Artistic Process Documentation
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Research, investigation, and experimentation: documenting your process.
Beginning stages of your work, middle, and end. Demonstrating your skills, techniques. and decision making process.
This process will be unique to you and your topic.
1 document only per artwork or photo. Must be in .jpeg format
This could take the form of:
Your 3 visuals should be organized, visually pleasing, and descriptive when explaining your unique process, research, and practice. Create 1 to 2 documents for each photo shoot respectively (see the example for Erik Johanssen's "Landfall") or 1 to 2 documents for each digital artwork. (See the example from Zutto)
Example below adapted from illustrator Zutto:
Beginning stages of your work, middle, and end. Demonstrating your skills, techniques. and decision making process.
This process will be unique to you and your topic.
1 document only per artwork or photo. Must be in .jpeg format
This could take the form of:
- documenting a photo shoot: include photos of locations, equipment you used, models, prepping the models, you interacting with models or the environment
- creating a document that shows the stages of each digital artwork in progress showing the evolution of your preliminary sketches to your final digital designs.
- experimenting with a camera technique: document your experimentation and learning process. Photographs of you engaged in the technique, locations, several sample photos demonstrating your practice of the technique
- experimentation and practice of a digital art technique: screen shots or works in progress demonstrating your practice of one or more new techniques. Example works demonstrating your practice (although they might not end up in your final portfolio).
- Layout templates to place your photos on to 1 document:
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Your 3 visuals should be organized, visually pleasing, and descriptive when explaining your unique process, research, and practice. Create 1 to 2 documents for each photo shoot respectively (see the example for Erik Johanssen's "Landfall") or 1 to 2 documents for each digital artwork. (See the example from Zutto)
Example below adapted from illustrator Zutto:
Erik Johanssen Time lapse videos of his photography shoots and Photoshop techniques:
Annie Liebovitz Portrait Photography Process:
Student examples: