TASK
- Photoshop (.psp)
- Integrate objects, created things, creatures, or natural elements into a contrasting landscape so as to create a whimsical world. The integrated images should have complimentary orientation, color, and value so that the final product looks as if it was one original photo.
- Illustrator (.ai)
- Use the brush and pen tools as well as a limited color palette to create an image of an object that represents a particular issue of social justice
- Photoshop Project
- The imagination is as essential to the artist as are his pencils and brushes. Creative artists and designers integrate worlds that would otherwise never collide. They make viewers question what is common, ordinary, and simple. They offer viewers a chance to imagine what could be rather than just what is.
- Illustrator Project
- Social concerns have often been the subject of art. Artists have used the canvas to critique political corruption, promote revolution, advocate for the oppressed, and question ignorant, selfish authority. Depending on the art critic, he can find social, political, and moral critique in even the simplest works of art. Whether it wants to or not, artwork influences anyone who looks upon it. So, what is your artwork for? Is your artwork outward looking, advocating for the good?
- Topics include (but are not limited to): homelessness, poverty, hunger, healthcare, social and religious freedom, war, refugees, health care, workers rights, environmental stewardship, transportation, education, abortion, the death penalty, living wages, slavery, gender, race, political representation (non-partisan), legal representation, immigration, child care, nutrition.
- Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop
- For Illustrator:
- Lock (command+2) the image from which you are drawing.
- Test numerous styles of brushes. The line quality of certain brushes might add a surprising look to your image.
- The color palette should have no more than five colors. These colors should be saved to the paint palette.
- The color of your created image need not be that of your original image.
- Trace the most essential contour lines that "define the form." Choose lines both on the outside and inside of the object.
- You need not have the perfect line to proceed. Once traced, any object can be changed in size and/or multiplied with great ease.
- For Photoshop:
- Open up your history panel!
- Unlock the first layer by double clicking it and clicking "okay"
- Use the magic select tool, the lasso tool, and the shape select tool in order to select the part of an image that you want to paste on top of another image.
- Once the selection is pasted on the desired backdrop, you can manipulate it by hitting "Command+T." If you want to remove parts of the image, simply select those parts with the lasso tool (or the like) and delete them.
- You can adjust the overall color, value, and texture of an individual layer by working only with that layer OR you can make all the layers experience the same adjustments by adding a new adjustment layer on top of all the others.
GRADING
Illustrator (50 pts)
- 25 pts -- Proper demonstration of tools
- Brush tools*, pen tool, color palette
- 15 pts -- Adherence to already-learned design elements and principals
- Use of space, texture, uniformity, contrast, balance, etc.
- 10 pts -- Unique idea/image design
- 25 pts -- Proper demonstration of tools
- Trim tools, proper sizing, unified light values
- 15 pts -- Adherence to already-learned design elements and principals
- Use of space, texture, uniformity, contrast, balance, etc.
- 10 pts -- Unique idea/image design
EXAMPLES