Color wheel and page layouts

A job is a job, but we're behind at the core lessons! Time to catch up. We were about to take a look at color analysis and also at page layouts (which were to be checked out later, but that's the charm of making your own study program!)
Starting from color...now, that's a huge subject! Let's start from the basics (not color mixing-the next basics!)

IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WAS THE COLOR WHEEL.

This and this short slideshows give a good feeling of the fundamentals and their applied logic. (By the way, the certain site contains many interesting presentations to search. For example, elements of art & design which we saw previously-also here) 

A very, very interesting view on color can be seen here and here (two parts).

Extra notes:

-here is a composition technique I hadn't found before: "rule of space: leave empty space in the direction a portrayed person's looking at to indicate movement"

-I want to note a Greek site which is also nice (loses its half info if you don't speak the language...but you can check different applications of colors)

Moving on to page layout: check out  this visual summary for a first fragrance of neatness! More extended thoughts cam be found here. If you want more visuals instead, lists like this can give you several ideas. That was all for now! I'm not to apply these layouts somewhere yet, so I'll just exercise by identifying them on magazines, newspapers and everything else.

But color applications...I have to exercise on them soon. 

More useful Illustrator tricks

Summer lessons-finished, extra work-done, week-long illness-over. Hopefully, I'm back to my daily-update rhythm.

Sooo...I said I'd show you how to write curved texts in Illustrator. How to type on paths, in general. Here is a gem tutorial that teaches you not only that-it also shows:
-how to auto-duplicate shapes to make awesome custom textures (spoiler: just hit ctrl+D!)
-how to decorate any shape with a photo pattern
Also shows how to use reflect and align, which is simpler stuff but also needed if you haven't covered it yet.

Also, let's start using the blend tool more originally! It makes line transitions amazingly easier. In this quickie I threw in some simple grey shapes for the shadows, and used the rotate tool (also seen at the previous post) for the radial lines at the background.