For those of you following along at home…

I gave the deadlines some more thought and came to the conclusion that I should give the next prompt at the deadline. Since I was going to make saturday the deadline already, that will be the day that I give the prompts as well. The time for the deadline will be midnight. I may give the prompts earlier than that, but hopefully never after.

This challenge is tentatively scheduled for the eight weeks of summer term. I would like to keep it going until the end of summer break, we'll see how we feel after the first eight weeks

On to the challenge!

Now that ART116 is no longer offered and its redistribution into the other art class being uneven, I thought that I would start out with a little color theory. In my color theory class, most of the assignments had a color restriction, like we had to use only one complementary pair for example.

PROMPT: CMY

These are the colors that you can use for this week, that means that your pallet should consist of only pure cyan, pure magenta and pure yellow. This isn't as limiting as you may think, as you know, most printing is done in cmyk, so there are ways to get all kinds of colors out of the blending of these colors in illustrator. The challenging aspect of this is to figure out how to get the effect that you want out of a limited pallete.

There are a few ways of getting different colors out of cmy. The most obvious one is to use the multiply transparency and overlap shapes. To imitate the cmyk printing process, you can use small dot or shaps of the colors and place them near each other so that far away, it looks like one color. The way that we place the color in the design can effect the way that it looks too.

ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES: As I have stated, the purpose of this exersize is to have fun and not worry so much about the 'right' way to design. That said, I advise that you do not use work that you did not create yourself (i.e. pictures and illustrations). This is partially to get in the habit of creating our own content for when we get paid to do this and I think that it adds a little more challenge and more control over the project.

This is due at midnight, saturday the 20th of June. Feel free to upload to flickr before the due date for feedback!