This is going to be a super-quick project to get us started on a journey into illustration and our main software program, Adobe Illustrator. The goal is to make yourself into a character and then render and professionalize yourself on the computer.

The steps to complete this project:

1. Think of three personal characteristics that you're happy about and that you'd like to emphasize in your super-hero self. Write them down in your sketchbook.
2. Think about how those characteristics would look when you consider a super-hero illustration. For example, if you happen to be extremely good at taking care of plants, perhaps you have a hose for an arm or a water nozzle as your nose or you're just wearing a green costume or your eyes shoot beam of light. Or maybe you're very kind; what does that look like to you? Are your eyes kind or are you wearing colors that look kind or do you have a variety of friends that accompany you along your super-hero way?
3. Draw 10 3-D versions of yourself as this superhero. No stick-figures. If you need to use reference materials, go ahead! (The point is not to copy, but to learn from what you see.) Each sketch should use all three characteristics within the character rendering. (To get full credit you'll need to do 10, 6" character drawings, but you can do as many as you'd like to.)
4. Once we've made a decision about your very best drawings, we'll start putting them into the computer together. You do not need to work on this at home, but keep in mind that your Adobe subscription should work well on any computer that has a pretty robust system.
5. Your final super-hero rendering is the goal and it will be graded on three separate criteria--creativity of the drawing and how you've rendered the three characteristics, complexity of the drawing both in your sketchbook and on the computer, and your initial skill in rendering your super-hero self on the computer.
6. Upload a PDF of your character drawing to Schoology before the end of the school day on September 28.

A few resources for your drawing since we'll end up spending a larger percentage of our time in class on the design and software aspects of the project:

1. Character-head-drawing tutorial
2. Character-body-drawing tutorial
3. Christoph Niemann inspiration

Each illustration will be graded on three criteria including the creativity of the character itself, the level of detail within the character, and the skillfulness that has been shown in making the character using Adobe Illustrator. A more detailed rubric will accompany the project.