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A.) INSPIRATION
A.) INSPIRATION
***5 GOALS to achieve in 12 MONTHS***
***5 GOALS to achieve in 12 MONTHS***
•SMART goals: stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound.
•Each goal must contain an 'action word'. Ex: 'RAISE' my GPA. 'LOSE' 10 pounds. 'REDUCE' daily screen time...etc.
A1.) Art Inspirations: Find the coolest online examples of these specific themes in visual art. Put your eyes on 100 images, then save the best to your Daily Warmup Slide Show via screen shot.
a- Best business card designs. (Save 5 to your inspiration blog).
b- VFX concept art.
c- Street Art.
d- Best roadside billboard designs.
e- Art for music/musicians. (Promotional designs for a performer)
A2.) Colossal Inspiration: Find the strongest example of artwork that demonstrates an artist making something extraordinary out of ordinary. Snap a screenshot, upload into your warmup blog.
A3.) Designspiration: Find the coolest art. Screen shoot it. Place in your warmup blog.
A4.) Go find the most realistic vector renderings on the internet. Start your web search with "realistic vector art in Illustrator".
A5.) High Level Student Photography: Portfolios from around the world.........
A6.) Photo Inspiration: Must see. Screen shoot your favorite. Place in your warmup blog.
1.7 Example: 1-Solitary. 2-Altered
A7.) Student Sketchbook Examples: Scroll down the whole page once. Go back and pick your favorite page. Take 10 minutes and sketch the coolest part of the coolest page. Screen shoot the journal page, then snap a pic of your sketch of that journal page. Upload both to your inspiration blog.
A8.) Student Art Guide: Put your eyes on at least 50 images, then make a decision. Screen shoot (Command/Shift>4) your favorite piece of high school student artwork.
A9.) 30 mins: Sketch the coolest vehicle or creature design created by Industrial Light and Magic.
A10.) James Nachtwey: Grab screenshots of 2 images from THIS LINK.
Image #1: Photo with Strongest Formal Qualities (composition). Image #2: Photo with strongest Subjective/Emotive Qualities (emotional impact).A11.) Quick Photo Essay: Use 20 minutes to shoot a photo essay during class. Posed photos are not an option. There need to be at least 3 shots in the essay.
Your choices of themes are: a.) Indoor: 1-Institutional. 2-Groupthink. 3-Boredom.
b.) Outdoor: 1-Man vs. Nature. 2-High contrast. 3-Weathered.
A12.) Poster Design: Pick your favorite 2 examples, take 2 screenshots of poster layouts that demonstrates:
1- Contrast and Shape. 2- Grid and Negative Space.A13.) High Resolution Image Exploration: Find a composition and snap a screenshot that contains the following:
1-Public Artwork Focal point/Emphasis placed in the Rule of Thirds.
A14.) Elements Represented: Click through all of the art elements then snap a screenshot of your favorite artwork. Identify the element that the art is representing.
A15.) Tutorial Share Out: Learn a new software skill in a tutorial (either Photoshop or Illustrator) that teaches something you'd like to learn for this project. In Drive, prepare a 5-10 minute class presentation that includes a shared link to written steps for all to follow. Paste your tutorial's link to THIS PAGE, including a description of what we'll learn.
A16.) Gnomon School of Visual Effects: Something to shoot for in your own game.....
B.) SKETCHING
B.) SKETCHING
B1) Self-Descriptive Sketchbook Cover: Draw your full name interacting with a design (abstract or realistic) that alludes to an aspect of your personality. Set your name up as the focal point/emphasis of your cover and try to leave approximately 30% of your cover completely blank (negative space). Click HERE for font and layout ideas.
B2) Interactive Drawing: Photograph your hand interacting with a drawing that you complete in 10-20 minutes. Now the challenge is to think of something unique, so avoid being bit by taking the easy out!
B3) ?
2.1 example
B4) What does the boogeyman look like? Sketch him (or her) in 15 minutes.
B5) First Letter of your name in 5 Different Ways: Sketch the letter 5 different ways in 15 minutes. That’s 3 minutes per letter….plenty of time for some detail! Find letterform ideas online.
B6) Best letterform as your name: Select the best letterform from warmup #4 and draw your name in this new font.
B5-B6 example
B7) Art Elements: Line and Value: Use pen or pencil to practice your shading techniques with varied line density.
Pick any two of the shading styles pictured here.
B8) Art Elements: 2D to 3D: Line and Value: Copy one of these 2 demonstrations of line and shading (value) to the best of your ability. Pencil or pen with hatching techniques may be used (see value scales in #7).
B9) The ‘Eyes’ have it: Apply your best shading technique while following the steps to complete a realistic eye.
B10) Free Doodle with Journal Entry: Combine doodle shapes with text as you respond to the following question: On a scale of 1-10 (10 being best), I would rate my life a ____ because ________________.
Integrate words into your doodle design, using this as an opportunity to relax and reflect on your life.
B11) Vehicle Perspective Sketch: Start with a rectangular cube of parallel lines moving away towards 2 vanishing points.
