← Level 3 – Illustrator

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A map, a timeline, a diagram

A diagram shows a relation: first, then, therefore. It is not wallpaper from the internet.

Three boxes and two arrows can carry a relation. A complex infographic dies from the back.

Contrast holds. Today a relation. A map, a timeline, a diagram carry order: first, then, therefore. You draw them with shapes and lines. A complex infographic from the web is someone else’s work and often unreadable.

Imagine twenty arrows from the internet. From the back a web. The sentence dead. The class gives up reading. Three boxes: problem → action → rule. Arrows. Big type. The teacher repeats the order. The diagram did its job.

Rule: Insert → Shape (a rectangle, an arrow). Captions in big type. Max five parts. A map only when it proves the sentence, not as a pretty country. Pretty is padding.

Do not copy someone else’s diagram from a textbook with a phone photo unless the teacher allows. Draw yours with three shapes. Insert → Shape, a rectangle and an arrow, type 24 plus, max five parts. A map only for the sentence. A complex infographic dies from the back. Three boxes are enough. A pretty map with no job is padding.

Sofie inserted a complex infographic with twenty arrows. From the back a web. The sentence dead. Filip three boxes: problem → action → rule. Arrows. Big type. The teacher repeated the order. In the evening Sofie deleted the infographic and drew three rectangles. She said the web looked clever. From the back it looked like a web. Today five parts a ceiling. More is a notebook in disguise. She deleted the infographic. Three boxes: problem, action, rule. The teacher repeated the order. Mum held the account. A web of twenty arrows killed the sentence. Three boxes brought it back. From the back the order could be read. An infographic from the web vanished.

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Before you insert a map of the Czech Republic, ask: does it prove the sentence? If it is only pretty, it is padding from Assembler. Padding still does not belong here.

Three boxes, two arrows, big type

Insert → Shape: three rectangles, two arrows. Write anchors into them, size 24 plus. Align with guides from Assembler. Max five parts.

Delete an infographic from the web if it is there. Present (F5): can the order be read from the back? No? Fewer parts, bigger type.

Alt text on the group: in one sentence what the diagram proves. Rights: your shapes. Someone else’s infographic from the web is someone else’s work and often a smear.

A map only when it proves the sentence. A timeline: three dates, not twenty. A diagram is proof of a relation. It is not wallpaper. Guides align boxes. A pretty map of the Czech Republic with no job is padding. Alt on the group in one sentence. Max five parts. Insert → Shape, a rectangle and an arrow, type 24 plus. Delete someone else’s infographic from the web. Present (F5): can the order be read from the back? If not, cut parts and make type bigger. A timeline can carry three stops. A fourth belongs in the notebook.

Wrong: a phone photo of a textbook, twenty arrows, type 10. From the back grey. Teacher: nothing.

Right: Filip. Problem → action → rule. Sofie after three boxes the same. The teacher repeated the order.

An example from history: not a whole map of wars. Three stops on a timeline. Big years. A sentence at the top, a timeline under it. A relation to see. Not a phone photo of a textbook. Your shapes. Type 24 plus. From the back the order can be read, or cut parts. Big years on a timeline. A sentence at the top. A relation first, then, therefore. Not a phone photo of a page. History: three stops on a timeline, big years, not a whole map of wars.

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Do not copy someone else’s diagram from a textbook with a phone photo unless the teacher allows. Draw yours with three shapes. Yours. Honest. Readable.

Four things you will build in this course

The course has four small projects. You do not have to do them all at once. Today you add only this:

🎯 A hobby in 5 slides

Five slides about something you like doing. One sentence about what it is. No paragraphs from your notebook.

Hobby: three training steps as a timeline, not a city map from Google.

📚 A report

Eight slides for school: a start, three proofs, an end. The title on every slide is a sentence, not “Slide 3”.

Report: a relation first–then–therefore with three boxes.

📊 Survey results

A chart from a table (not a screenshot from chat) and under it where the numbers come from.

Survey: a diagram “question → ticks → chart”, not an infographic from the web.

⚖️ A defence

You say one sentence, show proof, answer “and what if…”. If you do not know, you say I don’t know.

Defence: an order of proofs as a timeline. A panel sees where you are going.

Draw three boxes and two arrows

Shapes, anchors in big type, guides, alt in one sentence. You delete an infographic from the web.

  1. Insert → Shape, three rectangles, two arrows. Write anchors into them, size 24 plus. Align View → Guides. A parent’s account.

  2. Delete an infographic from the web if it is there. Present (F5): can the order be read from the back? No? Fewer parts, bigger type.

  3. In PowerPoint almost the same: Insert → Shapes, the same order. Alt text on the group: in one sentence what the diagram proves.

  4. A map only when it proves the sentence. Delete a pretty Czech Republic with no job. It is padding.

  5. Drive a tick. The workshop ends with a relation you can read from the back. A web gone.

A web, or three boxes

More than five parts is a web. Cut to three to five.

  1. Count shapes on the slide. More than five? Delete.

  2. Make type in boxes at least 24.

  3. Write alt in one sentence what the diagram proves.

Now you 💪

  1. A diagram has at most five parts and can be read from the back.
  2. There is no infographic from the web or a textbook photo without permission.
  3. Alt says what relation the diagram shows.

Done when: Three boxes and arrows carry a relation. A web from the web is gone.

What to take from this lesson