Pixel Art Tutorial

This week I’ve made a little bit of progress on my pixel art tutorial. I’m learning that’s it’s actually pretty simple to use grids in Illustrator to “pixelate” an image (or get a pixel-like effect), I’m also trying to include Illustrator tips so that the tutorial is useful outside of

For the tutorial I’m thinking people can pick a famous work of art (something in the public domain) or a photo and transform it into pixel art. I’m experimenting with Van Gogh’s painting The Bedroom to see how this technique can be applied, since there are many methods you could use–there’s no one method.

Wrapping up CLIO Training

Here is what my final CLIO site is looking like! This week I changed the aesthetic a little bit and added a few new things: a table, some new headers with images, I embedded a new font (Montserrat), plus I added a button on the last page that takes you to my Canvasser game.

Other than that I’ve started drafting a new basic training that will cover how to make pixel-style art in Illustrator. I don’t really have much to show yet, but next week I’ll try to add some screenshots here.

Poster Edits

This week I made a few more edits to the Fall 2020 STA roster poster. There was previously a bunch of empty space at the bottom where the logo and title were supposed to be, so it was suggested that I create a long stamp with the LAITS logo to fill that space. I also added a different filler stamp to the audio section using the green color to make it fit better will the overall aesthetic. I’m pretty happy with how it came out in the end, it’ll be exciting to see how it gets used!

 

Canvasser Troubleshooting

Other than the poster, I’ve been spending a lot of my time giving feedback on Canvasser games and troubleshooting issues that people have been having. One thing that’s been hanging people up a lot is conditionals, and Suloni suggested that we incorporate an FAQ section at the end of the Canvasser tutorial. So I’ve started putting one together, going off of questions that have come up a lot recently. Here’s what it’s looking like:

Final Poster

Fall STA Roster Poster

Version 1:

Version 2:

 

 

Versions 3 + 4, with photos:

 

CLIO + Canvasser

I made a little more progress on my CLIO site this week! (Currently on part 2 of the training.) I added a background, some quiz elements, plus a carousel feature-thingy that lets you page through images (not sure if I like the header + bg combo though, so I might play with that some more). Haven’t made a ton of progress on my Canvasser game this week, but the basic elements are there. Next week I’m gonna try to add a table to my site.

Other than CLIO, I had a meeting with Abriella and Sheryl to talk about how we will be training other STAs on the Chat Bot, web support requests, and the COLA Help Guides. We made notes for next week, plus we talked about how to organize all of the relevant information on the KB. Abriella will be working on email templates, and I will working on a updating the style guide for new documentation.

I will also be helping to create captions in the coming weeks for (coincidentally) the same American lit class that I designed course graphics for, which honestly sounds like a nice break from design tasks (which can be mentally draining sometimes).