Tyler Pre-College Summer Workshop 2011
Digital Illustration and Design (2D)
The world has become increasingly digitized. By integrating digital photography, existing images, and found objects, students will explore visual organization to discover new design solutions. Technical and aesthetic skills will integrate design elements of color, form, typography and composition. This workshop will focus on introducing the computer as a design tool. Students will create visually stimulating work using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop on a Mac platform. Basic computer skills are recommended.
This ten-day workshop will allow artists to examine the basic tools and abilities of both Illustrator and Photoshop with a certain degree of depth, and will facilitate future ease of use.While ten days isn’t enough to really break through and learn it all, artists will feel comfortable exploring details and options on their own, and will have a good idea how to use the computer as an artmaking tool as well as integrating design principles.
The following course outline shows chronology and tools used, though the projects may vary to provide a little wiggle room.
Program | Tools used, skills learned | Project | |
1 | Intro to Mac, intro to Illustrator | Navigating the Mac, design basics, getting online, understanding vectors, navigating Illustrator | |
2 | Illustrator | Shape tools, color modes, outline, fill, pattern & gradient – desaturation, repetition & scale impact on focal point | Still life w/variations |
3 | Illustrator | Pencil tool, transparency, stroke, brushes, grouping & locking shapes; more advanced shape & line tools – picture planes & visual path | Framed illustration |
4 | Illustrator | Pen tool, autotrace, layers | Self portrait with alter ego |
5 | Illustrator | More sophisticated tools | Self portrait with alter ego |
6 | Photoshop | Basic digital photography, taking & downloading photos, levels, color adjustments, contrast & brightness, resolution & file size | Basic photo alterations – diptych, saturated & desaturated color, b&w |
7 | Photoshop | Selecting, feathering, layering, creating a composite image | The mashup |
8 | Photoshop | Filters, stamp tool, cropping, scanning, print size, printing | Collaborative composite image |
9 | Bringing Illustrator into Photoshop | Vector & texture | |
10 | Bringing Illustrator into Photoshop | Vector & texture |
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