Digital Art II
(Minor) College Prep Course #7093
(Major) Course #7094
Prerequisite: Completion of Digital Art I with a grade of 80 or better.
In this course, you'll build upon the foundations established in Digital Art I. We will continue to use many of the same tools, including programs such as Photoshop, Flash and various iPad apps. However, you will use such tools with increased sophistication, judgment, and skill, learning to use more of the powerful options these tools provide. Project work will support and encourage your exploration of key artistic, expressive, and technical interests with concentration and depth. We will continue to work with collage, image manipulation, and digital drawing, as well as with animation and video; you'll be combining these different kinds of art‐making with each other in interesting and exciting ways. For some projects, you will be considering the potential practical uses of the pieces you make ‐‐ as with poster or product design ‐‐ and will be integrating words and images to communicate with your intended audience.
September: Letter Grid Project
letter_grid_project.pdf |
October: Multiple Exposure Project
digital_art_2_multiple_exposure_project.pdf |
November: Compositing Project
digital_art_2_compositing.pdf |
December: Twisted Architecture
Put your digital editing skills to the test with this altered/surreal architecture project! We will look at the work of Spanish digital artist Victor Enrich as inspiration for this project. Look at how Enrich transforms urban scenes into fantastical landscapes.
January: Package Design Project
package_design.pdf |
February: Flash Animation
- Mini project: Squash and stretch Flash Animation
- Over the course of AT LEAST 50 frames, show a shape (ball, square, polygon, etc.) bouncing around the stage and reacting to obstacles in its way. For instance, you could add other shapes that your object hits, then squashes and stretches.
- Be sure to have your object start and end point in the same place, so the animation can loop, or come up with a creative way the object can "reappear" (object blows up, then a hole opens up on the stage and the object rolls out, for instance).
March: Flash Transformation
flash_transform_project.doc |
April: Type Face Project
digital_art2_typeface.pdf |
May: Low Poly Portraits
In this project you will use illustrator to create what is called "Low Poly Art". You will select an image from the internet (can be an animal or person) or an image that you have taken with your phone and import it into illustrator. Next, you will use the pen tool to divide the face into different polygons, and then use the eye dropper tool to select a color on the face and the paint bucket tool to fill in each shape with a different color.
Here are a few examples of low poly art, and some step by step tutorials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nmI_stsZk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHzsMwOqVJA
Here are a few examples of low poly art, and some step by step tutorials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nmI_stsZk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHzsMwOqVJA