Tyler Pre-College Summer Workshop 2012
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
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Tools used, skills learned
|
Project
|
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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
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7
|
Photoshop
|
Selecting, feathering, layering, creating a composite
image
|
The mashup
|
8
|
Photoshop
|
Filters, stamp tool, cropping, scanning, print size,
printing
|
Collaborative composite image
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9
|
Bringing Illustrator into Photoshop
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Vector & texture
|
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10
|
Bringing Illustrator into Photoshop
|
Vector & texture
|
All projects,
topics and tools will be posted online at http://nat-at-tyler.blogspot.com/ for your perusal. If you forget a
particular detail, feel free to email me at that.nat.bard@gmail.com and I can refer you to a blog post, or explain things more fully.
