John Klassen - View from my window

For the next artefact, you will be working int the style of John Klassen.

Homework
Take a photo (or a few) from your window at home, stick it in your sketchbook and draw it. If you dislike your view... collage the view from photographs.

Task
Take a photo of the view from your window. Print off, stick it in your sketchbook
Draw it as a line drawing on a full page.

Deadline
At the start of the lesson, Tues 6th Dec

Michael Wertz - Desert Island Items - Overlay design 2

Michael Wertz - Desert Island Items - Overlay design 1

Objective
To introduce you to the concept of over-layering.
To improve your drawing skills
To introduce you to illustrator and artist case studies in order to broaden your analysis skills

Tasks
1. Make a list of all of the items that you would put in a suitcase to take to a desert island. What can you not do without?
This might include: food, digital devices, music, musical instruments, books, make-up, skateboard, etc etc.
Make the list look pretty in your sketchbook.
2. Make a slide or two on your presentation that is littered with images from your list. 
3. Draw them in your sketchbook. Draw them simple and no bigger than an orange.

Presentation

A couple of slides of your presentation full of images
Lovely sketchbook list 
Drawings pages of drawings from list 

Deadline

TBC

Cut out stencil spray

Lookey here: Spray Pinterest

Objective
To improve your skills when editing handmade images in Photoshop.

Task
Choose a musician, sports star, film star or somebody else who inspires you. Using an image sourced from the web, open in Photoshop and follow the first tutorial below. Ask me if the image is suitable for the task.

Presentation

On your presentation, put jpegs of your finished Photoshop examples. State which process was used underneath each.

Deadline
tbc

Below are two tutorials for creating stencil spray work.  They a taking a lead from the work of Miles
Donovan whose work you can see above.

Get comfy and concentrate....

Good example of presentation layout

Six Basic Photo Edits in Photoshop

Objective
To improve your skills when editing photos in Photoshop.

Task
Choose a musician, sports star, film star or somebody else who inspires you. Using and image sourced from the web. Complete the six 'basic photo edit' tutorials below.

Presentation

On two pages of your presentation, put jpegs of your finished Photoshop examples. State which process was used underneath each.

Checklist for assessment
Examples should be visually interesting and not just done for the sake of getting them completed.

Deadline
tbc










Light leaks: Open photograph  >  duplicate photo layer  >  Edit in 'QuickMask' Q  >  Choose 'soft' brush - Sq brackets  >  Paint on where light leaks should be  >  Release Quickmask 'Q  >   Select 'Inverse' cmd I   > Adjustment layer 'Curves'  >  Choose 'Red', alter opacity > try again with new adjustment layer and alter a different colour.

Photoshop colouring ideas

When you watch the tutorial, it will state that you have to make a full A-Z. Only do this if you are way ahead.
Within this tutorial:  copy layer   /   threshold   /   zooming in  /   2 methods for colouring  /   selecting with the lasso tool  /  copy and paste /  new colour layer  /   colouring with shift>backspace  /   select by cmd click on thimbnail