger squares will be somehwere around red, and the other either yellowish or bluish.

You'll submit the native file (.ai) to submit on Blackboard. Please label it YourLastNameE3.ai, i.e. SmithE3.ai, etc.