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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	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

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.