B12) Design: Composition: Touch on all 10 rules of successful design layout, then sketch only the 5 most important shape and text elements of your favorite layout on this web page. See words as a single shape. Remember.....reduce to only the most important 5 design elements. Click HERE to read the article.
B13) Magnetic Poetry: Write a 'magnetic poem', assembling new words in creative ways to paint a picture in the mind of the reader. Copy your poem to paper, using sharpie marker, in a hand-writtten typeface.
B14) Field Day Logo: Design and draw in your sketchbook an event logo for the proudest day of our school's year. Build the logo around these three words:
1- Energy. 2- Pride. 3- Community. Stay tuned....We may develop your idea on the computer and present it to the TRHS administration!
B15) Inverted sketching: Draw what you see.
B16) See the light (and the dark). Sketch each of the following, shading as accurately as possible.
B17) Use this, or go find your own example of 2 point perspective: 15 min sketch.
B19) Dragon Head: Follow these steps.
B20) Sketchbook Cover Design: Click HERE for the unit plan. 10 point project.
B21) Human Proportions Sketch: As accurately as possible, draw the wireframe image below.
B22) Follow these steps, starting with simple ovals properly placed then connecting and relating. Finish with light shading applications.
B23) Shade this sphere as accurately as possible, starting with big shapes and light lines then working darker.
B24) Game Design environment concept: Use 2 point perspective to begin conceptualizing and visualizing one structure in your video game's environment. Go ahead and use a straight edge if you'd like.
B25) Learn to draw cartoons: TED Talk demo: Watch the video and follow along.
B26) Find a landscape Sketch online, then draw it yourself. About 20 mins of time on this.
B27) Zentangle Sketching: Focus and patience practice.
B28)Design: Mood Lines: Pick 2 posters from this site with different moods. Draw a line traveling through each poster that best expresses the intended mood of the composition. Look for prominent edges to follow.
B29) Draw a LEVEL MAP for your video game.
B30) Contour line sketch:
B31) Sketchbook Cover Design: Include your name written in a font which you create.
C.) SOFTWARE SKILLS
C.) SOFTWARE SKILLS
C1) Photoshop Practice #1: Complete the basic activity, then feel free to add more to the image.
C2) Game Design Basic Character Rigging for animation in Cinema 4D.
C3) Pen Tool Practice: How many levels can you complete in 15 minutes? WARNING: Patience required!
Snap a screenshot after 15 minutes of progress and insert into today's personal blog entry.
C4) Illustrator Vector Portrait Practice: 20 minutes: Snap a screen shot of one of the portrait images, place it into a new Illustrator file, fade the layer, then trace over it using the pen tool.
C5) Photoshop Layer Basics: Click HERE and follow along with the demo.
C6) Snap a screen shot of the Curves page. File>Place into Illustrator doc. Trace over using the pen tool.
When completed, continue with the pen tool including the curve line in a simple object or scene.
C7) Trace around the figure using the pen tool. (Take a screen shot, place into Illustrator, outline with the pen tool).
C8) Illustrator's SHAPE BUILDER & WIDTH tools: Create your own typeface using the shape builder and width tools. See illustration above.
C9) C4D Alien Invasion Skills Assessment: 10 points.
Set up the workspace with 'Quick Shading w/Lines' display option. Carefully read instructions and complete to the best of your ability.
1- Place a sphere into the work window: Resize and Flatten: (2 points).
- Resize to 200cm diameter.
- Flatten to .15cm thickness on Y-axis.
2-Create Array Object: 7 copies of a 15cm sphere: (3 points).
- Create an Array object
- Create another sphere. Resize to 15cm diameter.
- Place sphere into parent Array, making 7 copies.
- Adjust Array diameter to fit surface of saucer body.
- Apply glowing material to Array spheres (bright color or white).
3- Create cockpit hemisphere object, windows, and antennae for top of saucer: (3 points).
- Feel free to resize/reshape the hemisphere passenger compartment.
- Make hemisphere editable, then apply an extrusion to create windows (see image).
- Insert cone polygon into cockpit.
4-Rename objects in objects manager: (2 points).
5-Feel free to add cool details.
C10) Photoshop Pen Tool and Painting skills assessment.
C11) Photoshop Selections Practice:
1- Download these two files: Old Tree Clouds
2- Crop both images to 7"x5" at 300 ppi.
3- Select the tree with the magic wand, quick select, any other selection tools needed.
Modify selection edges to appear clean.
4- Copy/Paste into Clouds image.
C12) Illustrator Timed Assessment: Absolutely NO TALKING.
•Carefully read the following directions and complete within 12 minutes.
•If I have not graded your work on the spot, Email to me within allotted quiz time. mjdowling@dcsdk12.org.
C13) Illustrator's Type Tool: Learn this important part of the software.
C14) Illustrator's Pencil Tool: Draw the ship, then apply the pencil tool to your own project.
C15) Illustrator's Image Trace: "Spring has Sprung". Take a photograph representing the Spring season. Port it into Photoshop, edit, and covert to vectors in Illustrator.
C16) Illustrator's Blend Tool: Powerful line repetitions and patterns.
C17) Illustrator pen tool tracing: Trace the panda with as few clicks as possible.
