Color Wheel Poster Project
Vocabulary for this project:
Day 1 & 2 (Color Wheel Photos):
Day 3 & 4: Color Acquity Test/Psychology of Color
We’ll need some text for our poster. Pick a single color you wish to feature in your poster. Use the following web sites to read about the psychology of color and how color is perceived differently in different cultures. http://www.sensationalcolor.com/color-meaning-symbolism-and-psychology http://www.merttol.com/articles/web/color-psychology-in-creative-design.html http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/28/color-theory-for-designers-part-1-the-meaning-of-color/ http://psychology.about.com/od/sensationandperception/a/colorpsych.htm http://www.infoplease.com/spot/colors1.html http://www.colour-affects.co.uk/psychological-properties-of-colours Create a Microsoft Word document (Use this Template) and copy/paste any text you can find related to the color you have chosen. Your text should include both bulleted lists as well as paragraph text. It is a good idea to edit your word file to remove any formatting from the web page. Make sure that you’re copying the sources (web address) of your information as we’ll be giving credit for the text sources. Day 5: Photography Section Take seven photos of an object that is of the color you’re going to focus on for your poster. Try to use a low depth of field for these shots and don’t be afraid to fill your composition with the color. In other words, get close to your subject! Upload your images to your Color Wheel Poster folder. Day 6 & 7: Thumbnails, Rough and layout in InDesign - details to come next week. Below is a video that demonstrates how to use the background eraser on green screen photographs. Try to get even lighting on your green screen photos - eliminate as many shadows as possible.
Download this file to practice the technique. The Illustrator self-portraits that I've seen so far are very well done. This week I'd like to see everyone finish their digital portraits by Tuesday afternoon. If you're having problems "seeing" the lines in Illustrator, you may want to try this Photoshop Tutorial that allows you to turn a photograph into a sketch: Below is a before/after sample of one that I completed this afternoon. We'll work on this in our theory session on Monday. Once the illustrations are complete we are going to try a new transfer technique. This will require you to print your finished Illustrator file out in color to fit a 8.25" x 10.25" area. These prints will then be chemically transferred to wooden frames. The end product will be displayed in our room and they will be yours to keep at the end of the year. Make sure that you're happy with your portrait before doing the transfer. We will be limited in how many frames we have to work with each year.
I have enjoyed reading your journals every week. These journal entries are a record of your growth in our program and they allow you a chance to ask questions and make suggestions. Dan Berger asked a great question this week in his journal. We'll be researching an answer to the question, "Is digitally-created work art?" Shea O'Neill asked that more choices be made available for project work. I'm supportive of Shea's suggestion, but I have a request. If you want to work on an alternate project during the lab period of our class - you need to send me the details via your journal and let me know that you made a proposal via twitter when you want me to okay the alternate project. Another task that we'll be beginning this week is to do post-production touch up of all of the underclass photo portraits that we took the past two weeks. We'll be working with Photoshop to complete this task. I'll post a how-to video on Wednesday to make sure that we're all following the same workflow with these images. Many of you have finished your mobile project. If you have not, please take this extra day to put the finishing touches on your work. For those of you finished your mobile, our next major project will be a self-portrait study.
You will be creating two self-portraits - one portrait will be done using Adobe Illustrator. We may also use photoshop to add color and shading to our basic portraits. Some samples of the digital versions can be found here. The other portrait will be created using traditional illustration tools like colored pencils, graphite pencils, pastels or a combination of these media. Most of you who are veterans have already finished these Illustrator work exercises. If you feel like you have the skills to skip to the last tracing exercise, do so. Otherwise, today I want you to review these stepped exercises to become comfortable with the pen tool. This will take you some time - don't rush through any of the steps. I will be looking at where you are tomorrow morning, so make sure you do some work with these today. It may also be a good idea to get your portrait taken today so that we can use them as trace objects for the digital portrait. The camera and lights are set up perfectly for this type of portrait. Six of the top twenty in the LevelUp for Photoshop are TCHS students (and a teacher) Congratulations to Christina Megargel and Callie Hogan as the top AM and PM students respectively. They both had 1160 points! The instructor needs to work on this a little more! Be proud - this is a national competition!
I have a brief meeting this morning. I want you to continue on our task for this week and watch the video below. Find three photos that you wish to frame or border and apply the techniques shown on your images. So far we've taken close to 1000 portrait images of the Class of 2012. Congratulations to the students who have been working so hard on this project - the photos are impressive and well done! The next step is going to require that we all chip in on touching up and airbrushing these images. Below is a step-by-step video that goes over the basic techniques we'll be using for getting this work done. The key concepts are:
I just watched a demonstration video on Wacom's YouTube video channel that featured the Canadian political cartoonist and digital painter, Patrick LaMontagne. Patrick is a really talented artist and he shares quite a few terrific tips for working with a drawing tablet to create original work. His workflow process is very simple and one that we should be modeling. I've put the video below, but I would suggest that you watch this full screen (on YouTube) with Photoshop open and a Wacom Tablet connected on an extended monitor. Try to pick up how he inks artwork, colors cartoon-style artwork and how he creates, modifies and saves a few simple working brushes. The video is long (about an hour) - but I think it's worth your investment of time - watch this and become a tablet master! In honor of the rapture, I thought it might be nice to create a beverage commemorating this auspicious occasion. Here are the links we will be using: 3D Soda Can in Photoshop
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Mr. TuckerMr. Tucker is in his 23rd year as the instructor for the Graphic Arts program. Prior to his teaching career he worked in the flexography industry for ten years and in quick printing for ten years. NEED HELP?Weebly Student Log-in Link
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