Digital Art
Digital Art I (Minor) College Prep Course #7072
Prerequisite: None
We live in a world of visual images, and many of these images are digital. Countless images come to us via our various screens; likewise, many of the images that amuse, perplex, impress, or move us have been created (and/or enhanced) with digital tools. Through your active participation in this course, you'll gain a good introductory understanding of many fundamental aspects of digital art‐making. Using a variety of tools, including computers, iPads, digital cameras, scanners, apps, and key programs from Adobe's "Creative Suite" (including Photoshop), you'll work on a wide variety of projects. These will include photo manipulation, collage, varieties of digital mark‐ making and drawing, along with some limited video and animation work. The aim throughout the course will be to help you gain skill and confidence with both the technical and the artistic skills involved in making digital art.
Primary responsibility for the following academic expectations:
Active Learners:
1a: Students will understand and use what they learn
1c. Students will engage in inquiry and self-directed learning 1d: Students will use feedback and self-reflection to extend learning
Resourceful Thinkers:
2a: Students will employ creative thinking skills
2d: Students will make meaningful connections
Effective Communicators: 3b: Students will express knowledge and skill creatively using a variety of media, technology and the arts
3c: Students will engage effectively in discussion
I. Student Learning Targets
I understand the fundamentals of several applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Flash
I can describe the basic categories of typographic fonts and styles
I can generate multiple responses to a visual problem and to choose amongst those responses based on given criteria
I can define, design, and carry out an ambitious design project, with an awareness of how complex information and messages might best be communicated to particular audiences
II. Learning Experiences
In this course, students will:
a. participate in both individual and group critiques aimed at generating constructive responses to art work
b. produce a body of work and maintain it in a folder
c. exhibit a minimum of one art work in the annual K-12 Art Show and help with the exhibition design
III. Course Outline
Students will work on the following projects, or on similar projects which address similar objectives:
1. Monogram Project- Students will experiment with the type tool, fonts, text distortion, working with layers, selection tools and the characteristics of a successful monogram design
2. Logo design (implied shapes/optical illusions; simplifying subject matter, e.g., using high contrast)
3. Photo Retouching: Using the clone stamp tool and healing brush tool and Adjustment Layers
4. Self Portrait Compositing Images using layer masks and lighting techniques
5. Creating a "Toy Landscape"and/or Fantasy Lanscape
6. Integrating words and images (e.g., in page layout, in poster design- for example, the Annual K-12 Art Show)
8. Flash animation fundamentals- squash and stretch with a bouncing ball (or other object) using symbols and tweens
9. Flash Animated text or animated production logo
IV. Course Materials:
Computers, Photoshop CS6, Flash and other programs.
SEPTEMBER
photoshoptools.pdf |
Symmety/Asymmetry Notan Project
Learning Targets: I can use selection and edit tools in Photoshopto make symmetrical shapes.
I can create an asymmetrical composition that has a balance of positive and negative space
Learning Targets: I can use selection and edit tools in Photoshopto make symmetrical shapes.
I can create an asymmetrical composition that has a balance of positive and negative space
Typographic Animals
Learning Target: I can effectively use the transformational tools in Photoshop to manipulate type to create an animal,
typographic_animals.pdf |
OCTOBER: Animal Hybrid Project
animal_hybrid_photoshop_project.pdf |
hybrid_animal_description.docx |
OCTOBER-NOVEMBER: Monograms
monogram_project.pdf |
logo_project.pdf |
LINKS FOR LOGO DESIGN
Logo Inspiration
http://logodesignerblog.com/top-best-10-logo-design-inspiration-galleries/
Qualities of a Great Logo
https://www.straightnorth.com/insights/7-essential-qualities-great-logo/
Tips for Effective Logo Design
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/vital-tips-for-effective-logo-design/
Common Mistakes in Logo Design
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/10-common-mistakes-in-logo-design/
LOGO TUTORIALS
Photoshop logo tutorials
http://onlinevideolecture.com/?course_id=3129
http://www.antsmagazine.com/photoshop-2/tutorials/40tutorials-that-will-make-you-a-logo-designer/
Photoshop and Illustrator
http://bashooka.com/photoshop/35-photoshop-illustrator-logo-design-tutorials/
Logo Inspiration
http://logodesignerblog.com/top-best-10-logo-design-inspiration-galleries/
Qualities of a Great Logo
https://www.straightnorth.com/insights/7-essential-qualities-great-logo/
Tips for Effective Logo Design
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/vital-tips-for-effective-logo-design/
Common Mistakes in Logo Design
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/10-common-mistakes-in-logo-design/
LOGO TUTORIALS
Photoshop logo tutorials
http://onlinevideolecture.com/?course_id=3129
http://www.antsmagazine.com/photoshop-2/tutorials/40tutorials-that-will-make-you-a-logo-designer/
Photoshop and Illustrator
http://bashooka.com/photoshop/35-photoshop-illustrator-logo-design-tutorials/
Halftone Blending Mode Project
halftoneblendingmode.pdf |
Surreal Landscape Project
surrealisticlandscape.pdf |
surreallandscaperubric.pdf |
surreallandscapeselfassessment.docx |
DECEMBER-Reimagined Book Cover Design
reimagined_book_covers.pdf |
bookcoverinspiration.pdf |
JANUARY-FEBRUARY: Flash Transformation
flash_transform_project.doc |
FEBRUARY- Your choice- Animated Logo OR frame by frame transition animation
animated_production_logo_project.pdf |
Flash Keyboard Shortcuts
adobe_flash_cs3_file_menu_keyboard_shortcuts_keys.pdf |
Flash Sound Effects Tutorial:
http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Flash_sound_tutorial#Sound_types
Video on editing sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St5JMMUvu9o
http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Flash_sound_tutorial#Sound_types
Video on editing sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St5JMMUvu9o
MARCH: Minimalist Movie Poster Design
OR
Graphic Design Concert Poster
minimalist_movie_poster.pdf |
graphic_design_concert_project.pdf |
APRIL: Your Choice....Logo Design and Marketing Project
OR
WPAP Pop Art Poster Portrait
logo_design_and_marketing_project.pdf |
WPAP stands Wedha's Pop Art Portraits, a native Indonesian pop art genre founded by Wedha Abdul Rasyid, an illustrator from Indonesia. One characteristic of this type of pop art is the use of colors which is unusual, and commonly has a strictly vertical / horizontal and diagonal of lines or shapes
Tutorial for WAPA portraits:
https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-geometric-wpap-vector-portrait-in-adobe-illustrator--vector-16102
https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-geometric-wpap-vector-portrait-in-adobe-illustrator--vector-16102
MAY: Stop Motion Animation
stop_motion.pdf |
JUNE: Hybrid Portraits
hybrid_portraits.pdf |
GENERAL PHOTOSHOP TUTORIALS
Tutorial on Using the Clone Stamp Tool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BChwzIslDJg
Tuorial on Compositing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qKbf9AFnt4
Tutorial on Cinematic Coloring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFuenozbiE0
General Photoshop CS6 Tutorials
http://www.webdesign.org/photoshop/photoshop-cs6-tutorials/20-photoshop-cs6-tutorials-every-designer-should-see.21467.html