Advanced Digital Art & Design - Sketchbook Fall Semester
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You may buy or make a sketchbook with blank pages. Size 8.5 x11"
Or you may create a digital sketchbook on a Google doc.
For each PROJECT:
Complete a minimum of one page brainstorming, sketching, thumbnail sketches and planning for EACH PROJECT. This page (or pages) should illustrate your artistic process and intent for each project. Treat each project as a problem that has multiple solutions. Show that you have approached each project from multiple perspectives and developed several creative ideas before you narrowed it down to one idea. This will be due/turned in with each project.
1.Required: research at least 2 artists that inspire you. Take notes. One can be from class presentations. One should be an artist you found on your own.
2. Required: research 1-2 new techniques: digital art or photography techniques
-refer to the Advanced Digital Art & Design Projects tab and scroll to the current project resources for a ton of links and find your own on the interent.
-take notes.
- Written research of artistic styles and techniques you explored for the project. For example you could research Alberto Seveso for the Line, Shape, & Movement Project and included inspiration images of his work and notes about his Photoshop technique and style.
3. Required: draw a minimum of 4 thumbnail sketches planning and experimenting with composition, subject matter, color schemes, textures, styles, etc.
- Do multiple thumbnail sketches arranging subject matter in different ways and experimenting with different color schemes and rules of composition in each thumbnail sketch.
Capstone Project Sketchbook:
Complete 4 pages of research, sketching, media experimentation, technique experimentation, notes about your discoveries after experimenting with a new technique or style on your own on any topic of your choice. This will be an individual exploration of topics that interest you in preparation for your Body of Work in semester 2.
-2 different topics at least 1 page per topic - Due at the end of Quarter 1
-2 more different topics at least 1 page per topic due at the end of quarter 2
These pages could include:
- sketches/paintings/artworks
- brainstorming ideas and reflections
- written research on an artist or photographer you like
- media experimentations
- sketching inspiration images or printing them out and pasting them in your sketchbook
- thumbnail sketches on possible artworks or photos you could try
- research and notes on a new skill or technique you will use
- Use an entire page. Each page should reflect 30 minutes of effort.
See page 2
Possible topics to explore in digital art:
- Advanced digital painting techniques
- Double exposure techniques
- Surreal techniques and photo compositing
- Vector techniques: low poly vector shapes, line portraits, layering
- Commercial techniques: branding, logos, business cards, letterhead, signage, mobile banners
- Stop motion techniques, tweening, cinemagraphs, animation
- Comic book or graphic novel or adult coloring book design
- Illustration: children’s books, cd covers, game design, animated movie storyboarding and concept design
Possible topics to explore for Photography:
- Lighting: studio lighting, artificial lighting, alternate light sources (natural vs. artificial)
- Motion Study with shutter speed: freeze action and blur
- Depth of Field: experiment with shallow DOF and wide DOF on a subject of your choice varying your aperture settings.
- Surreal Photographs: stage a surreal environment or manipulate several photographs using Photoshop. Review the work of Robert Parke Harrison and Sandy Skoglund for inspiration.
- Surf/Beach culture
- Macro/ Zoom subject
- Nature/Landscapes
- Night photography experimenting with light and color
- “Light Painting” Photography
- Levitation Photography
- HDR Photography
- Tilt Shift
- Photoshop Experimentation: your choice of technique but demonstrate you learned something NEW
- Day to Night – Steve Wilks style
- “Impressionist Photography”
- Abstract Photography
- Double Exposure