WORKING WITH THE EXERCISE SHEETS 1. These exercise sheets are set up to be worked back with Chapter 1 referencing the pages of each task as you go through them. There are two files – Basic Exercises and Pen Tool Exercises For your convenience we have also supplied all the Croquis files Finally we have also included a Pen Tool video to help you understand the way this very important tool works TO START: Read through the instructions on this page carefully to get the best use out of these exercises. 1. Download both the Basic Exercises and Pen Tool Exercises and save them into the main hard drive where you save your work. For example: My Documents on a PC/Your.Name on an Apple 2. Open up Adobe Illustrator 4. File 6. Once you open this file you will see it is set up on 6 different artboards each containing a batch of exercises. 7. Go to the Panels docking station and open the Layers Panel ( There are 3 Layers: Open, a directory will open, select “2 Basic Exercises.pdf” from your directory. LAYERS Working Layer Questions Solutions 3 Layers ) Working Layer: select this layer to work in, the active layer is highlighted. Questions Layer: this layer is locked ( ( ) and has the questions in it. )and visible Solutions: this layer is locked ( ) and invisible ( click onto the right box to make it visible ( ) and reveal the solutions. 8. The “3 Pen Tool” file works in the same manner. 9. The related video follows the Pen Tool exercise sheets 10. We would reccomend doing the exercises first and then looking at the solutions, or leave the solution layer visible as a guide. © 2011 Marianne Centner and Frances Vereker ),
