Color Wheel Assignment
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LEARNING GOALS FOR COLOR WHEEL ASSIGNMENT: (INSTRUCTIONS ARE BELOW THIS SECTION)
Students will have the opportunity to learn how to draw and then refine lines to create clean line art that can be used for a variety of purposes, i.e. print, laser cutters, and other industrial machine output.
Students will have the opportunity to learn how to create non-destructive edits, label layers, use the fill tool, gradient tool, and learn key commands for undo, save, copy, cut, paste, eye dropper tool, gradient tool, fill tool, & magic wand tool. * Please see the key command charts at the bottom of this page.
Students will have the opportunity to get a working understanding of the importance of color and the psychological impact it has in our designs as well as understanding how to work with the complexity of color combinations. *Please see labeled areas of the color wheel at the bottom of the page.
Students will have the opportunity to get an introduction to learn some Adobe Photoshop basics.
PERFORMANCE STANDARD 2.1 : IDENTIFY AND APPLY THE ELEMENTS OF DESIGN
2.1.1 Identify the applications of color, line, shape, texture, size, and value in samples of graphic work
2.1.3 Incorporate color, line, shape, texture, size, and value in student-generated graphic work
2.1.5 Demonstrate the elements of design through digital sketching
ASSIGNMENT DUE DATE: Next week from 9/8/20 to 9/11/20 students will have the opportunity to create a Website to post student work for grading, but finished work will not be due until the following week 9/18/20, but if you need more time due to tech issues please let me know. This is because many students do not yet have technology at home, so they will need several more days to work with line creation and then coloring your mandalas. This gives those that are ahead the opportunity to refine your work more and do some independent work. You can email me your Mandala designs as .png images for me to review to rachel.robinson@washoeschools.net so I can give you feedback before you duplicate and fill them.
This assignment has three parts.
Part 1 is designing 3 black and white mandalas, in any of 3 programs of your choice that are mentioned in the written tutorial.
Part 2 is refining the lines of your mandalas in Photoshop so students can create clean line art that become fattened into shapes that can be cut on a variety of cutting machines. Students will end up with 3 Black and white line mandalas and 3 colored Mandalas.
Part 3 is learning about the True Color Wheel and then filling your Color wheel mandala with the color wheel information listed at the bottom of this page. You will duplicate your files so you retain 3 black and white mandalas and 3 color mandalas. Only the color wheel has to have 12 separate slices with ten spaces inside each slice. The other two mandalas you can try any of the color combinations you learned by playing the color game. We cover a lot of color information, drawing, software, and industry standard work skills in this assignment.
You will ultimately create and post 3 black and white mandalas and 3 color mandalas. Please do the reading posted in the TEAMS folder under files.
Why this assignment is important knowledge: Understanding the fundamentals of color is important for designing better web sites, posters, package design, and multimedia. You are also learning about how to create shapes that can be made in vector art that can be cut out of different media like wood, paper, etc as well as understanding how to create clean line/shape art that can be used as clip art and be used for making money on many different sites such as Cricut etc. It's not just about knowing how to do something like creating a web site, it's about how to design it effectively for our global marketplace. This will give you the edge to make your media look better and will help you understand hex codes for web work and give you an introduction to working in Photoshop and taking files back and forth between programs, among other things.
TRUE COLOR WHEEL INSTRUCTIONS
READ & FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS BELOW BEFORE FILLING COLOR
To start, either create your mandalas in class on Corel Painter or go to the freeware listed on the tutorial. Either way, click on the tutorial button labeled Creating Mandala Using Mandalagaba. There is also a video tutorial below it for Refining the Lines of your Mandala in Photoshop. After you have completed creating your 3 mandalas and refining them in Photoshop, you can go on to the steps below.
Go through and watch the video THE TRUE COLOR WHEEL EXPLAINED to understand why you were taught lies about color and what the real truth is.
The second link, Color Method Game, play the game 3 times and take a photo of your scores that you will later hand in. A screen shot on a mac is command +option+3
Same As Or Different will show you how colors look different depending what colors they are with. Color is science.
Some of you will find the games very hard and you might not be able to differentiate between colors. The last link is a color blindness test to see if you may be color blind in some way.
the links we will use to help understand the real color wheel and how colors work together.
ASSIGNMENT 1 - 1st & 2nd PARTS
The tutorial videos above will take you step by step through creating the mandala and refining the line. Then, go through the links below to understand color and then watch the tutorial videos below on how to fill your mandala.
ASSIGNMENT 1 - 3rd PART BELOW
COLOR WHEEL INFORMATION STEP BY STEP:
WHAT YOUR COLOR WHEEL MUST CONTAIN:
Your Color Wheel Must Contain The Following for each pure color on the color wheel: (All are identified on the wheel shown)
1. The true colors of the color wheel which are:
Primaries: Cyan, Yellow, & Magenta, (also known as Rose Red)
Secondaries: Violet, (also known as Purple,) Green, & Orange
Tertiaries: Ultramarine Blue, Red Violet, Red, Yellow Orange, Yellow Green and Turquoise Green, (also known as Blue Green)
2. An Analogous Set, (Three colors together that are next to each other on the color wheel)
3. A Complementary Spread, (so you can see the neutral colors made from those 2 colors together)
4. A Tint, (Pure color plus White,)
5. A Tone, (Pure Color plus Gray/Grey,)
6. A Shade (Pure color plus Black,) for each color on the color wheel
7. An Analogous spread, (gradation of 3 colors next to each other)
8. A value spread from Pure to light
9. The Complement to each color
Knowing & Using Key Commands: Is important for speeding up your workflow and making your life easier. Here are some basic key commands that you need to know that I use in my video. These key commands work in most programs on a MAC, such as Photoshop, Painter, Illustrator, and 1 through 4 work on most of the Office 365 programs. Please note that upper case and lower case do different things. Also, usually holding the windows key instead of the command key on a windows computer will get you the same results.
Command + c = copy
Command + z = undo
Command + x = cut
Command + v = paste
w = magic wand
i = eye dropper tool
g = fill tool or gradient tool, (which ever one you chose last.)
Command + + = zoom in
Command + - = zoom out
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