C18) Beginning level Illustrator Tutorial: Basic Shapes.
C19) Cinema 4D to Photoshop: Create this scene in C4D, >> then import it into Photoshop. Apply text, shape, painting, and texture effects for a graphic design.
C.20) Model a mouse: C4D: Use a cube, sphere, and sweep object.
C.21) 4 Fast Photoshop Tutorials: Performance Assessment to learn Layers, Selections, Adjustment Layers, and Cropping an image. Open your own photograph and demonstrate these 4 key skills.
D.) ACTIVITIES:
D.) ACTIVITIES:
D.1) Print a work from this class: See page 2 of the "Today in Class" link on my website for Small print size (8x10 or 5x7) instructions.
Photographers: Print from Photoshop only, not Preview app.
-Flatten your layers and save as a JPEG file before printing.
-Crop your image:
-Large format: 11x14 or 14x11 inches, 300 ppi. Email to mjdowling@dcsdk12.org.
-File>Print> select C119 4700 color printer>Select orientation in the print dialogue box.
Illustrator: Save your Document in PDF format. Photoshop: Save your document in JPEG format.
-Email as attachment to mjdowling@dcsdk12.org.
D.2) What Makes a Photo Interesting? Read the article, then go snap an example of an interesting shot in 10 minutes or less.
D.3) Moving Camera Action: A 10-min outdoor photo shoot. Intentionally blur images by moving your camera in as many ways as possible while releasing the shutter. Photograph people...subject moving/camera moving. Keep your best 3 images.
D4) Photo Treasure Hunt: 10 min. campus photo shoot: B-L-A-S-T.
1-Snap a high angle selfie with a surprised expression!
2-Bug's Life: Take a picture through a window while laying on the ground.
3-Take a picture of negative space, with sky as the background.
D5) Explore your surroundings, then capture images that fulfill the following 4 criteria:
- Submit 1 best image.....Photoshop edited of course.
D6) Hand Held/Shutter Priority: 15 minute shoot. Lowest possible POV on a subject in motion.
BEGIN WITH CAMERA SETTINGS AT: 1/100 sec. Adjust as needed. Come back with at least 1 clearly captured subject in motion, and clear background. Strong lighting/Fast Shutter required!!!!!
D7) Forced Perspective Photo Shoot: 20 minutes/Groups of 2 or 3.
Return to class ON TIME, and download images to your computer as well as Google Drive.
D8) Visual Movement: Continue Leading Lines as you use only the rectangular marquee tool to cohesively combine 2 scenes. All pics taken today, by you, specifically for this 20 min warmup.
D9) Photoshop vehicle mix-n-match: Find a vehicle online. Screen shoot it. > Photograph a vehicle outside from the same angle. > Combine in photoshop.
D10) Design Tricks: Reassemble pieces of your current project into new layouts using any one of these compositions.
D11) Pen tool illustration with a Posed Photo: 10 min photo shoot planned for an illustrated interaction. Come back and utilize learned skills to create an original illustration.
D12) Shoe Shading in Photoshop: Load the template into Photoshop to color and shade.
D13) Skills and Vocabulary Activity: Complete using learned Photoshop and/or Illustrator skills.
D14) Art Movements: 1- Find your favorite art/design movement. 2- Read the description. 3- Create a design inspired by your chosen art movement in 15 minutes. Don't over-think! Just keep moving...............
D15) 10 Graphic Designers: Speed render the duck in the style of one of the 10 designers from the link. Complete in 10 minutes.The design must incorporate the words "QUACK in the style of__________".
D16) Macro texture photo shoot: 10 minutes in the classroom, hallway, or outside getting close to a well-lit texture that relates to your project.
D17) Typeface and Shape: In Illustrator, type the following five words, then place them inside of shapes that express/support the words:
Strong - Mundane - Exciting - Regular - Ugly - Flowing.
Finally, change the typeface of each shape to match the feeling of the word.
D18) Design Grid: Copy/paste pieces from other projects and assemble them in a new design built on a 3x3 gridded structure created in Illustrator.
D19) Photo Inspiration: Must see. Screen shoot your favorite. Place in inspiration blog.
D20) a.) Imitation of a Photo Master: Find one photo from a master photographer. Closely study the composition, then go capture a scene that matches shapes, lines, and movement of the original as closely as possible.
b.) Imitation of a Graphic Design Master:
D21) Build/Edit your student website: What do you want a college or employer to see when they 'Google' your name? Creative problem solving should be a featured skill!
D22) Daily Progress: Before and After: •BEFORE: At the start of class, open your current project/activity and snap a screenshot.
•AFTER: At the end of class, snap another screen shot that documents your progress.
•Save both images to your Daily Blog, and be prepared to present to Dowling.
D23) a.) Graphic Design Exercises & Assignment Ideas: Student Choice: Pick one and complete it in 30 minutes or less.
b.) More Design Exercises and Ideas: We'll choose one of the seven activities and take 30 minutes to complete it.
D24) GRAPHIC DESIGN: Gathering Your Assets: Open an Illustrator document and name it "Assignment Name_Pieces". Fill up the categories pictured below.
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