Digital Illustration & Design

Digital Illustration & Design Course Overview

Digital Illustration is a digital art course designed to help students develop their artistic, technical, and creative skills through digital design and illustration. Students will complete projects that apply art and design concepts while engaging in the creative process to produce original artwork. Using a variety of digital tools and programs, students will explore digital drawing, painting, design, and illustration techniques while learning about contemporary digital artists and styles. By the end of the course, students will build confidence using technology as an artistic tool and develop a strong foundation in digital art processes and applications. Students will complete a digital portfolio demonstrating technical growth, creativity, craftsmanship, and personal expression.

Course objectives:

Apply basic design skills and concepts to artwork
Understand the Principles of Design and Elements of Art
Learn how to draw and paint digitally using Adobe Fresco and Wacom tablet
Learn how to apply basic animation techniques to illustrations
Create interesting and thoughtful graphic design compositions
Learn about digital illustration as a career pathway

Website Portfolio

Students will be expected to organize and maintain a website portfolio with all the digital artworks they make during the course of the semester. Students will be expected to present their artwork at the end of the semester. This allows students to reflect on their creative process and artistic journey as artists.

Graphic Design

Students will learn graphic design fundamentals, such as color theory, font styles and how to create a composition using the Principles of Design. Students will learn how to visually communicate ideas to an audience through their work and will create logo and poster designs. Students will use Canva to create layouts, publications, and school posters.

Artwork by Sam R.

Digital Illustration

In this unit, students learn how to create digital illustrations using Adobe Fresco. They start off with exploring different brushes, line exercises, and shapes to help them develop skills using the stylus. Students will progress into creating a silhouette landscape using different blending techniques, pressure control and artistic concepts to create depth in a landscape. Students will get inspiration from different digital illustration artists and styles.

Animation

In this unit, students learn about the history and process of digital animation. Students will learn multiple animation techiniques using Adobe Fresco. The final project will be an underwater animation that applies the techniques leaned.

Artwork by MarianneLouise T.

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