Deck 1: Creating a Character Using Adobe Illustrator

Question 1

The drop zone appears just before you release the mouse button to drop a panel into a new location.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The blue dot at the end of a direction line is called the direction anchor.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

A character sheet is slightly different from a character study.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

A story in the public domain can be used by anyone as long as they get permission from the copyright holder.

Question 5

If you plan on bringing your Illustrator work into Flash, you will need to set the color mode to CMYK.

Question 6

A character sheet should include enough detail about a character's structure and proportion so that someone else can draw it.

Question 7

You can begin drawing a character using shapes.

Question 8

A smooth point has two direction lines.

Question 9

In order to create a derivative work, you need to get permission from the copyright holder if the story is not in the public domain.

Question 10

The bounding box is a solid line rectangle.

Question 11

You should decide on the final output before beginning your project.

Question 12

The Workspace Switcher is on the Menu bar.

Question 13

Pathfinders create new shapes from overlapping shapes.

Question 14

A circle had six anchor points by default.

Question 15

If you delete an anchor point that is in the middle of a path, the remaining points are connected automatically.

Question 16

If you choose a color swatch from a swatch library, it is not automatically added to the Swatches panel.

Question 17

When you place a file into Illustrator, it can be linked or embedded.

Question 18

Linking a file will keep your Illustrator file size bigger.

Question 19

Template layers do not print.

Question 20

An anchor point determines whether a line is straight or curved.

Question 21

You can use the Pen tool to create all of the following except :

A) Open paths
B) Closed paths
C) Curves
D) 3D effects

Question 22

The Pathfinder panel can create all of the following except :.

A) Bounding boxes
B) Paths
C) Compound paths
D) Compound shapes

Question 23

When you want to select individual anchor points or paths, you should use the _______________ tool.

A) Selection
B) Pencil
C) Direct Selection
D) Line Segment

Question 24

Item 1 in the figure above is the direction ____.

A) Point
B) Handle
C) Line
D) Path

Question 25

All of the following are common methods for drawing characters in Illustrator except :

A) Shape drawings
B) Tracing a photocopy
C) Photographs
D) Stick figures

Question 26

A collection of panels or a panel group is called a(n) ______________ .

A) Workspace
B) Dock
C) Drop zone
D) Tap

Question 27

In Illustrator, an object is made up of a series of _______________ .

A) Shapes
B) Paths
C) Anchor points
D) Vectors

Question 28

The ______________ is the path of growth a character develops as the story is told and follows the flow of the story structure.

A) Character development
B) Storyboard
C) Character sheet
D) Character arc

Question 29

In the figure above, the circle on the left has ____ anchor points.

A) 0
B) 3
C) 4
D) 5

Question 30

Kate works as an illustrator for a publishing company. She provides illustrations for children's books and also creates animations for the company's website. Kate has to resize the puppy's head to get it just right. She knows that this is OK because she is working with ____ graphics.

A) Smooth
B) Bitmap
C) Small
D) Vector

Question 31

The circle that Item 4 points to in the figure above has had which command applied to it?

A) Convert Points
B) Select All
C) Add Anchor Points
D) Group Anchor Points

Question 32

When you want a placed image to be placed on its own layer, be sure the _______________ has a check mark.

A) Template check box
B) Stage check box
C) New Layer check box
D) Trace Layer check box

Question 33

Kate works as an illustrator for a publishing company. She provides illustrations for children's books and also creates animations for the company's website. Kate creates a new shape by combining the puppy's overlapping face and its two ears by using one of the ____.

A) Smart objects
B) Conversion tools
C) Pathfinders
D) Paths

Question 34

In the figure above, item 3 is an example of a(n) ____ point.

A) Selected
B) Center
C) Corner
D) Smooth

Question 35

Kate works as an illustrator for a publishing company. She provides illustrations for children's books and also creates animations for the company's website. Kate is working on an illustration of a puppy. She creates her work in Illustrator and saves it in ____ mode since she plans on bringing it into Flash.

A) CMYK
B) RGB
C) HSB
D) WEB

Question 36

Kate works as an illustrator for a publishing company. She provides illustrations for children's books and also creates animations for the company's website. Kate clicks and drags the pointer around the puppy's facial features to create a ____.

A) Selection marquee
B) Group
C) Layer
D) Set

Question 37

Kate works as an illustrator for a publishing company. She provides illustrations for children's books and also creates animations for the company's website. Kate has finished her first drawing of the puppy. Now she is ready to create a ____ so that she can refer to picture references of the puppy as it goes through the story.

A) Storyboard
B) Character arc
C) Bio
D) Character sheet

Question 38

The printable region of your document is known as the _______________ .

A) Workspace
B) Canvas
C) Artboard
D) Stage

Question 39

The default viewing mode in Illustrator is _______________, which redraws the artwork every time you make a change.

A) Work mode
B) Outline mode
C) Draft mode
D) Preview mode

Question 40

Item 2 in the figure above is the direction ____.

A) Point
B) Handle
C) Line
D) Path

Question 41

When creating a path, the _______________ points on the path, the smoother and neater the path will look.

Question 42

The default workspace in Illustrator is called _______________.

Question 43

To close a shape you create with the Pen tool, you must click the _______________ .

Question 44

When you start Illustrator, the default colors are set to a(n) _______________ fill and a(n) _______________ stroke.

Question 45

When you double click a color swatch in either the Tools panel or the Color panel, the _______________ opens so you can change the color.

Question 46

A(n) _______________ image, technically known as a raster image, is represented by pixels in a grid layout.

Question 47

_______________ are a sequence of line and curve segments that have anchor points at either end.

Question 48

You can remove an anchor point using the Pen tool by placing the pointer over the anchor point you want to remove and, when the pointer changes to a(n) _______________ , clicking the anchor point to remove it.

Question 49

If a path does not have enough anchor points to customize the shape, you can use the _______________ command to create a series of anchor points on the path automatically.

Question 50

A(n) ____________________ is one that has been created by the user and saved with a unique name.