Digital Art II

Q3 - early March: Your next project upon completion of your set of three related book covers (a series/a template) involves working with visual fragmentation. The file just below this text box provides a variety of good visual examples of this visual idea or technique. You'll be looking at student examples in the first eight slides; the remainder are images by non-students gleaned from internet searching. Some of my student examples use fragmentation in a really meaningful way; others use it just as a "cool" visual effect. I am going to ask you to create two pieces using fragmentation. At least ONE of your two pieces should do so in a meaningful way. That is, the fragmentation should support and intensify our understanding of and/or our feelings about what we're looking at in a way that makes sense, that reinforces the overall meaning of the piece. It is NOT necessary to use words for either of your pieces, but the use of words is allowed in either. Please work at 300 ppi resolution with file dimensions of 7.5 x 10 inches, either vertically or horizontally oriented.

Fragmentation - student examples followed by non-student examples - compiled 3 2 20.pdf

Quarter 3 - first project: design a series of book covers

The series (e.g., three) of books should be related to each other — for example, by theme, author, genre). Part of your task is to create a visual/design template clear enough so that another designer could come along and design additional covers for your series that would be visually compatible with what you have created.

Digital Art II - Book covers series assignment.pdf

Digital Art II - Book cover series with many published examples.pdf

Digital Art II - typographic collage.docx.pdf

High contrast montage - updated 3 22 19.pdf

tilted grids - constructivist and later examles.pdf

Digital Art II - tilted grid project - student examples.pdf

The following two teacher examples are for our follow-up project on the heels of the photogrid: a project using the same grid in terms of proportions and size, and, like the photogrid, using overlay, but using imagery created right in Photoshop using the gradients tool (with the "difference" mode chosen). We're calling this the Gradient-Difference-Overaly Grid. The second visual example (below right) here is more complex and further refined compared to the earlier version (below left): I've tried to achieve a more unified effect in this later version. Please save (at least) two versions of your own project to show a sense of development and change. (You can create multiple versions of a project by simply copying and pasting files within a folder, or by doing a "Save As" and specifying "as a copy" in the dialogue box.)

Photogrid - assignment and student examples for Digital Art II - III - optimized.pdf

Digital Art II - Phrase Project.pdf

Your next project, upon completion of your calligram, will be a high contrast montage. An assignment file with requirements, instructions, and many student examples is just below. Note that the additional requirements for Digital Art II (D. Art I students are also doing a version of this project) are given on the very last page of the file, AFTER all the student examples.

Instructions for 3/14 in the teacher's absence:

If you are in the Art Lab today, you can disregard the following instructions and can instead continue with your ongoing work on the "fake collage" project. If you're being placed somewhere else, please do the following, which will give you a running start on our NEXT project after the "fake collage":

Look carefully and thoughtfully at the resource just below, a collection of "calligrams." A calligram is an image made up of words. I believe that it originally referred specifically to poems arranged in that fashion: the words would be arranged to form an image that related directly to the text. There are lots of variants on this concept, and you'll definitely find some variability in the examples I've provided.
Once you've gotten a sense of the possibilities, feel free to do some of your own research on-line for more calligrams. If you find some that you think are particularly inspiring and noteworthy, please save them for later sharing.
Brainstorm regarding an idea for a possible text and how you might treat it in terms of turning it into an image. Note that you WILL be allowed to create your own text. Doing so can really give you much greater flexibility, as you can tweak your text to help create the image. On the other hand, you could start with favorite poems that you think might prove workable.

Calligrams - incl. some student examples

Instructions for 2/12/2019 in the teacher's absence:

If you are in A-109 (the Art Lab) for class today, you can disregard the following instructions and can instead proceed with your ongoing work with patterns on the computer. If you are NOT in the lab, please read and use the following instructions.

The file immediately below, within this text box, provides instructions for using an iPad app called Brushes Redux to make photomontages. You have already done some photomontage work, with the hybrid creature project (and we'll be doing a project very soon involving much more photomontage), and these instructions for doing such work on the iPad using Brushes Redux do relate to such work. However, at the moment, you're working on pattern design, and the instructions do not specifically address working with pattern design when using Brushes Redux, since I didn't put the instructions together with such work in mind. But it IS possible to use Brushes Redux to experiment with some pattern ideas, and the instructions in the file provided here WILL translate into this work and WILL be of use to you. Here are a couple of brief suggestions:

Use the tools in Brushes Redux, which allow you to choose between several different brushes (of differing textures) and to modify those brushes quite a lot (in terms of size, opacity, and several other characteristics), and which also lets you be very specific in color choices), to create loose freehand patterns, such as patterns of dots and stripes.
Having created several different layers in your Brushes Redux file (see instructions), each with a somewhat different pattern, try combining those patterns by either lowering the opacity of the upper layers somewhat (to allow them to combine visually with the underlying lower layers and/or by experimenting with the layer blending modes (which are simpler and far fewer in number in Brushes Redux compared to the situation in Photoshop).
You could also, or alternatively, search for and save a number of patterns from web searching, then insert them into a Brushes Redux file and combine them using some of the same methods described just above. You can also try partially erasing various patterns on various layers. This is something the accompanying file on using the app to make photomontages goes into and explains.

Brushes Redux files save automatically. To get them off the iPad, though, you must send them (see arrow icon near top right of the screen when you've got your file open) to Photos, and from there you can email them to me at: larry_sheinfeld@bedfordps.org. You can also send them to yourself and then open and save them to your Digital Art class folder.

Photomontage using Brushes Redux - updated 2 12 19.pdf

Middle of Quarter 2: Once you've completed your series of three book cover designs (visually related), please look over the following file with examples to get you going on our next project, a poster design using a tilted grid.

Start of Quarter 2: Here are two files relating to our new project, involving the design of a series (of three) book covers. One of the two files includes mostly professional examples, while the other includes student works. The second slide (first example) in the file at lower left (student examples) currently is not opening: please go on to the succeeding slides, which seem to be OK.

Just below is a file with examples of calligrams: images created entirely (or almost entirely) from text. Some of the first examples you'll see are poems by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who is credited with inventing this artform. This is your next project after the book cover series. The text will be of your own choosing, and you may even decide to write the piece yourself.

Here is a file with instructions and many good students examples of our upcoming (mid-Q2) project, a high contrast montage:

High contrast montage - updated fall 2017.pdf

Barbara Takenaga - selected paintings copy.pdf

tilted grids - constructivist and later examles.pdf

After you complete your exploration of the "grunge" style (a la David Carson) in graphic design (initial piece involving foreground/background both with image and text, followed by a poster design in grunge style for a grunge-spirited (?!) event or cause (?! -- is there such a thing as a "grunge cause"?), please proceed to the Photogrid project described in the file just below:

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