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Katelyn Heywood Ashley Leach Katelyn Heywood
Lindsey Brown
Students will learn how to create a digital painting using Adobe photoshop color palette and brush tools. During this unit we will learn about color, additive and subtractive, the impressionist painters and how to use transparent color and brushes. I have several tutorials we will be watching during class. There are many great examples of digital painting and fantasy work on line. If you are considering going into animation you may want to put your drawing skills to the test and create your own composition. We will be talking a lot about contrast and separating your lights from your darks and developing highlights, mid-tones and shadows.
Learning Targets:
Students will learn how to use varying types of line to create interest, detail and shapes.
Students will learn how to use the Wacom stylus and tablet.
Students will learn about color theory and varying techniques used by the impressionist artists.
Students will learn how to use the blur and smudge tools, brushes and brush palette.
Assignment:
Students will create a digital painting using either a photo they have taken as a base image or they may choose to create their own painting. At the beginning of this assignment we will be taking a field trip to either Hartman Creek or Devil's lake state park to create a storehouse of images for you to use.
We will also be looking at the work of Noah Bradley. An example of his work, Anger of the Gods, is shown above. He is an up and coming digital artist that has lots of great tutorials on you tube. We will be taking a look at one of his videos in class.
Resources/classroom books:
Photoshop Essentials
Digital Painting Video tutorial
https://www.ctrlpaint.com/getting-started
https://www.ctrlpaint.com/downloads/
The following is a set of beginner tutorials we will be watching in class on how to get started in digital painting.
Lesson one: Using stylus and tablets, palettes and brushes, keyboard short cuts
Lesson Two: Brushes and Erasers
Lesson Three: Mixing colors
Lesson Four:Layers
Lesson Five: Putting it all together
An example of layering colors to create dimension on a figure.
Materials:
Camera
adobe photoshop
images
pencil
paper
computer
Stylus/Wacom tablet
Vocabulary:
additive color Color Scheme
subtractive Complimentary color
texture Analogous Color
Photoshop
Time Frame:
4-6 weeks depending on the size of the painting
How to make lights glow or create glowing effects tutorial.
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